Peak fatality rates could come in the next two weeks. Haidi brent crude is at its lowest price in trading since late 2002. The australian markets have just opened. Lets get straight to Sophie Kamaruddin. Sophie shares opening lower in sydney. We are seeing and struggling australian in vectors australian economy goes into hibernation. It should strengthen gdp 10 this quarter. As for new zealand, 14 quarterly contraction in the Second Quarter before rebounding as officials wrap up. Buying Corporate Bonds from tuesday. Off more than 2 . Nikkei futures in chicago under pressure. Analysts believe the economy is already in recession. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo to fund the biggest ever stimulus package. Futures sinking more than 2 . Worries about Economic Growth and dwindling demand also playing out in the oil market. Wti testing 20. Flipping back, President Trump is still speaking at the white house, where earlier he said he would extend the guidelines for americans to distance themselve
Efforts to stem the bleeding. Quarantine, will people be flocking to netflix . Massachusetts becoming the latest u. S. State to declare a state of emergency along with new york, california, and more. Italy remains in a nationwide lockdown. U. S. Stocks rally on hopes the Trump Administration will institute stimulus measures. To get all the latest on where the market closed, we are joined by abigail doolittle. Better than yesterday. Abigail it was. Also a wild day. Day, the indexhe closed up about half a percent. When we dig into technology, the tech index had a monster rally. But that comes after yesterday. Yesterday, this index plunged. Since 2008. Y tons of uncertainty as to the true impact and fallout will be. Some relief perhaps around the idea that you have that potential stimulus. It is hard to know what will help when the problem is unknown. We just do not know the true extent of the impact. Psychologically, it helps. We take a look at some of the individual movers, apple up in
Kudos to Technical Service division who successfully completed the code update. This was a huge undertaking involving coordination and tight deadlines. Thanks to all the dbi staff. And finally, id like to recognize a great employee of our city for many years and who is just retired from the department of dbi, like to recognize bill strong. Is bill here . I owe him a big lunch because i was away when he retired. During his time, he impressed us very much with his knowledge and professionalism and attention to detail. I know i speak for my colleagues as well when i say we will miss him. He was a great anchor for the department and his history goes back to senator feinstein and i was talking to john about it earlier, he took a little time off in the middle and then back to dbi for, i believe, 13 years was the time . I dont know how many times i tried to upset bill and i could not. [laughter] and i made genuine efforts to do it. He was always a professional and managed to make things clear
Alexandertut here. Clinch here. Jacobo here. Lee here. Moss here. Tam here. We have a quorum. And our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy good morning and welcome to the bic meeting of january, 2020, first of the year. And welcome, everybody. Kudos to Technical Service division who successfully completed the code update. This was a huge undertaking involving coordination and tight deadlines. Thanks to all the dbi staff. And finally, id like to recognize a great employee of our city for many years and who is just retired from the department of dbi, like to recognize bill strong. Is bill here . I owe him a big lunch because i was away when he retired. During his time, he impressed us very much with his knowledge and professionalism and attention to detail. I know i speak for my colleagues as well when i say we will miss him. He was a great anchor for the department and his history goes back to senator feinstein and i was talking to john about it earlier, he
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