Going to session lows area traders have been looking past the escalating tensions to signs of the pandemic recovery. Hong kong is bracing for what the biggest protest in months as the City Government meets to discuss criminalizing disrespect for chinas National Anthem. Shery looking at markets trading at the moment, u. S. Futures are down. 1 as the s p 500 and the rest of the broader markets are in the green. Still fading in late trading sessions. The s p 500 going back below the 3000 level. It had stayed up but bloomberg reported the u. S. Is mulling sanctions on u. S. Officials and firms over Hong Kong Chinese officials and firms over hong kong. We got chipmakers exposed to china tumbling at the end of the session. The usual laggards led the gains today which was an interesting rotation when it comes to the markets. We had data, Consumer Confidence was stabilizing in may. Looking at a mixed session in asia as we get these conflicting signals like concerns over the u. S. China relatio
The more common peter w. Watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up finally home over 100 South African nationals arrived back from china. Where the outbreak began. Was. Also heard singing in solidarity of people are doing their bit to ensure social distancing doesnt lead to loneliness during this pandemic. Has now become much harder for most europeans to enter the United States with a one month long travel ban on people arriving from 26. 00 countries now in affect the u. S. President donald trump took the drastic measures saying the e. U. Was too slow in reacting to the Virus Outbreak hes also declared a National Emergency freeing up billions of dollars to fight the pandemic. To unleash the full power of the federal government that the separate today i am officially declaring a National Emergency 2 very big words the action i am taking will open up access to up to 50000000000. 00 of very importantly very important and large about of money for states and
September 6, we will welcome dr. Josh goodman, the curriculum coordinator here at the museum. He will be talking about victory on the menu, dining out in world war ii and how rationing change the way that norland and new orleans eight. November 20 is james lynn, he will be talking about the new special exhibit, pelican state goes to war. It is currently on view upstairs if you have not seen it yet, i highly recommend it. Marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the battle of guadalcanal. Today we are happy to welcome captain rick jacobs. He was in the navy reserve for 26 years. He is a graduate of the naval war college. We know him but ill know him well, he has given over 30 talks at the museum. He is our local mable war expert, we like to call him. Please welcome captain rick jacobs. [applause] captain thank you. Cruiser ussheavy quincy in the searchlights of a japanese cruiser up guadalcanal early in the mid watch on august 9, 1942. Quincy was in the far pacific guarding the invasi
Japan -1.92%. Japan June Manufacturing PMI 52.7 (prior 53.3).BOJ Tankan survey for Q2: Manufacturing and non-manufacturing indexes fall.Japan May unemployment rate 2.6%.