And italy was the 1st country in europe to be hit by the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death tolls. Now the country is struggling to cope again with the 2nd way. Plus germany is soccer team saw 1st, its worst defeat in almost 90 years. Its 6 nil loss to spain in the u. S. , our nations. Theyve asked some questions to the future of culture. Often look, im going to Office Welcome to the program. The United States says its sharply reducing troop numbers in afghanistan and iraq. By mid january, the deployment will be cut to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers in each country present on all trump is making good on a companion promise to end what he called for as a wars. But theres opposition, both from leading republicans and from nato allies. The sun could be setting on the us presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting here since 2001, helping stabilize the country after overthrowing taliban rule, but suffering over 2000 deaths over time. Troop numbers have winked. Now o
Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. We are here today to provide an update on the unprecedented Testing Capacity developed by the United States, the most advanced and robust testing system anywhere in the world by far. This afternoon, i will also announce new steps we are taking to make tests even more widely available. To battle the virus, my administration marshalled every resource at our nations disposal, public, private economic, industrial, scientific, all your disposal. We launched the largest manufacturing ramp up since the second world war. There has been nothing like it since. At the center of this industrial and scientific mobilization was the development of our coronavirus testing capabilities. In the span of just a few short months, we have developed a Testing Capacity unmatched and unrivaled anywhere in the world and it is not even close. This is a core element of our plan to safely and gradually reopened america, and we are opening and starting and there is enthus
Oil markets, the energy markets, saudi arabia cutting an additional one Million Barrels per day. Fact thatt change the the demand has collapsed. Even changes like that dont seem to change the trajectory of what we are dealing with in the oil markets. Still with us is chris ailman of calstrs. Positioning to hedge against another, like, down in the market . Of ourit is a big chunk market portfolio. 10 . We are still keeping our fixed income. For us, it is really all about diversification. We are underweight global equity. We think this market will have some weakness. Going into the last couple of weeks, these rallies back and forth, we have repositioned our equity portfolio to be more defensive. , cash isilt defensive king. As return on cash is trash, ray dalio likes to point out. But, liquidity is king. We are seeing Equity Portfolios already coming out from the disruption, people who need bridgeeople need financing. Nice strong returns. And, just the dichotomy in the market. The indexe
Expecting to hear from President Trump momentarily in the rose garden here as the president and the white house will tout the progress that has been made on testing. Senior Administration Officials say across the country, 1. 9 million tests over last week, nine million since the start of covid19. Senor officials are pointing to go going ward, that 11 billion set to the states, that is money set aside in the cares age. They identified state goals and needs for month of may. Earlier today, Vice President , when he spoke to state governors encouraged those governors to have Staff Members within Nursing Homes tested. Testing of course what many positives want to see ramped up before states reopened but the president criticized many governors, the president saying that he believes that states arent reopening because of politics this Election Year this is part of the tweet from President Trump earlier today saying quote, the democrats are moving slowly all over the usa for political purposes
Provide an update on the Testing Capacity developed by the United States, the most advanced and robust testing system anywhere in the world by far. This afternoon i will also announce new steps we are taking to make tests even more widely available. To battle the virus, my administration marshalls every resource at our nations disposal, public, economic, scientific, all your disposal. We launched the largest manufacturing ramp up since the second world war. There has been nothing like it since. At the center of this industrial and scientific mobilization was the development or a of our coronavirus testing capabilities. In the span of just a few short months we have developed a Testing Capacity unmatched and unrivaled anywhere in the world and it is not even close. This is a core element of our plan to safely and gradually areened america, and we opening and starting and there is enthusiasm like i havent seen in a long time. Proudamerican should be of the amazing array of talent, skill,