Let me acknowledge our partnership with the National History center and the american historical association. We are cosponsoring and coorganizing this seminar with. Let me acknowledgment our donors, the society of historians of American Foreign relations, the George Washington University History department as well as a number , of individuals giving support for this series. We want to acknowledge roger lewis, the cochairman of the seminar. Hes here all the way from texas. I want to welcome all of you and say thank you especially to pete and amanda perry who do the heavy lifting in terms of getting us here and organized. We are very grateful to you. [applause] thank you. Will turn i think i it over to eric to introduce our speaker. Thank you. One last technical announcement, if you have one of these devices, and i suspect everyone in the room does. If you could just turn it to vibrate or silence, that will prevent embarrassment and interruption in the next hour and a half. With that, it
George washington university. Before he introduces our speaker today, let me acknowledge our partnership with the National History center and the American Historical Association we are cosponsoring and coorganizing this seminar with. Let me acknowledgment our donors, the George Washington University History department as well as a number of individuals giving support for this series. We want to acknowledge roger lewis, the cochairman of the seminar. Hes here all the way from texas. I want to welcome all of you and say thank you to the ones who do the heavy lifting in terms of getting is here and organize. We are grateful to you. [applause] thank you. With that, i think we should turn it over to eric. One last technical announcement, if you have one of these devices, and i suspect everyone in the room does. Turn it to vibrate or silence, that will prevent embarrassment and interruption in the next hour and a half. With that, it is my pleasure to introduce this afternoons speaker, an ind
Jonathan coming up on this program, we had an important conversation with jeff currie. That is all coming up a little bit later. Softer,a little bit negative four points on the s p 500. A marginal move to the downside. Follows thats as yields lower by a basis point. The euro down a dollar six cents. It will lower by about 0. 1 . David Major Development in washington just sense since yesterday. We are joined by kevin up on capitol hill right now. Start with the Health Care Plan. Ryan House Speaker paul finally unveiling his plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care act. It will keep some key parts of obamacare preexisting conditions in providing health care to folks. That said, the story line is whether or not chief Party Members will fall in line with this. It could be the battle the first battle that Speaker Paul Ryan will have to battle to keep his party in line. The House Freedom caucus is already speaking out against this including some tea party g roups. They cannot advance the
Is the hurricane. Taylor riggs will get to that in a moment but also we have got the basic idea of sorry, i lost my train of thought. Francine we are getting breaking news on the Nobel Peace Prize. It is the first time i remember they have not awarded it to one person, but to the Colombian Peace accord. The peacet because accord was in jeopardy when i had a referendum and it was rejected. We did catch up with the finance minister of columbia, unclear exactly what will come from here. We are getting that live announcement from the nobel peas committee in oslo. The winner is the Colombian Peace accord. That is after the referendum on sunday. Tom it really changes things and the interesting thing is the duration of a peace accord. It is supposed to be a year or two and this has been a generational struggle. Francine i correct myself, because the prize was awarded to colombias president , mr. Santos. It is not to the peace accord itself, it is to the president. The reason colombians reject
Widely forecast by 28 out of 29 analysts by bloomberg policy makers back in september scrapping plans for further rate cuts amid signs the nation was withstanding the slump in oil prices and inflation remaining above target. 2. 9 sweden earlier keeping rates unchanged leaving the door open for further stimulus in 2017. That is the big headline. Norway central bank maintaining the key rate. Lets look at whats happening across the assets. The stocks were earlier. It suffered earlier. Down. Worst stretch from september well over a month. Ahead of the allimportant g. D. P. Data in roughly 29 minutes time. It bottomed at 120, 123. Thast the lowest since may 1985. The tenyear yield is little change. Yesterday it rose to the highest since june 23. Up from 51 bases points on august 8. The lowest boosting expectations and moving to expectations of inflation. What a good time to look at the breakeven. The almost highest level in three years. Risen 2. 3 prereferendum. This is one of my favorite c