Swing of 70. 5 points, the lowest in at least three months. Caroline down 12 on the dow. Romaine lets dive into the action with our markets reporters. Abigail, get us started. Abigail i am on amazon watch because it is the first day of the annual prime day sale event for amazon. Im watching the 1 trillion mark with amazon almost there, similar to earlier last week when it be fluent above 1 trillion. Same thing last september. This year, a huge run up. Now about 7 billion away. It will be interesting to see as reports come in whether it will be enough to push the shares above 1 trillion. Emma i was watching oil tumbling below 60 a barrel and suffering the worst loss in about two weeks. A couple of reasons for this, hurricane barry moving inland allowing drillers to restart production in the gulf of mexico but also the longterm outlook for prices was brought into focus with data from china. Economic growth slowing to a threedecade low. The trade dispute continuing to weigh on sentiment.
Lot of political crosswinds depending on which way they choose to do it. Jonathan a big story for us in fx volatility as well. David the big story comes up in just about 45 minutes from now. The ecb will be announcing its latest Monetary Policy decision. We will break that down when it happens. Well bring you to Mario Draghis News Conference. First, lets take a look at those markets. Jonathan a look at the market futures. In europe, it is a decent session with the ftse up. The dax is marginally negative. It is sitting very close to the january 2016 high. No drama and the market. No drama in the fx market, that is the story. A boring currency market implied volatility. It is approaching new load for the year. The boring one so far as the euro dollar currency cross. It is stable and stronger today. We have been in a very tight range. We trade stronger ahead of draghi. Four days of gains for crude. A 46 and 4627. In the bond market, we come in at basis points to 2. 26 . Fulltime year bond
Sensors, why did this not get detected . And owe the answer is and you can tell if you look at the map that nobody thought to put these sensors around the white house or around the highincome areas of washington, d. C. So it was never measured. So it wasnt actually applied in this case to a wealthy area. We should look at how we apply it to accept the widest set of individuals. We need to talk about collaboration coordination. One of the interesting questions i think for government right now, is to ask themselves why didnt we create uber . If you think about this, you know, the problem that uber tried to solve, the really fundamental problem of matching passenger to drivers is really a taxi problem, this was something that cities and states knew they had. They were familiar with rolling out technology, they had done this in the past but they didnt probably the number one reason this problem is solved because they wanted to solve their own needs. They werent saying all these other citie
They look at oil pressure, temperature, speed and they basically were able to do prevent of maintenance to reduce down time, they were able to have service sooner and increase the reliability of their system. So fewer breakdowns, longer Vehicles Service life and they were able to save 5 million per year in maintenance costs. So substantial impact. We can think about disrupting how we do things in government. A lot of people in this room are wearing activity trackers. Maybe breaks should depend on how much activity you do. Sitting in a patrol car versus walking for eight hours is very different. Maybe we can start rethinking how we do labor based on these type of technologies. Second, we have to start thinking how we can make smart the default. Were seeing this in some locations. California has decided by 2025, all water meters have to be smart. And we can see really big impacts sometimes when we to do this. In mumbai, they were able to cut water consumption by 50 . We need to be starti
The appendices about what, how to design and make manageable your local and state election website. These are developed by david, for those who know her. And expert who is develop these field guides, and one is state voter websites. [inaudible] mentioned two states that have gone to all mail voting. Is any discussion among the commissioners of the test and received or in the report about the virtue of each state retaining is one option among these other early voting options or things like that, but retaining as one option the voting day, you know, first tuesday after the first monday, at least for federal elections as provided in title ii. Retaining that one day for voting just because of the civic virtue value of having that opportunity to exercise that one day. I know ms. Patrick talked about not reducing the resources that are needed for that one day, and i think some of us feel its very important to have that one day, but going to all mail is a mistake. I was wondering if you discu