Over by 250 points and this morning you are seeing green arrows for the s p 500 and nasdaq, nasdaq right now up by about 122 points in the future market and that is pretty impressive you are now talking about four days in a row that you have seen gains for the major averages all are within 5 of their 52 week highs and in fact the transports set a new alltime high yesterday too. Right now the dow futures are indicated a little down by about 61 points. Were watching a lot of things that have been happening including news with Johnson Johnson, and earnings are coming out too. And if you want to take a look at the treasury market, right now you will see that the ten year seems to be sitting just around 0. 759 . So not far from where it has been yep, earnings are supposed to take the baton from stimulus hopes, which i dont know whether those are fleeting or not. But supposedly the earnings might be pretty good yesterday kind of weird all the stay at home new age tech stuff was strong as i t
There was a group of protesters who tried to cross the concrete barricades there are several levels of concrete barrier through a free i believe so they crossed the 1st barricades at which point the Security Forces deployed tear gas to push them back in the protesters subsequently weave through were were not hearing at this point of any. Any any lifo violence that is actually claimed the lives of the protesters so far only fear of gas well those who have been used to repel protesters who have tried to penetrate the fortified green zone. Protesters in belo rules say time is up for president Alexander Lukashenko to resign police have fired tear gas and arrested dozens of people in the western town of the leader Opposition Leader said lana to an os chaos says look i must step down by midnight will face a crippling general strike in chile a polling stations are open for a referendum on whether to change the constitution mass protests that sounded last year led to the vote demonstrators say
We talked about it last night. What is going to happen after that . I dont know. Mr. Meadows . Thank, chairman. , you can take a bit of a breather on your return to the committee. What i want to do is go through with the people who are watching the conversation that you and i had when we spoke on the telephone. You were kind enough to hear out a presentation that i made and i intend to have some questions in that area. It does not make sense if i have not laid the predicate particularly for our viewers who are watching this. I guess the reason i want to do this is because people who are watching this need to understand that this small hearing room and the little tv box you are looking at, the little screen you are looking at are a little bit like the frame of a puppet theater. If you only look at what is going on in the puppet theater, you are not going to understand the whole story, you are not going to understand the real dynamic of what is going on here. You are certainly not going
[inaudible] im ready when you are. Are you live . Are we going . Senator whitehouse. Thank. , you can take a bit of a breather on your return to the committee. What i want to do is go through with the people who are watching the conversation that you and i had when we spoke on the telephone. You were kind enough to hear out a presentation that i made and i intend to have some questions in that area. It does not make sense if i have not laid the predicate particularly for our viewers who are watching this. I guess the reason i want to do this is because people who are watching this need to understand that this small hearing room and the little tv box you are looking at, the little screen you are looking at are a little bit like the frame of a puppet theater. If you only look at what is going on in the puppet theater, you are not going to understand the whole story, you are not going to understand the real dynamic of what is going on here. You are certainly not going to understand forces
Youll take the opportunity during our interview to join todays discussion by submitting questions as we go along. You can do that by clicking the q a button at the bottom of your screen. Today, as sidney mentioned, we are joined by my friend bob zoellick. Bob zoellick has served america and served her well across multiple administrations and in a range of few roles. In the late 80s, he served as counselor to secretary of the treasury, undersecretary of state as well as White House Deputy chief of staff. In the george w. Bush years, he served as trade u. S. Trade representative and later president of the world bank. Hes received numerous honors, the state departments highest award, the treasury departments Alexander Hamilton award and dods medal for distinguished public service. But the American Government werent the only ones. The German Government awarded him the Knight Commanders cross, the Mexican Government awarded him their aztec eagle order of merit. These days, among other posts