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• (Reuters) - Systemic racism and high unemployment levels among black and Hispanic Americans create a drag on the U.S. economy, Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan said on Sunday.

• Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, or TIPS,  dropped to a new low for the year. Now at -0.6%

• The accelerated development of a coronavirus vaccine could mean the UK is fullyvaccinated by Christmas.

• Investment in oil supply has collapsed. It may not roar back

• America’scurrency is losing its exceptionalism

• World's ultra-wealthy go for gold amid stimulus bonanza

• Beijing  implements localized lockdowns on a second wave of COVID-19 – while the Bank of China is taking further steps to ease policy.

• Top members of coronavirus task force advised against Trump's Tulsa rally.

• Apple said it's going to close some stores…

• The WHO warns the pandemic is accelerating…

• Brazil reported a record one-day increase for any country in the world since the pandemic began of 54,771 new cases  and 1,206 new deaths, raising total to more than 1 million cases and 48,954 dead.

• Due to a proliferation of hate civil rights groups urge large Facebook advertisers to boycott the platform in July. Facebook totaled nearly$70 billion in ad revenue last year.

• Goldman Sachs upped its 12-month gold forecast to $2,000 from $1,800, mentioning low interest rates and worries over currency debasement. The above TIPS chart probably  helps a bit.

• Now Schwab etc. let you buy fractional shares – for $5. Perhaps fractional options trading (facetious) can be expected next.

• From Spam to Corned Beef, Sales of Canned Meat AreBooming

• 6/20/2020 World Climate Service Preliminary all-time record of 38.0°C (100.4°F) at Verkhoyansk in Siberia, and a contender for hottest on record within the Arctic Circle. Temperatures expected in 2100 appear to be arriving 80 years early…

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•            Mnuchin said the U.S. shouldn’t shut down the economy again even if there is     another surge in coronavirus cases.

·      Jerome Powell said:

our principal focus though is on the state of the economy and on the labor market and on inflation. Now inflation of course is low, and we think it’s very likely to remain low for some time below our target…. that the central bank will keep pumping stimulus into the U.S. economy until its traumatized labor market has healed from the harm of the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re not even thinking about thinking about raising rates,”

·      On Tuesday, DR. Fauci said that COVID-19 is his “worst nightmare,” In a period of four months, it has devastated the whole world,” Fauci said. “And it isn’t over yet.”

·      Coronavirus cases in the U.S. are raising alarms as new infections push the overall count past 2 million and the DJIA drops by 1861 points (6.9%) or almost  $ 2 trillion on Thursday.

·      One pretty good site to tack this nasty thing   

·      Some countries that seem to be doing better than others are Hong Kong with a Death per 1 mill population of 0.5, Singapore 4, and New Zealand declares itself Covid Free. 

·      Some countries doing poorly with a death per 1 million population are Belgium at 832, UK 608, Sweden 477, and the US with 350.

·      Researchers find that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic fall on 11 protected areas in the US annually, equivalent to over 120 million plastic water bottles. 

·      MoM Britain's economy shrank by a record 20.4% in April.·