How these cuts will be disk it and how willing will russia be . Certainly some optimism today. Jakarta is coming online. A pretty steep fall off of stocks yesterday. We are rising. Ingapore is up the csi 300 is up. 3 . The dollar is looking pretty mixed across asia. The reaction from that meeting has been seen in the korean won. We are seeing that strength. Nine out of 17 economists respected the hole. Some were expecting for a cut. We are looking ahead to governor lees press conference. We will hear more clues about the trajectory of where rates go and whether they will embark on this qe theme that we have seen in many Central Banks. The dollar yen, we are seeing a little come off of the yen. Were advancing on the back of the oil prices in the euro, premuch flat. Lets stick to oil. Prices are rising again ahead of that opecplus. The worlds Top Producers may be moving closer to a deal on curbing output. Volatility remains a key theme. Wti has seen another 24 hours of wild springs with
Hello a speaker of the house. It is my pri hello, as speaker of the house it is my privilege to welcome you all to the celebration of awe inspiring courage and resilience. Today we gather virtually to bestow congresss highest honor, the congressional gold medal, on nearly 3000 american heroes merrills marauders. Let us salute the family and friends who have continued to tell the story of these brave warriors, and advocated for the recognition they deserve. Thank you to the u. S. Army leaders joining us today, including secretary of the Army Christine mormoth and army chief of staff general james mcconnell. Let us recognize the members of congress who worked to make this momentous event possible, including the late senator Johnny Isaacson, who showed his Great Respect for our veterans through his the leadership of Veterans Affairs committee. A champion of marauders legacy and former congressman, peter cain, also ever voice for our nations veterans. Finally, thank you to all of those joi
Issues, not economic ones. That being said, although they are intertwined these days when security is so critical to the United States and japan and to the philippines as well, that being said and the japanese as we all know are too polite to say this, there is unhappiness in japan over president bidens decision to publicly oppose the sale of u. S. Steel to nippon steel so we thought to focus on the importance of u. S. Japan cooperation on Economic Security, on reliable supply chains, on japans significant and longstanding direct investment across the United States and the potential benefits that an enriched u. S. Japan Partnership Offers to American Workers and allied technological leadership. All these things will be on the agenda at the white house next week. We have two panels of experts today. One on Economic Security that i will moderate and another on Foreign Direct Investments that my japan chair colleague will moderate. But first we have the honor of a keynote and discussion w
Between the United States and japan with leaders from the Defense Department and Japanese Ministry officials. The Hudson Institute hosted this visit. Good morning and welcome to Hudson Institute. I serve as japan chair at hudson and i want to welcome our audience here at the bessy and walter Stern Policy Center in washington and i want to welcome our audience on liep and online and through cspan. On the eve of Prime Minister Fumio Kishidas historic visit to the United States on april 10, it seemed like an appropriate moment to examine the benefits of the deep and expanding u. S. And Japan Economic relationship and as all of us in this room have seen on the news reports, including by certain members of our audience here today in the press, about the impressive deliverables that will be coming out of both the u. S. Japan summit on the 10th and u. S. Japanphilippines trilateral summit on the 11th, most of the focus object the discussions will be on security issues, not economic ones. That
Hes for new years eve celebrations after the mosque sexual assaults and twenty fifteen we ask women if they feel safe. And former world number one and two well theyre up and coming star is what those twenty is even hold in store for german tennis. Donna welcome to the program two people have been killed in the western iranian city of protests across the country says officials have denied Security Forces were responsible and said they mean foreign agents both unconfirmed social media reports say please show off the protesters state officials have warned that those stoking disorder will post pay the price. Protests against unemployment inflation and corruption went into the third day in several cities across iran the capital tehran saw burning bins on a burning building. At the gates of the University Hundreds of students and others clashed with riot police. Earlier state television finally reported the demonstrations that have been spreading over the last few days the newsreader blamed