Billions of items shipped, tens of millions of amazon devices sold, so the echo. , for example the echo dot, for example. And busters Holiday Season for amazon. Chad morganlander, Washington Crossing advisors portfolio manager, joins us. How would you characterize 2019 for u. S. Equities . Chad for u. S. Equities, we think it was just a gangbusters year. The reason behind it, though, was not vibrant economic or Global Growth, but rather it was Interest Rates across the curve across the globe that went down, and accommodation from monetary the u. S. And the ecb. Yes, someone like 90 Interest Rate moves. Does that mean we are looking at not as many next year . Chad there has to be a transition period. Capital spending starts to kick higher in the United States and across the globe. Without that, we dont anticipate the expectations for for 2020arnings of 10 and Revenue Growth of 5 to 6 to come to fruition. We think that will have to be. Brought down. Overall, in the short run, we think ma
Dynamics on the middle east and its important to recognize that everything here is on the record. Before we begin id like to highlight the Atlantic Councils collaboration with ifpi, which is the Italian Institute for International Political studies. This is the second year that our two organizations have partners produced an outstanding work on the changing landscape in the middle east. Today we are pleased to release our new collected volume, the mino region, and its now available for download online. A special thanks goes out to the president of ifpi, ambassador monsolo for his continuous collaboration in our joint ventures and indebted to the Italian Foreign ministry, in particular to the italian ambassador for his unwavering drive to see our two institutions partnering for not only the two countries they represent, but for the entire community. Ambassador monsolo couldnt be here at the last minute, but asked me to read this note. Its great regret i address you all in writing when i
The two candidates in the running to lead the liberal democrats, hello and welcome to bbc world news. The eu and a group of south american nations, known as mercosur, have secured a huge trade deal after 20 years of negotiations. The eu says the agreement with argentina, brazil, paraguay, and uruguay will create a market for goods and Services Covering almost eight hundred Million People and produce more than 100 billion in trade between the two blocs. Our south America Business correspondent Daniel Gallas has more. Yes, it has been a while since we saw politicians different free trade, because as you mentioned all attention is about trade tensions between china and the United States, the news of brexit being negotiated, so we are the news of brexit being negotiated, so we are seeing politicians saying that the best way to create jobs is to lower ta riffs that the best way to create jobs is to lower tariffs and reduce protectionism. It is not a view that eve ryo ne s ha res protectioni
Now on bbc news its time for click. 999, this is a claimant emergency. In this week we have greener, cleaner buildings, robot vote exhaust sniffers, and artificial trees. I wanted to share with you a fact that i havent fully understood until im met climate scientist ed hawkins last year. Now, id known that our weather was getting worse and our sea levels were rising, and id known that Global Warming was happening because we were omitting Carbon Dioxide and methane into the airata Carbon Dioxide and methane into the air at a runaway rate, but what they hadnt fully understood is this. Simply reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions will not bring Global Warming under control. For every ton of c02 that we put into the atmosphere the temperature goes up a little bit more. In order to stop Global Warming we need to do something very drastic indeed. Global warming we need to do something very drastic indeedm Global Warming we need to do something very drastic indeed. If we end up in a world where o
Mission control room to the public. Hello and welcome. Theres anticipation building as President Trump and chinas xijinping are due to meet in just over an hours time at the 620 summit injapan. The two countries are, of course, currently locked in a bitter trade war which is threatening to escalate. All eyes are on whether this meeting can break the deadlock. Ourjapan correspondent, Rupert Wingfield hayes is at the summit in osaka. He is watching all of the happenings for us. Rupert, can you give us an idea of how crucial this meeting will be . Yes, it is the meeting that has overshadowed the whole of this 620 has overshadowed the whole of this g20 summit, yesterday and today. This meeting will happen in about one and a half hours time. The reason everybody is watching this meeting so closely is because it is the first time President Trump and president xijinping been the first time President Trump and president xi jinping been able to sit down face to face since the trade war between