The committee on Foreign Affairs will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call her recess at any point and all members will have five days to submit statements. Extraneous material and westerns for the record subject to length limitations and the rules. To insert something into the record, please have your staff emailed vesely circulated address. , physicallyr present in this room for guidance of the office of attending physician, masks must be worn at all times except when a member is speaking and a microphone. Please also sanitize your seating area. This is a safety issue and therefore an important matter of order and decorum for this proceeding. For members participating remotely, please keep your video function on at all times, even when you are not recognized by the chair. Members are responsible for muting and in muting themselves. Please remember to mute yourself after you have finished speaking. Consistent with House Resolution 965 and accompanying regu
Of the committee at any point and all members left five days to submit statements, extraneous material and questions for the record subject to limitation in the rules. You enter something in the record please have your staff email the previously circulated address or contact full committees. Staff. As a reminder to members, staff and others, physically present in this room for guidance from the office of attendingpr physician, masks must be worn at all times during todays proceedings except when a member is speaking in a microphone. Please also sanitizer seating area and these are a safety issue and, therefore, an important matter of order and decorum for this proceeding. For members participating remotely please keep your video function on at all times even when youre not recognize why the chair. Muting and in muting themselves. Please remember to mute yourself after you have finished speaking. Consistent with House Resolution 965 and accompanying regulations, staff will only mute mem
Affairs will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call her recess at any point and all members will have five days to submit statements. Extraneous material and westerns for the record subject to length limitations and the rules. To insert something into the record, please have your staff emailed vesely circulated address. , physicallyr present in this room for guidance of the office of attending physician, masks must be worn at all times except when a member is speaking and a microphone. Please also sanitize your seating area. This is a safety issue and therefore an important matter of order and decorum for this proceeding. For members participating remotely, please keep your video function on at all times, even when you are not recognized by the chair. Members are responsible for muting and in muting themselves. Please remember to mute yourself after you have finished speaking. Consistent with House Resolution 965 and accompanying regulations, staff will only
Bad session like we saw in the u. S. , snapping out of gains. New york futures are slightly higher. The dollar is stronger. We saw quite a bit of steepening in the Treasury Curve. Youre seeing the threeyear at around 24 basis points. We did see the spike in yields, slightly off that now in the Asian Session after the treasury unexpectedly announced that refounding announcement. Boosting that issuance on the long end of the 10 year and 20 year with the auction so markets are bracing for that surge in supplies. Were also watching currencies, remedy still very much in focus here today. The message the last couple of days has been calm down, we have slightly stronger fixings here. Were seeing the renminbi slightly down. We are continuing the rally of brent crude, slightly higher by half of one percent, just below 30 bucks for brent. Looking ahead to the data now. China set to rae release trade figures later today. Exports likely dropped 11 from a year earlier compared with a 6 decline in m
I dont want to be muted because the people need to speak. For those of you who are just joining you, this is the march 17th, 2020 Commission Meeting and were doing this for the first time using microsoft. Please excuse us if we have any technology issues. This process may be different than we normally do. If i may, i may move on to item 2, the approval of the march 3rd, 2020 minutes. Do we need to do a call to order and role call . Yes, thank you. So ill start with you, commissioner. role call . Well move on to item 2, the approval of the march 2 minutes. Reviewing the minutes of the previous meeting, does anybody have a motion to approve . So moved. Second. All those i in favor . Do we need to do a role call . role call . Thank you. Item 3, the directors report. The directors report is in front of you and i would ask that if you have any questions, of course, im happy to answer them, but given that the majority of our meeting with focus on covid19, i will not need whats in front of yo