Welcome. Town hall. My name is Jessica Baloun and i am the community and outreach manager here at town hall. On behalf of our staff, well as our friends at third place books, it is my pleasure to welcome you to our tonights presentation with David Glasgow and jane park. As we get underway, i would like to acknowledge that our institution stands on the unceded traditional territory of the coast. Salish people, particularly the duwamish. We thank them for our continuing use of the natural of their ancestral homeland. Were very glad to have you join us tonight. The presentation will run for about 60 minutes, including q a. And when we get to the q a, you may ask your question, the mic over here and or you may use the qr code with your smartphone to submit your question digitally and youre joining us virtually at home. Then we will also post a link in the chat so you can add your question at any time. Well try to get to as many questions as possible, and you can always help us by keeping y
Sharply yesterday. Today a knock on gains, ftse mib leading higher in italy, 0. 89 . The german dax up 0. 3 . The ftse 100 up 0. 50 . Its maybe a focus on brazil, argentina coming into the discussion of late. Heres crude, up about 1 on wti, 49. 84. Brent up to 53 bucks. Nat gas up 0. 2 . The tenyear note at 2. 118 has moved up nicely. Now 2. 247. Youll take it in this kind of environment. And the dollar which has weakened substantially over the past couple of weeks hanging around 97 1 2. Its down about 0. 4 this morning. Finally gold. See how the yellow metal is doing. When will we add bitcoin to the board. Theres gold, down about 0. 10 . Good question what color is bitcoin . I think its gold. I have no idea. I thought it was an image of a gold coin. An image. It doesnt really have a color. Its a virtual theres all these other coins, theres icos now. Instead of buying a share of a company, you can buy a share of a currency from one of these cryptocurrencies. Well have one of our disrup
Positive start. European equities were solidly bid on friday. This morning, where is the action . The pound softening up, 1. 2 991. We will talk about the dollar throughout the program. Jamie dimon pretty positive on the u. S. Right now. Has the market gone too far . The consensus trait seems to be negative dollar. Lets show you what else is going around the world. We will bring you the stories out of brussels, the greek twoyear not the most liquid story. Overnight,idly bid something to Pay Attention to as well. The commodities continue to be fascinating. Watch the chemicals sector at the getgo. This huntsman transaction could have action elsewhere. Heres haidi lun with the update. Haidi guy, thanks. In saudi arabia, u. S. President donald trump has told arab leaders that the war on terrorism isnt a fight between different faiths. He also called on middle east allies not to wait for u. S. Help to crush terror groups, and assure terrorists find no sanctuary. It was an attempt to ease co
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Defense and security were at the top of the agenda. Then, there was all the buildup for the opec stocks with oil rising on speculation that the production curbs would be extended. But it was business as usual for the rest of the week. Jpmorgan and other prominent officials accompanied the president ial to her. He talked about the prospects inside saudi arabia. The world is going to double in size in the next 15 years. There are plenty of opportunities and threats. Competitors around the world. We have spent a lot of money and technology. We know what we are doing. We operate around the world. We help Companies Grow around the world. We are pretty comfortable in our future. Francine can you break down the units where you want to defend your market share and where you want to push it . I want to grow everywhere. It is going to be harder in some areas because of our market share. Investment banking in certain areas may be harder to gain share, but that doesnt mean we cannot gain share in