A michael local welcome to d w special coverage of the Munich Security Conference the annual event brings together World Leaders top ministers and experts the 1st day of talks have already shown potential progress talks between the u. S. And the taliban may lead to a fresh Peace Process for afghanistan and an unprecedented meeting between chinese and vatican diplomats has taken place for the 1st time in decades one topic has dominated the conference fears that the western powers could be losing their unified front on friday germanys president warned that a lack of western solidarity was fueling global insecurity todays panel is set to tackle that topic with nato chief u. N. Stoltenberg and u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh joined by pretentiously the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov we also. Understand that mark esper the u. S. Defense secretary may also be at the talk today at the event in munich we have de w. s chief Political Editor me. And here in the studio im joined b
We will hear from japanese epidemics at the center for strategic and international studies. Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. I am mike green and a professor at georgetown, we are delighted to have all of you join us in discussion over the next two hours with four of japans rising academic thinkers on Foreign Policy and economic affairs. This is the seventh cohort we have invited under a program called strategic japan. Eight years ago we discussed with the Prime Ministers Office how to expand Strategic Thinking dialogue, planning between the us and japan. One thing to think about which was new for japan was the need to go beyond the traditional bureaucratic sources and to tap into the growing expertise among japans academic experts on issues that affect foreignpolicy and to bring more academics into the tent in japan and expand the dialogue with the us and to make sure japanese scholars who are making an impact in japan are sharing their ideas with the us, getting reactions and re
Maybe real profits hi, everybody and welcome. Another day, you guess to do, another record high for stocks yes, the dow ended lower but earlier in the session it broke above 29,000 for the first time ever. Everybody, though seems to be buying into the big caps with you will a the money going to the massives, small caps are all but ignored. Lower on the year. S in random but interesting. The russell 2000 is not hit a new record high since mid2018 at some point they stop the music, guy adami when they do tell us about the small caps. It was actually august of 2018, the iwm measuring the small caps topped at 174 frankly havent gotten anywhere close. Recently we breached 165 but still significantly off the alltime highs with the s p now making alltime highs. I do think thats problematic. You can make any number of arguments. Maybe the russell is more emblematic of the real economy i dont know butly say, i happen to believe the russell could lead the Broader Market by a couple of months if
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 with the recognition u. S. Leadership might not really return in the way it has been in the past. This is where i think it would be interesting to see where japan would head. Ill collect a question or two and let the panel respond and turn over to matt. If you have questions for the panel, now is your chance. Youll get another shot with matts panel and then over coffee. We have mics. I teach at American University and used to be an american diplomat. Listening to the presentation of japans interests and objectives in this situation, one cant help thinking that there is tremendous value to japan in having a close, cooperative relationship with south korea in the region and in these multilateral organizations and yet theres some obvious tensions in that relationship. I would love to hear from our japanese intellects why you think the japanese elite are prioritizing other issues instead of getting long with south korea and what y
Accomplishment for the president. But, mixed global data offers a reality check as both german and french manufacturing figures miss forecast with germanys private sector contracting for the fourth month in a row. Shares sink after the Home Appliance maker warns bigger than expected hit from a plant in south carolina. A tasty deal iff will buy duponts nutrition and bio science business creating a consumer giant worth 45 billion. Well, happy monday, very warm welcome to street signs. Lets kick off the show with a fresh data point thats just crossed the wires. Thats the eurozone flash pmi for december for the eurozone as a whole the composite came in unchanged at 50. 6 that was the same level we saw in november. The manufacturing pmi, that flash 1 slipped to 45. 9. So slightly lower than the 46. 9 seen in november the services pmi, that rose to 52. 4 from 51. 9 in november so slightly more positive news on the services front, weaker news on the manufacturing front, which is really bang i