The 30-second ad by President Donald Trump's reelection campaign ends with “You won't be safe in Joe Biden's America,” emblazoned across a flickering hellscape. It blames a push by some progressive activists to defund the police as “violent crime has exploded.” With recent shootings that have killed children and dozens of other people in cities with large Black populations like New York, Atlanta and Chicago, the GOP is trying to play offense, ominously.

Protesters who have clashed with authorities in the Pacific Northwest are not just confronting local police. The Department of Homeland Security has deployed officers in tactical gear from around the country, and from more than a half dozen federal law enforcement agencies and departments, to Portland, Oregon, as part of a surge aimed at what a senior official said were people taking advantage of demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd to commit violence and vandalism. “Once we surged federal law enforcement officers to Portland, the agitators quickly got the message,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing operation.

Two World Health Organization experts will spend the next two days in the Chinese capital to lay the groundwork for a larger mission to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. One animal health expert and one epidemiologist during their visit will work to fix the “scope and terms of reference” for the future mission aimed at learning how the virus jumped from animals to humans, the statement from the United Nations body said. In an effort to block future outbreaks, China has cracked down on the trade in wildlife and closed some wet markets, while enforcing strict containment measures that appear to have virtually stopped new local infections.

(Bloomberg) -- Stocks slipped on Friday, paring the week’s advance as a surge in China cooled and concern resurfaced that rising coronavirus cases will hurt the global economic recovery. Treasuries and the dollar rose.Hong Kong bore the brunt of losses, falling more than 2%, as a spike in new infections left the government set to close schools. Shares in China were also lower as selling by state-backed funds signaled authorities wanted to slow of the pace of gains following the Shanghai Composite’s eight-day winning run. Japanese shares slipped along with those in South Korea. Contracts on the S&P 500 Index fell, while the yield on benchmark Treasuries dipped below 0.6%.“Optimism is giving way to de-risking into the weekend,” said Stephen Innes, chief global market strategist at AxiCorp. “The more uncertainty grows around the economic recovery front, the more cause for investors wanting to book profits even if volatility is not picking up that much.”Record deaths in Florida and California again put the spotlight on the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. Elsewhere, Australia said it will tighten inbound travel and infections in Mexico jumped by a record for a second day. While optimists are betting that fiscal and monetary support will contain the fallout and cited U.S. jobs data Thursday that came in better than expected, others pointed out that the labor market is still treacherous.“We’re going to see intermittent periods of shutdowns over the next year or so while we’re still grappling with this virus,” Erin Browne, a multi-asset portfolio manager at Pacific Investment Management Co. said on Bloomberg TV. “But I wouldn’t expect we’re likely to see a wholesale shutdown of the U.S. economy like we saw earlier this year.”Elsewhere, oil traded below $39 a barrel and gold was steady.These are the main moves in markets:StocksFutures on the S&P 500 Index slid 0.7% as of 6:45 a.m. in London. The index fell 0.6% on Thursday.Japan’s Topix index declined 0.7%.Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost 2.2%.Shanghai Composite declined 1.4%.Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index slipped 0.8%.Euro Stoxx 50 futures lost 0.3%.CurrenciesThe Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index rose 0.2%.The yen was at 106.95 per dollar, up 0.2%.The euro bought $1.1271, down 0.1%.The offshore yuan was at 7.0131 per dollar, down 0.2%.BondsThe yield on 10-year Treasuries slid to 0.59%.Australia’s 10-year yield fell four basis points to 0.86%.CommoditiesWest Texas Intermediate crude slid 1.7% to $38.93 a barrel.Gold was at $1,797.90 an ounce, down 0.3%.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.

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