Couple of days over 8 if you are looking at five days. If you were expecting a quick pull back, you are not getting it s p futures are off by 8. 5 nasdaq off by 31 all three major averages have lost all three of the gains for 2020 so far. We have looked at treasury yields so far. If that goes up, a tick higher well take anything. It is hard to take the big drop when you have one day at 22 keeping things in perspective. Our top corporate story. Disney ceo bob iger is handing offer the keys to the Magic Kingdom immediately. Hes not going anywhere i have a theory this beautiful succession is so orderly it is weird that it comes down to, oh, im leaving today. I want to hear what you know and some of your water cooler scuttlebutt. And go wild. My son informed me yesterday, bob iger is stepping down. Replaced by bob chapek hes been there a long time. Head of the global parks unlike Nbc Universal hes not a content guy hes a parks guy we think of it differently at comcast. Parks are important
Thank you also to the folks from cspan who are watching and the folks that are streaming this live over the Atlantic Councils website. My name is william wechsler. I read the Atlantic Councils work in the middle east. Im the director for the center that is your host this afternoon. This question was a question that would not really have been asked only a decade ago. China does not have deep historical ties in the region. China has its economic connections were modest not that long ago. But now its a question that many people in the region are asking more and more. Many people in the u. S. Economic, diplomatic, intelligence and military apparatus are asking more and more. Many people in china are asking more and more about how they approach this region as part of their wider belt and Road Initiative, as part of their wider diplomatic initiatives, as part of their need for Energy Resources. What we see right now is the economic relationship between china and the middle east is deep and d