Information on the clone a virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcasts you can also find us at. Science. Pregnancy is a stressful time for any expect another was even more true now because of the pandemic pregnant women could be a greater risk of developing serious side effects from cough it 19 for the still much experts dont know about how the virus affects mothers and how its transmitted to babies some women have been refused medical care or actively stayed away from also missiles fearing infection im suffering from cope at 19 i was just diagnosed in the parts hospital and they refused to treat. Birth control and Family Planning services have fallen down the list of Health Care Priorities during the pandemic has meant to search an unplanned pregnancies and life altering decisions for many young women. The covered 19 pandemic is creating unexpected side effects around the world and malawi a huge spike in teen p
4000000 countries leading the world as new infections the government is sticking to plans to ease restrictions open up the economy. On nick spicer thanks for joining us the american president ial race has taken on a new turn following comments allegedly made by the commander in chief of the u. S. Armed forces President Donald Trump is reported to have disparaged americans killed in battle in europe the atlantic magazine broke the story said trump refused to visit an American Military cemetery in france because it was quote filled with losers. Also allegedly referred to marines who lost their lives as quote suckers for getting killed. Part of the story had been corroborated by other news outlets including the usually. Fox news but trump strongly denies he ever made the comments you know its a fake story written by a magazine that was probably not going to be around much longer but it was a totally fake story and that was confirmed by many people who were actually there it was a terrible
U. S. . Moving on to some currencies, dollar weakness is still a trend at play. We are seeing that play out for the offshore cnh strengthening at around seven. In terms of the yen, 106 is the crucial level for that. Higher option volatility. In terms of hong kong, we are focused on the newtek tech index as part of the conversation. Aussie dollar currently up. 3 . Dollar weakness very much part of the play there. Lets look at what is happening with gold. It has been on a tear, and we are getting close if not touching now record highs. Gold futures above those record 1944, close to 1 gfain gain in terms of futures. I believe the record was around 1923. Looks like we are about 1 or so away from that record price. Its 1923 or 1921. Anyway, we are edging close to that record price. Weakness. Lar silver gaining close to 2 . The 10 year in the u. S. Yield is a little below 0. 6 . Rish. Rishaad were going to bring in banny lam. Welcome to the program. We just outlined, at least tom did, outlin
How has his week been . Francine it is been a tough week. Lets putain said, the scandal and angle over one of his top advisers driving to his family home in the middle of a lockdown, he is hoping with the gradual reopening of the economy people will be behind him more than they have in. They have been. There is a big figure in terms of euro area inflation close to zero which will put pressure on the ecb to act next week. Tom no question that disinflationary tendency of may with every indication will migrate into june. The jobs report front and center a week from today. Now, our first word news. Ritika in minneapolis, the third night of violent protests over the death of george floyd, a black man who died in police custody. Protesters torched a Police Station and businesses were burned. Moved to other cities. On twitter, President Trump blasted the mayor of minneapolis , called the rioters bugs, gs, and threatened to call in the national guard. The president signed an executive order to
Number for the company. Quarterly sales were down 43 year on year. The stock is pretty much flat, though. The bad news now, just how bad would let actually be . Sales roseommerce about 74 . They still need people to come into the store to really make a lot of money. Their comp sales were up by over 10 , if you backout fuel. Clearly a lot of stocking up. Clearly good for walmart. Kohls suspended its Share Buyback program. That stock now off by about 1 in the premarket. Overall, no doubt we are obviously going to take a bit of a pause as we digest earnings and that monster rally. The question is whether the new was that or a bear market rally. Is that really being reflected in equities . We need the Economic Data to really match. Lets get to the news from overseas, as well as here in the u. S. We want to start with the walmart numbers and look ahead to fit your jay powell. Michael mckee has more. Just in case we werent sure that people were hoarding toilet paper, we get walmart. Michael