Agenda item up to two minutes and be in a quiet location and speak clearly and slowly and mute computers or radio. Item 1, call to order roll call. Director tsen. Here. Director dunlop . Perhaps you have unmute. Sounds like hes having an issue with his tablet. If hes in the meeting he can see it. Go to the upper left hand corner of the screen theres a circle with an i that says event information and at the bottom theres an attendee i. D. If you dial in and enter that attendee i. D. When prompted you should be able to access the meeting by audio and hopefully it will merge with your panelist i. D. As well. Can staff people perhaps phone him or text him. If he cannot join by video can he join by phone . Yes, theres instructions i just gave where he can use audio to dial into the meeting as a panelist but in order to do that he has to be in the meeting to access the unique attendee i. D. Otherwise hell call in but hell end up as an attendee and appear as a callin user like the public. Tho
Having a free and Fair Election without external intervention, even when both sides were perfectly wellprepared to play by the rules. We now have a situation before the pandemic hit where that is much more problematic, where issues of saying there is voter fraud happening, impersonations, you should not be doing vote by mail. All of the president s all of the measures for a president who is well behind in the polls but has the ability to shape the outcomes of the way the election is put together. In the Worlds Largest economy, the idea that the election will be contested and half of the population will think it is rigged even before the pandemic hit, we thought that was the single largest risk affecting the markets in 2020. Of course, the pandemic makes this a lot worse. Inid it strikes me that 2016 most of us were not thinking about the election being contaminated by social media disinformation, russia trying to intervene in the election. Now we know what happened. We have much better
Impact on Small Businesses is still unknown. Boris johnson announces a dramatic lifting of lockdown measures imposed in england as the u. K. s chief medical officer warns the virus will persist into 2021. Its just gone 6 00 a. M. In london, 7 00 a. M. In paris. This he question is why is Anthony Fauci talking about a disturbing surge . Are we preoccupied by the two magical words from Steve Mnuchin . We will exit the session at the end of the year, with 10 unemployment potentially. We are hanging our hats on the holy grail of hope, but the reality of real human hotspots in this covid crisis. Nejra yeah, absolutely. When you talk about the real human impact as well, yes, we look at the fact cases are surging in the transmission rate is actually above 1 according to some estimates. The real human impact is on jobs as well. There are really questions over when that support comes away in autumn, what that means for the jobs picture, not just for the u. S. But elsewhere as well. Manus no, yo
This is bloomberg surveillance. This is what the markets are focused on. The markets are looking at some of the data out of germany. Business confidence coming in. 86. 2. Instead of the estimated 85. We are watching out for the case surges in the virus. Something i dont look at very often, but we decided to put in aussiedollar. It did reverse gains. It does seem that european stocks are slumping as investors figure out asset types. Now lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Here is dani burger. Dani the pandemic spread in the u. S. Is leaving some state officials to consider slowing or even reversing plans to reopen. Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci is concerned about the uptick. Struggling to pump out its 2 trillion of virus aid. Much of it remains stuck in tokyos aging bureaucracy. Still 40 of the funds have not reached people despite being approved in late april. For loans to Small Businesses, only 14 have been lent out. For job protection subsidies, it is even w
Ridehailing company grab is among the companies reconsidering partnerships. And it is rent day for britains commercial tenants, but how many businesses will pay up . Theu. K. Plans this as u. K. Plants substantial easing of lockdown measures. We will get analysis. Lets have a look at where we are on the futures picture for equity markets. This is the picture for european futures. Stoxx 50 futures and ftse futures both down around. 06 0. 6 . It looks like we will have a bit of a move to the downside at the start of trade. U. S. Futures are fairly flat this hour. Futures on the s p entirely flat, on the dow entirely flat, the nasdaq or positive, up 0. 2 . Yesterday we saw concerns around the second wave of the virus or the third wave, perhaps, in the u. S. , the south and southwest of the United States, taking the edge off gains in the s p, but the nasdaq is powering through to new record highs. Lets show you whats been going on through the asian session. Things looking pretty mixed. Som