Much power. Yeah. Black rock was beat. Later this morning we do have more delivering alpha stars stopping by our set this morning including your Capital Management founder. This conference could start at 8 30 eastern time and the preshow starts right now. Dont miss them. They will be on stage together later this morning so a very busy day ahead but first up to speed on the top deadlines. Three big Global Market stories developing at this hour. Parliament is in session. The government must vote on reforms that have creditors insisting on a bailout. Then overnight in asia chinese gdp data coming in stronger than expected. 7 year over year in the Second Quarter. In other reports retail sales also topping forecasts and the main index is down about 3 . The boj leaving Monetary Policy unchanged today. That comes as expected. It continues to expect the economy to continue with a modest recovery. Chair janet yellen will begin two days of semiannual congressional testimony. Shell appear before
Yesterday markets didnt hold on to the morning gains. The markets down for the fifth day in a row. You can see things picking up this morning with the dow futures up by 85 points. S p futures up by 11 and nasdaq up by 37. Flat yesterday . Down by about five points for the dow. Yeah. Lets tell you about some stocks to watch. Barely down but ended down for five days in a row. You know the dow is one thing. Comcast was up. I just happened to see it. Not that it matters. A couple of stocks to watch. Intel with better than expected Quarterly Results. Growth in its Data Center Business that helped offset demand for pcs that used the companys chips. Well talk to an analyst about all of that. Also netflix shares are up sharply. Company adding more subscribers than forecast in the latest quarter helped by overseas expansion and that stock rocketed yesterday afternoon and ebay nearing a deal to sell their Enterprise Business for about 900 million. Theyre lead by mara and sterling is in there and
Of our Advisory Committee members. I just would like to say thank you to her excellent Advisory Committee. One of the great ideas that came out of our Advisory Committee meetings this year was to try Live Audience polling, get into the new millennium son going to test that out now. If you look up the screen behind me, we have our first Live Audience polling question, the least important question that you answer at this years conference. But i think it would be, it will be interesting to see how we feel about it. So there are two ways that you can participate in this Live Audience polling. You can get on your phones, browser, your laptop come your tablet browser and put in pollev. Com food policy or text food policy to the number 22333 and so right out food policy in the message of the text, and as you see somebody coming must be a millennial already got on, answered. Were going to try this out, see if we get any yeses and let you experiment with that. While you experiment with that, i
Of the Obama Administration. Held by the Consumer Federation of america, this is about two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas, the director of the Food Policy Institute and Consumer Federation of america and i would like to welcome you and thank you for attending our 40th annual National Food policy conference. Today is also the second day of the jewish passover holiday, so i would like to say happy passover. As many of you know, Consumer Federation of america is an association of nearly 300 nonprofit consumer organizatio organizations. We were established in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, education and advocacy. And with focus on a lot of different Consumer Protection topics, but particularly relevant to this conference, we do food safety, nutrition and agricultural policy. So this Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policymakers and players in the food policy world. Opportunity to explore food policy fro
Food safety. Cluded the federation of america posted this event. Good morning. All right. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas. I am the director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of america. I would like to welcome you and thank you for attending our 40th annual National Food policy conference. Today is also the second day of the jewish passover holiday and so i would like to say happy passover. You know, Consumer Federation of america is an association of nearly 300 nonprofit consumer organizations. We were established in 1962 advance the form through advocacy. We focus on a lot of different Consumer Protection topics but particularly relevant to this conference is food safety, and agriculture policy. This Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policymakers and players in the food policy world. And opportunity to explore food policy from a diverse range of perspectives. I hope you will agree we have a really Great Program for the shares