Dr Isabel Oliver of Public Health England explains says that software failures in the NHS Track and Trace program which launched this morning were because of extensive security measures.
The next project for Russell Westbrook's Why Not? Foundation is opening schools in Los Angeles.
About 1,000 Olympics volunteers have quit over the past month, organisers said, during which time organising committee president Yoshiro Mori quit due to sexist remarks and a new president was chosen to replace him. A significant drop in their numbers could be another hurdle for Tokyo 2020, already hit by an unprecedented year-long postponement and a lack of public support fuelled by concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. Tokyo 2020 organisers said not all those volunteers who stepped down recently were quitting due to Mori's comments.
The torch relay for the postponed Tokyo Olympics is to start in a month, which should be a sign that the troubled Olympics are on track to begin on July 23. It was at this stage at the start of the torch relay just under a year ago — just after the Olympic flame arrived from Greece — that the Olympics were postponed because of the coronavirus.
The Education Secretary is seeking to avoid a repeat of last year’s fiasco in England following an outcry by pupils.
KIOXIA CM6 and CD6 Series NVMe enterprise and data center SSDs have gained compatibility approval with Supermicro’s PCIe 4.0-based rackmount systems.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Teladoc Health fourth-quarter 2020 conference call. On this call to discuss the results are Jason Gorevic, our chief executive officer, and Mala Murthy, our chief financial officer. Please note that we will be discussing certain non-GAAP financial measures that we believe are important in evaluating Teladoc health's performance.
Singapore received its first batch of the COVID-19 vaccine made by China's Sinovac Biotech on Tuesday, its health ministry said, although the shot is still awaiting approval for use in the city-state. Sinovac has started submitting initial data but the Health Sciences Authority is currently awaiting all the necessary information to carry out a thorough assessment, the ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday. Singapore is the only wealthy country considering the use of Sinovac's vaccine, which has been found to have an efficacy rate ranging from about 50% to 90% in studies.
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GGB earnings call for the period ending December 31, 2020.
(Bloomberg) -- Australia’s central bank found itself overwhelmed by the global reflation trade after it dived back into markets and discovered its biggest bond purchases in 11 months did little to hold down yields.The Reserve Bank of Australia will buy A$5 billion ($4 billion) of bonds, matching the record set March 20 when it first began quantitative easing. Today’s purchases include an unprecedented A$3 billion under a program to keep three-year yields near 0.1%, but that wasn’t sufficient to stop the rate hitting a two-month high of 0.141%. Ten-year yields are poised for the highest close since 2019, helping to pressure Treasuries and Japanese government bonds.Read More: Aussie Bonds Drop as YCC Disappointment Drives Stop-OutsA $9 trillion rescue mission by central banks to haul the global economy out of its coronavirus recession is being tested by rising bond yields and inflation bets that are threatening their ability to keep borrowing costs down. Jerome Powell this week signaled the Federal Reserve was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the U.S. economy, even as he voiced expectations for a return to more normal, improved activity later this year.Ten-year Treasury yields are up 35 basis points this month to 1.41%, heading for the steepest spike since the November 2016 bond rout set off as President Donald Trump’s election victory spurred reflation trades. The intensifying global bond selloff is forcing a rising tally of money managers to scale back market exposures while Wall Street strategists pare back their bullish playbooks. Investment firms including BlackRock Inc.’s research arm and Aberdeen Standard Investments are retreating from government bonds.Australia’s three-year yield initially moved closer to the 0.10% target after the RBA announced Thursday it would buy securities maturing April 2023 and 2024, it then pushed higher to break 0.133% as of 1:30 p.m. in Sydney. The central bank ended a two-month hiatus in yield-control operations on Monday when it snapped up A$1 billion of notes. That also had little impact as investors increasingly doubt it will follow through on forward guidance to hold borrowing costs at current levels further into 2024.Skepticism has grown that the RBA will stick to its guidance amid a tide reflation trades across global interest rate markets. That’s been been highlighted by the unraveling of a popular trade based on selling April 2024 bonds and buying November 2024 notes in anticipation that the RBA target will shift to the later maturity debt.Read More: When Listening to the Central Bank Goes WrongPolicy makers are trying to push back against the rising tide of yields, from Fed speakers stressing they will look through short-term inflation spikes to