Contraction for the australian economy. Worse than anticipated, but investors with a moment shrugging that off. Chinese markets under pressure. Quickly moving it along, having a look at what else is going on out there and doing that, of yvonne. With yvonne lets start with that aussie gdp number. The second consecutive quarter for the three months through june. And thee first first technical recession in 30 years for us trail you Australian Household spending well by 12 as lockdowns and restrictions shut out consumers. The aussie dollar against its u. S. Peers. Theres a new warning about the u. S. Economy with a fed governor ating there is uncertainty head. She told the Brookings Institution that america will be to depend on the fed and policymakers in d. C. As the economy continues to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. She says Monetary Policy must pivot from stabilization to accommodation. Treasury secretary seems to agree with the fed governor, saying the u. S. Economy urgently n
Testimony of facebook, twitter, and google execs before congress russias use of social media in the election. Watch washington journal, live 7 00 a. M. Eastern on saturday morning. During the discussion. U. S. Ambassador to canada, kelly knight and canadian ambassador to the u. S. Talked about u. S. Canada relations. This is about 25 minutes. Does fall to me to be the guy that interrupts your dinner. We know this is the canadianamerican business council, that is excellent. I like to intrude on your sunday mornings but tonight i will intrude on your dinner but its worth it because i have an extraordinary moment. Tonight for the first time to people at the center of the most important issue for economy, the trade between canada and United States, some might say the weight of the world is on the shoulder. Security issues weve talked about resilience of our friends in new york. Please give a warm welcome, we could be very warm the capital of canada to the u. S. Ambassador of canada, kelly
In the search bar you want to talk john kasich in the monitor breakfast. We will leave to remark some House Financial Services Committee Chair jeb hensarling, expected to talk but its legislation that would replace the 2010 doddfrank financial law. This is at the Community Bankers Association Summit in washington, d. C. His remarks live now here on cspan2. Im going to value more than making Community Banking great again. [applause] and one size fits all. Anyway, thank you for doing what you do. Thank you for rolling up your sleeves and helping build americas communities. Thank you for helping build and capitalize our Small Businesses. Thank you for allowing people to achieve their american dream, regardless of what others might think. I believe Community Banking is a noble profession, and i thank you for entering it. [applause] just a few months ago we lived under a different administration. I believe an administration that looked upon banking with suspicion or worse, he believed that
The july the 5th attempt. One of the difficulties we faced in turkey is explain this event to our international counterparts, its really well complicated and difficult to stress and one of the difficulties and mysteries of this event is also how turkey fighting against the terrorist organization in the aftermath of the coup attempt and how turkey is dealing with both challenges in this new era. Of course, both are very difficult and we have to go off the background to understand this. We will have four distinguished guests today. We will try to understand what happened in terms of Foreign Policy in the aftermath of july the 15th coup attempt. And also, some background about this development. So we will have four speaks, jeffrey, who is the distinguished fellow at Washington Institute for u. S. Policy, our second speaker will be profess or do nae from the university, Foreign Policy. Our third speaker is colonel richard houston, senior u. S. Army advise are and member of planning at u. S
The house passed the Defense Authorization bill, and as the hill reports it includes 696. 5 billion in programs, far more than president trumps budget request. The final vote was 34481. Eight republicans voted against the legislation, including representatives amash, duncan, garett, gomert, griffith, harris, massey and mclynn okay. On the other side of the capitol the senate is expected the take up the bill after working on health care next week. The Congressional Budget Office is expected to release the projected cost and the number of people covered under the Senate Health care law replacement. Leaders have planned to vote next week. You can find live gaveltogavel coverage of the senate on cspan 2. The National Governors Association Summit meeting Live Saturday on cspan starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Governors talk about computer coding and the importance of Computer Science in schools, with girls who code ceo, former microsoft ceo steve palmer, and Tesla Ceo Elon musk who will spea