Showing and paying tribute to the past 50 year, celebrating 50 years of promoting Sustainable Development models to credit operations, resources, and support and the technical and financial structuring of projects in the public and private sectors of latin america. Welcome. [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ applause ] all right. I hope you guys all enjoyed and video, and welcome once again. To help start off for two days of what promises to be engaging and lively discussions, i would like to introduce the president of cast and also mr. Michael shifter who is the president of the interamerican dialogue. They will each offer welcoming remarks to open the conferences. [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] good afternoon everybody. [ speaking Foreign Language ] im thrilled to welcome all of you to the 23rd annual conference widely known as the cast conference, organized by cast, the Development Bank of latinamerican, the interamerican dialo
Mccarthy held a News Conference on the legislative agenda, taking questions from reporters andt a twoyear budget deal special counsel robert mueller. Mr. Mccarthy good afternoon. Good morning. Just this morning, i saw the House Democrats held a press conference to celebrate their first 200 days in the majority in congress. What i cant figure out is what are they celebrating . What have they actually accomplished . Its not even a question for me. Its not a question america is asking. But its a question internally, chief of staff, inside to the congresswoman, has actually twittered or tweeted a question to challenge any person in america to name them one thing this democrat majority has accomplished for the American Public around their kitchen table. Only internally theyre asking, but now theyre holding a press conference. What i thought i would do, i would go look at what were the numbers at this moment, at this time in the last congress where there was a different majority. So i first
Win would lead to a total meltdown especially when it comes to markets. Stuart talked about hong kong. Were watching it closely. Well have a run on the banks well talk about. A big weekend ahead in hong kong. Well look live where tensions stand right now. Lets get to trade, how governments are reacting to what is happening. The dow is up 275. Were ending week on up note. We have a few hours to go, still down overall for the week whether governments are aware well get to that in a moment. New stimulus could be helping stocks. Hillary vaughn starts us off at the white house. Hi, hillary. Reporter connell, President Trump says the september meeting with chinas trade delegation is still a go. He talked on wednesday with chinese trade officials. He is expecting a call soon with president xi. He said if china dares to retaliate against september first tariffs he thinks the u. S. Holds the ultimate retaliation or ultimate form of retaliation. I never said china was going to be easy but it is
Whether its one, whether its 19, whether its 50, anything tying zimes zero equals zero. You want to revisit in the way joe biden wants to revisit. Because he doesnt want to be held for account for his record or lack thereof. I found his video to be a missed opportunity but also just very dark and spooky in that its taking us he doesnt have a vision for the future. Like you and others looking at 2020 are worried that this guy cant be beaten fairly and squarely. Joe Biden Joe Biden comes out and doesnt say one thing about his senate race. That comment is beneath you. Why would joe biden bring that up . Why is he bringing charlottesville to launch a candidacy, someone in the senate for decades, who was Vice President for eight years. 02 run for president. [talking simultaneously] biden was here. Hes going to be held to account and i know he said that i asked president obama not to endorse me. Im too busy getting the endorsement of firefighters. But i dont want a popular president among th
Surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua. These are your markets. A lot of these european stocks higher at the opening. Now they are down a touch. Lets call it flat. I am looking at oil. A lot of the picture is contingent surrounding iran so you see a little bit of a lift up for american crude. What is going on with these european markets and you are seeing it reflected in yen. Yen is the one story that is the haven. Any risk attitude is reflected on yen. European stocks, a lot of investors are looking at these amounting into political risks. Ifore getting some figures. The german index, 97. 4. We get up around we get the with hernan a cristerna. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city. The drumbeat for Federal Reserve rate cut is getting louder. Minneapolis fed president says he called for a reduction at last weeks meeting. These comments reinforcing expectations the central bank is on course to cut rates. Trump says he would be able to demote fed chairman if he wanted to