In washington, lets kick it off with blake. Reporter we are seeing a backtracking away from china in a couple different places across washington today. Lets start with what we first reported exclusively on foxbusiness. Com on monday evening which is that the white house part, President Trump and his top advisers wanted to see the federal Retirement Savings plan that relates the federal government workers not have any exposure whatsoever to chinese equities. There was a fund that was shifted, about 4. 5 billion into chinese equities, that was expected to go into play, the white house said they did not want that to happen wanted to answer by the end of business today, that fund responded to the white house and said that they will not be putting the nearly 5 billion worth of government Retirement Funds into a fund that has significant exposure to china. Thats a big win for President Trump in his own visors who thought not only there was a risk for the workers but a National Security risk
Advisories still impeach across the bay area and in pink for Solano County excessive heat warnings remain in effect through 07 00pm tomorrow. And these are going to be our hottest areas up in Solano County. Still the triple digits for many of those cities. 50s and 60s closer to the coast in the bay. Well temperatures wasting no time in climbing at san jose a word livermore to dublin conquered pittsburgh and fairfield slows cloverdale all back into the 70s had its only 08 00am a sign of things to come later today which will still be some really hot weather. Antioch back up into the triple digits conquered of livermore close enough that 99 degrees each opened a word in San Francisco will enjoy that sea breeze that will cool down temperatures a few degrees. Well for other spots like san jose, hardly feeling a difference at all 97 degrees was your record breaking day yesterday in san jose and today 96 degrees so today and tomorrow not much relief just yet still in the bulk of this heat wav
President trump meeting with Bank Executives right now at the white house about the state of the economy, amid the outbreak. Well bring you the president s comment from that meeting as soon as we have them. We have fox Business Team coverage. Jackie deangelis is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Edward lawrence is outside of the west wing. Phil flynn watching action in oil and gold at the cme. Jackie, first to you. Reporter melissa, good afternoon to you, when i say the new normal expect the seesaw swings, it is not really an exaggeration. Tensions were high on the floor today, traders trying to internalize it, deal with it in the best way possible, basically saying until the virus peaks in this country and starts to fall off, you will not see an end to the volatility. Today a more than 1400 point loss. Session low was down 1689. The dow is now in bear market territory, in that bear market mode. As we said, not sure that wipes out the entire bull run but not a positive sign.
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