The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. September 17, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable david n. Cicilline to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the assistant parliamentarian. O father of mercies, god of all comfort, our only help in time of need, we humbly beseech thee to behold, visit and relief all our servants for whom our prayers are desired. Look upon us all with mercy. Comfort us with goodness. Preserve us from the temptations of the enemy, and give us patience under our aflick shun. In our good time restore us to health and enable us to lead the residue of our lives in thy fear and to thy glory and grant finally we may dwell with thee in life everlasting, main. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 4a of House Resolution 967,
Euro bailout investors price in the prospect of negative interest rat rates after opening the door to the policy of course we are keeping it to where the access would be a very warm welcome to street signs. Weve got some fresh data coming through. This is flash pmis as a whoeld. The flash manufacturing pmi for may has come in at 39. 5 up from 33. 4 in april in terms of the composite number for the eurozone, that has come in at 30. 5 up from 30. 6 in april the services pmi which has been the hardest hit sector as a result of the lockdowns. That has come in at 28. 7 up from 12 in april, we already had france and germany come through and we have the overall eurozone number. One other thing, one of the key kpoen nants here, the new business pmi has come in at 28. 4 in april an uptick there. Contraction did ease in may but still very sharp we have the euro trading slightly weaker versus the dollar this morning. Lets bring in our first guest Chris Williamson geoff and steve also with us chri
Opec offers a bleak estimate of Global Energy demand. Saudi arabia is cutting output to its lowest level since 2002. Shery a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures rebounding and gaining for tens of 1 . U. S. Stocks fell to that threeweek low. It was not just the fed chairs comments. We have u. S. Tensions with china flaring again. Every sector on the s p 500 was in the red and it is now heading its worst week since march 20. Take a look at what oil is doing. We are seeing slight gains above the 25 a barrel level, a gain of 1. 7 . This after it fell in the regular to session regular session. We still have some comments from the iea saying it will take more than a year for crude demand to recover. Lets turn to those comments by jay powell. He was clear when asked if they would be in favor of adopting a negative rate policy. Not only did he reject it unequivocally, he also said he would not even consider it. Kathleen hays is here to tell us why. How did the negative rate
Some of these authors have appeared on booktv. You can watch online, booktv. Org. Later story of hello girls of world war i. We begin the special features of the mayors of bryan and college station. One of the wonderful things of bryan, college station, you have two cities, the city of bryan started a couple of years before, really right after the civil war. There was a railroad coming from houston that was marching its way here. Stopped before the civil war and after civil warred and it continued on and bryan for the first few years after the civil war struggled to get itself created and was able to do that. The University Got its first six students and city of bryan was getting going and the area that you see around us today are still some of the first buildings that were being built at the time, 25 years ago this was a ghosttown. Because of area of state, geographically blurred too. Texas a m was one of the land grant institutions and over time it grew but it was 5 miles from a town
We travel to bryanCollege Station texas. Coming up will feature the citys local authors including Nikki Van Hightower. Then 12 minutes would visit the museum of the american g. I. And about the role Elvis Presley played in the Cold War Army in the 1950s. Later in about 45 minutes the story of the the hello girls of world war i. We begin our special feature with the mayors of bryan and College Station. One of the wonderful thinks about bryanCollege Station come get to cities, one community. The universe you start in the 1870s, the city of brian start a couple years before. Really right after the civil war. There was a railroad from houston that was marching its way here come stop before the civil war and then after the civil war it continued on and brian for the first years after the civil war struggled to get it selfcreated but was able to do that. In 1876 the University Got its first six students and the city of brian was really getting going and airy you see around us today are still