Of new cases had been flat or decreasing since a peak in early august, but the number has begun creeping up. The panel noted increases in hokkaido, tohoku and northern kanto regions as well as parts of okinawa. They say its a result of infection clusters and people visiting or leaving tokyo and the surrounding prefectures where there is no drop in infection rates. But the number of hospitalizations remains flat nationwide and the number of patients in serious condition is reportedly decling. The experts say provincial entertainment districts and expat communities could become super spreader sis teand they are calling for more Health Notices and tests in those areas, and they warn japan could see the kinds of explosive spread of infections in europe unless infections are dealt with. In australia authorities in the state of victoria have lifted coronavirus restrictions in and around the city of melbourne for the first time in about four months. Three, two, one. Whoo the city has been und
Thedual listing could be biggest share sale in history. Softbank makes headlines again. Amassedid to have 20 billion in a stock trading movement despite a skeptical response from shareholders. Lets take a look at how markets are trading at the moment. At this as we are just getting some line through when it comes to the reserve bank of australias assistant governor. They are giving a speech saying it is more complex to assess the policy stance than it has been in the past. Due to the economic and fiscal conditions at play. We will continue to monitor some of those comments and we are also looking ahead to the rba Meeting Minutes as well. We are seeing downside in the first couple of minutes or so, trading in sydney on 5. 1 and then new zealand, that market is back to modest gains as we continue to process the outcome of the victory we saw from the Prime Minister and her resounding reelection effort over the weekend. The nikkei 225 seeing upside when we get into the open of. 25 of where
Japans ruling party gets set to pick a new leader. The next Prime Ministers have a tough task of leading the nation after the pandemic. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures up. 4 . This of course after tapping the worst week since march. We continue to see the selloff and idiosyncratic news. Softbank changing options Investment Strategy leading to selling picking up any friday session. Not to mention the tech stock reversed gains after china said it opposes a fourth sale of tiktok. We have the nasdaq composite really under pressure in the u. S. Session on friday, down. 6 . Take a look at what oil is doing because we are coming off of its back its worst back to back weeks since april. Nothing on oil prices, tomention concern about opecs production compliance. Wti at the moment at around 37 a barrel, gaining about. 5 . Lets get a quick check of our asia of how asia is setting up. Sophie we are nearing the halfway mark for september and t
Hi anthony ok youre watching the stream home edition can we chat well apparently not for very much longer in the United States the hugely popular chinese car. Has been deemed a National Security threat alongside to talk we will impact whats behind president chants and in todays show and if you want you to be part of the conversation as well put your comments in the new cheap comments and you too could be in the state. And looking forward to hearing from these guess i will say hello to the guest the guests were introduced themselves to you and im kidding tell everybody here hi my name is ken well and im a reporter for the South China Morning Post im based in hong kong and i cover Chinese Foreign policy and china u. S. Relations im also a host for the f. M. P. Podcast inside china which runs on chinas hot topics every week good to have not you welcome back to the same remind i guess our audience who you are going to judge. Much like a researcher for Human Rights Watch i write some resear
Moves its way to the northeast, live to the gulf this morning. Markets this morning trading up, take a look at futures, wild week with triple digit gains for the dow industrials in record territory. Nasdaq up right now is lower but the s p 500 scored a fifth Straight Record high close yesterday and continues higher this morning up another 11 points. Airlines getting turbulence, United Airlines warning 3,000 pilots could be grounded by october. Mornings with maria live right now. Global markets are mixed, take a look at european indices. The cac quarante is up 3 points but the dax index in germany is lower by 17, in asian markets big news, japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe announcing hes resigning. He announced resignation overnight and the news weighing on japans stock. The nikkei average down 1 and a half percent over night. Some of the top stories that we are watching this morning. President trump wrapping up the rnc last night officially accepting the gop nomination for president m