Business Insider reports on the matter
The current set of restrictions was set to run through to 18 April and given the virus situation, this isn’t so much a surprise. We’ll see about the details later on and if Merkel will call for tighter measures such as nighttime curfews and such.

Remarks by German chancellor, Angela Merkel
The 7-day incidence rate continues to keep relatively high at 136.4 as of today and it has been trending in the wrong direction since early March – the target back then was to try and get that figure down to 50.0, just for some context.

PBOC monetary policy department head, Sun Guofeng, remarks
Well, the latest certainly backs up their commitment but we’ll see how things go in the coming months, with the market keeping a watchful eye in case Chinese officials decide to surreptitiously tighten policy.

10-year Treasury yields little changed at 1.657%
Apart from some modest strength in the pound and yen, there isn’t much happening in the market to start the new week. US futures holding a little lower while Treasuries aren’t offering any firm direction so far today.

Bitcoin up 3% today
I last month about bitcoin’s habit of rallying on Saturday’s and today that was the case again. It’s up 3.1% to $60,156 today and touched as high as $61,218.

Back in November last year Chinese authorities halted Ma’s Ant Group US$34.5B IPO.
Jack Ma, who controls Alibaba, had criticized domestic (and global) regulators for stifling financial services innovation, criticism the CCP did not appreciate.  

Banks traditionally get the ball rolling
Believe it or not, the earnings season is starting up next week. It seems like only yesterday. The fact is, the bulk of earnings are spread out over a month or so and then you have other key releases that are outside of that window.  Nevertheless, it does not seem

Forex news for New York trade on April 9, 2020:
Markets:
The Canadian jobs report was a stunner and far-surpassed expectations. The market’s response was more tepid that you might have anticipated but that owes to fresh lockdowns in April and the belief that all those people are going right back on unemployment insurance. Later, the market

Nasdaq 1.9% from the all time high
The major indices also closed higher for the week with the NASDAQ index leading the charge at up 3.12%.
The final numbers are showing:

Stocks climb to the highs of the day
US stocks are getting a late lift in what’s already been a strong week. The S&P 500 is up 25 points to 4121.
Closing at the highs of the week is a good sign for the week ahead, though this will be the 6th gain in 7 days and