Years. Loads of hopes of kicking off germanys blunders League Matches against 3 people test positive for corona virus a cologne and the place into a 14 day quarantine. South africans get some exercise and celebrate being allowed to leave their homes as the government accuses one of the worlds strictest lockdowns. Im still get welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel and french president Emmanuel Mccraw throw nasser port behind a huge efforts to raise billions of euros to Fund Research into a Coronavirus Vaccine they use convening a donors conference next week in an effort to raise 7 and a half 1000000000 Euros European Commission president should have found Alliance Says the goal of the fund is to develop a vaccine treat and tests and treatments and tests available to all at an affordable price. As scientists around the world race to develop a vaccine the e. U. East. Trying to rally Global Support in the fight against corona virus in an interview with the table you Commis
23. 60. The other big news today was adp employment. 20. 2 million jobs lost. Interesting to see the crude market and the equity market going in two different directions. In europe, they are not here in europe, they are not. The pound is also trading down by around 0. 5 . We get an announcement sunday on lifting the u. K. Lockdown. Brent down by 3. 5 . We are seeing incredibly grim data from around the world. The European Commission economic forecasts were absolutely horrible. The services pmi data was absolutely horrible. It just continues to come and come. Obviously, we are waiting to see what we are going to get friday. The adp number not exactly a great story. It looks like the unemployment number friday is going to be horrible as well. Vonnie lets get to our first guess on this right now. With states lifting restrictions and President Trump insisting the economy has to reopen, even at the risk of more infections, we are seeing really deplorable jobless numbers. Look at the chart d
Down up by 89 points. Nasdaq was down and s p in the red 1 and a half. Oil prices are down this morning, take a look at 16. 32. Treasury is considering a Lending Program for struggling Oil Companies. We have the story coming up. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin is asking for equity stake that take coronavirus aid as Big Companies give back money aimed for Small Business. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria Global Markets this morning are lower. Take a look at european indices across the board. Cac quarante down 36 and dax index lower by 94. Retail Sales Numbers out in the uk looking at the largest decline on record. Down 5. 1 in the uk. In ash overnight red across the board remdesivir failed chinese Clinical Trial. A lot of hope around the drug and it continues to be. Shanghai composite down better than 1 . The white house now saying that the coronavirus pandemic could be behind us by memorial day. Dr. Deborah birx pointing to downward cases week by week. If we continue to mitig
Travis colin, im a bookseller here and in charge of the exhibitions club lets get to some quick housekeeping and we can jump right in. Im going to takea quick second to remindeveryone to silence your cell phone. Ndwe are also recording video and audio. So lets just get into it. Also when it comes time for the q a portion, we have a standing mike right here. Again at the aisle, we you speak clearly and you keep your question to aquestion. And then following everything , we have all the books on sale behind the Cash Register at the front of the store. So if you just want to get up and get those come back we would be more than happy to p sign and then we just askthat you keep your chairs inplace. We will have another talk after this and we greatly appreciate. But and also, we have as many of you know we both a lot of events this year or every year really. And joining us, if you need any help keeping track, we have the calendars at the info desk and also just checked your website. We updat
The state of georgia, we got as many ventilators available today for georgia patients and i hope we dont need them. But sir if i could follow up specifically, what numbers on the Health Department website ill get my press team were glad to share all the numbers and the data that we have available that supports the decision. If dr. Thume wants to, she can come answer that question, as well. Could i ask dr. Thume about the numbers . Thank you. Doctor, thank you. Im cathleen thume commissioner of Public Health. Weve been monitoring these data very closely. We have not only just been tracking cases but also actually doing calculating what i call the birx criteria with respect to dr. Birx who i know very well. And we didnt meet the full gating criteria we met several of them and were approaching a plateauing, which made us feel that it would be safe to movie forward because we had three things in place. We had adequate Hospital Capacity and had really augmented that considerably. We have ad