Service to every city deserves. My honorable friend, as always, speaking on behalf of his constituents. We know it is a place you want to be able to visit frequently and easily. The government is investing record amounts to improving our railways in regard to a particular case to transport ministers working with crosscountry to see how the Gloucester Service can be improved. Order. [inaudible conversations] cspan2 we leave the british house of commons as members move on to other business. You have been watching prime ministers question time aired live on wednesdays at 7 00 a. M. Eastern when parliament is in session. Quick reminder you can see this weekend session sunday night at 9 00 eastern and pacific on cspan. For more information go to cspan. Org and click on series to view every program we have aired from the british house of commons since october 1989. We would like your comments about prime ministers questions via twitter in the hashtag pmq. All day saturday American History tv
Service to every city deserves. My honorable friend, as always, speaking on behalf of his constituents. We know it is a place you want to be able to visit frequently and easily. The government is investing record amounts to improving our railways in regard to a particular case to transport ministers working with crosscountry to see how the Gloucester Service can be improved. Order. [inaudible conversations] cspan2 we leave the british house of commons as members move on to other business. You have been watching prime ministers question time aired live on wednesdays at 7 00 a. M. Eastern when parliament is in session. Quick reminder you can see this weekend session sunday night at 9 00 eastern and pacific on cspan. For more information go to cspan. Org and click on series to view every program we have aired from the british house of commons since october 1989. We would like your comments about prime ministers questions via twitter in the hashtag pmq. All day saturday American History tv
We were talking about how it had dipped into the red yesterday. We are off of sixwe close. We are off sixweek lows. The s p is up. 6 . The nasdaq is still down year to date by nearly 4. 8 . I want to show you what has been happening with the s p 10 sectors. Generally a broad rally across the board. Information technology continues to be the biggest leader, up by 1. 1 percent. It had been higher. It was as high as about one point 3 or soap Health Care Sector up by about. 8 . Consumer staples continue to be the biggest laggard come at down i about. 4 . I want to talk about some of the biggest s p point gainers, chief among them some stocks you would expect, mainly apple. 5le up. 9 , contributing points to the s p right now. Luring is up 2. 4 , audiences back to it by offering more reruns on video on demand. 3 . Ret soft up pfizer up. 4 . Pple is up we saw a jump when tim cook landed in india. He is there. He had dinner in mumbai thursday. This is potentially on the idea he is there to op
Just remarkable. Take a look at the markets across the region, all advancing on this latest stimulus measures from the pboc. A lot of questions about the health of the chinese economy given the fact they have taken the Interest Rate cuts. Investors are seeing an opportunity to buy. Stimulus continues around the world. The hang seng index advancing. 3 . You are seeing some casino names, gaming stocks moving to the front of the boards. We are seeing a nice move from property related shares. Checking in on the city market, the asx 200 advancing a quarter of 1 . Markets. Driving the a lot of action in the commodities space. The pboc says the latest stimulus measures were not an act of quantitative easing. Policymakers stepped on the gas again friday. Cutting Interest Rates for the sixth time this year. Some clarification this morning from the pboc. How are they spinning this . This is traditional Monetary Policy, not quantitative easing. The pboc cutting Interest Rates for the sixth time t
Hard time trying to sell the idea of democracy abroad. Thank you very much. Thanks very much. Tom . Well, thanks, will. And thanks for the invitation to join this conversation this morning. In the spirit of in which ambassador basora launched us a little while ago, ive been thinking about making there a really interactive kind of event. So ive been listening intently to each of the three previous speaker nz it may seem at some level that they presented alternative schools of thought or approach to this question. So im not sure im allowed to say this but i agree with all of them. I agree with in particular with the way nick framed the tradeoffs that we often face in government between our understandings of potential shortterm benefit or shortterm need versus longterm. Thats the world in which i live every day in the u. S. Government as we sit around tables not usually as pretty as this but trying to talk about how we integrate our interests in strengthening democratic governs and respec