Well begin tonight with a new concern from the governor. He sayspike in coronavirus cases. He says our behavior is leading to a new spike in numbers and putting peoples lives at risk. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. In his update on coronavirus today california Governor Newsom talked about those rising case rates and had a strong warning for a handful of counties that refused to enforce some safety mandates. He said it could come back to bite them when they seek state aid. Abc 7 news anchor eric thomas is live in the newsroom. The governor loves data and there was lots in his update today. The increase in coronavirus cases, the rate of positive test results, the number of hospital beds available. But newsom also showed he was ready to play hard ball with counties not playing safety protocols. The governors testing numbers showed an explosion in new covid19 cases from sunday until today. Just in the last few days those numbers have increased some 69 . To 7,149 individuals. Repor
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Coping. And can European Space engineers improve the ariana program and compete with private challenges like space x. I want to get gems of this is g. W. Business live from berlin thanks for joining us and its another good day for asian markets shares rose today as upbeat signals from sino u. S. Trade talks found hopes of an easing of trade hostilities in early trade shanghai edged up point one percent void by u. S. President on a trumps announcement on tuesday that the u. S. And china are close to agreement on phase one of a trade deal Hong Kong Rose 0. 2 of a percent that was helped by economist titan alibaba which hylda on another 2 percent but only a day after its hong kong debut saw it rally more than 6 percent. So time to catch up with our Financial Market correspondent only boats in frankfurt only good to see you and of course our trams announcement that were close to a f h one trade deal for that before right. Yes ive literally lost count of how many times trump and there have
President trump says talks with china have been good and xi jinping wants to do something. Alibaba beat the highest revenue estimates defying the slowdown with a june sales bonanza and robust demand. Lets get you a quick check of how markets closed that there is a session in the u. S. A very volatile session at 10 trading day. We saw the s p 500 fluctuating 12least 1 in the past sessions. It did manage to end the session higher by. 25 , this coming as we saw quite strong earnings reports from walmart helping investor sentiment. That also being helped by the fact that we got some strong economic data. U. S. Retail sales jumping the most in four months for a fifth consecutive session, consecutive months of gains. Still, there was not enough for the treasury rally to subside. Take a look at treasuries because that rally resumed. We saw the 30year yield now breaking below 2 for the First Time Ever. The 10year yield also at one point falling below 1. 5 , now at a threeyear low. Treasuries f
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