This forum is airing live. It is a historic moment. I want to thank both republicans and democrats alike for making this possible. The majority and minority working in a bipartisan way. It is the first live entirely virtual bipartisan forum for the United States congress. The first one ever. Modulation,s, everybody making this possible. So covid19 has changed everything. Every american is affected. And americas veterans are not immune. In fact, veterans are facing unique challenges right now due to the Global Pandemic. But the challenges created by covid19 will not go away overnight. In the wake of this pandemic, new challenges will emerge and their impact could become just as severe as the novel coronavirus. There is no shortage of frightening statistics that point to how tough times are for countless americans right now. Very, veryver the grim statistics. More than 55,000 americans are dead from covid19. Nearly 7000 veterans have tested positive. Of which 435 veterans have passed awa
The show. Oil finding some support from markets as we still get earnings coming out. Fiat chrysler withdrawing its full year 20 guidance. They plan to restart production as conditions allow. About 100djusted ebit million euros. Nonetheless, continuing to see withdrawn guidance. Really hard to make a decision as a Portfolio Manager when you dont know what the outlook is going to be. It is time now for todays market moving news from our brussels and new york teams. We want to begin in europe, where germanys top judges gave the ecb a threemonth ultimatum to fix qe. The court ruled that some aspects of its Asset Purchase Program arent backed by eu treaties. Going to brussels is maria tadeo. What does it actually mean, and have we seen any response from the eu on this . Maria it is a bombshell, really. The judges are basically saying overall, there is no monetary financing, which would be illegal, but some aspects of qe are unjustified, and not backed up by european treaties, which means th
You are watching cnbc. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening from wherever in the world youre watching. Im Brian Sullivan im glad to be with you during this troubled and turbulent times. Coming off friday 700point game gain for the dow futures are lower, indicating a drop of about 200 points for the dow, slightly less for the nasdaq 100 your big story right now is the price of oil and a new week bringing the same old story prices, they are falling in a big way. The may contract right now at an incredible 14 and change per barrel now down 22 overnight. The may contract, keep in mind, does expire tomorrow its also important to look at other contracts. Primarily the june or july contracts for oil. They are slightly less dire. The june contract at about 23 bucks. The problem with oil is very simple there is so much oil being produced around the world and so little demand right now for gasoline or jet fuel that unneeded and unused oil is simply piling up everywhere. Many storage tank
Mayor breed good morning, e. Thank you all so much for being here. I am San Francisco mayor london breed. I am joined today by the director of the department of Public Health, doctor grant colfax, department of department of Emergency Management. Mary ellen carol, director of department of Human Services, trent rhorer, Abigail Stewart conas well as director of the department of m. T. A. , jeff tumlin, police chief, bill scott, and we have a special guest today from the Interface Council who will be speaking directly after my comments. As of today, we have confirmed 676 cases of the coronavirus, sadly, 10 people have passed away as a result of this disease. This is clearly a challenging time for San Francisco. What we have done time and time again, especially during this press conference is to reiterate is importance of staying at home. We know that a couple weekends ago we had real challenges with that. Over the past two weekends people complied and have been wonderful. We also think t
Services committee. Im supervisor rafael mandelman, the chair. And were joined by vice chair supervisor stefani and supervisor walton and i want to thank the fine folks for staffing this meeting as well as the operations and i. T. For lending their support to this first remote meeting of our committee. And for all that you are all doing to keep all of our meetings running smoothly, which i know that is challenging in these times. And mr. Clerk do you have announcemented . Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect City Employees, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and the Committee Room are closed. The members are participating in the meeting remotely, the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda, both cable channel 26 and sfggovtv. Org are streaming. And the ability to speak during the Comment Period are available by calling 8882045984. And you can utilize an access code. The code is, 3501008. Ill r