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Key Takeaways

Global deaths from the coronavirus are on the cusp of one million. Armenia and Azerbaijan declared martial law as the conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh escalates. The US sanctioned China’s biggest chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation.

Condition Updates

A rundown of important global developments in markets, in business, and region-by-region, as well as statistical risk assessments by country and by US state.

Industry in Focus: Sports

The trickle-down effects of professional and amateur sports have had profound societal and economic consequences on adjacent industries and local populations.  Nowhere is this more apparent than the US, where university sports and professional leagues are massive economic drivers for hundreds of cities and towns.

Country in Charts: US Second Wave

While coronavirus conditions in major outbreak states of California, Texas, Florida and Georgia are improving, more states are seeing daily new case rates over 1,000 return, reversing many of the improved conditions from over the summer.  

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