Financial sector to its part in fighting lemon change. Climate change. A lot of the focus is on trade or what will happen between the u. S. And china. Gold, always a good litmus test for risk. We can see the yield at 1. 85. Stocks gaining 0. 4 . A lot of focus is on earnings. Loose of ex conversation with the commerzbank she chief Financial Officer. Dont miss that conversation after 10 30 a. M. London time. First, lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. In the u. K. , the first cabinet resignation during an Election Campaign in a century. Quit after aretary report that he knew about a former aides role in the collapse of a rape trial. Ae labour party also suffered blow with deputy leader tom watson announcing he will leave politics after 35 years. He has long clashed with Jeremy Corbyn over the direction of the party. Willank of england probably keep rates on hold as brexit continues to plague the economy. It is expected to cut forecasts. Be nexttion is who will to lead the ban
Macro picture is not looking good today. You get the costs of labor the moment coming in higherthanexpected and overall confidence from the consumer plunging. Meaning that we are not looking pretty heading into a Federal Reserve meeting that its tomorrow. The 10year yield is pushing higher, of course, with borrowing costs rising. Thats usually the trend. The dollar, stronger versus the yen, a complete verse from yesterday, it looks as though japan indeed had intervention into the markets to try to prop up again. Weaker against the dollar, bitcoin along with other risk assets on the downside, 60 1000 wrapping up to be a poor month of april, the worst since the ftx scandal, down some 16 and seeing a pretty poor month for stocks overall, nasdaq having its worst month since october. What do you think of the micro . Ed a lot going on, real quick, tesla is down. Mondays session, biggest jump since march of 2021 on fsd. We will dig into that later. Amd after the bell, how well above or below
So thank you, thank you all for being here. My name is marsha eli. Im the Vice President of programs and external affairs here at the Brooklyn Historical society. And on behalf of our president , deborah schwartz, and our board of trustees, some of whom are here, and thank you so all all so much for what you do. I am so pleased to welcome you to the Brooklyn Historical society for this program tonight. I will just say that we are a place of hello yay [ applause ] if you start, thats when they come, right . Were a place of learning. Were a museum and education center. Were a place of exhibitions and Extraordinary Library and collections, a site of wideranging public programs. We really are especially proud to offer programs that tackle issues of social justice, and give voice to history that is all too often unheard. And thats one of the reasons were especially excited and honored to have our guests tonight. Last february, the New York Times sunday magazine featured a cover article by d
Hi. Good evening, everybody. Thank you for your patience. New york city subways have tripped us up, and we are waiting for our moderator. But were going to begin, because i know that he is on the way. And were eager to start. So thank you, thank you all for being here. My name is marsha eli. Im the Vice President of programs and external affairs here at the Brooklyn Historical society. And on behalf of our president , deborah schwartz, and our board of trustees, some of whom are here, and thank you so much for what you do, i am so pleased to welcome you to the Brooklyn Historical society for this program tonight. I will just say that we are a place of hello yay [ applause ] if you start, thats when they come, right . Were a place of learning. Were a museum and education center. Were a place of exhibitions and Extraordinary Library and collections, a site of wideranging public programs. We really are especially proud to offer programs that tackle issues of social justice, and give voice
Is the freedom to connect like freedom of speech or like the freedom to murder . Today, we remember the pioneering Computer Programmer, social justice activist aaron swartz. At the age of 14, he helped develop rss, revolutionizing how people use the internet. By the time is 19, he co owned reddit, now one of the worlds most popular sites. He is now dead at the age of 26. On friday, he comes out just weeks before the start of a controversial trial. He was facing up to 35 years in prison for downloading millions of academic articles at mit. His parents the decisions made by prosecutors at mit contributed to his death. Today, we will hear aaron swartz in his own words. If we lost the ability to communicate with each other over the internet, it would be a change of the bill of rights, freedoms our country has been built on would suddenly be deleted. New technology instead of bringing us greater freedom would have snuffed out fundamental rights we had always taken for granted. We will play