Board, again, trying to challenge the tesla hold on the market. Wm has a factory in shanghai. Lets check the markets. Risk off on the u. S. , falling 2 on wall street on the back of concerns about u. S. Jobless claims. The virus, above 4 million cases now in the United States. And as we said, concern that the economy in the u. S. Is in trouble. Screen, read on the broadly across the msci asiapacific, down. 6 . On the mainland would just talked about the proposed ipo by wm motors, small caps setting off more than 2 as we get for the end of the week. Ong kong looking attractive to investors, it seems, down. 2 percent, up despite concerns highlighted earlier. Weakened byyuan. 1 , currently around seven in terms of the offshore yuan. The aussie dollar and the japanese yen, looking at that as well, the 10year basis point, 58 for the 10 year as a result of the risk off we had at the end of the day on wall street. Chinese, 2. 91. Gold at 1. 46 in terms of the goldsilver index, and philadelphi
Yielding back below 1. 6 and below at 1. 957 well get january retail data coming up at 10 30 eastern time expecting an increase of 0. 3 . February read on Consumer Sentiment due after the opening bell bit of a light day on earnings well hear from Canopy Growth. See how high they go joe is giving me a look. Leisman is writing your jokes now . Astrazeneca ceo joins us live we start with coronavirus and viral video. I want a new name. It is in all of our minds now. Those numbers, 17,000. Well have azar on today i dont think it is surprising i think we thought for a long time it was really underreported or unable to track the things ill ask alex later is what i asked the gentleman yesterday heading up some of the efforts in new york city, are we preparing for testing people if it comes to that . I dont want to think it will come to that because it will mean in this country we need to test people. I hope it doesnt. The official from here in new york city, i didnt like his answer get test ki
Protests take their toll. Shery china continues to push the liberalized market with a more flexible loan. Japan and south korea have come online. Lets get straight market action. Offie the nikkei 225 is. 3 . Best court of the again since 2016. Asian stocks are drifting toward the year end. We are digesting the latest figures. We are going to be getting hong kong trade numbers. Taking a look at was going on in sydney. We are seeing shares snap a threeyear game. Paul lets get you uptodate with the first word news. Wildfires in australia are expected to get worse this year week amid rising temperatures. 122 millions of million acres of land have burned. Nine People Killed and over 950 homes destroyed. Scott morrison says that firefighters battling the fires in New South Wales will be compensated. This is putting additional demands on our firefighters in particular. It means the turnouts and the callouts have been far more extensive than in previous years. This is beyond and above what is
Isnt that just racism . On what basis, what argument can the process be made where its okay for certain people to be overrepresented and not others. Its a complicated question and im glad that i am not on the committee at harvard. [laughter] im Maria Costigan i work for the council on foreign relations. I was wondering if either of you had noticed a difference in awareness to what the other country is doing education wise in the United States. If you look at where they are insecure, its education. If you look at the president of china, he doesnt seem insecure about anything but their sending teachers over to the uk, to the netherlands, to australia to learn and they are not surprisingly, they are not looking at how were teaching, theyre looking at how we get students interested in learning. Theyre bringingsome of that back. So what i do worry about is its not coming the other way. Theres not a lot of resistance to americans, education, learning from other circles. Theyre talking about
Public service by americas Cable Television companies. It is provided today by your cable or satellite provider. Former president bill clinton spoke about ongoing efforts to combat Childhood Obesity at the annual summit for the partnership for healthier america in washington, d. C. This is 40 minutes. [applause] bill clinton thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Tardy upze for being here, i didnt get the memo about where i could stand and listen. I am mired the doctor, and wish to talk for another halfhour. Im very grateful to all of you. For the work you do. I want to say that i working on this Childhood Obesity issue for more than a decade. I have listened to remarks, i have been to the middle east and to asia. To put his debate with the efforts against burgeoning Public Health problems there. That therey grateful are companies that, where possible, are trying to work themselves out of a job by giving our children a healthier future. Th