This is not a drill. Gwyneth paltrow will join us after announcing her new show with netflix power lunch starts right now and welcome to power lunch. Lets take a look at the markets now. The dow well off the lows of the day. Still just barely in negative territory but earlier, down more than 200 points. The s p and nasdaq have now turned positive and check out shares of alphabet up 2 jumping to a high after Pivotal Research calls the tech giant a buy. Lets get started with bob pisani at the New York Stock Exchange for more on whats moving those markets e today this is different than friday, contessa again supporting the idea of these kind of events while emotionally disruptive have limited economic impact. Thats what the market is saying so like friday, the low is at the open heres friday and heres today theres the lows friday though, we saw a move to the upside in the middle of the day now, we have been slipping already. We are not slipping. We are holding up here late in the afternoo
To the northeast region including ethiopia, sudan and djibouti. His comments came at an event hosted by the Wilson Center and included a talk about china and the middle east influence in the region. [inaudible conversations]. That you so much to all of you for coming. Im very conscious of how close we are to thanksgiving, the dire reports that those of you who be traveling will have to face, so its fantastic youve taken time this point to be with us. Though im not surprised because of our guest who is with us today. Just a quick word about the Global Europe Program which i chair for the woodrow Wilson Center, this is a program we decide to do something a little bit different because it looks at the pressures and stresses and issues that confront the continent of europe, whether that the arctic and the issues of Climate Change and trade, whether thats migration, whether thats the big relationships with russia, china and and, of course, with the United States, and whether its issues that
President trump is expected to sign the bill into law. Jay powell saw elevated threats including Global Growth and trade. Sophie macro uncertainty over trade in hong kong certainly looming large, given what we stocks. N so far in ozzie shares opening to the. 1 after being tracked lower wednesday. Aussie bonds are climbing for a Third Session tracking the rally we saw in treasuries overnight, to flatten. Ontinued the move to the downside while treasury futures a fourthing a bid for straight session. All itsstronger against peers. Checking in on what is going on im actually looking at the terminal right here because i wanted to show you it is testing the 100day moving average, some that level. We are hearing google is changing its political add policy, limiting audience targeting. We know twitter has been political ads on its platform. We know facebook has not, but we google will no longer allow political advertisers to target voters because of political affiliation. The company said it
Dynamics on the middle east and its important to recognize that everything here is on the record. Before we begin id like to highlight the Atlantic Councils collaboration with ifpi, which is the Italian Institute for International Political studies. This is the second year that our two organizations have partners produced an outstanding work on the changing landscape in the middle east. Today we are pleased to release our new collected volume, the mino region, and its now available for download online. A special thanks goes out to the president of ifpi, ambassador monsolo for his continuous collaboration in our joint ventures and indebted to the Italian Foreign ministry, in particular to the italian ambassador for his unwavering drive to see our two institutions partnering for not only the two countries they represent, but for the entire community. Ambassador monsolo couldnt be here at the last minute, but asked me to read this note. Its great regret i address you all in writing when i
Senate return for legislative business next tuesday and now we continue our coverage of a conference on middle east strategy. And i think this counter goes of whoever is in par with regard to the presidency and regardless of who the resources available. So i think going back to what was mentioned in the Previous Panel with regard to the impact of maximum pressure and what max impression was intended to decide allegedly because of lack of clarity among u. S. Policy intention and strategy on iran but one of the argument was the position of sanction and maximum pressure, iran behave in a region would be contained. Unrest with diminished. We clery see the opposite. One of the reasons is iran continued its policy with regard to its support of allies and proxies but also its continuation of the interest. In syria with continuation, and iraq and lebanon the same, in yemen we have not seen any change since 2018 in particular. If anything weve seen a more by iran to showcase as was mentioned be