And after years, a pharmaceutical giant supporting social movements like blocked lives, looks at whether is business as usual, what the race for 19 vaccines are likely to win for around the clock across the world. This is our Team International from the team and myself, you know, neal alone welcome. We begin in the french capital where protesters are continuing to vent their anger over a new security bill that could restrict the filming of police and Public Police have been using tear gas to disperse the crowd to all evening. And according to the countrys interior minister, dozens of officers have been injured. I, i, i, i think you got me thinking weve seen those tensions throughout the day as the protests, all tens of thousands of people take part. And now it seems that there are just perhaps a few, 100 people who are holding out the police are trying to disperse them. But there is a huge security presence a. And when you get a look down the street from where we are, and you can just
Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health, governor Gavin Newsome and mayor breed have lifted restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is being held virtually with all members and staff participating via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of sfers board, sfers staff, and members of the public. While this allows us to hold meetings via teleconference, it may not be as seamless as it normally would be. A reminder to the public to mute your microphones to minimize background noise. Madam secretary, roll call, please. [roll call] clerk we do have a quorum. President bridges . Thank you, madam secretary. At this time, the board will be going into closed session. The board will begin with general Public Comment, but no earlier than 2 00 p. M. Well take Public Comment ongoing into closed session at this time. Madam secretary, please open the phone lines. Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comm
Thought to be controlled by the Peoples Liberation army. And policymakers seem less likely to go down that route decide besides providing support for a long time. Shery lets take a look at how we are setting up an asian markets. Looks like trending a bit lower in sydney. U. S. Stocks really doing pretty taking overrallies adding to concerns about tougher lockdown measures with the existence of an effective vaccine. Downside about a quarter of 1 and that market along with new zealand looking pretty overheated after the recent run of gains. Continuing to push back expectations for negative rates. Chicago futures moderately positive at the moment. The yen seeing a little bit of a gain but we have seen a new daily record for Coronavirus Infections in japan this week. Authorities hinting they could need to take stronger measures to halt the increase in the spread. S p acted futures up by. 2 sessione active cash sank as much as 1. 5 overnight. Shery lets turn to our top story President Trump
Expressed interest and are considering participating and then we certainly have, you know, many managers who are engaging with Portfolio Companies around climate risk but perhaps not formally through that initiative. Okay. And then my other concern is, we talked about diversity and i like what youve done in terms of the work around that. Do we use that same [indiscernible] in terms of rps and other things, do we really apply the sfers criteria for the type of diversity were looking for across the board, including [indiscernible] and other sectors . I cant fully comment on that. I guess what i can say is, you know, there is proposition 209 in place in california i know. Thats why i i know. Up to a vote, thats in november. But we do not i want to make clear that we do not ask about diversity characteristics when we send out an rfp or enter a new relationship or a new contract with an external party. Were wanting to be not running afoul of distortion . The board is engaging, we do request
Ask the public to participate remotely by writing to the board or leaving a voicemail message. For all comments received in advance of the meeting we have received and we appreciate these comments. While Technology Allows us to hold these meetings via teleconference, it may not be as seamless as it would like to be. There will be gaps in some airtime, staff at times the staff transitions between the speakers and the callers. Know that we are doing the best that we possibly can and we ask for your understanding and patience as we are all learning this new way of working together. A reminder to the Board Members to mute themselves to minimize the background noise. Board members will have to remember to unmute themselves to comment. Again, were going to ask everyone to be patient as we make these adjustments. Madam secretary, roll call, please. Clerk [roll call] we do have a quorum. President bridges . Number two, communications. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and t due to the covid1