Britains lockdown. European stocks follow asiasing Economic Activity around the world with basic resources leading the way. Car sales in china rise for the first time in nearly two years and a sharp uturn from the 43 drop the month prior sno the german consumer good sees demand for cleaning products jump in the First Quarter but sales of shampoos and adhesives fall. 2. 2 billion deal to sell its business in the philippines is blocked by the local regulator. Good morning pe with seen green march back to the european boards as we begin a brandnew trading week what weve got across the board is reaction to gradual reopening of some economies in europe. Although there is a little more caution than weve seen in some countries like germany, south korea and china, wuhan directly, where the reemergence from lockdown has meant a spike in interest rate. The benchmark stoxx 600 rise of 0. 40, drifting off higher ranges with countries like spain not holding onto some initial green, and france track
Jerome powell talks of heartbreaking harm from the coronavirus and says the pandemic has brought the u. S. To an abrupt halt. We are seeing optimism with asian stocks really prized to follow the leader when it comes to gains on wall street overnight. The s p 500 gaining 2. 5 percent, touching a sevenweek high as we have the dual optimism over expected track to a vaccine with the socalled operation work speed from the Trump Administration. More encouraging news about efficacy on a Gilead Sciences therapeutic as well. We are taking a look at gains resuming in new zealand. Japanese futures pointed up after yesterdays public holiday. U. S. Futures also showing an extension of those public gains. On seeing futures looking positive as well. Korea closed today and hong kong markets closed for the birthday holiday. Taking a look at oil because we are seeing a second day of gains for wti up, the 22 plus gain in the overnight session. We are seeing opening up here higher by over 6 in asia. This
Value. We have to talk about manufacturing workers. Theres this recognition of the Service Sector just in terms of the question earlier about employers, a lot of what ive been doing lately has been talking to public agencies about enforcement and one of the things that comes up when i make the argument for the Broker Community organizations they havent been given a formal role in the law and we have to start thing in about the enforcement as the government does over here thats what we do together. One of the flashbacks i get from the local agencies, what do i say to the local business you all come and lets recognize that markets are always better off when employers are organiz organized. That is an argument that weekend the can win. When his employers awhether hise local level in the sectors, we have somebody that we can deal with. And without that, we just have chaos. Theres a common interest and we know this obviously through lots of labor history but its no less true today who would
Schools. This is the very first event shell be doing. Shell be doing a series of programs and interviews as she travels across the country to introduce her book across the public, so we are really honored to be the first, and also honored to be the venue where Community Conversation will be taking place tonight. After all, a Critical Role of libraries engage in issues important oh to that community. But not only our city, cities across the country. There will be many questions, there are many questions but i would bet there will be some answers e emerging from tonights discussion as well. I want to thank two people in particular to organize the program. I would like them to stand up. The first is our president of the north Public Library, timothy chris, please, stand. [applause] the other a newer member. Please stand up. [applause] and there are other members here on our board, i wish they would stand up too, i see sandi king in the back, Vice President , johnny johnson. Charles is her
Policy, can you keep it. There were a lot of people that wanted to buy policies that cost less and that didnt have lifetime caps lifted. There are a lot of people that wanted to buy that didnt cover their 26yearold. You didnt let us do that. And that is the problem. We are smart people. We can make our own decisions. We dont need the government telling us what we have to have. And that is the biggest complaint i get from idahoans, from americans saying why are you politicians and washington, d. C. Constantly telling us what we should do for ourselves . And thats the basic problem of all of this. Whenever you try to socialize in the industry, nationalize an industry like its been done here, its never worked. Its been in tried in all sorts of countries and it never works. Its not going to work here. Well, let me go over a couple other points. First of all, i want to ask mr. Knoll, im told that there are have been 150,000 small group plans that have been canceled in your state. Is that tr