The attacks have targeted all levels of the government, political organisations, essential service providers and operators of other critical infrastructure, Morrison said in a media briefing in Canberra.
Australia’s Defence Minister Linda Reynolds said advice showed no large-scale personal data breaches from the attack.
“I think business could adapt much, much better, including your own business, but every business on a one-meter rule,” Nigel Wilson, chief executive of Legal & General, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe.”
His comments come after some business leaders and lawmakers have called on the government to relax the guidelines.
Downing Street said earlier this week that a review into the two-meter social distancing rule, designed to curb the spread of the virus, would be completed over the coming weeks.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank’s corporate bond purchases ultimately will move away from ETFs and into individual issues.
The Fed this week announced it would be buying the actual bonds as part of two credit facilities it implemented during the coronavirus pandemic.
The reemergence of coronavirus cases in China’s capital city of Beijing over the weekend adds further uncertainty for businesses and consumers, who may be less willing to spend as a result.
“The resurgent panic will slow the pace of other cities’ reopening, hurt consumer confidence and drive up unemployment even further,“ says Dan Wang, analyst at The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
Tesla shares slid 9% on Thursday, building on the stock’s recent losses.
With Thursday’s decline, the shares are more than 18% below Monday’s close, a day when the stock surged following its split.
On Tuesday Tesla said it would raise up to $5 billion through a new stock offering, and on Wednesday the company’s largest outside shareholder said it reduced its position due to portfolio restrictions.
China’s dollar-denominated exports rose 9.5% for the month of August while imports fell 2.1% in the same period, data from the country’s General Administration of Customs showed on Monday.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected exports to have climbed 7.1% in August from a year ago imports to rise 0.1% in the same period.
China posted a trade surplus of $58.93 billion for the month of August.
U.K. house prices grew by 5.2% in August compared to the same month last year.
Month-on-month prices rose 1.6% from July to August.
The price of the average U.K. house hit £245,747 ($324,241).
Britain has fined the London branch of Germany’s Commerzbank 37.8 million pounds ($47.3 million) for failing to have proper controls to prevent money laundering, the U.K.’s financial watchdog said on Wednesday.
Banks have to check the background of clients and by March 1, 2017, Commerzbank’s checks were overdue on 1,772 customers, the Financial Conduct Authority said.
Sweden’s chief epidemiologist says the number of infections continues to decline.
He told CNBC about what he would implement if there is a ‘second wave’ of infections.
Contact tracing is a priority, he said.
NASA has released images of Hurricane Laura in the south and of the California wildfires, which bring the scope of the weather events into focus.
And both are connected to climate change, according to Paul Ullrich, associate professor of regional and global climate modeling at the University of California Davis.
