Good morning, im in today for Brian Sullivan lets start off with our your money and the Global Markets are shaping up on this monday morning. The dow will be higher by around 90 or some points. Gaining some ground in the past few minutes. You can see the s p higher by 4 points and the nasdaq rarely an underperformer now you can see implied open lower by 16 points now this is coming after solid gains for the major indices last week more on that in one moment here. Turning to the bond market as well, the yield on the benchmark ten year Government Note or just around 56 basis points the two year note yield about 13 basis points and the 30 yearlong bond a hair below 1. 24 or 124 basis points taking a quick look at the price of gold as well, remember, hovering around the record highs. That key one to watch, the last trade there, gold futures up about three quarters of 1 lets go worldwide karen is in london in the newsroom what can you tell us about the trading there. Seeing those u. S. Futu
Flying military satellites. This event is hosted by space news. Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks everyone for joining us. Were happy to have you. And wed like to welcome our panelists. Good afternoon general sean, Major General john sean joining us from Vandenberg Air force base. Welcome, can you hear us. I can hear you. Can you hear me . Perfect. So Major General john shaw is the commander of the Space Operations command under the u. S. Space force and hes also the commander of the combined force Space Component under u. S. Space command. So general shaw, im sure this was a very exciting weekend. You commanded the task force 45 that was responsible for being on alert in the event that the nasa astronauts had to be rescued. So i guess maybe if you wouldnt mind starting walking us through what happened with this launch and also telling us more broadly in the Space Force Im sure a lot of people ask you what do you do in the space force and im sure you tell them everything that you do, we
Hear me, sandra . Perfect. Major general john shaw, he is the commander of the Space Operations commands under the u. S. Space force and he is also the commander of the combined force Space Component for the u. S. Space command. Communications, gps, Weather Services but not a lot of people understand we also provide support for human spaceflight. Walk us through the mission and. Thank you. Thank you for hosting and greetings from the air force base on this beautiful Central Coast of california. Thanks for this opportunity. A lot of things upfront so i guess i will talk for a little bit. It was not only an incredible weekend but its been an incredible month, the month of may 2020. Earlier this month we launched in x. 37 from Cape Canaveral. The people in the air force to transfer and now who do we have that may be a transfer to the space force. On top of that they have recruiting commercials in the month of may that are kind of cool to watch and interesting. I point out in both of the c
Panelists. Good afternoon, general shaw, Major General john shaw joining us from Vandenberg Air force base. Welcome. Can you hear us . I can hear you break can you hear me, sandra . Perfect. Major general john shaw, he is the commander of the Space Operations commands under the u. S. Space force and he is also the commander of the combined force Space Component for the u. S. Space command. Communications, gps, Weather Services but not a lot of people understand we also provide support for human spaceflight. Walk us through the mission and. Thank you. Thank you for hosting and greetings from the air force base on this beautiful Central Coast of california. Thanks for this opportunity. A lot of things upfront so i guess i will talk for a little bit. It was not only an incredible weekend but its been an incredible month, the month of may 2020. Earlier this month we launched in x. 37 from Cape Canaveral. The people in the air force to transfer and now who do we have that may be a transfer
State of emergency for tokyo and six other prefectures. Abe shinzo is calling for the publics cooperation to help keep the virus from spreading. Translator i strongly believe that it will be posossie to get out of this situation by having a state of emergency in place for one mondays. If we reduce our contact with people by at least 70 or preferably, 80 . The declaration covers tokyo, kanagawa, saitama, chiba, osaka, and fukuoka. It will be in place until may 6. The governors of those prefefectures held a teleconference wednesday morning to discuss how to counter the virus. Theyre calling on the local government to support medical systems and compensate businesses that close temporarily. The government is not imposing a lockdown as some foreign governments have. Officials want to minimize the impact on economic and social activities. Public transformation and super markets will remain open. A number of Companies Said they will shut down voluntarily like coffee shops like starbucks. Peo