Rally yesterday dow futures are now down. Nasdaq futures lower by 64. Nasdaq up 190. Now this, former Vice President joe biden and the ukraine scandal back in the spotlight, an investigation Just Launched overseas after phone conversations between biden and then ukraine president are released. Meanwhile u. S. Senate taking a major senate in probe of Hunter Bidens role of Barisma Holdings and tesla tapping the brakes in battle with california, dropping the lawsuit after plant is allowed to open. Mornings with maria begins right now. And Global Markets this morning red cross the board, take a look at european indices as u. S. China tensions rise, the cac quarante is down 48 and dax index in germany lower by 174, there are sign that is the european economy is slowly coming back. The euro zone purchasing manager index coming above expectations this morning. In asia overnight, markets mostly lower. Take at the numbers in asia, worst performer half percent lower shanghai composite in china.
This is just over two hours. This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem because ebola had a mortality rate of 40 , but in the end because of effective action on the part of the world health organization, the Obama Administration and resources we prevented it from spreading some less than 29,000 contracted it and about 11,000 died. Weve had other outbreaks where we are Getting Better and weve developed some relatively effective
Yields are moving a little higher, six basis points on the german tenyear. Deutsche bank as well, starting to get the early look at what this story is going to look like over the weekend. We are waiting for Christian Sewings big news related to how hes going to change that bank. We are expecting a meeting sunday, but it now looks as though the eye bank the i bank head Garth Ritchie is going to be stepping aside. U. S. Employers added 224,000 casein june, diluting the for that fed rate cut in july. The jobless rate taking a little higher, but all in all a pretty positive number, or was it . Lets get some analysis now. In washington, we have michael mckee, bloombergs international correspondent. Your take on this number, and does it change the case for the fed . Michael i think theres a very good chance it changes the case for the fed. This is sort of the mirror image of the may number, revised down by 3000. Still a lousy month, but it wasnt that they were jobs lost in may. The there wer
Important events of the day. Building a new world. Valdai club. Vladimir putin about the west having lost its sense of reality. We hear all the time, it sounds all the time you must, you must. We seriously warn you. Who are you anyway . What right do you have to warn someone . What is the essence of the just cause that is being defended in the special operations zone. The ukrainian crisis is not territorial conflict, i want to emphasize this. Russia is the largest, largest country in the world by territory , we have no interests in terms of conquering any additional territories, the question is much broader and fundamental, we are talking about the principles on which the new world order will be based. How the countrys shield is strengthened in a turbulent world. We have actually finished work on the sormat, a superheavy rocket, the question is that we move on to mass production of them and putting them on combat duty, and we will do this in the near future, we have almost completed th
[applause] ladies and gentlemen, now well move on to congratulate remarks by his excellency, doctor jin park, minister of Foreign Affairs republic of korea. Former minister park was fourtime National Lawmaker on Ruling People Party and became foreign minister in may last year. Thank you. Hello, good morning. I am a park jin, foreign minister of the republic of korea. I would like to thank president gheewhan kim of the korean foundation, dr. John hamre of the csis, and secretary tony blinken, and all the friends and supporters of the koreau. S. Alliance for inviting me to speak todays forum. Let me first congratulate both the Korea Foundation and the csis on cohosting the koreau. S. Strategic forum today. I wish to recognize all that the kf and the csis have been achieving over many years to promote koreau. S. Relations at our mutual understanding. I also wish to acknowledge the distinguished speakers and participants at this years forum. All of you have been critical to nurturing, sust