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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, more than half the people infected were younger than 50. Researchchers are trying to find a cure for c...

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. Malpass thank you and good morning to everyone. Im happy to speak to all of you. Wish the circumstances w...

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 of china and the communist authorities. It will dramatically change the u. S. china relationship. Her...

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 a little bit of strength for the japanese yen in the overnight session as we saw more safe haven bi...

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 their estimate to 2 on the coronavirus pandemic. Morgan stanley have upgraded malaysian equities. We ...