Confirmed friday. Osaka has signaled its entering a local state of emergency due to the strain on the medical system. Authorities there are calling on people to avoid all nonessential outings until december 15th. Translator the number of people in serious condition will not decrease unless the number of infections falls. We need to practice selfrestraint in the shortterm to save lives. The governor of neighboring kyoto prefecture is urging people to refrain from traveling to osaka as much as possible. The death toll continues to rise in japan. Over the past three days, more than 30 people a day have died. In the week up to thursday, a total of 196 people died. Translator basically, the difference between the virus that spread in july and the virus that is spreading now is not large. I think december and january are really crucial times. Japan recorded over 1,800 infections on friday, bringing the overall tally to more than 158,500. Over 2,300 people have died. Prime minister suga i sho
But today, good oldfashioned numbers on profits, jobs and Interest Rates mattered more. Investors had to take into account earnings and whether they have been good enough to justify the lofty stock values. There was also the Federal Reserve which kept Interest Rates unchanged and decided to keep the markets guessing on when the next like will occur. And then there were jobs and a private company that showed it was a hiring spree. We are at the halfway marshall of earnings season. While the results have been positive, there were some hurdles ahead. Bob breaks it down. Were just about halfway through earnings season. The results have been encouraging with blended earnings up about 7 for the Fourth Quarter and revenues are up about 4 . Those are pretty good numbers overall. However, theres good news and bad news. The good news is the 2016 earnings recession is now over. Heres the bad news. Now the hard part starts tfrlt markets are anticipating double digits Earnings Growth in all the maj
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Go. Mike on the back end gets it. Yeah. He does get the second foot down before the other foot comes out of bounds. Tony i dont know if he has it or not. Mike got to secure the catch, two steps and then essentially do something with it. Time to do something with it. Recovery. Right foot. Left foot. Tony i dont know. Cris i think that is good. I am not sure about the catch. Tony i am not so sure that is good. When is it secure . Referee Previous Play will be reviewed. Mike we will look at this here with 1 20 left. Cris dean blandino thought he could go home, but no. We are going to milk it for all it is worth. Tony i dont know if he got it put away. Cris that was a great toe tap. Ball still moving. We are watching the feet. Tony yeah. Mike this is the way that they judge these. Looking at it in real time we so often slow them down. The way you need to look at it is in full speed. I feel like he is trying to do something. Ward off a wouldbe hit or protect himself. Cris gary just wants to
March with speculation that the pboc is still supporting the current base this time in the optional in the offshore markets. Welcome to countdown. You made it to friday but im afraid the markets do not have much direction for us in the last 24 hours. The asian equity session starting to find its feet this morning. We picked up that coming up from the u. S. Session. The u. S. Market we were stronger at the close but not by a great deal. We swung in a wide range and on low volumes very apple moved a little bit higher. Biotech moved a little better. Everyone is focusing in on the fed, next week, and whether they wont move on those Interest Rates. Our analyst up in a few minutes time who will take us through his analysis of what the fed is or is not going to do next week and to the end of the year. We will have some analysis on what is going on in greece at the moment. We will talk to a man who has a tough sales pitch right now. The ceo of the great Stock Exchange. We will be talking with