Positive so far more than 4,300 were tested. This is the largest figure ever for tokyo. The rise wasnt completely unexpected as daily case numbers have reached triple digits in recent days. Last week cases topped 200 for four Straight Days before dipping back to the 100s, koik kay said whats different this time arod compared to cases in the spring are the demographics and severity of infection. Translator recent trends show the number of people who tested positive are overwhelming in their 20s and 30s. Most of them have mild symptoms or no 1i78 toms. Currently there are eight people who we know of who are in serious conditition out of tokys total population of 14 million. She discussed the next steps of tokyos 23 wards. Translator the tokyo metropolitan government has issued a warning about the spread of the disease in the form of an alert. Each ward has its own regional characteristics. For example, in cooperation with ward mayors,s, the ward will cay out inspections in a way suitable
Helsinki, Michael Mckee in new york, and Kevin Cirilli down in houston. There was a bloomberg report trumpday that president might have a ceasefire, and the president basically confirmed it. Pm johnson i see a lot of pres. Trump i see a lot of analysts seeing we will do a piecemeal. Easy or hard. Theres a deal or theres not a deal, but it is something we are considering. David there you heard it. It looks a little like the chinese may have responded this morning. Right. Xactly some economists are talking about a mini deal. Theres the prospect of china buying some u. S. Agricultural products and exempting pork and soybeans from additional tariffs. Expectedtowards these talks in october at a high level between both sides, there is a word of caution as well in all of this. China has always been in the market for more agricultural goods. Dating more pork in particular because of swine flu. Theres certainly evidence of some good gestures, but no signs of a major, sustainable breakthrough ju
Announcer coming up on washington journal, the state of the progressive legal movement. The cofounder and executive director demand for justice will join us. Also the president of the national right to work Legal Defense foundation, mark mix, on workforce issues and recent labor unrest. Washington journal starts now. This is a very sad day for america and was also very sad driving through washington, d. C. And seeing the filth and decay and all of the broken buildings and walls with the graffiti. This is not the place i left, it is a sad thing to see it. When you look at what is happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. This is the persecution of the person that is leading by very very substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading bided biden by a lot. If you cannot beat him, you persecute him or prosecute him. We cannot let this happen in america. Host good morning. It is friday, august 4. Former President Trump
Were the two profit drivers in the Second Quarter for General Motors and more importantly for investors, margins were above 10 and for the remainder of this year General Motors expects business to be Even Stronger in part because of pickup trucks in north america. Our pickup share in the Second Quarter was up close to 3 Percentage Points on a year over year basis. So we continue to see a lot of Strong Demand for fullsize pickups, suvs and crossovers. To drive that point home think about this. Year to date General Motors pickup sales, both fullsize and midsize up 25 . Thats one reason why gm is doing so well in north america which we saw in the 2q numbers. Eli lilly beat the street. Meg tirrell, the Company Raised its forecast for the year. The beat on the adjusted earnings was 16 cents. Raise only by 10 cents though. Ceo on squawk box this morning address what went into that question. As we are launching products and bringing drugs through our late stage pipeline that drives certain am
Bank. Tand shares in zalando fall after sales growth we have a lot of things to get through today. Lets look at the markets one hour into the trading session. The stoxx 600 is up marginally to the tune of 0. 1 , this is following a small dip to the tune of 0. 3 in yesterdays trading session. As we look at whats doing well today, we have outperformers like germany to be honest we had the first q3 Earnings Results rolling in, and they were disappointing. Talking about zolando and akzo nobel. Lets show you how were faring today. The cac 40, the xetra dax eking out modest gains we get the wage data later this morning in about a half hours time that will be key for boe watchers the ibex 35 continues to underperform off by 0. 4 well touch on what mr. Rajoy has been saying in the Spanish Parliament this morning. When it comes to the sectors, this is the view. Real estate, healthcare, travel and leisure outperforming, on the down side, construction, telecoms and banks not a lot of movement on