Afternoon, and thank you, everybody, for the opportunity to participate. For this session, just a quick framing, when we look back at the spring when covid19 disrupted 7 billion students worldwide, leaders, educators, teachers, students and families showed remarkable adaptable and dedication as they worked to keep learning happening for all students. When we start a new school year, they have inspired reimagining of Education Systems to build a system of learning thats personalized around the opportunity and that is supported by teachers and technology. From our own work at microsoft we know from mch that we called the class of 2030 in life where theyre learning that moving forward we see an increase in importance of social, emotional skills, higher level cognitive skills, personalized learning becoming critical as well as teaching is a growth profession as we move forward. So from our work, were looking to work on technologies that help all students develop the skills essential for wo
Trading there. We do see the asian tech. The more leading indicators that things are looking a bit more bouncy. All of about 1 here this morning. We are watching the dollar strength. Have we reached the peak in the dollar. Things are looking a little bit overbought right now. Dollaryen still seeing some strength. We did see that weaker fix in the pboc. We are watching the bond market as well. Pushing back a rate call. You have jp morgan saying it is time to save the bond rally. Those debts seems to be going back a little bit now. Iron ore seeing a decent bomb. Today. Haslinda President Trumps ban tiktok has been blocked by a federal judge. Dealing a blow to the government in its showdown with a popular chinese owned app. They say threatens National Security. We have been following developments. Take us through the very latest. Ruling from the District Court judges in the east coast. Gave that decision blocking the proposed banned by the Trump Administration. Tiktok had requested prelim
Be at this important event today and for all you do. Guest thank you very much bill, thank you for the opportunity ive enjoyed it. Host it is a real privilege and honor is someone who spent a lot of time in state and local government. Your time on capitol hill i know you have a long history of education and so many at home. I thank you very much for taking the time to be with us today. John, it is really a pleasure to see virtually, i cant wait until we can see again in person sometime. I look forward on updating on some of the important works in colorado. We do good, son of a colorado, i look forward to that. Let me jump right into it, if you could just kind of give all of us the lay of the land in colorado prayed there so many Different Things happening, so many different approaches. Where are you right now in the education response to the pandemic . If you could give us a quick overview and then jump into the situation. Really the start of the summer we prioritize a safe return to s
S p up 42 at 4 00 oclock on wall street. Getting tough on china, acceptable or the tom cotton is here, introducing a bill to revoke chinas nation status and whether tiktok and oracle will keep your data safe. Ken cuccinelli on actions to block chinese products made with forced labor. Wild fires raging on the west coast as the gulf coast is feeling the power of Hurricane Sally, we have the latest on the deadly threats. One soda company has a new drink that could help you sleep. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check european markets, rising from may to july, cac quarante is up 20 and dax index in germany higher by almost 40 points right now. In asia markets mostly higher signs of make recovery in china. Up half of 1 in the month of august. Months are released by the communist party as we always like to remind people, shanghai up half percent. Some of the top stories that we are watching this morning. President trump headed to philadelphia this morning after pushing the
President has challenged on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Talks go late into the night in brussels as e. U. Leaders remain divided over how to implement a massive covert 19 recovery package. And the show must go on but it will be a tough year for hollywood as it tries to produce television and films during a pandemic. Hong kong is tightening coronavirus linked restrictions after recording its highest one day increase in cases since the pandemic began the territories leader kerry lamb announced the measures after more than 100. 00 ear infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says theres no sign that its coming under control lets go live now to hong kong i was there as adrian brown is there adrian until now on kongs low infection rate made it the envy of the world whats gone wrong. Its interesting isnt it adrian if we were talking about india or the United States recording more than 100. 00 new infections in one day that would be seen as