Hygiene. Thank you for coming. I hope everybody has disinfectant that they can use. We spaced out the room to be as safe as possible to my staff and minority staff, thank you for working together. We are back, we spent 40 something days since the senate has been able to meet. The committee has a lot to do related to the coronavirus but we have other things for the good of the nationlike filling judicial vacancies or getting comments throughout the country about the vacancies and how they are impacting the ability to deliver justice in various states it will be as prompt as we possibly can. My democratic colleagues are requesting hearings on the effect of the virus in Detention Centers for immigration purposes and we will try to Work Together to have those hearings. Im curious myself about safely in the nations prison. Next week we will hear about liability issues related to the virus. What can we do as a congress to safely open up and minimize legal exposure for those to reopen the ame
Economics and engages in dialogue, learning and leadership in the intersection of markets, businesses, governments and society and accountable capitalism and trust. And how do we ensure we have the right laws and policies in place and hold government accountable. We have honored to have senator sherrod brown, somebody who cares passionately about the issues that we focus on and care pabl. And the directors and myself testamented about banking leg lags that senator brown shared from 2011 to 2015. And once again, faces a great many challenges, similar and some different from the financial crisis. I look forward to hearing senators perspective on how we got here and how we can go from here. Senator brown has dedicated his career to the words of dr. Martin luther king major calls it dignity of work. Let me give you a few examples how he puts the mantra in practice. The senator often wears a pin of a canary in a cage as a symbol of the days when miners brought canaries with them in a coal m
So we could really use any of these measures as President Donald Trump said hes not considering a National Lockdown but is limiting nonessential travel on the u. S. And mexico border summer of the one taken with the u. S. Canadian border. Were working with canada and mexico to prevent the spread of the virus across north america very closely you heard what we did yesterday with canada is a joint comprehensive effort in collaboration with our neighbors. To measure and all of those measures that were putting in place will protect the health. A little 3 nations and reduce the incentive for a mr lobel migration that would barely deplete the Health Care Resources needed our people and so we are working very closely with mexico very very closely with. With canada and the relationship has never been better world working for the same toward the same goal. And new york is also taking more aggressive measures asking for all nonessential workers to stay home as cases climb to more than 7000 stati
All 3 nations and reduce the incentive for a mass lobel migration that would badly deplete the Health Care Resources needed for our people and so we are working very closely with mexico very very closely with. With canada and the relationship is never been better were all working for the same toward the same goal. New york is also taking more aggressive measures asking for all nonessential workers to stay home as cases climb to more than 7000 stating that businesses that are not in compliance will be fired california the nations most populous state with nearly 40000000 people has also ordered its residents to stay home unless they need essential goods california was the 1st to implement meant mandatory statewide restrictions this could have a great economic or cause great economic disruptions to put it into perspective if california were its own nation it would be the worlds 5th largest economy approximately 50 percent larger than italys. And markets around the world are continuing to
But it turns out that may not be the case. In the big banks launch a earnings season with a bang. Jp morgan reports of most profitable year ever for any u. S. Lender. News from south korea, were the jobless numbers for the month of december. Writings coming in at 3. 8 , which is higher than estimated and higher than the previous month of november. The jobless rate has been creeping up since the month of august and now we are seeing it shoot up to 3. 8 . Although it is worth mentioning that the economy still added 516,000 jobs in december, which is 200,000 more than in the month of november. Conflicting signals right there, but we have seen the government has tried to create jobs, they have tried to support the economy, but we continue to see declines in the manufacturing and retail sectors. Now the jobless rate coming in at higher than expected 3. 8 . Austrian markets have now open for trade. Lets turn to sophie for what to watch. Sydney a flat open in after a fresh record on tuesday.