Measured by the pboc. Rate cut by 10. All helping to cushion the Economic Impact of the virus. Down almost 1 . Bucking the trend. But stake a look at where we are in terms of asian stocks. They say this is not a reflection. Rishaad 15 down for new york crude. Nevertheless, we have seen that severe weakness. Gold not much of a haven. Lets have a look at what we can expect from indian markets. The rupee strengthening by 6 10 of 1 . Haslinda the r. B. I. Laying the ground for more rate cuts. President trump has suggested china may have deliberately caused the pandemic. China hit back, accusing washington of trying to shirk responsibility of its own failures. Another ratcheting up of tension over the handling of the virus. That is right. To accuse china of deliberately starting the coronavirus is remarkable. Many would describe as a borderline conspiracy theory. The in the views of minority of people. Now he is saying that maybe china started it. Being knowingly responsible. He said there
Chairman. Lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures continuing to add to gains after u. S. Stocks rallied in the regular session. Vaped tech shares leading the gains. Alphabet optimism about the experiment of drug coming from Gilead Sciences. U. S. Futures gaining ground at the moment. This after the s p 500 rose in the regular session. We have some negative data when it comes to u. S. Fourthquarter gdp seeing the biggest fall since 2008. We did get the fed decision. We have policymakers holding rates steady. Wti also continued to add to gains after we rose in the regular session, rebounding from almost 30 of declines in the last two sessions. Haidi of course one of the big headlines, the Trump Administration putting together this Manhattan Project style effort to drastically cut the time it takes to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Operation work speed hopes to have enough warp speed hopes to have enough doses available by the end of the year as g
Fact there has never been a time when humans were not affected during his time as a selfdescribed disease detective he has had his own brushes with viruses and wnfectious disease in contagion in 1995 he worked in zaire for the first a bola after 9 11 he was called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax and in 2003 called to hong kong to help quarantines ours. These are some of the stories he chronicles in the next pandemic as a disease hunter and has been trying to prepare the public for Health Emergencies and he has seen it all. Telling us microbes will always be a problem he also writes that in all all epidemics and pandemics are inevitable in fact most can be mitigated if not prevented. But how do we have enough resources . To help a separate the hype from the facts what poses the greatest risk of what we need to do please join me on a Public Health journey by welcoming doctor kohn to the Carnegie Council this morning. [applause] thank you very much. Good morning everybody.
Assistant secretary bob cadlic here today to talk. Welcome to todays meeting. I am executive Vice President of worldwide government, legal, and Business Affairs at mcandrews and forbes incorporated. I will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of leading a conversation for 30 minutes, and then i will open it to questions and answers. We will end promptly at 1 30 as you might imagine. These gentleman are very busy right now dealing with coronavirus. So, lets just start looking back over roughly the past decade, emerging Infectious Diseases played a recurring and ominous theme, be it the h 1n 1, ebola, zika, and now the 2019 novel coronavirus, the threat is clearly not dissipating. When it coming to nondisease natural disasters, stafford act provides Disaster Relief fund to enable immediate response. By comparison, theres small Infectious Disease Rapid Response need more stafford acte mechanisms to enable a quicker response to research these threats. Maybe ill ta
Think about, you know, possible strategies for moving forward. There is one piece of good news that ill mention, that in the recent appropriations package to talk about threats to Global Health could not be more timely. I am pleased to convene the meeting. Welcome to the council on Foreign Relations meeting. I am frances townsend, the executive Vice President of Worldwide Affairs at mcandrews inc. And i will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of leading the conversation for 30 minutes, then i will open it up to questions and answers. We will end at 1 30 p. M. These gentlemen are very busy, as you can imagine, dealing with the coronavirus. By looking back , emergingast decade Infectious Diseases played a recurring and ominous theme, be it ebola, the zika virus, and now the novel coronavirus. The threat is not dissipating. When it comes to nondisease natural disasters the stafford act provides funds to enable Immediate Response by and by comparison there are s