21. 5 Million People lost their jobs in april. Oil prices have also been higher last check of wti saw it just above 24. Thats a began of about 3 that link between oil and stock market futures has been strong too. It has been very, very strong it is interesting. It has been strong on the way up the question is was it strong on the way down it is interesting to think what has been driving what . It has been stuck here. It is up 11 the next morning it is 26 and then 23 again. At the end of the session, it seemed to go back. Weve been holding at 24 24, 25 that seems to be enough. These futures are up 250 points every morning. At the end of the day, weve given it back. We are up to 250 again are you kidding me, china, if we are being nice about trade, thats enough to send the markets up again we are back to that . At least it takes the threat off the table. If you start adding tariffs on, i wonder what happens. Earlier this week, all of this harsh rhetoric. We talked about it yesterday, wha
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Week yeah. This is the expiration day so what happens is you actually its tomorrow, but people are trying to prep it what happens is rusty braziel explains to me, the rollover from the may contract to june occurs tomorrow. The reason that happens is because the may futures price converges with cash and expiration so in other words, youre looking at what the real price is its not the futures price so what happens is that imagine if youre producing at 32 a barrel, 33 a barrel like occidental, thats just youre hurting nobody can make any money at these prices rusty points out that after seeing this, the next month, it might go to zero and thats i think a lot of it is because where will you put it maybe keep it in the ground. It is extraordinary and jarring. And i think its causing the decline. Carl, whats so amazing, it was completely predictable thats why maybe the decline isis really overdone if its based on oil if its based on other factors, i dont know it looks like oil is bringing th
Journal is dr. Joseph kvedar, the president elect of the American Telemedicine Association. Dr. Kvedar, thank you for being with us. Tell us the mission of your association and the members you serve. Guest i am delighted to be on with you this morning for such an important topic at such an important time. The ata was formed almost i think 27 years ago, and really the mission is to both educate and advocate, really, for a new model of care delivery, which is enabled by communications technologies. Im sure we will talk about what that means. The members are from a variety of sectors. Folkse a robust group of who supply technologies and services to the industry. We have a number of quite a few Health Care Provider organizations like my own Partners Health care, mass general at womens in boston. Some of the health plans and folks at the payment industry as well. Thatis largely the groups encumber our membership. Kvedar, joining us this morning to talk about telemedicine, telehealth, use of
Security we have a show for you today so lets go into. The Global Pandemic still taking thousands of lives the universal death toll is now at nearly 94000 that with more than 1500000 confirmed cases the u. S. Remains the country with the largest number of cases with more than 451000 the death toll continues to climb with nearly 16000 fatalities the main model used by the white house now predicts even fewer deaths its down 260400 15 thats down from the 82000 shown on tuesday well new york state alone has more confirmed cases than any other country with more than 200000 the centers for Disease Control and prevention put out new guidelines for essential workers. If theyre asymptomatic is the vice president. They could go back to work if they do so several things as we say here take their temperature before they go to work wear a face mask at all times and practice social distancing when theyre at work meanwhile europe is also seeing signs of a potential slowdown but its models show the de