Some 20 today. Has the bubble burst . All right, we are less than half an hour from the european open. Lets look at where futures are pointing. The direction is down and the. 5 . Stoxx 50s are down the continent looks to take it worse than the u. K. That is not the exciting picture i want to tell you this morning. Take a look at a threeday chart of bitcoin i have in the terminal. Unbelievable drops. Right now, trading at 12,508, a drop of almost 19 . This is the biggest percentage drop we have seen single day in all of 2017. Looks like people are cashing out of their bitcoin in order to afford the toys. They are really selling it off. Now, the currency is only up 1200 year to date. What is someone long bitcoin to do . Mark 19. 5 thousand on monday. Look at the decline. Other cryptocurrencies . That is the question we will be asking. As you can see, equity indices see china down about one third of 1 . 1 . Nikkei up about 1 5 of the biggest weekly gain for the japanese benchmark since no
Anna a very good morning, everybody. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. Lets talk about what is in catalonia and what impact that is happening on the markets. The euro down a little bit. Catalan separatist parties taking back control of the regional parliament. A very bad performance by the peoples party. Night for the local opposition. This doesnt necessarily take us any closer to independence, but the spanish Political Drama into used to unfold. Continues to unfold. We will watch for the yields on catalan bonds. The broader equity picture looks positive. A little bit in the asian session. We had some pretty threatened trading. Friday before christmas, fairly thin trading in the asian market. The 10 year yield is unchanged. Recovery. E treasury a little weakness in the yields. Billion, the strongest demand there since august 2012. Some people in the markets looking to protect their portfolio from inflation and perhaps to dual to do with the tax deal. At bitcoin. Oking it has fallen si
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to get started with our third and final installment of todays event on oversight and accountability and Security Sector assistance. Again, i am melissa dalton, director of the sbashl Security Program here at csis. I am delighted to welcome to this panel a selection of colleagues and fellow travelers on the road of ssa reform who either currently serve in government, or have very recently departed Government Service at various nodes of the community. Starting on my far left is mr. Adam barker who is a professional staff member on the Senate Committee on armed services. Where he provides budgetary and policy oversight of department and defense programs, including Security Cooperation. To his right is dr. Dafna rand. She previously served as Deputy Assistant secretary in the bureau of democracy and human rights and labor, also served in other positions at the department of state and the National Security council. To her right is mr. Tommy ross
Minutes. Thank you so much. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to get started with our third and final installment of todays event on oversight and accountability and Security Sector assistance. Again, i am melissa dalton, director of the sbashl Security Program here at csis. I am delighted to welcome to this panel a selection of colleagues and fellow travelers on the road of ssa reform who either currently serve in government, or have very recently departed Government Service at various nodes of the community. Starting on my far left is mr. Adam barker who is a professional staff member on the Senate Committee on armed services. Where he provides budgetary and policy oversight of department and defense programs, including Security Cooperation. To his right is dr. Dafna rand. She previously served as Deputy Assistant secretary in the bureau of democracy and human rights and labor, also served in other positions at the department of state and the National Security council. To
It alone and we have to talk with each other and figure out how the create quality jobs in the clean energy e kconomy. We have had as our part perrer inship that we are work manage the midwest and on the west coast from the u. S. Conference of mayors you can see more at cspan. Org, and we will leave this for a series of conversations this afternoon about defense and National Security oversight. The House Armed Services Ranking Member adam smith leads off and also the private sector for oversight and accountability. Live coverage here on cspan3. Hassan, we feel secure in the building but as a convener, we have a duty to prepare for the emergencies, so take a look around you and behind me are exits. I will be the official Safety Officer today. So should a fire alarm or something go off, i will direct you in the correct orientation out of the building. Today culminations a ninemonthlong effort conducteded by the cis program. Over 60 groups and functional experts and leaders of the ngo and