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Takes aim at china announcing measures of a coronavirus and the new security bill against hong kong. Fears of a food shortage as plagues of locusts destroyed crops in parts of india and pakistan. Crowds of protesters are out in cities across the u. S. Calling for justice over the death of a black man during in a rest in the city of minneapolis a policeman has been charged with the murder of george floyd but that hasnt quelled the anger in minneapolis its just gone 9 pm and a curfew came into place just over an hour ago but protest as a showing no signs of abiding by it ignoring threats of jail time on a fine the mayor of minneapolis ordered a curfew after 3 days of protests which is seen buildings burned and looted. In the atlanta protest as of conversion cnns Global Headquarters forcing back police and setting fire to a Police Car Police created a blockade as they tr ....
A 2nd wave of corona virus in south korea but the president says he wants his nation to be the undisputed number one in the global fight. A brazilian president goes jet skiing as coronavirus desktop at 10000. 00 and Congress Declares 3 days of mourning. So libyas un recognized government is promising to retaliate after an attack on the capitals only functioning airport forces loads of the world to me for have to fight a barrel of rockets at mits airport in tripoli on saturday at least 3 civilians were killed in nearby residential areas from tripoli has mahmud up to one. A barrage of rockets a strike jet fuel tanks and aircraft at tripolis International Airport the latest attack on civilian infrastructure in the battle for the capital while the ground battles remain outside the city rockets are still landing in the city center its 80 where fired at him 80 get airport ....
A live update in other headlines as. North korea fires 2 missiles into the sea off the peninsula is an east coast prompting a strong reaction from seoul. The coronavirus pandemic has hit another grim milestone today with the global death toll now passing 11000 the battle has governments worldwide imposing stricter unprecedented measures to stop the spread of the virus tens of millions of americans have been told to stay at home and the u. S. Government has now closed its borders with mexico and canada for all nonessential travel italy recorded 627 deaths on friday the biggest day to day increase italy and spain are also struggling to stem new infections despite unprecedented lock downs and the the u. K. Has joined them ordering the closure of cafes pubs and gyms in Asia Thailand reported more than 89. 00 new cases the biggest daily jump in the number of infections so far taking its total to 411 and singapore has recorded its 1st 2 ....
The left column, a lot of those names in the green. Banking names as well. The rest of the region still seeing a lot of pressure. The split is tilted towards more downside. In terms of the sector groups as well, the similar to what we have seen. Youre getting a lot of upside in names like resources, banks, financials are seeing pressure overall. Down for a sixth straight session. 25 from the peak a couple of eci weeks ago. Yvonne back from the slopes. And back in hong kong. Steve, we have been talking about that pivot from President Trump. Painting a dire outlook on this outbreak in the u. S. Why . Wasell, i hope that he looking at the data and also seeing what other, even local news abilities are doing in the United States, cites and states aswell cities and well those in europe and they are taking this very seriously. And donald trump says it is bad. He repeated that. Its b ....
As well. Down 0. 9 . That was expected considering all the liquidity we have seen pumped into chinese mainland markets. The hong kong hang seng well off the lows, very modest losses. Roughly flat on the day. Up near 1 surging, at the moment. As you mentioned, this after losses of 3 in the u. S. Trading session, the worst day in two years. That completely detracted those gains for the index. Lets look at a couple of the risk metrics. Across the fx and commodity riskts, seeing a little, seeing a little bit of tension, a push toward risk. Put it all in perspective. Some major moves in these Asset Classes in the past couple days. The yen having its best day since august. The aussie dollar trading near the lows since 2009. Look at commodities, copper pushing for the upside, representative of Global Growth in the economy. The gains in gold over the past five days starting to temper. ....