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Beyond that let me say we have been working through femas acquisition process not only to deploy but to gather up personal protective equipment. In a few moments you will hear from admiral john polcyk on the extraordinary progress we made on the strategic stockpile but identifying on the commercial marketplace around america and around the world literally millions of n95 masks, surgical gowns, gloves, protective equipment and at this point we distributed some 7600 ventilators and you will hear today specifically about the state has have received those ventilators. Were just, this team is truly acted in an inspiring way and literally is working with dozens and dozens of people at the fema Stabilization Task force to make sure that we are leaving no stone unturned to find the supplies we need. Today let me also say you will hear from Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the president of the United States but someone the White House Coronavirus task force directed to work with fema on supply
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Is that we are dangerously over dependent on a Global Supply chain. For our medicine is. Like penicillin our medical supplies like masks and our medical equipment like ventilators we have right now as we speak over 50 countries have already imposed some forms of export restrictions in their country against the rest of the world and what weve read were learning from that. Is that no matter how many treaties you have no matter how many alliances or matter how many phone calls. When push comes to shove you run the risk as a nation of not having what you need and if theres any vindication of the president s by american secure borders and a Strong Manufacturing base philosophy strategy and belief it is this crisis because it underscores everything that we see there so the buy american order which which is going through process would do do couple things it would simply say not during this crisis because we dont want to disrupt anything or be really clear about that but Going Forward after th
Industry leader this hour. Masayoshi son the company is forecasting a massive loss for the year has investments in startups shery lets get you started with a quick check on the markets. U. S. Futures supported at the moment after u. S. Benchmarks ended the session mixed. This ahead of earnings season kicking off officially tomorrow with j. P. Morgan and wells fargo reporting. Afterutures up. 3 , this the s p 500 rallied almost 25 from its march low. Nikkei futures also gaining ground. 4 . We had a little bit of strength for the japanese yen in the overnight session as we saw more safe haven bids play out during the u. S. Trading session. This of course as we saw japanese stocks falling in the previous session. We have been trading most markets away on holiday. Today, only india is off. Crude prices rebounding from losses in the previous session. We had seen crude under pressure despite opecplus managing to strike a Historic Deal to cut output by nearly. 1. Market sentiment guided by wh