That really has been down to currencies. The dollar index is up at the moment, but if you look at it over 24 hours, actually, its down by. 3 ,. 4 percent. One of the main beneficiaries of crown weakness has been strength. Sterling has been propelled about 1. 5 in the last day or thereabouts. The dollar weakness has been felt with the yen also moving to the upside. Theres another reason we are seeing upside on equities in japan. Gold not a major beneficiary, though it was at oneweek highs at one stage after the dollar was sagging earlier on. Thats a look at markets. Lets head over to tom. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the other first word headlines. The Trump Administration is ramping up tensions with china once again, designating six asnland Media Outlets foreign which it says are controlled by beijing. They include the economic daily, which provides a look at beijing economic news. The Administration Says all six are substantially owned or by atively controlled foreign gov
Investigation into the fatal officerinvolved shooting in vallejo. Police shot and killed Sean Monterrosa on june 2. The City Council Unanimously voted to have the criminalinvesn attorney general he Attorney Generals Office but the office declined the invitation. Abrams did not provide information indicating her office was not capable of conducting a thorough and fair review. The ags office is undertaking a comprehensive review of the extra Vallejo Police Department Policies and practices. And support for the black lives matter by flying a flag above revilevi stadium. This close to four years after former 49er Colin Kaepernick took a he knee to highlight racial inequality and police brutality. Jay york block about the black lives Matter Movement in a state of the franchise video. When colin started the protest movement in 2016, what we had talked about in talking to dr. Harry edwards, his message which is what we really adopted was taking protest to progress. The 49ers ownership has ple
North of us and that is allowing for not only, yes, the wind and my microphone, i know, is bad, im sorry about that. 59 in mount 56 in fremont. Well talk about the red flag warning in a few minutes. Sorry about that technical difficulty. Before businesses in San Francisco have to wait longer to reopen. They were supposed to reopen tomorrow but a spike in coronavirus forced the mayor to put plans on hold. Here is what is not allowed to reopen just yet. That is salons, tattoo and piercing studios, massage parlors, outdoor bars and museums including the San Francisco zoo and dr. Grant coal f colfax explains. We had near a doubling in the last couple of weeks of our rate of diagnosis of infections. That curve is now very is quite steep, but we need to be very cautious and thoughtful as we move forward. Dr. Colfax says they will be watching closely to see whether the percentage of positive cases corresponds to an increase in hospitalizations. Two to three weeks from now. In the north bay, m
Day today as were looking at the wind gust in excess of 40 to 45 miles an hour in some places but we are looking at this system to the north to provide that wind today. Its also disrupting the low cloud deck so not much of that which could be a good thing. Brighter start to the day. 57 in concord. 52 in napa. Cooler in santa rosa. You have quarter mile visibility. You can see two to five degrees cooler this morning and the surface winds now howling out towards concord and the delta over 30 miles an hour. 10 00, sunny. Wind in the 60s to low 70s but through the afternoon, numbers will come down significantly from the upper 70s to low 80s for our warmest inland valleys and with that, well have winds 20 to 30 closer to the coast and 50 miles an hour. The first red flag warning in effect tonight for the north bay mountains. Well detail that for you in a few minutes. Businesses will have to wait a little longer to reopen. They wereut the spike in coronavirus cases forced the mayor to put pl
A headline that i found actually was geek boy from ireland and he tweeted at us and he said christ report fake customers in the restaurant an illusion of demand theres a kaiser report analogy in there somewhere and he was referring to an arty headline that one german restaurant has found a solution to maintaining social distancing on his reopening manic and a family run businesses fail tables with plastic people in order to keep customers apart and create a vibrant dining atmosphere that is not creepy at all no not creepy. Now its like that film airplane remember they had the blow up pilot who yes. Then all kinds of mr fall out catch that film very missing well yes the potemkin villages in Northern Ireland during the crisis make it look like stuff was going on that there was Business Activity where there were no Business Activity so this illusion of demand is key to our modern economy because its demand 1st then supply is lay people think about supply 1st the demand like are going to m