European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde “closely monitoring” government debt yields. The Bank of Korea warned it’ll intervene in the market if borrowing costs jump and the Reserve Bank of India is deploying a range of tools in the face of a market revolt.New Zealand bonds joined the global rout on Thursday after the government there announced it will require the central bank to take account of house prices when it sets interest rates. That triggered a surge in the currency as investors bet the move will restrict policy makers’ scope to run loose monetary settings. Overnight index swap markets fully priced in a rate hike for mid-2022, after seeing around a 40% chance of one by then when the swaps traded Wednesday. Yields on the 10-year kiwi benchmark surged as much as 18 basis points -- the largest move since March -- to 1.8675%, the highest since 2019 on a closing basis.What Bloomberg Economics Says...“The RBA is pulling out the stops to counter a rise in bond yields, which have been swept up in a global updraft. In a surprisingly forceful move, it announced its largest purchase of Australian government bonds since it began the program in March.”-- James McIntyre, economistFor the full note, click here.Traders in Australia have been emboldened by a rapid rapid economic recovery, as the country suppresses Covid-19 and massive fiscal and monetary stimulus encourages households to spend and firms to hire. A further boost has come from the surging price of iron ore, Australia’s largest export, which crashed through $170 a ton this week and is closing in on a record.Policy makers’ whose recoveries are lagging, are showing increased concern. European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Monday she and colleagues are “closely monitoring” government debt yields.RBA Governor Philip Lowe himself is skeptical about any rapid recovery in inflation. He has noted that before the pandemic, when unemployment had a 4 in front of it in some Australian states, it still failed to generate the sort of wage gains that would be needed to return CPI sustainably to the RBA’s 2-3% target. Australia’s most recent annual inflation reading was just 0.9% and the jobless rate currently stands at 6.4%. The central bank is likely to keep policy settings where they are when it meets on Tuesday.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
IBP earnings call for the period ending December 31, 2020.
Participating on today's call are Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Joe Papa; and Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Paul Herendeen. In addition to this live webcast, a copy of today's slide presentation and a replay of this conference call will be available on our website under the Investor Relations section.
Vanderbilt guard Scotty Pippen Jr., the Southeastern Conference’s second-leading scorer, snapped a 32-game start streak Wednesday night because of an unspecified injury. Pippen watched Wednesday night's game with in-state rival No. 25 Tennessee from the bench. Pippen, son of six-time NBA champ Scottie Pippen, leads Vanderbilt with 20.5 points a game and is second in the SEC averaging five assists.
ViacomCBS Inc said on Wednesday it expects to reach as many as 75 million global streaming subscribers by the end of 2024, with global streaming revenue to rise to more than $7 billion by that time. "This is a ViacomCBS that is being reimagined for a new kind of marketplace and a new kind of consumer," said Chair Shari Redstone. In a presentation to investors after releasing fourth-quarter results, the company laid out plans for its Paramount+ streaming service.
Top Thai director Banjong Pisanthanakun and Korean director-turned-producer Na Hong-jin (“The Chaser”) have teamed to create new Thai horror film “The Medium.” Now in post-production, “The Medium” is a horrifying story of a shaman’s inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns […]
With the price of copper reaching a 10-year high thanks in no small part to China's insatiable appetite, Chile, the world's leading producer, faces a "unique" opportunity, experts told AFP.
Philippine lawmaker Sarah Elago faces a daily barrage of Facebook posts linking her to communist rebels trying to overthrow the government. She says the claims are false, but they could get her killed anyway.
Community Catalysts to Partner with STRIVE on Unique Online Program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in California.
ViacomCBS forecast streaming subscribers will grow to 65-75 million, mostly at Paramount+ as the company unveiled its new direct-to-consumer service to launch March 4. The company will ramp up investment in pure streaming content to $5 billion in 2024 from $1 billion last year and that could accelerate if its services exceed subscriber growth targets, […]
Free agent outfielder Shin-Soo Choo has agreed to a one-year contract to play for a baseball club in his native South Korea. Choo, who spent the last seven seasons with the Texas Rangers, signed a 2.7 billion won ($2.4 million) deal with a Korean Baseball Organization team owned by an affiliate with the Shinsegae business group, the company said in a statement. Choo, 38, has confirmed the deal.
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