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Deb. I want to talk very briefly about two or three things. First, the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach we are going to be able to take. Testing was an issue, many questions of testing in this room for number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of testing out there, there are a few things we could do with that. One of the things is when we make policy of what we are going to be doing with the rest of the country, particularly those areas that are not hotspots, we need to know what the infection is there. We need to put a light on those dark spots that we dont know. We have to act policy wise on data. We are going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is the areas of the country that are not hotspots, that are not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In ot
Concern spreads from italy to iran, but the World Health Organization says the outbreak is not yet considered a pandemic. The business case. Mastercard and United Airlines, the latest companies to issue profit warnings amid the operate. And, sticking to the script. Cleveland fed president Loretta Mester says the virus is a threat to the u. S. Economy, but does not justify a change in rates. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe and in the u. K. Lets take a look at futures after the big drop yesterday. We saw in some cases the biggest slide in european stocks since the brexit vote. As a result, we see a bounce in futures today. Maybe investors saying it is time to buy in the dip. You can see that dax futures are up 8 10 of 1 . U. S. Futures are also showing gains today after the biggest drop in two years on the s p and dow. You can see we swap over to u. S. Futures, they will be showing green arrows as well. Lets take a look at whats going on in te
Our next panel we are very excited to get an International Perspective on infrastructure. Earlier i had a chance to meet with mexicos current chair of the governors the current chair is france just go and incoming as mendoza, swift got both representatives from mexico and canada appear on the stage we are really thrilled to have it with us a total of five premieres from our neighbors to the north, who we very much appreciate everybody making the tremendous effort to come down here and join us. They are joining us for this discussion on infrastructure from an International Perspective. I believe canada is doing some really interesting and Creative Things on infrastructure, silly want to thank each one of you for joining us. We have saskatchewan premier who is the chair of the council of the federation which is our equivalent, sort of like the nga of canada. Quebec khmer fans while ago, ontario premier doug ford, New Brunswick premier blaine higgs, and alberta premier jason, please give
Seeing. Sarah you look at equities in japan right now. The nikkei 225 of more than five percent, trading below 20,000 for the first time in over a year. What is already been very rough price action is only getting worse as time goes on. You look at s p 500 futures trading at the 5 limit from the friday reference price. 28. 1 nine. At futures continue to trade. They just cannot jump although it or fall below it. That is the first time we have seen a limit down since donald trump did win the presidency in 2016. The asx having its worst day since 2008. Msi market watch, the asiapacific region is having its worst day since june of 2016. What is really pulling lower is the energy stuck. Off by 8 . That is the worst day since 2008. It is your upstream energy companies. Your producers that are weighing. The worst day since 1988. Also some of your worst performers coming out of hong kong. The legs of oil fields having its worst day ever, off 15 anything. Energy related really all 15 . Anything