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And President Trump does not want to talk to president xi. The highestcords number of deaths in a week. And we have the gdp data from germany. Welcome to daybreak europe and welcome to friday after a rocky week in the market. On thee bit of green screen coming through from asia. Yesterday there was a rally on wall street. Initially, u. S. Stocks dropped after jobless claims again but we got a rally. Making a comeback. The gap between tech stocks and banks getting to an extreme level. Utures, a m...

Haslinda, what are you seeing . Haslinda Industrial Production coming from march showing a strong recovery momentum. We saw what happened in march. It is pulling back from a historical plunge in the first two months of the year. Still there are some challenges if you take a look at the supply chain. China still faces supply risks from a global lucked out. Factory production global lockdown. Factory production still shut down in many parts. Bloomberg intelligence saying 70 of chinas imports were ...

We continue welcoming them now. We may have to group some of them to get through as many as we can and we may edit for brevitys sake. As you send in questions, please submit only one per outlet. With that, president malpass, over to you. Thank you and good morning to everyone. Im happy to speak to all of you. You wish the circumstances were not as grim. I would start by saying i hope you and your families are healthy and coping in these challenging times. I want to express my deepest condolences...

You wish the circumstances were not as grim. I would start by saying i hope you and your families are healthy and coping in these challenging times. I want to express my deepest condolences to the millions of healthy and coping in these people around the world suffering from covid19 and who have lost a loved one to the pandemic. I just concluded a very productive virtual dialogue, low carbon virtual dialogue with our Development Committee. I was joined by managing director of the i. M. F. And it...

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. Lets 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 ...

All we can do is reduce human to huhuman contact that can transm the virus. We need everybody to cooperate until may 6th. All seven prefectures are asking nonessential businesses to close until it expires. They want to reduce the social interaction by at least 70 . Theyre warning that the young are not immune to the virus which has infected more than 1. 9 Million People worldwide. The Japanese Health ministry has released a breakdown showing the ages of all confirmed cases. Out of some 7,000, mo...

The Virtual Press briefing is an hour. The springto meetings 2020 Virtual Press bankrence with world president david malpass. President malpass will give weef opening remarks and will turn to your questions. Thank you to all the reporters from around the world who have been submitting questions. We may have to group some of to get through as many as we can and we may edit for brevitys sake. You send in questions, please submit only one per outlet. With that, president malpass, over to you. Malpa...

Time to lessen the economic pain, which we are clearly suffering. Meanwhile, fox news has blown the lid off the china virus story. Reliable sources suggest the virus began at a virology lab in wuhan, china. Patient zero, the first person to get it, was a lab worker who went out into the city and spread the virus from there. Now, the chinese authorities covered it up. They delayed action. They altered data and suppressed doctors and journalists who reported the truth. The story is an indictment o...

Industry leader this hour. Masayoshi son the company is forecasting a massive loss for the year has investments in startups shery lets get you started with a quick check on the markets. U. S. Futures supported at the moment after u. S. Benchmarks ended the session mixed. This ahead of earnings season kicking off officially tomorrow with j. P. Morgan and wells fargo reporting. Afterutures up. 3 , this the s p 500 rallied almost 25 from its march low. Nikkei futures also gaining ground. 4 . We had...

Biggest gain ever when it comes to wti in terms of percentage. We are losing steam there. We are not seeing a whole lot of movement here today. The offshore is slightly weaker. It does not seem like theres a whole lot of patterns you can actually string together here now that we are excluding japan. Ending the week back to where we started. Tom weve had another downgrade, another cut to forecast growth. Malaysia cutting its 2020 gdp growth estimates to 2 . A contraction of 2 . They are cutting t...