The second world war. Futures are rising. Oil retreats after a meeting with Top Producers is delayed. Talk is tough. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash Equities Trading in europe. Gains looking at decent across European Equity indexes. If you take a look at u. S. Futures, you see gains. Asian stocks advanced as well as these gains that we have seen. Daily reported death tolls and some hotspots dropped on sunday. Boris johnson was put into the hospital. Lets get into the markets right now. Lets talk about risk sentiments. Are we talking more about a risk on day because traders think maybe we have somehow peaked in terms of the coronavirus threat . Futures are telling us it will be a risk on day. If we look at daily fatalities, on april 5, they are the lowest in a month. We are seeing a flattening of the curve in countries like spain and italy. U. S. States saw the first reported decline in daily fatalities. That thissoon to call will be the end of the market pressure
So good evening youre watching r. T. International where it has just gone eye to cock here in moscow now lets start with the latest figures that we have on the cope with 19 pandemic the number of confirmed infections worldwide has passed 1600000 and the death toll stands at more than 100369000 people have recovered. Well the virus is taking its greatest toll on the able to leave a picture of devastation emerging at care homes throughout europe deaths of surge but exact numbers arent yet known due to a lack of testing and also delays in reporting initially the Health Director of one nursing home there says that there are no resources to cope with the crisis. I would describe whats happened as a tsunami losing so many people at the same time its terrible to have not even had time to process what happened and mourn for those who have died. In many European Countries care home residents have been bypassed by overstretched Health Care Services in france almost a 3rd of all coronavirus death
[inaudible conversations] good morning this hearing will come to order. Its the day to do the environment subcommittee with fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. And acting chief Financial Officer welcome to both of you. The president s request 2021 to 66 billion to the epa and 27 percent cut hello fy 2020. This seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve in a broad bipartisan basis fy 2024 example to request to eliminate 30 mine Million Dollars of new funding we provided to the epa and requests with Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 percent and 9 milliondollar cuts fy 2020 also 870 million from the 3 billion we invested to rebuild our crumbling Water Infrastructure. I held a listening section in st. Paul they would lose 56 percent of federal funding and approximately 75 percent of the cats were to go through the minnesota pollution control that air pollution monitoring for the communities back home and clean water action said it would be a
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Today is the day we will examine the president s fiscal year for the epa joining with morning is administrator wheeler and acting chief Financial Officer. Welcome to both of you. Fiscal year 2021 the president s 66 billion to the epa but this request the presidency of what you were able to achieve on the fy 2020. And then to eliminate the new funding we provided to address pfas and the Clean Energy Funding grants c by 47 percent at 409 million fy 2020 also has money from the 3 billion we invested with our nations crumbling Water Infrastructure. Recently held a listening session and they would lose and what at what happened of these cuts were to go through the pollution control also proposed cuts to the clean water grant act air pollution and monitoring to have our communities back home included it would be an absolute catastrophe for clean water. And i directly heard about concerns with the budget with the pfas pollution it could be truly devasta
No change in the lpr. No real effect when it comes to the cnh, the offshore renminbi. 6. 86. Maintaining the gains we have of late. The euro weakening. Keeping an eye on crude. Oilared by the National Company after saying it was commandersone of the of one of the civil war activists from exporting. Got oil field disruptions taking place in iraq. What else is happening in beijing. We join selina wang for the first word news. Selina thank you. The former white house economic director gary cohn says he sees no recession predicts the economy will continue to grow as we move towards novembers election. While president trumps tariffs produce the phase one trade deal they inflicted some damage on the american economy. I dont think we would have gone to a different outcome. I dont think the outcomes helped us get to a different outcome. Did it hurt the u. S. . Its. Totally hurt United States the u. S. Economy is very strong, employment is great but we are missing a big component. Were missing