Expressed interest and are considering participating and then we certainly have, you know, many managers who are engaging with Portfolio Companies around climate risk but perhaps not formally through that initiative. Okay. And then my other concern is, we talked about diversity and i like what youve done in terms of the work around that. Do we use that same [indiscernible] in terms of rps and other things, do we really apply the sfers criteria for the type of diversity were looking for across the board, including [indiscernible] and other sectors . I cant fully comment on that. I guess what i can say is, you know, there is proposition 209 in place in california i know. Thats why i i know. Up to a vote, thats in november. But we do not i want to make clear that we do not ask about diversity characteristics when we send out an rfp or enter a new relationship or a new contract with an external party. Were wanting to be not running afoul of distortion . The board is engaging, we do request
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Month of september, strong Consumer Sentiment numbers to go along with them. And later, gilead pushing back after the World Health Organization says the drug remdesivir does not prevent death in coronavirus patients. Weve got the latest details as power lunch starts right now thank you, ty. The markets are marching back after a few down days. Dom chu has more on whats moving decent sized gains but off the high of the session. We are up 243 points with the dow at the highs of the session, up roughly 348 points. You can see there, yes, still strong gains but not nearly where we were earlier in the day. The s p has reclaimed that 3,500 mark, the nasdaq only up about one third of 1 . The leadership in terms of the s p 500 has been in one week industrials and technology, both up nearly about 1. 5 meanwhile, the biggest laggard off nearly 2 is the real estate sector some of the stocks to watch with regard to covid vaccines and everything else, pfizer shares, possible vaccine for emergency us
Another weekend of protests in belo rose police used water cannon to Disperse Protesters in the capital minsk after tens of thousands defined government warnings and take to the streets to demand the release of Political Prisoners. And also by shonen armenia trade accusations over a deadly attack on observation on the 2nd largest city is fighting in the disputed and im going to know kind of operation continues to intensify and. Im married to evanston thanks for joining me u. S. President Donald Trumps doctors have issued a new statement on his condition saying hes been given a steroids drug called dexa methods though and now this medication is usually given to seriously ill coated patients to help their lung function and despite this traumas personal doctors of the president may be discharged from the hospital as early as monday lets hear what else dr sean conley had to say. Of course of his illness the president has experienced 2 episodes of trains and drops his oxygen saturation we d
As prodemocracy demonstrations escalate in the capital Bangkok Police have arrested at least 20 people including 3 protest leader. Plus cape fever hits the markets shares in the Management Company of korean boyband p. T. S. D. More than double all their stock market debut. Good to have you with us germany has posted a record increase in coated cases with more than 6 and a half 1000 new infections in a 24 hour period thats the highest number since the pandemic began and i want to show you just how quickly new infections have surged in the past 7 days we were at 2828 new cases allow. Last wednesday october 8th but then the numbers kept rising theres a bit of a dent there on the weekend when not all local Health Departments report numbers and then you see the steep rise to where we are today at 6638 newly registered covert 19 infections with the numbers doubling in one week it means the virus is growing exponentially the figures come just hours after a chance but im going to akhil met wit