Controversial extradition law and hong kongs chief executive has apologized for it. Not good enough for the people of hong kong, who turned out by the millions this weekend and who have returned to the streets today. They want the law dropped completely and the chief executive to resign. The pressure on xi remains. He is not leading a united country. Trouble back home. To the markets. We are going down a little at the opening bell, not much. Maybe ten points for the dow, up about 13 on the nasdaq. This is all about Interest Rates. The Federal Reserve will announce a decision at 2 00 p. M. Eastern wednesday afternoon. Will they cut . Dont know but theres a good chance they will. Thats what investors are waiting for. I want to know what happens to stocks if they do cut and what happens if they dont. Now heres those outage stories. You could call this a sign of the times. When computers go down, it is truly devastating. Over the weekend, target stores all shut down for a couple of hours.
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Are taking a battering. This market can set whole sectors and polarizing them. Todays healthcare. The French Company cut its forecast and boosted its spending plan. Those are called kisses of death. The pin action from that, drug down the entire group. The negative forecast from bristol mile didnt help either. These used to be safety hiding places with high keep you. With trembling. At this rate is so high the dividends have become meaningless. Many other pipelines seem to be running dry. The cover is bear. Big pharma is just a nightmare. Just as we have been rolling bull markets in the old days, what we find out where marauding bear markets but thats what happens when rates go up. We have now got all over the place stocks falling apart. Thats what i felt all day. Were falling apart. The drugs, the oils, after chevron plummeted 10 points, chemicals failing to deliver the goods, they too used to be brought by the yields. At least until the fed starts cutting rates. Tech got a reprieve t
Questions being asked at this weeks Global Ai Safety Summit in south korea. The second of its kind, it is co hosted with britain after the inaugural event in november last year at Bletchley Park near london. Francine bennett is interim director at the Ada Lovelace Institute an independent Research Institute specialising in al and is in south korea for this summit. A very warm welcome to the programme. So first of all, what will be achieved in seoul, do you think . Do you think . Well, thats a aood do you think . Well, thats a good question. Do you think . Well, thats a good question. I do you think . Well, thats a good question. I hope do you think . Well, thats a good question. I hope what| do you think . Well, thats a good question. I hope what will be achieved in seoul is moving on from the conversation from the Bletchley Summit Last year. So we had some really good initial conversations there, and i think what wasnt to see is shaping the development of this, potentially very new te
Over much of the past three decades, ive been an investor. [applause] the highest calling of mankind, ive often thought, was private equity. [laughter] and then i started interviewing. I watched your interviews, so i know how to do some interviewing. [laughter] ive learned from doing my interviews how leaders make it to the top. Jeff i asked him how much he wanted. He said 250. I said fine. I didnt negotiate with him. I did no due diligence. David i have something i would like to sell. [laughter] and how they stay there. You dont feel inadequate now because being only the second wealthiest man in the world, is that right . [laughter] about 40 years ago, a Young College graduate, mike wirth, joined chevron. Then and now, one of the Largest Energy companies in the world. Today, he is the ceo of chevron and dealing with multiple issues that Energy Companies have to deal with today, including Renewable Energy. I sat down with mike wirth to find out what its like to run chevron today in the