Topped 500. Experts monitoring the situation in the capital say the latest sevenday average is about 326 daily cases, up from 244 the week before. The metropolitan government raised the alert. It is not asking businesses to reduce operating hours but the governor is asking residents to take thorough prevention measures when they dine in a group as they plan yearend gettogethers. Translator we advise people with preexisting conditions not to dine in a group. Anyone to lives with family members with a higher risk of falling seriously ill are advised to refrain from such outings. Osaka, aichi, hokkaido, and other prefectures also reported a Record Number of daily cases on thursday. The recent spike comes as residents take advantage of government subsidies on dining, lodging, transportation. Officials say the goto travel and goto eat campaigns are necessary to get the economy back on track, but as nhk worlds Shirakawa Marina reports, the Japan Medical Association is speaking out. Translato
Is theail sales number only surprise i suppose. Juliette that is quite interesting given this had been this consumer driven recovery and the positive numbers we have seen and domestic travel. Gold is a miss. Still seeing the incredible strength coming through in offshore youuan. Onhave been seeing a risk momentum coming through in equities across the region. Signing havinghe a positive boost to markets. We are seeing momentum on the asiapacific index. It is going to close at a record high. When we look specifically at Chinese Markets themselves, we did have the csi 300 already near the fiveyear high. The csi 300 a little weaker, down by a 10th of 1 . Korean airlines coming out and saying they are going to to buy. 8 trillion yuan an airline. Raising 2. 5ng to be trillion. That is a bit of corporate breaking news. Lets get over to julia. She is at jp morgan. Thank you for joining us. What was your main takeaway . Controls glance have been maintained. Still looks like their recovery is pr
Least. Day two of the Goldman Sachs global macroeconomic conference and goldmans chief equity strategist. We have breaking news out of south korea and Fourth Quarter g. D. P. Numbers. This is much faster than what was expected and fastest pace since the Third Quarter of 2017. These are the preliminary numbers for the Fourth Quarter. The south s also korean economy expanding 2 meeting the bank of korea projections and have seen growth in Household Spending and gains and Consumer Confidence and a lot of it supported by the south korean with their budget being passed in august and seeing a growth of 1. 2 , which would be the fastest pace since the Third Quarter of 2017 and for that 2019 growth of 2 which is atching. Lets look at what it is setting up. We had reaction across asian markets which led to the european session in declines and the u. S. As well as account of the news of the spreading china case. Avirus and one and not much of a rebound. Futures are looking pretty soft and we are
We will be asking if the company can find a way back. Sophie and economists say we may be entering a period of peak dovishness. Posse shares opening flat after following the most on wednesday. We are keeping an eye on a weak Earnings Report as well as Oil Companies with brent extending declines and opec not pushing for deeper supply cuts. The chairman spoke of caution in the short term with capex below 8 million u. S. Dollars for 2020 and 2021. Checking on the aussie dollar, treading water near a oneweek low while aussie bonds are gaining ground on a possible delay to a u. S. China trade pact being signed. Futures pointing lower after japanese shares ended wednesday flat amid signs of overheating. Breaking news crossing the bloomberg on google, google said to be mulling changes to political ad policy, this coming on the back of twitter saying it is voluntarily suspending political adverts on its platform. Facebook on the other hand really more embracing it. Google now said to be mullin
Way to an ipo. Saudi arabia puts a prince in charge. Morgan stanley ceo speaking frankly about the fed. Ive support the latest fed rate cut and i expect they will do one or two more. But then, it is time for a pause. Managers apply unconventional wisdom to a changing financial environment. Corporateentgrade bonds are an asset class that provides more risk than return. Plain tot is pretty see that bonds are not a safe place to be. 17 trillion treasuries showing negative returns which is crazy. Its all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Hello, and welcome. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important Business Analysis and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. Lets start with a day by day look at the top headlines. The tension between Boris Johnson and u. K. Lawmakers ratcheted to new levels on monday as the him stuck to his stuck to as the pm his do or die brexit plan. British parliament is about to suspend its operations for a month at the request of