Historians are not supposed to guarantee anything about the future, but this is one thing i feel certain about. Watch q a on cspan. Coronavirus Task Force Members testified on the response to the pandemic. [indistinct conversations] today, the committee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of the Trump Administrations response to the covid19 endemic pandemic. Due to the Public Health emergency, members can participate in todays hearing either in person or remotely via video, and. Theart of this hearing, microphones will be set on mute, for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Remotelyarticipating will need to unmute your microphone speak. Participating in person, please wear your mask when not speaking. Dr. Monahan extract expressed in the updated guidelines that the use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case the wearer is unknowingly infected. When we are not speaking, each of us is playing a vital role in tech and all members and staff in at
Across the americas. Texasa sees a record as says covid19 is spreading at unacceptable rates. The u. S. Raises the pressure on Chinese Media organizations, foreigning four more as missions and calling them nothing more than began to outlets. Shery lets get you started. We are seeing u. S. Futures kicking off trading flat at the moment after u. S. Stocks rose. A pretty choppy morning session but technology did manage to lead the advanced. The nasdaq composite rising to a record high, seventh consecutive session of days. The longest winning streak since december. We did get some negative sentiment on rising coronavirus cases in dozen states. The s p 500 did lag this gain across the board. Some sectors like financial and health care under pressure as investors weigh the Economic Impact of a second wave. Take a look at what oil is doing at the moment. Wti right now falling towards the 40 a barrel after finishing at the three month high. We have some demand optimism as states have moved tow
Cable Television Company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Host representative Yvette Clarke is a democrat from new york. She is vice chair of the energy and Commerce Committee and is also cochair of the smart cities caucus. She is our guest this week on the communicators. Congresswoman clark, thank you for being here to be too be with you, peter. Host what is the smart city caucus and how you envision smart city . Guest we decided to establish a bipartisan smart city caucus originally darrell [inaudible] was my chair and it is now congresswoman from indiana. We knew that already technology is a major part of our lives. Its a utility we can use to make sure that we are economically feasible going into the future. That we are efficient in our use of energy and it enables socie society, i think, to be far more productive then our 20th century industrial age. We were looking at the fact that so much of what already exists in society is connected and
Well, tech is holding up well given it has high multiples coming into this part of the reason tech is the answer to some of the issues particularly working from home, things like krits tricks, zoom, microsoft, amazon, have outperformed it appears this is going to be somewhat of a permanent change theres a spike but even coming out they could benefit we would like to see more breadth within tech. Its been big and focused. Last week was interesting. As we started to get a rally in tech we got a sense for whats going to perform on the other side, services,semis, smaller cap names. We dont think were there yet but looking for infection rates to come down, pmis to improve. The economy is on the mend and then hopefully on the other side steve, its interesting over the past day we see some little moves in this environment that might suggest something. Yesterday microsoft announced changes to office 365, calling it microsoft 365 planning to open up access to teams and features in teams to more
The outbreak has been infected industrial activity in the eastern province. According to bloomberg economics, the economy is running 50 to 60 of its normal capacity. Authorities have not seen a turning point yet when it comes to the epidemic. Indicated this week it would deepen the focus on stabilizing the economy. Supply chain and Business Sentiment showing up in global pmi data, u. S. , business, and manufacturing activities. We are also seeing a pickup in cases outside of china, which could indicate a new phase in the outbreak, a search in iran, concernsthe who, given route infection not being traced back directly to china. David a disturbing story. Thanks to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Now we go to brussels and maria tadeo. They are trying to hash out a budget. There are hawks and doves involved . What are the issues . Maria there are many issues. This is day two of a long summit. European leaders are trying to get to a compromise over the budget for the eu for the next seven y