we saw a poll coming out of the weekend on sunday, a couple polls, actually, saying a majority of americans that were surveyed had very strong feelings about the fact that the president himself managed to contract this virus. emily: to a certain extent, it has served as a little bit of a wake-up call, if you will, that the president, with all of his security, testing, and the people that have been around him, even the most powerful man in the world can contract this virus. can contract the virus. you see republicans. they have been sort of pushing forward and saying we are going to go ahead, continue with the debate, continue from what they can do with campaigning. look over in the senate, where there is a huge debate going on right now about filling the supreme court vacancy. we have not seen any changes to that schedule despite the fact that we have three republicans who currently have the coronavirus and a couple of them sit on the committee that is going to be responsible
debts are about 700,000. the trump administration dabs up its attack on chinese tech. mike pompeo wants to cut ties well beyond just a campaign against tiktok. alert on start with an the bloomberg. south korea announcing its surplus widening to $6.88 billion. this is a recovery from the $2 billion level we saw in the previous month and recovery after logging a deficit in april. when it comes to the trade surplus, widening to $5.867 billion. we have seen south korean exports slump, slowing in july. we are seeing an economic recovery in china and demand for semiconductors. let s turn to sophie kamaruddin in hong kong for a check of the markets. what should we be watching out for in south korea today? sophie: we have more data coming out. tourism revenue falling for a fifth consecutive month so the focus will be on the consumer sector. of o have the likes reporting earnings. consumer sentiment has rebounded for a third month in south korea and online spending will continue to b
few smiles and the magic kingdom. disney suffers a coronavirus hit with seem parks shot, movie theaters closed, and sports on hold. shery: a quick check of the market. this after u.s. stocks gained ground for a second day in the regular session. we have sentiment being boosted as more economies move towards easing lockdowns. still, in the last hour of trading, there were some cautionary comments on said officials that cut gains in half. new zealand stock scanning .8%. this would be a third session of gains. therir rate. rate.ir we have the rba leave rates unchanged. we are looking forward to retail sales numbers very soon and we will see how all of that toilet paper hoarding that we saw in march is reflected in the numbers. not much movement for the japanese at the moment. tosident trump continues push the theory that the coronavirus originated and escaped from a lab inside wuhan but sources within the u.s. intelligence community say the intelligence is less than definitive.
way better numbers anticipated coming through. this is in yuan terms. march exports thought to be down 12.8%. official number suggesting they were down just 3.5%. imports year on year from 7%. 2.4%.ht increase of that is what we have at the moment coming through with the latest data from china and the department. let s have a look at what else is going on. hong kong schools have been closed since late january. little hope classes will be resuming soon amid this coronavirus. they wonder there could be an exodus of students. issue with thehe hong kong education secretary, kevin yeung. kevin: good morning. did theseow long schools stay closed, secretary? kevin: it is difficult to tell. health of our students is always our first priority. are stillage we monitoring closely the coronavirus,f the whether the situation in hong kong and other places in the world, before we could finally make a decision when our schools could resume. what needs to change for you to actually change you
billion of e.u. products. hong kong protest take a violent turn. the government commends vandalism. news out ofing south korea. we are getting consumer prices for the month of june year on 0.7%.ricing this is as much as it rose back in the month of may but also slightly disappointing yeartations of a 0.8% rise on year. month on month, it contracted zero point 2%, which is a bigger contraction as expected for the month of june. we have seen a lot of pressure for consumer prices. we are talking about lower oil prices. brent crude prices down 20% on average in the month of june compared to one year earlier. not to mention the domestic demand in south korea is pretty weak at the moment. the bank of korea s signal we will probably miss the forecast of 1.1% inflation in 2019. pretty far away from the 2% inflation target for the bank of korea. we can see proof that inflation and theions are low inflationary pressures are low. gaining onlyr cpi 0.7%, missing expectations. s ctia gai