Or on the line every day. Last week, we talked about how important testing is to our desire to reopen the economy while taking every appropriate measure to protect the lives and health of customers, staff, business owners, visitors and residents in every corner of our state. Today, we are very pleased to announce a partnership with idx it employs 3000 people in our state, and worldwide leader in the production of diagnostics is partnering with us to provide covid19 test material sufficient to more than triple our current Testing Capacity. While this a deal was and that works, we boarded for the fda and washington to give final emergency use approval to idexx new approval. That approval arrived this morning. This changes everything. For weeks, my administration has been in discussions with idexx to make sure people of wade would be the beneficiary of their new test kits should fda approve them. And now we have that approval. As a result of this partnership, the state of maine will have
Announced a new partnership with a local laboratory 11 the state to test more people for covid19. Her state or conference with state Public Health officials is about an hour. Gov. Mills good morning, good afternoon. We have good news for you today. 67 days, our Coronavirus Task force has worked day and night to provide the resources to make every man, woman, and child in maine safe. Has talkeddr. Shah about the critical need for testing of the virus in any number of settings, particularly when it comes to protecting our most Vulnerable People and our frontline workers whose lives are on the line every day. Who lives or on the line every day. Last week, we talked about how important testing is to our desire to reopen the economy while taking every appropriate measure to protect the lives and health of customers, staff, business owners, visitors and residents in every corner of our state. Today, we are very pleased to announce a partnership with idx it employs 3000 people in our state, a
Chart for the markets. Obviously we would start there, thats what dan nathan is calling this stock so dan, why dont you walk us through what this is and why its so important to investors lets talk about jm porgen. This is a best of breed bankheading into the crisis. The stock was trading at an all time high. There were a lot of investors out there in january signaling this is a chart representative of the economy that were in, prepandemic, i just have to tell you, this thing has acted pretty horrible on the way down, its down 35 on the year, and that is relative to the s p 500, down less than 10 on the year. The balance off the lows in march was fairly anemic relative to the s p 500 whats important is that investors seem to be focused on the stocks that got us here prepandemic. We know that it was the maga, the microsoft, apple, google and amazon its the bank stocks that are important to look at here. They touch parts of the economy that are going to struggle over the next few quarters
The consumer staples, bottom fishing on companies and may think have gotten oversold. Companies could benefit from the work at Home Movement which is encapsulating this entire globe. Walgreens, have got walmart and costco among the gainers in the staples space. Theee another winner in dollar. Everyone is flocking to the dollar, the dollar index rising for a seventh straight day, claiming to an alltime high. The biggest loser against the dollar among the g10 currencies appears to be the pound. Romaine yeah. Scarlet lets look at todays market action. We will bring in our live reporter and one of the new voices. What have you been watching . Reporter oil markets were catching my eye. Wti, 14 in in brent. What is moving this action . It is a risk off water market story. Pressure oil as well and youre seeing all of this action move off of the official order from the Energy Ministry to saudi aramco to 12. 3 Million Barrels keep but as for the next coming month. That is how the indication is
Colleague sandra hello from me to i am sandra teen of the hour here in uganda the africa well on todays show were going to visit the river thats those things live but is also a source of conflict because water is a cost and value of those who also take on the cost. Someone planted a company that used green and sustainable. In the democratic republic of congo 1000 people friendly chuckle. And a project in uganda to teach kids about the environment. Fust to the mara river it starts in kenya and it flows into left victoria. It is 400 kilometers long and it is an important resource that the 2 countries have to ship they are all over how to manage it fairly unsustainable it is the kind of conflict the to see elsewhere in africa too we went to tanzania to meet people who are walking on resolving the issues. Of. The mar river in northwestern tanzania is the lifeline for local villages. They have to travel almost 3 kilometers to collect fresh water people here only use a small amount of water