All around washington but nonetheless reflecting a real divergence and breadth of thinking, experience and approach. In thinking about these kinds of conflicts with a lot of broad strategic expertise and also a lot of Field Research and handsonexpertise. This struggle is at the new American Engagement Initiative at the Selikoff Center at the Atlantic Council. He has a longstanding scholar, many will know him from his years at the Cato Institute and his most recent book is hes, war and liberty. He is also a former navy officer and is in many ways one of the great skeptics and contrary invoices in American Foreign policy and strategy thinking today who has prolonged time and were pleased to have them with us se in this event read chuck and logan Catholic University is at that center for study and statesmanship, used to be cato as well and is recently written an important article in defense priorities call the case for withdrawing from the middle east and is an advocate of minimizing us m
Added to studying the feasibility of a megamerger. Of helping understate a pay packet of carlos ghosn. We had a wave of dealmaking creating positive sentiment. We had a rebound from last week, one of the worst weeks for u. S. Stocks since march. Tech stocks taking a breather from the selloff. Asset futures trading modestly. Watchl continue to trading when it comes to japan. Potential takeover for Prime Minister the middle of next week, futures are looking flat after the yen starts to gain in the monday session. We will watch for details about the cabinet and what it means for policy continuity playing in two sentiment for the japanese markets. Dollaryen holding steady. Modest dollar weakness overnight. That is set to continue. At 37. 40. Trading opec joining a chorus of voices suggesting the era of oil demand is deteriorating. Demand forecast for each quarter as we continue to see shortselling in the oil market. To a series ofrn deals we have seen. Oracle is bidding for tiktok u. S. Op
The temperatures have been up and down, then they bounced back up. They will settle into near seasonal averages. Fog is there trying to form, not as much as we have seen yesterday. We will see some often the distance. 50s on all the temperatures. Oakland, san jose, both at 59. Wild roller coaster ride on the high temperatures. Hotcool. Back to warm, now we warm it up a little bit. The high is nosing in. It is going to put its nose in a little bit in california, allowing temperatures to jump up a few degrees. Everyone else will be right where they should be for this time of year. All right. Lets get over to my good friend sal. Is there something you want to get to right away . It is friday lights, and we have traffic that is doing very well around the bay area. I like what i see. Lets go right to the bay bridge. You can see that to be traffic there is looking very good. Sometimes, i now, we have slow traffic at the bay bridge. At this morning, we do not. The san mateo bridge and the dun
Look particularly at the nasdaq, its up 16 year to date but the wait is what you have to think about. Facebook, apple, amazon, microsoft google are up 13 year to date. So youre seeing overweight in terms of really big companies. Any meaningful downward movement along them is going to result in broader index. Im not optimistic particularly nasdaq because i think its overinflated liquidation there is it too glib to say if vaccine hopes are met with real positive data that technology suffers from a whithering stayathome narrative, or is that too simplistic . Yeah, its a little simplistic, mostly because of the factors that are contributing to the tech growth are multivariant you have this issue of the low Interest Rate environment which is drawing a lot of yield, but you also have the fact that people staying at home use Digital Services more. You look at the streams services and the semiconductor and tip companies which are underlines and inputs on the digitization thats happening thats
To covering live house coverage here on cspan as they gavel in eight bills today, including antilynching legislation. The speakr pro tempore the house will be in order. He prayer will be offere by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain onroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks foriving us another day. Use thismoment to be e reminded of your presence c1 tap the resoces needed by the members of this peos house to do their work as w as it upon those torn nation and upon the members of this assembly who struggle to see the shared hope for a Better Future in those withwhom they disagree. Fo many americans, the holy season of lent begins tomorrow d foreheads are marked this as men andwomen and as a reminder of your power to thrugh our failures all this day and through the week, may our representatives do teir best to find solutions to pressing issues facig our nation. Please hasten the day when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule the affairs of the nation