To European Markets opening up, and the close in asia saw significant gains in Hong Kong and japan. The picture there is across the world, that is last night but this is what we are drawing our attention to here, the Hang Seng up by almost 4 and then Ak Injapan up by 3 as well. For more, joining me now is rory green, chief China Economist at t5 lombard. How significant are the new measures . It isa it is a significant Step Up in stimulus from beijing. What we have had announced so far, and we have got clarity on the monetary Side And Today the Politburo Set for september gave us an indication, we do not yet know the size of a fiscal stimulus and that will be crucial to assess the acceleration of growth. As you touched on, until traders are loving these signs and china assets are ripping higher. Observers have been saying for quite some time that beijing needs to do something dramatic to stimulate its economy. Why has it waited so long or until this point to do so . It has it waited so
Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person and those that are appearing distancely. We look forward to their testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the Third Party Administrators are in administering the mission act. Im also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation, as well. Almost every member of our committee, though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us, almost every member of our committee will be participating and is expected in todays hearing. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title 1 under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs related to Veterans Community care programs and the program of comprehensive assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While va officials were
Approve. Member rajeo. Yes. And chair williams . Aye. All right, so we are adjourned. It is 4 33 p. M. Thank you, everyone, for sticking with us and well see you tomorrow. Thank you. Bye, everyone. See you tomorrow. The meeting is closed. Just want to notice we didnt have. Can you call the roll . Im going to read my script first. This is held by web x modifying requirements for inperson meetings during the coronavirus disease emergency. This committee will be convening remotely until the committee is authorized to meet in person. Public comments will be available on each item. Each will be allowed three minutes to speak. Comments during the Public Comment period are available by calling 14156550001. Again its 14156550001. Access code is 1469968636. Then pound and then pound again. When connected, youll hear the meeting discussion, but will be muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Speak clearly and slowly and
Probably one of the biggest in terms of Enterprise Companies going public during this ipo vintage. We awere here last year for the uber ipo slack today. Well bring you lots of news about it its a different type of listing, its a direct listing well talk about all of the dynamics around that for now, back to you we talked about that direct listing earlier this week. The pros and cons to it again . There are some pros and cons. You can only do it if you have a lot of cash on the Balance Sheet. This is a company that does. If youre trying to raise money, it doesnt work this way theres no additional money that gets raised the way uber was raising money and wework will be raising money. Well see if it becomes a model. Spotify did it successfully. Slack is doing it. If there works, theres a question on whether airbnb, the next ipo on the docket in the future, theres a question if they go the same route it has a huge implication for wall street, wall street fees and the ipo structure. Andrew,
Israeli forces ordered officials at nasa hospital to move 95 health personnel, 11 of their families, 191 patients and 165 companions and displaced people an old building adjacent to the hospital in harsh and frightening conditions, without food, without milk for children and an acute water shortage. Dr. Khalid sent these voice messages to us on thursday. Since yesterday there is lot of updates uh about what happening here in nasa hospital uh there was a direct bombing to the hospital uh they forced people inside the hospital including patients relativ oh ya allah patients relatives and healthcare workers to evacuate immediately and you can hear in the background the continuous bombing in the hospital. This comes after a week of intensifying attacks on the hospital and its grounds with armed israeli quad copters, shooting at patients, doctors and hospital staff and Israeli Armored vehicles destroying parts of the wall around the complex. Early thursday morning, Israeli Forces shelled th