Updates from the Health Plan Representatives overall. And agenda item requests. Additionally, we are going to begin Public Comment with three minutes in length. All Public Comment should be made concerning the current agenda item that has been presented. Again, any Public Comment made outside of the current agenda item presentation will be asked to hold their comment and remake their comment during the appropriate agenda item. Next slide, please. I will not review all of the instructions for Public Comment. But there will be a Public Comment slide at the end of each presentation for members to make Public Comment during that time. Thank you. President breslin all right. Item number 2, please. Clerk item 2 is the roll call. President karen breslin. President breslin here. Clerk Vice President stephen follansbee. Present. Clerk commissioner mary hao. Present. And commissioner randy scott. Present. Commissioner chris canning. Im here. And supervisor dean preston. Here. We have a quorum, p
Other Health Coverage thats not sponsored by one of our employers. Number two here, this is 2 and 3 is in respect to our s. F. A. S with health care s. F. A. S, they can decide to cancel Going Forward for the rest of the plan year, cancel their election. They can make a new election if they had not enrolled in a flexible spending account before. Or they can increase or decrease their election. And this is Going Forward. And number three, applies to our dependent care flexible spending accounts. Again, they can cancel Going Forward in the plan year of their election and make a new election or increase or decrease the election they have made for the plan year 2020. Next slide. So the next one, which is based on i. R. S. Notice 2033, is specific to Health Care Flexible Spending accounts and this is our carryover provision that we currently have in our Health Care Flexible Spending accounts. Typically i would ask you to approve this, again, this september for the following 20202021 plan ye
More likely to die from coronavirus than white people. Toxic gas leaks again from a factory in india where earlier leaks killed at least 11 and left hundreds in hospital. And the war on drugs has failed a global team of experts says hardline policies are actually fueling organized crime around the world. The devastating Financial Impact of the corona virus pandemic continues to unfold as governments across the world struggle to restart the whole to the economies in the u. S. Where more than 75000 people have died of the virus a staggering 3200000 more people filed for unemployment that means 33500000 or one in 5 workers have lost their jobs since mid march when the corona Virus Outbreak forced many businesses to close their doors. Here in the u. K. The bank of england warns the economy could shrink by 14 percent by the end of 2020 the worst slump in move 300 years is this is the economy could bounce back by 2021 if the pandemic is brought under control its a slightly better picture in
For the rest of the year well get a bunch after the bell including netflix. President trump is set to meet with new York Governor Andrew Cuomo this afternoon key relationship for the country and our pandemic response, which has been marked by tension and cooperation in the last few weeks. Well bring you that as soon as it begins. Were expecting that within the hour ahead on todays show, a key move for earnings. Netflix, chipotle, Texas Instruments and snapchat gear up for results after the close. Full coverage of those names and ana analysis of the reports when they come out. And how volatility has impacted brokers. Well speak with chairman Thomas Peterffy after the numbers hit were down 2. 8 on the s p 500 oil very much in focus energy the best performing sector today, only down 0. 6 well dig into all of that coming up for you. Mike santoli is tracking that market selloff. We have got the cohead of oil trading, ben lucker, important guest to join us to discuss crudes unprecedented vol
Reported. New york state reported its highly daily death toll highest daily death toll yet. President s briefing will start at about 5 30. U. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson remains in the icu in the british hospital for the third day in a row. And nasdaq are climbing today. I want to bring in keith. One day is up, one is down. The only thing we know for sure is the daily case counts. What indicators are you watching to determine what kind of day its going to be . Keith its amazing, the daytoday swings and the volatility. Weve seen since chutess are some green shoots. We are watching search interest in real time to see if there any indication of that picking up, and weve seen that come down week over week. Has positive development come against Monetary Policy that is just quite extraordinary, where the feds increase in Balance Sheet of near 1. 5 trillion would have boosted valuations in our framework by quite a bit. Served against a backdrop of very underweight positioning, where inves