Us treasury secretary janet yellen called the downgrade arbitrary and said Economic Conditions had improved under the biden administration. The news of the downgrade came after the close of trade on wall street but in asia investors have been pulling out of equities in reaction. Lets look at markets now in asia. Japan is currently down by over 2 . Hong kong not that far behind. This was off the back of yesterday, and most of this week we have seen the sharemarket, certainly wall street and asia having a strong session but this is certainly spooked sentiment. Lets discuss this with tom stevenson, whos an Investment Director at fidelity. Good morning. Janet woody allen saying this is arbitrary. I have her statement janet yellen and she said she strongly disagrees and says it is based on outdated data. That is based on outdated data. That is riuht. Is based on outdated data. That is right it is based on outdated data. That is right. It seems is based on outdated data. That is right. It s
Brzeski, global head of macro for ing research. Good to see you. Germany is in favour. Italy is saying it is too hard. Your thoughts . fix, too hard. Your thoughts . Complicated story once again. This is the third or fourth reform of european fiscal rules since the start of the monetary union. What they aim to do is make the rules a bit more flexible to give the more economic sense but in the past we saw the rules were simple but it did not leave enough room for investment in the future. If there was a problem, look back at the euro crisis, applying these rules really meant painful reforms, painful measures and they should not make peoples a bit more flexible and a bit more economic sensible. What can a country s economic sensible. What can a country s Debt Economic sensible. What can a Country S Debt be economic sensible. What can a Country S Debt be at economic sensible. What can a Country S Debt be at according i country s debt be at according to these rules . It seems to be the t
This is 40 minutes. We are getting so excited for earth day. We want to share some of the exciting Earth Science missions we have coming up and some announcements. Today we have nasa administrator bill nelson, karen shake jermaine, Division Director for nasa Earth Sciences, tom waggoner, associate director for earth action within our Earth Sciences division. We have some exciting thing to discuss with you today. We will announce a new airborne science mission, new elements in our Earth Science strategy, as well as a new visualization from our mission, pace, plankton, aerosol, cloud, ocean ecosystem. First, administrator nelson will give us more information about what we are here for today. As you know, we are a Climate Agency in addition to being a space agency, Aeronautical Research agency, and that is because we have these two dozen instruments and satellites on orbit that look at the earth, look at it, bring us data realtime within a matter of seconds that it takes the transmission
We will speak with one of his superdelegates, former cwa , anddent larry cohen Michelle Chan, one of the first environmental groups to endorse Bernie Sanders. Then we will go to louisville, kentucky, where thousands are gathering for the funeral of mohammed ali am a one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century. Muslimmay have been a desk made in a muslim relevant. In a way that no one could challenge. Took the question of whether a person can be a muslim and american to rest. Amy we will speak with sports commentator dave zirin was written extensively about the heavyweight champ, and Dalia Mogahed, one of the few speakers at his islamic funeral on thursday. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Were broadcasting from washington, d. C. , where president barack obama formally endorsed Hillary Clintons white house bid on thursday and called for democrats to unite behind her, two days after she claimed
Remember my name. We have another two hours to get it right. Lets take a check on weather. Hopefully i have another two years to get it right [ laughter ] this is our live weather camera looking towards the bay bridge. Look how just glorious it is visibility is unlimited right now in San Francisco. You can see that 12 waning gibbous moon out there. Temperatures into the 50s. 58 in san jose. 59 livermore. 98 on thursday. San jose you will be spot on today. Thats where you should be for the very first day of july. 60s with gradual clearing of the skies along the seashore where we are socked in right now with the marine layer. 80s around the peninsula. 87 campbell. 7 the in fremont. East of the bay up to 96 degrees in brentwood. And we have numbers from the 60s to the 80s north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Full forecast coming up but right now heres gianna. Good morning. Lets jump to the south bay northbound 101 off to a great start out of san jose. Drive times all in the green which means