600 gaining. A lot of the focus is on earnings and the economic backdrop. 1134. Ollar 1 it has fluctuated but is very arrangedbound. Rangebound. Coming up, the World Economic forum in davos. We bring you all the biggest names in banking. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city. We begin with the new york senate approving Donald Trumps new freetrade agreement with mexico and canada. It handles the president and a major win ahead of impeachment. The overhaul of the agreement was a priority for mr. Trump. Mitch mcconnell called vote a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation. The white house broke the law in withholding aid the ukraine. Accordingting to an independent watchdog, saying the president should not have delayed money. This is a key part of the impeachment case against President Trump. , quoteg with them obsessed with the u. S. Trade deficit. This is according to bill hogan, saying americafirst policies are bringing about a priceless moment for global trade. This came
Estate market in the world sees value slide a bit well go to hong kong for the latest. This is your Business Report im stephen bears in the lead thanks for joining us. Credit to embed on the american donald trump all are scheduled to attend the annual World Economic Forum Meetings in davos switzerland which are getting underway monday sustainability and Climate Change are the main topics of the meeting activists like twin bed are putting more pressure on governments and Business Leaders to do more in stopping Climate Change the forum is introducing a scorecard this year to Rate Companies on how sustainably they act. Now ahead of davos American Money Management firm blackrock has grabbed a great deal of the attention of the finance world its c. E. O. Larry fisk announcing that the company would quote exit investments presenting a high sustainability related risk in quote for a start to festing hundreds of millions of dollars from coaling to businesses that could be a big deal black rock
Container is he waved back to the port more than 3700. 00 metric tons of Plastic Waste have been dispatched from malaysia back to the countries that originally dumped them since the 3rd quarter of last year. The illegal shipments of come from developed nations such as france the u. K. And the us Southeast Asian countries such as malaysia have been flooded with western rubbish since china refused to accept any more plastic shipments in 2018 but time and again there is a legal consignments of being rejected so we have sent 150 the our 110 more that we will send across the 3 different. Ports in malaysia and its the dumping countries that will foot the bill malaysia says it wont be paying a penny to send the stuff back. The International Monetary fund has cut Global Growth estimates for 2020 the leader of the i. M. F. Is in davos switzerland for the World Economic forum today to discuss the World Economic outlook the i. M. F. Reports that compared to the outlook report in october estimated
Search bar at the top of the page. It is great to be here with you all to celebrate and discuss an excellent new book by one of our countrys most original and insightful economic thinkers. Amity shlaes. Over the course of her distinguished career she has brought her wideranging intelligence and feel for storytelling to some of her countrys leading intellectual and cultural institutions. She has served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, columnist for Financial Times and bloomberg news, she has taught economic history at the stern school of business. Now in addition to her prolific book writing, amity serves as a president ial scholar for kings college, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation, and in a big coup for us at michigan chairs the whole Selection Committee for the Manhattan Institute high outcries. An award she herself has won. Few decades have imprinted on the popular imagination quite as much as the 1960s and so many of us remembe
Particular has a monumental role. It endeavors to guard the values and architecture of liberty, equality, and solidarity found in the constitution. It does so against the excesses of majority rule, partisanship, or president ial overreach. The Supreme Court, however, is made up of nine individual human beings. Each with her or his individual perspective on the balances struck in the constitution, and on the precise guideposts on decision making. We are most proud to have one of these nine with us this evening. Stevenslecture is honorable elana kagan, associate justice of the United States of Supreme Court. [applause] mr. Anaya notably, Justice Kagan replaced Justice Stevens on the Supreme Court after the late justice announced his retirement and president barack obama appointed her to the court. Justice kagan served as the first female solicitor general of the United States and in that position, she argued a number of important cases to the Supreme Court. She had a storied legal career