Towards coming to the table was the opposition against iran. I also spoke with the former ambassador to germany and the former acting director of national intelligence. He told me the u. S. Withdrawing from the Iran Nuclear Deal theymament deal signals are willing to stand by in their opposition to iran. Stanceg geopolitical throughout the past several months. For President Trump, a time in which he is looking for some geopolitical Foreign Policy when come in for benjamin netanyahu, who was just reimposed a lockdown to combat the pandemic, this is a feather in the cap for lack of a better phrase for both of these leaders. Gether or not additional ulf countries will come to the table, we do not know. Youn deal you i can tell based on my reporting the administration is bullish they will be able to deliver more deals before the election. David it is not the first time in history a sitting president likes to emphasize Foreign Policy when his does domestic does not go as well as he is wante
Expected to drop 24 year on year. The futures are looking slightly lower, down four points. We are looking at some of the currencies. As david would say in the last hour, the bloomberg dollar index is on track for its worst july in a decade. A more dovish start from the fomc. No big surprises from the fed, but the lower mantra weighing on the dollar. The dollar index is flat, at least for now. Wellussie in his flat as aussieyen is flat as well. We move on to the commodities and the yield story. The question marks around oil were in focus as well towards the end of play yesterday. You saw a reduction in the u. S. By about 10 billion barrels. That gave some support to crude prices and wti, currently flat. Gold is now 5 10 of 1 . The 10 your yield on year, still below 60 basis points. 57 is barely moved, risch. Rishaad yep. Global coronavirus case is approaching 17 million. More than 660,000 people have died now. The states recording 150,000 fatalities. California, florida, and texas post
Everything is really offshore in the 60s, 70s and low 80s. A bit above average but not to owe much. Lets over look this here to see if theres anything on monday. Morning steve. Right now there is not a lot going on when it comes to the traffic out here. Lets go take a look at what we have. Your morning commute is here and this is the Richmond Bridge approach. You can see traffic is moving along very well there are no major issues going all the way over to marin. Lets go back to headlines. Thank you sell. Shelter in place order for sam cisco was set to expire in less than a week. But it will likely be extended today maryland and bree will provide an update to the citys response to the coronavirus and sarahs in and joins us now with those details. Morning sarah. A good morning pam. The mayor says that she knows people are craving human interaction. But it likely will not happen for a while. At least not in San Francisco. The mayor says it is very likely shelter in place orders will be ex
Implemented properly. Agriculture, nutrition and Forestry Committee members talked to farmers, Rural Utility Service officials and Healthcare Industry leaders about issues impacting Rural Communities. Including access to Rural Broadband, Water Infrastructure and Health Care Services and agricultural production. Good morning. I call this hearing of the Senate Committee on agriculture and nutrition and forestry to order. Todays hearing advances this committees continued oversight of the department of agricultures implementation of the 2018 farm bill. A principle duty of this committee is to ensure that the department had the authority and resources to provide the agriculture producers with the necessary tools to feed a troubled and hungry world as well as this country. But the responsibility of the committee and the usda does not stop there and it is critical as Partnership Supports businesses and the electric cooperatives and telecom providers, schools and clinics and the product manufa
Calling on a judge to stop donald trump from continuing to claim fbi agents were involved in a plot to assassinate him during his search of his maralago home during the classified documents investigation. Trump made a suggestion in a Campaign Fundraising email and has been repeated by conservative media outlets. Late friday, smith filed a notion in judge Eileen Tenants court saying, those statements create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal Law Enforcement agents falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him smith added that the false statements expose sba agents, some of whom will be witnesses at the trial, to threats of harassment. We have reporters covering all of the developments for you. We will begin with julie sirkin on capitol hill. Julie, welcome. The prosecutors request is different from a gag order, but what exactly are they asking of the judge . Reporter this is a first, let me just say, alex, in this case