Expressed interest and are considering participating and then we certainly have, you know, many managers who are engaging with Portfolio Companies around climate risk but perhaps not formally through that initiative. Okay. And then my other concern is, we talked about diversity and i like what youve done in terms of the work around that. Do we use that same [indiscernible] in terms of rps and other things, do we really apply the sfers criteria for the type of diversity were looking for across the board, including [indiscernible] and other sectors . I cant fully comment on that. I guess what i can say is, you know, there is proposition 209 in place in california i know. Thats why i i know. Up to a vote, thats in november. But we do not i want to make clear that we do not ask about diversity characteristics when we send out an rfp or enter a new relationship or a new contract with an external party. Were wanting to be not running afoul of distortion . The board is engaging, we do request
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Will talk about this later on, but seems like europe is edging one step closer to that 1. 8 trillion euro recovery fund, which would be huge, particularly as the u. S. Cant get it on stimulus. So huge that the euro barely budgets. [laughter] alix it could be worse. Guy it is big news, but i think there was belief in the market that this is a done deal, and europe will ultimately come to the right conclusion and make the stimulus happen, 1. 8 trillion euros. So i think the market had already priced this one. As you can see, unchanged on eurodollar on the back of that. We are getting the jobs data coming through. 6. 43 islittle light, the number. 6. 5 was the expectation. Actually, the prior number devised down a little bit as well. So maybe a little bit of softer data coming through, but the market doesnt care. The market is looking through the virus. All of the bad virus news, you can put that in the rearview mirror. That certainly seems to be the sentiment right now. Lets dig around w
distortion . Just for point of clarification, i didnt hear you call my name so i didnt respond aye. But to respond, yes, i support the motion. [indiscernible]. I will call the vote again on item 11. [roll call] i vote aye. Theres something wrong with this computer. You have five ayes. The motion passes. Thank you, madam secretary. Next item, please. Number 12, action item, update on strategies to address climate risk in the sfers portfolio Climate Action plan. [indiscernible] on this item as well as the previous five, theres a great amount of information [indiscernible]. The tenor of the item is on page 37 [indiscernible]. Bill, sorry to interrupt you but we can barely hear you. Can you hear me now . distortion . The centrepiece of this item is on page 37, table 10, Additional Companies to [indiscernible]. I did want to also draw attention to theres just a voluminous amount of information in the report and thanks to andrew for organizing it all. There is a significant decline as far as
In 2009 when the last crash when it was just 12 trillion 6600000 unemployed last week thats on top of the you know millions of others in the previous weeks 5. 5 plus its 3. 6 plus blah blah blah so now we have 17000000. 00 unemployed thats over 10 percent Unemployment Rate and of course during this chaotic time during that announcement of the new unemployment numbers we saw the fed introduce some new sort of 2. 00 trillion dollars scheme whereby theyre going to buy high yield the bond e. T. F. I jumped at i e well the fracking debt all that fracking debt thats blowing out right we knew that fracking industry was going to go belly up and that it would require a government bailout we said that was a 100 percent guaranteed and we were right you know us thing but Mainstream Media not only are they forced to be broadcasting other basement but only channel 4 in the u. K. Now bankrupt and for us to be on the street and Speakers Corner blabbering about whoever they may gather in these times of