That she is a new york city resident. She has worked to promote transparency and combat this. Please join me in welcoming alexander. That was wrong okay. Think you so much. My name is erica westerberg. The original moderator cant be with us today. Im in fact very happy to step in and introduce alex. Ive have the pleasure of working with alex at the institute for eight years. In the inclusive developments. One of the Biggest Challenges in this pursuit is of course corruption is very timely for the excellent new book. Better solutions on how to tackle oil corruption. A bit more. She has a phd in international relations. When she is research the politics. Shes worked the last ten years where she leads projects in countries around the world. To research how the oil sector works. And combat corruption. We are changing the format a bit. Please give her a warm welcome. Thank you very much erica. Thank you all for coming despite very various risks in our world. I had been working on this proje
Time to for global exchange. We are going to bring you todays market we would news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Want to start in japan. Prime ministers shinzo abe and im sick stimulus measures to keep recession at bay. That Package Amount to around 239 billion. Going to me on the phone from hong kong is enda curran. Does this match expectations . What is the read in terms of growth . Enda slightly bigger than expectations, but nonetheless it is an important shift. There has been criticism for some time that the boj has put much run the course in terms of what it can do for japans economy, so economists had been saying more had to be done on the fiscal side. This could help offset a recession. The economy has been hit by natural disasters, by weak exports, and theres a feeling that this money may endure beyond the 202011 picks in japan olympics the 2020 in japan next year. And fresh spending that is leaving markets and
Bond markets awaiting ism services in one hour road map, the trade roller coaster. Stocks look to rebound from a three day slide after that report that trade negotiators are edging closer to a deal. Plus, alphabets shakeup googles founders, larry page and sergey brin both step away from their current official roles, but still control the votes at the overall company. And another setback for boeing, united tapping rival airbus to upgrade its new transatlantic fleets stocks looking to recoup some losses from yesterdays selloffs. Some renewed optimism about u. S. China trade talks. Moments ago the at nato summit in london, the president did say discussions with beijing are going well this comes a day after he said it might be better to wait until after the election to strike a deal another piece this morning is that reuters has Jared Kushner added to the negotiating team having meetings with the chinese ambassador. That would signal more people who are globalists involved. A globalist. Bu
Protests in venezuela took place earlier this year where tens of thousands took to the streets in dueling protests in support in opposition of the standing government under president nicolas mother would go on as well as have turned to rely heavily on bitcoin some using it to pay for medical costs or even food eating gold in the hyper inflated economy and several reports revealed Venezuela Central Bank is allegedly looking to stockpile of variety of crypto currency is like a coin within its internal reserves stay operated gas company but theyre a little less than a swell hour by the vessel has asked to send big corn and a theory of payments to uncle sam but i live a nice way to save evolves to pay for oil and gas operations with us ancients on some of these countries like venezuela iraq and iran terror on is allowing for big queen mining but with some regulations head of the Economic Commission of the Iranian Parliament and yes hotshot the said we do believe that the crypto currency in
Deposition. Next, a discussion about u. S. Relations with cuba. We hear about the impact of the u. S. Embargo, changes in the country over the last five years and how key events perceive Foreign Policy in the u. S. This is an hour and a half. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the institute for policy studies. Some sheet notes here. I should know this i hired. This by heart. The institute for policy studies, for those who dont know, and i should know, but sometimes the wording is a little hard to remember, is a progressive think tank dedicated to building a more equitable and ecologically sustainable and peaceful society, turning transformative policies into action. That is where you are. I am the Events Coordinator here at the institute for policy studies. I will also mention a couple of relevant applications outside. Also, and the international community, and now that the cuban five are free, we work for the end of the u. S. Blockade against cuba and normalizing relations between th