In a statement on thursday, the government said the serious situation has eased enough that authorities can enforce the regular laws. Bangkok has seen eight Straight Days of unrest since last wednesday. Tens of thousands of protesters marched to the Government House demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister. Organizers put the figure at close to 50,000. In a televised address on wednesday, the Prime Minister said an extraordinary session of parliament will be held next week to discuss the demonstrations. Translator the only way to a lasting solution for all sides is to discuss and resolve these differences through the parliamentary process. Protest organizeers have issued a threeyda ultimatum to the Prime Minister calling on him to resign or face another flood of people in the streets. The japanese government is mulling further easing entry restrictions for Business Travelers. It is considering an exemption of quarantine requirement for short stays of up to 72 hours. The exemptio
Country has weaponized its Cyber Capabilities as maliciously and it responsibly as russia. The Us Justice Department charges 6 members of Russian Military intelligence over alleged white scale cyber times thousands in bangkok to fire a ban on protests for a 6 day forcing a change of tone from the Prime Minister. And more than 50 u. S. Lawmakers demand the release of political activists and journalists facing dangerous conditions in egypts prisons. So the number of people around the world who have contracted coronavirus is now exceeded 40000000 a quarter of those are still active cases iran has reported its highest ever daily death toll at least 337 people have died of covert 900. Past 24 hours and that brings the total number of fatalities up to more than 30000. 00 and more than 10000000. 00 cases have been reported across latin America Brazil argentina colombia theyre among the top 10 worst hit countries in the world and other nations across europe including poland and italy are impos
Alltime high of 70plus thousand on a sevenday average. Steve weiss, turn to you dow down 10 from its high no, we dont have control of the virus. We dont have stimulus were not rounding the corner. We are, as dr. Scott gottlieb said on squawk entering the most difficult phase of the pandemic we have yields lower s ps down for three Straight Days what do we do with this today, steve . Well, ive taken off a number of positions ive added some shorts, added some puts to protect stocks for earnings theyve done a little bit, but ineffective when you look at the carnage thats out there in stocks like u. P. S. And microsoft, which both had good quarters im very cautious on the markets. Were through earnings earnings hasnt been a lift. Even though its a good earnings quarter, put it in perspective its still down 16 year over year so, markets are way overvalued corona is a big issue. I dont see returning to march lows because i checked the number of cases in china and south korea and the philippi
Minutes of trading. President trump about to address supporters at a Campaign Rally in california which is about four hours north from where we are in miami, his opponent joe biden is in another battleground state pitching the Healthcare Plan to voters in michigan. We have fox Business Team coverage of her top stories with blake burman standing by the white house, we start today with jacqui deangelis and the new york newsroom as we wrap up with a volatile week on wall street. Good afternoon connell, two out of three bad of what weve seen weve seen three Straight Days of losses for the dow was positive for the week and you mention the retail sales, t 2 jump, the optimism was important because it speaks to the consumer, also you have vaccine optimism weighing over the stimulus pessimism in the dow roughly 3 below its record closing high back in february, its pretty remarkable when you think about that. Today was industrial stock, the healthcare stock that led the way were so used to focu
Polls indicate a big winner for socialist luis out of say in believe his president ial rerun paving the way for ever more outlets to return plus. No country has weaponized its Cyber Capabilities as maliciously and irresponsibly as russia the u. S. Charges 6 of Russian Military officers over alleged hacking attacks on ukraine the Winter Olympics and the french election. Thank you for joining us around one in a 195 people in the world is now known to have tested positive for corona virus and the true number is likely to be much higher 40000000 cases have now been diagnosed a worldwide thats according to a tally by Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. The total has jumped by 10000000. 00. In just one month due to increased testing the u. S. Accounts for just under a face with more than 8000000. 00 making it statistically the worst hit country in the in the world its closely followed by india a country that is trying to improve the number of tests it can carry out and 10300000 cases are i