From the bloomberg terminal. Most improved player. President trump softens his criticism of Jerome Powell but the two disagree when it comes to negative rates. Traders price the fed going subzero early next yeek. Italy doubles down the government passes a much delayed 55 billion euro stem luis package but is it enough . Watch the b. P. Trade today. And america first. Or is it Americans First . Sanofi says the u. S. Will be first to get its Coronavirus Vaccine. It took the most risks in terms of investments. Well speak with germanys merck at 8 30 u. K. Too many. Were just an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Futures are pointing lower. 1 drops on the major equity indexes. Here you can see ftse futures a little bit worse than the continental indexes. Take a look also at the half percent or last drops that we see in u. S. Futures after big losses yesterday. U. S. Markets fell to a threeweek low and now were looking at a possible riskoff thursday as well. Anna . Actually
Commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each item each comment is limited to two minutes. Public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by calling for each item, the board will take Public Comment first. People attending the meeting in person and then from people attending the meeting remotely. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by phone by calling. 56550001. Access. Code 26605203021. Then pound, then pound again when connected you will hear the meet
Before meeting of august 17, 2023. At this time. Hey, just give me one second here. Get me organized. Im doing my survey. All right. Okay welcome, everyone. Thank you for all the participation on the board level and im madam secretary. Do you want to call the roll, please . Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner connor. Present mr. Thomas. Present. Present. Helfen. Present mr. Driscoll. Here mr. Gandhi. Present commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each item each comment is limited to two minutes. Public c
Al qaeda leaders as they plotted the 9 11 attacks. An afghan official says omar died two to three years ago across the border in pakistan. The taliban says the group will release a statement shortly. Congress will question pentagon officials today about that iran nuclear deal. A Senate Committee want to know how the agreement could affect the military balance in the middle east. Yesterday, secretary of state john kerry test of ride before a house committee. All makers from both parties sounded skeptical about irans promise not to build atomic weapons. Matt microsofts new operating system windows 10 was released at midnight. It sparked a surge of computer buying but that is unlikely this time. Still, microsoft Vice President told bloomberg that this launch is very important. This is a pretty significant launch for anybody who uses pcs and wants to get things done with technology. We have had big window launches that have brought in things like enabling the internet to happen. I think wi
Election issue. Plus i am outside the hong kong legislative council. We will get the first policy address from carrie lam, expected to deliver comments on Affordable Housing issues, tax breaks for small businesses, reaching out to disenfranchise youth. Rishaad going over to steve shortly. Going to bring up a chart showing where the problems are when it comes to the property market, arguably the most expensive in the world. Withages have not kept up in housing market, which is turquoise, the white line average wages in hong kong. Be talking about a taxation system for business, the housing market, expected to announce a Publicprivate Partnership to expand access to firsttime buyers, public transport, a monthly travel subsidy of as much as 300 hong kong dollars a month. That speech in a couple of hours. Sophie it is costly to live here, so looking forward to what carrie lam has to say, addressing the affordability issue of housing. Singapore, taiwan, and malaysia have just, on the line.