Saturday Brief – December 5th 2020
Americas
United States #Covid_19: Daily Summary (December 5th)
➡ Regional/national data
➡ Latest Restrictionshttps://t.co/eLsdAnyFMu— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) December 5, 2020
Northern California drivers in the last month have cut toll road use and residents haven’t yet been hit with the latest stay-at-home order https://t.co/hIW7RJqmwi
— Bloomberg Economics (@economics) December 5, 2020
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➡️ Average hourly earnings rise 0.3% month over month
➡️ People out of work for 27+ weeks increased by 385,000 to 3.9 million, now accounting for 36.9% of the total unemployed
➡️ Participation rate decreased to 61.5% https://t.co/GLnY6zpZtc
— Bloomberg Economics (@economics) December 4, 2020
A "weaker than anticipated" jobs report "augurs for more stimulus."
BlackRock's Rick Rieder discusses the November U.S. payrolls report https://t.co/10UKhymw7V pic.twitter.com/m0zRVHs8jS
— Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) December 4, 2020
Pelosi sees ‘momentum’ toward a #Covid stimulus deal as job growth slows – CNBChttps://t.co/Qm4DoSMGKG
— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) December 5, 2020
Federal student loan payments suspended until end of January https://t.co/uxhjwzMKla pic.twitter.com/d1an7hyrBU
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) December 5, 2020
U.S. ends exchange programs with #China, calling them 'propaganda' – Reutershttps://t.co/hETA1xDshn
— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) December 5, 2020
FTSE Russell to drop eight Chinese companies after U.S. blacklisting https://t.co/QbZIkpdkAW
— Reuters China (@ReutersChina) December 5, 2020
Asia
Bloomberg 50: South Korea’s Jeong Eun Kyeong rolled out one of the most effective contact-tracing regimes in the world https://t.co/ynFdFlEcEO via @BW
— Bloomberg Asia (@BloombergAsia) December 5, 2020
TikTok divestiture deadline passes but talks will continuehttps://t.co/wRw2wxEvNm
— Nikkei Asia (@NikkeiAsia) December 5, 2020
#Japan | #Tokyo reported a daily record of 584 new Covid-19 infections Saturday, bringing an accumulative total of reported cases to 43,377 in the capital, with 55 serious cases.
*Link (Japanese): https://t.co/OKihWpLdw3 pic.twitter.com/9dY0PRKlOO— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) December 5, 2020
China’s second-biggest online retailer will become the country’s first virtual mall to use digital yuan, the cryptocurrency backed by the central bank https://t.co/FDup2lRGhd
— Bloomberg Asia (@BloombergAsia) December 5, 2020
Physicists in #China challenge #Google’s ‘#quantum advantage’ – Naturehttps://t.co/m4WqtQ5iRk.
— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) December 5, 2020
China and India's debt-relief diplomacy comes knocking at the door of Sri Lanka and the Maldives.https://t.co/i3pvCCN28T
— Nikkei Asia (@NikkeiAsia) December 5, 2020
Europe
#Europe #Covid_19: Daily Summary (December 5th)
*Focus on #Germany, #Spain, #France and #Italy
HT @FLAHAULT, @ReutersUK, @ngbpadel2, @mianrey, @nicolasberrod, @starjoin, @GuillaumeRozier, @gforestier, @Fabien_L, @Corriere https://t.co/SfH5Ou5YrU
— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) December 5, 2020
The Cost of Failure: What’s at Stake If #Brexit Talks Collapse – Bloomberghttps://t.co/aTSLCK5Isp
— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) December 5, 2020
#Brexit: No emergency EU summit planned at this stage – EU official – Reutershttps://t.co/tZzIotTKJA
— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) December 5, 2020
Crisis in retail: the UK town centres struggling to survive https://t.co/4ioY7zk18v
— Financial Times (@FT) December 4, 2020
France picks zone off Normandy coast for new 1GW windfarm https://t.co/iMeoHPREdo pic.twitter.com/OQlb0YjbLt
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) December 5, 2020