January 13, 2021 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Today, January 13, China recorded the highest one-day case total in more than five months, according to the country’s National Health Commission. Most of the new patients recorded in Tuesday’s figures were near the capital, Beijing, but a province in north-east China also saw a rise in new cases.
August 5, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Preliminary figures for July show vehicle sales in China advancing for a fourth straight month as buyers gradually return to auto showrooms. The figures are good news for China's economy as a whole, which looks to have returned to growth--very modest growth--as the...
June 15, 2020 | Daily JAM, Short Term, You Might Have Missed |
New economic data from China over the weekend point to a recovery of growth for the economy in the second half of 2020 but not the kind of surge needed to produce a V-shaped recovery. Industrial output rose 4.4% from a year earlier in May with steel output rising to a...
May 4, 2020 | Daily JAM |
The Trump administration is rattling the trade war sword in its scabbard again. And offering so many reasons for slapping new or resuming old tariffs on China. One reason would be to retaliate for what administration officials say is China deception, mismanagement,...
March 31, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Celebrations have begun in cities across China. The battle with the coronavirus is over and everything can return to normal. On Tuesday, Ma Xiaowei, director of the National Health Commission, said that the country had contained the virus, with Wuhan reaching a...
March 24, 2020 | Daily JAM, Mid Term |
One of the most hopeful signs in the fight against the global coronavirus pandemic is the decline of new cases in China after that country's draconian quarantine. As of Sunday, the country had reported a string of four days with no new domestically-sources cases. (New...
February 25, 2020 | Daily JAM, Mid Term |
In India today President Donald Trump told journalists that coronavirus is “very well under control in our country” and “is going to go away.” Meanwhile back in the United States the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that the coronavirus outbreak...
February 25, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
The Standard & Poor's 500 opened higher today--by 0.65%--a typical reaction the day after a big drop. But stocks quickly reversed direction and by 11:20 a.m. New York time on Tuesday morning, the S&P 500 was down 1.33%. One of the big problems in generating a...
February 24, 2020 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
What's different this week? Why is the market plunging today on coronavirus fears when last week it shook off the news? Because the last few days have brought news that the coronavirus isn't limited to China anymore. From Italy comes a report that the Armani fashion...
February 24, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
China's national and local governments are rushing to restart factories. They're loosening the rules on quarantine and screen for the coronavirus so workers can return to work. This even though the virus has shown that it can incubate, undetected and asymptomatic, for...
February 21, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Asked on Friday if the new cases in Japan, Italy, Iran, and South Korea put the coronavirus crisis at a tipping point, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, said the “window of opportunity is narrowing, so we need to act...
February 21, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Public health officials in China made changes again today, Friday, February 21, o their criteria for counting coronavirus cases. It's the third change in how the country counts cases in eight days and the second change in 24 hours. It's safe to say, I think, that no...
