We were hearing that we could see some candlelight vigils later on tonight, people going online virtually. It comes amid hsbc defying the u. K. And backing this National Security law. And the corporate impact of all this as well. Lets check on the markets, they seem unphased by what were going through here geopolitically and what were seeing in the u. S. The protests have calmed down a bit in the last two days or so. Markets off the highs but were trudging higher today. Mobile stocks on track for a ninth day of gains. Jakarta coming online and continuing to trend up, 1. 3 . U. S. Future seeing a little bit of pressure. The airlines, the nifty with modest gains at the start. Haven,rally and bonds a selling all. You did see yields picking up here. The aussie, back to 1 once again. The chinese 10 year yield, now or near february highs. The second worst performer after bulgarian debt, on disappointment that beijing may refrain from stimulus. About somebts opecplus deals. Watching the curre
The countrys Biggest Oil Field retreats. And greece signs a maritime deal with its leaf for an exclusive Economic Zone and while there is tension with turkey over Natural Resources in the mediterranean. It is now just after 16 g. M. T. And in the coming hours george floyd will be laid to rest his death sparked the biggest anti discrimination protest in the United States since the Civil Rights Era the 8 minutes and 46 seconds a white Police Officer in minneapolis kept his knee pinned on the neck of mr floyd a black man who was already handcuffed and under arrest for its death sparked weeks of demonstrations across 50 us states and countries around the wild protesters demanded an end to racism and Police Brutality mr floyd will be buried next to his mothers grave in texas he was 46 years old. On the topic a name is in minneapolis for us where people are gathering to pay tribute at the site where george floyd dias can be how his is outside the white house but 1st lets go live to john hend
A lot of people very angry. Top u. K. Government adviser Dominic Cummings denies breaking lockdown rules and the curious is the media of whipping up the political storm around him. Indias domestic flights take off again but infections are still on the rise with the biggest day be increase yes. And israels Prime Minister says he wont miss an opportunity to annex more of the occupied west bank calling it one of his governments top tasks. We are going straight now to a press conference which is being held in London Boris Johnson there the british Prime Minister about to speak its the daily Coronavirus Briefing we also expect now to talk about Dominic Cummings lets listen in 2634 tests for Creative Arts have not been carried out in the u. K. Including simply 3726 tests carried out yesterday. 261184 people have tested positive and thats an increase of 1625 cases since yesterday 8834 people are in hospital with coded 19 in the u. K. Thats down to 0 percent from 10092 this time last week and
Deterioration here. We are suddenly down. 6 having gone negative a few minutes ago. Our bloomberg reporter is suggesting it is chinas response to President Trumps accusation. Safeguarding it will its interest and offer countermeasures after trump sent, a letter to congress a strategic approach. We will see if this continues throughout the afternoon. 500 isow the s p down. 6 . The Boston Scientific is down 5 . Best buy is down 5 , and many other companies. The 10year yield at 66 basis points. Dire Economic Data again today. Justollar index, it was about 99 at the beginning of todays session. Above 34 a barrel now. Higher. Long as it is lets talk about what is happening with the negative rates in the u. K. Replicated over in the United States as well. The eurozone has that experience. Tom withfrancine and the former governor of the bank of england. This was his take. I dont think it is credible to believe a longterm solution to the problems we are facing can be achieved by moving Interes
With a few Public Health data slides and then a little look t where were going. You have seen this before. It is updated. The gray are the cumulative cases that we have had in vermont. We are in the low 8507bs for cases. These 800s for cases. These are the new cases. It is coming into that more plateaued type of phase. This is called anepicurve. The new cases on a daytoday basis. We were pretty accustomed to an average of 3040 cases with occasional times where we peaked here in middle here. At 50 there. This is way back in early march. Started doing things like limits on mass gatherings, closing the restaurants and bars and eventually schools. And then in this time frame the actual stay home, Stay Safe Program began. Several weeks beyond that, we have come from a peak and generally below 10 cases over he last week on a daytoday basis and finally this is a graph of the number of tests we have done in verbatim. Vermont. You see they range from 300 to 00 or 700 over time. This is the perc