Peter Russell

India is under ‘tremendous’ pressure to respond to China, academic says

India is under a lot of pressure to respond to China after a border clash high in the Himalayas left 20 Indian soldiers dead, Jingdong Yuan, an associate professor at the University of Sydney, told CNBC.
A “violent face-off” occurred Monday evening along the border in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, where soldiers from India and China have been locked in a standoff since May.

Hospitals set up coronavirus tents, seek emergency credit and $100 billion in US aid as they face onslaught of cases

U.S. hospitals are lobbying Washington for a $100 billion stabilization fund to help ramp up capacity and buy necessary supplies.
At Mount Sinai Health System’s Morningside hospital in New York City, the number of coronavirus patients at the 500-bed facility doubled in two days this week.
New York-Presbyterian Hospital warned its debt holders this week that the financial toll of its emergency response will be steep.

‘It’s going to be ugly,’ analyst says as mortgage rates suddenly spike on shocking jobs report

The average mortgage shopper may see rates on the 30-year fixed as much as a quarter point higher, said Matthew Graham, COO of Mortgage News Daily, which runs daily averages from lenders.
Mortgage rates loosely follow the yield on the 10-year Treasury.
“It’s going to be ugly,” Graham said. “Today is the first time since the Covid-19 market reaction settled down in March that interest rates truly have a reason to panic. Until further notice, this looks like liftoff.”

The EU’s massive coronavirus stimulus plan faces three crucial hurdles

Some nations are still against the idea of raising new debt, Karel Lannoo, chief Executive of CEPS think tank, told CNBC Monday over the phone.
A second hurdle is how to calculate the distribution of funds.
The 27 heads of state will discuss the 750 billion euro plan next week, but this is expected to be a preliminary meeting with another high-level discussion needed in the summer months.