Silence. Oller recs his breaks his silence. He says his country is open to dialogue. The imf says saudi arabias economy will see close to zero growth this year due to falling oil revenues. For investors, a big week of earnings. We will have all of the announcements. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets middle east. A big start to the week. It is sunday, start of the trading week in the middle east. It comes to quote oil a come down to crude oil. The Ministerial Committee will be gathering heal and looking at a couple of key things which i will highlight for you. One is what is happening with commitments and compliance. We see the complaints data at 92 in june. Iraq is at 29 . The initial responses we are getting from key participants as they are content with the level the broadert of agreement. What i want to point out here is that there are other key issues, including the fact that they are not in a position to make decisions, they will be making recommendations as they look through data. Ult
The markets, overall, a lot of movement. I will show you the index because we have not seen much of vix. , certain fix this is the 6. 67 level. You canur top stories, see european stocks are practically in chains. Waiting for some indication from mario draghi, what he can do. Crude, 46. 42. Apple has announced an update to the iphone and apple watch. Camera upgrades, a faster processor, longer battery life, and new water resistant design. It has ditched the headphone socket for other features. It has been called the best iphone he ever created, but others are not so enthusiastic. The cost of borrowing yuan in hong kong surged a sevenmonth high. Speculation that Chinas Central Bank is intervening to discard discourage a harris effect. Postbrexits rate climbed to 5. 54 percent. Japans economy showing signs of life. In the second quarter, more than the governments reading of 0. 2 . This gives the boj something to think about. At the meeting, policymakers will release their review of poten
Cross Angela Merkels Approval Ratings are shrinking. Support for her refugee policy has fallen sharply since the new years eve sexual assaults in cologne. And growing urgency over the mosquitoborn zika virus blamed for causing birth defects in babies. Im sarah kelly. Welcome to the program. Theres been five years of bombs, bloodshed, and killing with a by count the stopped counting at 250,000. Rebel groups were initially united to depose assad, but now they are splintered as western powers try to win influence with a combination of diplomacy and military might. Now the world is hoping for a real attempt at finding peace. Indirect talks began on friday in geneva in what will certainly be a drawnout effort to seek an end to the conflict. Another group that will not be taking part is the fearsome and bloodthirsty Islamic State. The socalled Islamic State seemed unstoppable f a while, but the radical militia is coming under increasing pressure. Increased in syria, the antii. S. Coalition h
The issue is important and there is a general agreement on the solution around high skilled immigration. The problem is is the politics and the economy and jobs have been prumped by the politics of immigration. I think there are four paths. One could be the pass the senate not be taken up in the senate. There is a lottery that would flult raising the overall level of immigration. If there was an agreement to include that that bill could be passed. A second option which is what the president has ind indicated he favors is to link high skilled immigration with the dream act. So it is a broader solution around immigration. The third would be to say this deals with the 50,000, this deals with a million five. The third would be deal with 11 million which clearly we have to as a nation deal with and there is a desire now more than there might have been a month ago to do. That and ive heard a number of people talk about the need to take up the issue and called for a comprehensive solution. So
Like Honey Boo Boo and im watching its. I think that is a huge part of the experience and i think it is sold short. I still think a lot of americans love the enjoyment of escapism and being able to roam around the tv jungle finding things they did not know were there. Michael powell on the future of television. On cspan2. Now a forum on highly skilled immigrants on the u. S. Economy. A panel talks about how immigration laws affects mat scuents. Well hear from mark warner. Hosted by the university of virginias center this is about an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you, david. Good evening. Welcome to the National Press club for the keynote round tail. I would like to pay special tribute to mark kaplan whose vision has made this annual conference possible. His commitment to Public Service has been stead fast through the years and were grateful for his abiding friendship. I also want to recognize, as david has, the hard work of david, mike, jeff, of the center. Who is responsible for convenin