Very good evening to you great to have your company youre watching international. Washington is downplaying its support for the. Threats from turkey of a military attack on kurdish positions inside syria anchor is furious over what it sees as being broken u. S. Promises to stop backing serious. Senior regional correspondent has the details. Turkey isnt kidding around day after day it is pulling more tanks and more missiles more troops to the Syrian Border this is the premise to a new war a war within the u. S. Led coalition should. Now americas acknowledged its established an army of terror along our countrys border its up to us to drown this army of terror before it is born. One of the reasons is americas new army or border force which is what it was originally the u. S. Led coalition told us in this letter that it was establishing a Border Security force an army of kurds that would patrol the border with turkey now that is preparing to invade the u. S. Has done a one hundred eighty d
Our international correspondent, hopefully i have the title right and marty schenker. What is your title, i do not have it . Marty it is too long. The smartest guy. Julie are you surprised we are not seeing much of a Market Reaction . Marty i am not surprised because rates are so low and the markets had priced out a december rate hike at the moment. There is not a lot of plays for them to go. Stanley fischer is the vice chair, not of chair, he is very influential but also seen as a yellen and janet the fact she is there does not change the outlook for shortterm policy. It might change longterm about who gets appointed but between now and the end of january when she would believe in her position probably does not have a major impact. That stansay this fischer has vast relationships around the world with other Central Banks and he was, i am sure, the goto guy when central bankers from around the world needed feedback about the u. S. That is a communication mechanism and will be gone whic
Will join us on set and talk earnings, technology and perhaps future were watching Hurricane Irma. President talks tax reform today. Europe is relatively mixed our ten year yield below 207 this morning stocks set for a rebound futures point to a higher open big tech leading the premarket. Its one of the most powerful storms recorded. Puerto rico and the florida coast bracing for land fall by this weekend. Meg whitman on set. The ceo joins us live at post 9 in just a few minutes. Futures are in the green following tuesdays sell off in which financials suffered the worst day since may. Treasury yields hit the lowest level of the year. We talked about banks yesterday getting hit by not just the lower rate environment but the prospect of insurance pay outs. They were pressured across the board. Plus all the dovish fed speak is getting people to say maybe the banks wont be helped by a regular tightening path next year and that all came to pass youre not seeing any real concern about Financi
Will get the latest from the spanish capital. Also coming up german chancellor Angela Merkel announces a starting date for Coalition Talks thats after her c. D. U. And its been there in just a party reach a compromise on refugee policy and issue that has divided her conservative blog plus imprisoned and tortured for being gay we will bring you the first installment of an exclusive series this week looking at what it means to be homosexuals in russia. Im sara kelley welcome to the Program Thanks for joining us spain is bracing for the possibility of catalonia declaring independence within the next twenty four hours but spanish Prime Minister marianna roy has vowed that his government will not allow the region to break away spain he says while up. Divided this comes as opponents of independent staged their biggest protest to date organizers say that nearly a million demonstrators packed into the center of Barcelona Local Police put the number at three hundred and fifty thousand the prote
I want to thank the council for asking me to do this, because it forced me to do some things easy to put off which is reading a book you need to read, and i enjoyed reading sebastians book. In journalism, editors sometimes refer to this story is as dbi, dole that important. In the papers the world bank is right up there in the top five dbi topics. Whats sebastian has done is discovered there there is a wol character at the center of the world bank and made it quite easy to read the books. I recommend it to all of you and its not just because i happened to be sitting here. Sebastian has been a columnist since 1999 and spent 13 years on the staff of the economist in zimbabwe and london, japan and in washington. He was trained in oxford where he obviously learned a lot, but he writes in the back of the book that he also prepared for this assignment after college by working for two months as a Truck Drivers assistant in chile after which he wrote through peru, ecuador, bolivia and brazil a