From the darkest moments. In the midst of this historic storm of the people of texas have responded with their very best. This could well be texas finest hour. Drain to the damage could wreak havoc on the busy travel season. Gas prices hitting a twoyear high as the nations largest field pipeline runs from texas all the way into new jersey, new york city even with temporarily shutting down its main fuel line from texas to new york because of outages. Turning to tax reform, President Trump calling on congress to get to work when they return to washington next week despite the push to many polls say americans are not confident lawmakers will get anything done. Futures are showing this in your market. Dow futures up 72 points. Much to miss them. Weve got the good reading on secondquarter Economic Growth coming in at 3 yesterday. The dow up 27 points yesterday and had he not at least the start of the last day of trading in august. Europe stocks higher across the board. Case in england, fran
Georgetown. Some distinguished in fact, this audience is pretty much 100 distinguished, as i look out. Quite an impressive audience. Thank you very much for coming. A few brief safety and security announcements. I am your designated Safety Officer in case of an emergency. Youll find the exits are back behind you. And youll go down one floor, exit down through the stairwell and well meet around the corner at National Geographic which is just down left and left should we have to so today together with the japan center for Economic Research is delighted to host this discussion with three of japans leading lawmakers, statesmen with particular expertise in National Security and to talk about our alliance and the years ahead. Ill introduce the other members of the panel in a moment. But let me first mention they are all here in washington for the week as part of whats known as golden week, and to join discussions here and around town under the mount my friend ue which runs and many are parti
Georgetown. Some distinguished in fact, this audience is pretty much 100 distinguished, as i look out. Quite an impressive audience. Thank you very much for coming. A few brief safety and security announcements. I am your designated Safety Officer in case of an emergency. Youll find the exits are back behind you. And youll go down one floor, exit down through the stairwell and well meet around the corner at National Geographic which is just down left and left should we have to so today together with the japan center for Economic Research is delighted to host this discussion with three of japans leading lawmakers, statesmen with particular expertise in National Security and to talk about our alliance and the years ahead. Ill introduce the other members of the panel in a moment. But let me first mention they are all here in washington for the week as part of whats known as golden week, and to join discussions here and around town under the mount my friend ue which runs and many are parti
Breaking investment rules. This is daybreak asia, coming bloombergsrom headquarters. I am shery ahn. Betty, it seems to be all about earnings this week. We had netflix overnight, but we are gearing up to bank of america, goldman sachs, ibm. Earnings season is usually friendly for stocks. We see another round of gains. Betty we absolutely will be. It is interesting because, you know, we know earnings will be a driver, but there is certainly differing consensus or differing aboutamong strategists how much earnings will propel markets higher. We know mike wilson says it could propel the markets up 10 . We have a guest coming up who does not think quite that, is probably on the opposite end of that spectrum. Diverging views are forming. Shery i will be quite curious to ask him why he is so pessimistic. Many in asia are looking forward to other data points including chinas Property Prices, not to mention we do get rbas in the july Meeting Minutes. Take a look at what the markets are doing r