The dollar down is dead, people are beginning to upgrade their forecast on the dollar. The german 10year yeilds are unchanged. A lot of volatility in the equity markets and the foreign exchange. Bond markets are remaining repressed but the Central Banks are doing what they are doing and that is no surprise. Alix a few weeks ago we are talking about 120 for the year. Let us get the latest on the virus resurgence. The french government expected to announce new measures including restrictions on alcohol sales plus public gatherings. Joining us now is maria. Dig into what we can Pay Attention to. We know that the Health Minister will give a press conference and we know that there will be more restrictions, and this is the thing to highlight, this is not for the entire country, but for the region and city of paris, because the population density is high and that is where cases are spreading fats. What they are going to say is you have to scale back social contacts with other people and when
Teleworking from home defense contractors have been by and large required to stay open meaning most of the industrys 2500000 employees have continued to work. Why well according to the United States undersecretary depends ellen lord those businesses are considered Critical Infrastructure because while we may be in desperate need for face masks ventilators another life saving medical supplies and equipment we cant stop working on the f. 35 fighter jets or the predator drones or all the other wildly expensive implements of death that our wonderful merchants of death provide merchants of war provide for us this comes despite the United Nations secretary general antonio good therapists calling on all governments of the world to put down their guns stating the theory of the virus illustrates the folly of war that is why today im calling for an immediate global cease fire in all corners of the world. Somehow tragically i dont believe we are going to heed that message because here in the Unit
Citizens and thousands of industries are facing massive economic turmoil and hardship there is of course one industry that appears to be immune to the economic followed to the covert 19 pandemic i am talking of course about our good friends in the military Industrial Complex yes the Washington Post is reporting that while stores and factories around the country are shutting down and millions are teleworking from home defense contractors have been by and large required to stay open meaning most of the industrys 2500000 employees have continued to work. Why well according to the United States undersecretary depends elen lord those businesses are considered Critical Infrastructure because while we may be in desperate need for face masks ventilators another life saving medical supplies and equipment we cant stop working on the f. 35 fighter jets or the predator drones or all the other wildly expensive implements of death that our wonderful merchants of death provide merchants of war provid
What all the financial and psychological costs of the coronavirus on damage to the sporting world the olympics is the latest major event to be postponed or canceled what will be the impact on athletes found on businesses this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. 3 a limpid games have been cancelled in the past because of the 2 world wars but this year is the 1st time the event has ever been postponed their coronavirus pandemic made it impossible to hold the olympics and paralympics in tokyo this summer australia and canada said they wouldnt send teams to japan because of the risk to health some qualifying events have already been cancelled and Global Travel bans made it nearly impossible for athletes and fans to plan flights the games organizers promise the worlds biggest sporting event will take place before summer next year as a symbol of triumph over the virus the delay will cost the japanese government businesses and sponsors billions of dollars and that the. Less i t
Traveling again. And the layers of pakistans a rapid transport project has many blaming the Prime Ministers provincial government for corruption. And im peter some of these sports as you heard the 2020 Olympic Games in tokyo or later this news of a look at what it means for the athletes who will now have to wait until 2021. Well we begin this hour with breaking news out of torture the 2020 and then fix have been perspire and the announcement was made just in the past alibi Prime Minister shinzo he says he has asked the i. O. C. For an up to one year postponement of the tokyo island fix and now appears likely that theyll be held in 2021 nowadays are vassal followers weeks of insisting it would go ahead in july as planned its like you know the whole. First of all once again i confirmed with the i. O. C. President back that there will be no cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics or paralympics furthermore as the host of the tokyo lympics taking into consideration the Current Situation for the