Treasury Reveals Details Of 2-Year, 5-Year And 7-Year Auctions

The Treasury Department on Thursday revealed the details of this month’s auctions of two-year, five-year and seven-year notes.

The Treasury revealed it plans to sell $48 billion worth of two-year notes, $49 billion worth of five-year notes and $44 billion worth of seven-year notes.

The results of the two-year and five-year note auctions will be announced next Monday, while the results of the seven-year note auction will be announced next Tuesday.

Last month, the Treasury sold $46 billion worth of two-year notes, $47 billion worth of five-year notes and $41 billion worth of seven-year notes.

Apple To Open New Sanlitun Store In China

Apple said that it will open the new Apple Sanlitun store on Friday in China. It is located in the Taikoo Li mall in Beijing and will replace the company’s first store in China.

The new store is adjacent to the original store and is twice the size of the original store.

The company stated that the new store features many of its latest retail design updates, including a Forum, Viewing Gallery, and Boardroom. The Forum will be the future home for Today at Apple, where the store will host some of Beijing’s artists, musicians, and creatives who will showcase and teach their process.

Local businesses and entrepreneurs can get personal advice and guidance from the Apple team in the store’s Boardroom, the company said.

Apple Sanlitun also features the company’s first integrated solar array in a retail store in China. The solar array will provide renewable energy to the store like the rest of Apple’s facilities worldwide.

The company said it is supporting enough clean energy in China to power more than 450,000 homes each year.

Stock Alert: Centogene Gains 13%; Makes Its Covid-19 Test Kit Available In Germany

Shares of commercial-stage rare disease company Centogene N.V. (CNTG) are rising more than 11% Thursday morning at $13.35. It has been trading in the range of $7.80- $28.71 in the past 52-weeks.

Centogene today said, its COVID-19 test kit called CentoKit-19, is now available on Amazon in Germany. CENTOGENE is the first provider to make SARS-CoV-2 virus RNA test kit available online in Germany.

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French soldier killed in Mali combat operations: Elysee

PARIS (Reuters) – A French soldier was killed in Mali on Thursday morning after combat operations against militants, President Emmanuel Macron’s office said.

“This soldier … was killed in fighting against armed terrorist groups, when an improvised explosive device was triggered next to his armoured vehicle,” the presidency aid in a statement.

France has more than 5,000 troops in the West African Sahel region as part of international efforts to fight Islamist militants in the area.

Watch live: The World Health Organization holds a press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic

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The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Thursday on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 15 million people worldwide and killed at least 623,800, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Earlier this week, the WHO applauded newly published data by researchers at Oxford University and AstraZeneca on a potential coronavirus vaccine. The Oxford researchers said the vaccine produced antibodies and killer T-cells to combat the infection that lasted at least two months.

“It is good news,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s emergencies program, said Monday. “In generating T-cell responses and generating neutralizing antibodies, this is a positive result. But again, there is a long way to go. We now need to move into larger-scale real-world trials.”

Public health officials say there is no returning to “normal” until there is a vaccine. Ryan said Monday there are 23 vaccine candidates in clinical development, and until Monday, only one had produced phase one data available in a peer-reviewed journal.

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NYC Must Lure Residents Back After Virus Peak, Cuomo Says

The coronavirus has driven people and businesses from New York City, and “we have to get them back,” Governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday.

Top restaurants, cultural institutions and Broadway remain closed, and increases in crime, homelessness and graffiti are “aggravating factors,” the Democratic governor said during a Manhattan news briefing.

In March and April, New York City was the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. But the number of positive cases and virus-related deaths now remain low as cases surge nationwide. Statewide, 1.16% of the nearly 70,000 people tested July 22 were positive and there were 13 deaths, according to the most recent state data. There were 706 hospitalizations.

Many citizens left the city during the darkest days, Cuomo said, some for their second homes upstate and on Long Island, and some young people moved back to their hometowns. Businesses, he said, are re-evaluating their models and whether they can continue to have people work remotely.

“The business transformation is going to have the most potential impact,” Cuomo said. Some firms that have had employees working from home for four months may decide they don’t need 25,000 square feet of space in the city, he said.