For chinese shares. A good day for china investors today. Not a huge surprise given a number of factors impacting on the china markets today, the largest of course being stimulus and hopes of more stimulus. Just before the golden week holiday we heard of a number of measures designed to boost china s economy, including a cut in rates as well as extra liquidity to boost the bank lending and about $350 billion to support china s stock market as well. The recent stimulus measures, have are chemical in generating and changing what are often some structural problems that come about in the chinese economy? come about in the chinese economy? come about in the chinese econom ?. ,. , economy? there have been a view. Is economy? there have been a view is when economy? there have been a view. Is when it economy? there have been a view. Is when it comes economy? there have been a view. Is when it comes to view. Is when it comes to turning around china s fortunate this part of the cycle, but i
The milestone comes as officials caution there may be a possible shortage of hospital beds for covid19 patients. The Health Ministry released data on wednesday showing that tokyo and the prefectures of aomori, fukushima and okinawa hit stage three on hospital bed availability. That is the second most serious stage. It means major problems could arise in the medical system. The numbers were current as of october 20th. Officials in fukushima said later they had enough beds as of tuesday. In another troubling sign, the Positivity Rate for pcr tests in aomori hit 10. 7 pour the week through october 18th. Translator the situation is different prefture to prefecture, but it appears the number of new cases is steadily increasing in some areas, so we have to be on our toes. The pad is also affected myanmars general election. Citizens aged 60 and over can vote early to reduce the risk of infection. One w did that is the countrys de facto leader awning sung suu kyi who is 75. She went thursday t
Battlegrounds to watch in washington, d. C. Is senate is set to vote on the confirmation of judge Amy Coney Barrett after clearing a key hurdle over the weekend. Time to make the donuts. A possible 9 billion deal topping this mornings news that is sure to get your coffee brewing. Its monday, october 26th, 2020. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc good morning welcome to the show im dominic chu kicking off your monday morning with stock futures pointing towards losses right now. As you can see the implied open for the dow is roughly 308 points to the downside s p is implied lower by about 39 and the nasdaq down by 129 points if these futures holds into the opening bell for regular cash Equities Trading the major averages coming off their first down week in the last three the nasdaq taking it the hardest with more than 1 loss on that side of things on the flip side, youve got the russell 2,000 small caps continuing its run higher. Seeing third positive week in the last f
From theto the concern economic hit caused by the pandemic. We have job losses here with a more modest hit in this part of the world. Else is going on out there and quickly looking at the dollar index is. We do have the dollar steady at the moment. We had the surge in the dollar seeing a little bit of a spike taking place. Being seen as a haven currency. The yen, 104. 49. New york crude, what we have here is a plunge taking place overnight. Nearly 5 . They recovered a little bit from that. 8 10 of 1 . 67 a barrel for wti. Gold the steady, but not really acting as a safe haven. We have breaking news, the dow jones reporting that it may close to buying nc, according to people and what would be the second Big Semiconductor tie up this week as the industry rapidly consolidates this deal. It could be worth 10 billion. Thats according to the dow jones. Dow jones reporting marvell could be close to buying inphi later this week. Lets get our first word headlines. Not european leaders are impos
A s m r sound lets find out how we hear sound in the 1st place. Anatomically speaking we have an outer ear a middle ear and an inner ear and thats where we pick up the tourist signals in the form of vibrations in the cochlea to be precise. The cochlea is a bit like a spiral staircase that bassler membrane and hair cells make up the carpet. Its those cells that enable us to hear from behind notes. Notes sound fiber asians deflect the hair cells its like flattening the fibers of a carpet. That generates an electrical signal which is sent to the brain and we perceive a sound. Then stand up again and all ready for the next sound. The different pitches are registered in different parts of the cockpit. I know its are detected by the hairs at the bottom. Lower ones further up. And the lowest notes at the very top. Enabling us to hear a wide range of pitches. And their cells are very sensitive if theyre exposed to too much stress or for too long they can be damaged and move on the real sounds