Maria we want to get a check on Global Markets this morning. A lot of action, rally in europe as well as the u. S. Right now. Take a look at european indices, cac quarante up 72 and dax up 147 points. Euro zone purchasing managing index better than expected. The spread of the coronavirus is expected to cause weakness going forward. Remember, the outlook thats materially changing right now. We continue to see the numbers today pretty strong. In asian overnight markets are mostly higher. Take a look, the weak spot was hong kong. The others fractionally moving although korea was up 2 and a quarter percent. We do have more bad Economic News out of china. The service purchasing manager index slide to go record low overnight. February car sales plummeting 80 year over year. South korea announcing stimulus package to fight coronavirus. People are saying if he has to cut 50 basis points before meeting, what does he know that we dont know. Maybe its a lot worse that we thought, as a result the
Im called aspen thanks for joining us now as the corona virus spreads far beyond china several countries are taking unprecedented steps to contain it in italy the deaths of 3 people from the disease have prompted authorities to put several towns on lockdown and cancel the final days of venice is famed carnival celebrations now other countries are on high alert as well those include iran which has the highest death toll of any country outside of china and south korea which has seen a sharp jump in coronavirus cases in the last few days. Scenes like these from chinas cities in lockdown are now becoming familiar across the globe following new deaths caused by the novel coronavirus. Razor remains the continent hardest hit by the outbreak on sunday south korea raised its disease alert level to the highest possible. There are hundreds of registered cases in the country and the number of new infections is still surging meanwhile the coded 19 commonly known as the corona virus is becoming incr
Our highest is moment on the Silver Screen on how to close in that county retelling all the european mean what if anything. Im called aspen thanks for joining us as the corona virus spreads far beyond china several countries are taking unprecedented steps to contain it and italy the deaths of 3 people from the disease have prompted authorities to put several towns on block down and cancel the final days of venices famed carnival celebrations now other countries are also on high alert including iran which has the highest death toll of any country outside of china and south korea which has seen a sharp jump in the coronavirus cases in the last few days. Scenes like these from chinas cities and lockdown are now becoming familiar across the globe following new deaths caused by the novel coronavirus. Razor remains the continent hardest hit by the outbreak on sunday south korea raised its disease alert level to the highest possible there are hundreds of registered cases in the country and th
Hayek auditorium here at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by form and as a contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfamiliar to most americans. And as we kick off our 2019 conference we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment preceding kick off in significant part by a report from the Intelligence Community inspector general. We have forthcoming next week ill breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, actually would be from the House Intelligence Committees. Even intelligence overseers are at the senate and the sense of our political discourse in a way the intelligence agencies itself began to be earlier in this cycle in a in a way that was unp
Twitter send us a tweet at cspan wj and facebook or facebook. Com cspan. Couple of the polls that have come out since thursday since the last of this weeks hearings and let you know about some of our political coverage starting with the intersection of the debate and the impeachment hearings. Jerry simon writing impeachment invades the democratic primary. For the good portion of the campaign, it sounds like it feels like an intrasquad basketball game. The same side scrimmaging against one another. Outside forces began to muscle into the president ial primary primary contest. The first force was president taught President Trump, not of his own accord. The biggest was hearings on the possible impeachment that paid out played out in the house of representatives, in particular a hearing on wednesday dominated the news and stole much of the spotlight that otherwise would have gone to the democrats president ial debate. Not surprisingly, the first question was directed towards Elizabeth Warr