Thank you, francis. Thank you. We are delighted to have you both. You give us a global snapshot of Energy Poverty and the repercussions for gender equity and employment in the areas of the world most affected . Thank you, thank you again. About what the foundation has done under the leadership of the secretary is looking at how we can and this global problem of Energy Poverty. What is the Global Landscape space . 3. 2 ofccounts for only the 2700 kilowatt hours generated. [indiscernible] only asia with india is 8. 5 . Southafrica but also africa. America is 4. 9 . When you look at those three, africa is 3. 9 . Are large swaths of the global space that is energy poor. What we talk about as it relates , and that iscrisis [indiscernible] say one of the things the pandemic is shown as is if we do not have energy we cannot even solve the health crisis. On the continent we have a lot of obstacles. Universal access is a critical part of what we are considering as part of the policy for ending
Futures at start of trading as businesses reopen this morning, dow industrials up 350 points, 1 and a half percent. S p is up 41 and the nasdaq higher by 114, this after the dow, nasdaq and s p 50 finished down in the week despite fridays days as you can see, dow industrials were down 2 , 2 and twothirds percent, the nasdaq down better than 1 , tensions between the United States and china continue to rise, lawmakers looking to offer big incentives to move supply chains from china to america. President trump versus president obama. President trump calling predecessor incompetent as president obama says they leaders pretend to be in charge. Sports is coming back, the roar of the engines returned this weekend as checker flags dropped on nasdaq, caused drivers to hit the brakes, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria Global Markets this morning look like this, major areas of the world are reopening for business leading to gains across the world, as you can see in europe theres a stro
Highyield credit another risk asset down for a second week in a row. A cautious tone. We have been in this big rally. Some might be nervous whether or not it lasts. We are coming to the close of a rough week, particularly for oil. What is going on with Energy Stocks . Abigail it is interesting because on the week energy is the only up sector, up 1. 1 , even though oil is down 33 . Connect bit of a dip some of the investors bottom fishing. When you look at the s p 500 on the week, it is a bad week. The worst week in about five weeks, down 2. 7 . Inflection points sometimes happen very slowly, but it will be important to see what next week brings. If we have another down week, that could suggest a whipsaw in emerging range. Next week we will get a look at earnings from Big Companies such as apple, alphabet, amazon, microsoft. It could be an important earnings week along with the macro we have been paying attention to. Investors seem a little bit cautious. David all of the tech guys. Than
Points. Brent really rolling over by about 5 , much worse than wti. It is now a pure demand issue. You see equities taking it on the chin, as well as commodities. Time for todays top market moving news from new york and our london team. We want to begin in the u. S. Come over Senate Democrats blocked Mitch Mcconnells attempt to advance the coronavirus economic rescue package. Minneapolis fed president neel bloomberg the fed can do more to support the economy. We are being more aggressive. Is there more we can do . Yes. Is there more we may end up doing . Yes, but i feel we are being very aggressive. Alix joining me for more is Michael Mckee. Walk us through what he said, what more they can do, and what is going on in d. C. Michael jim bullard is the one who really scared the markets by saying a 30 Unemployment Rate and perhaps a 50 annualized decline in gdp during the Second Quarter. Morgan stanleys is the closest to that 30 , so he thinks things can be much worse. They still say the f
Arrows across the board. Nothing by more than a percentage point the dax is up just over a 10th a percentage point not surprising anyone with any expectations more rate cuts could come if the economy slows. 10year yielding 2. 237 . I saw there were three dissents they failed to point out one of them wanted to go 50 the future Federal Reserve, in raining. Right wanted the cut by 50 basis points a Job Interview right in the general news, they said, the Federal Reserve was doing okay it looks like a great economy but there are things to consider beyond the globe i thought that was his best perfo performance yet. Maybe not what you were hoping for and ending up on the day, you were effective am i here over there. Smile for the camera okay. New reports about how was that was that fake . New reports about at t plans for direct tv. Stock moving a little bit. Reporting the giant is considering options including spinoff. Fake news is it fake . I have taken calls on this. This is fake news. I sh