You got quiet so quickly. Good afternoon and welcome everyone. We are in for an important discussion. I am liz schrayer the president and ceo of u. S. Global Leadership Coalition usglc . We are honored to cohost todays event. And i would like to welcome our special guest ivanka trump and usaid administrator mark greene. Todays program is the first public event in the United States of the u. S. Global initiative. This is an opportunity to highlight a Game Changing initiative. Unleashing the full potential of women in the world. And to hear about innovative activity. For the men in this room no offense to you but a topic like this, to go wrong . U. S. Global Leadership Coalition usglc has been pleased to be part of this initiative. I remember early on when the board had the opportunity to meet with ivanka trump your unwavering commitment to bring the idea of womens Economic Empowerment to the center stage has been extraordinary. And everybody in this room joins and thank you for that. An
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Governmen government. Michael mcauliff congressional reporter for the New York Daily News the house is set to take up the 9 11 Victims Compensation fund. Whats the purpose of this fund and when did it start and what would the bill do . Well, the purpose of the fund is to compensate people who are ill or who have died and their families for economic losses and for pain and suffering. It was originally started, you know, right after 9 11 and it lasted for a couple years and then it lapsed because they were really focused on, you know, folks who died in that terrible attack, but then it got resta restarted again in a legislation that passed in 2010 and it lat lapsed again after five years and it got renewed one more time in 2015, but the demand for it has really climbed, so its running out of money a long time before it expires. How much might the bill cost . Well, the Congressional Budget Office put out a score this morning and they put ten years at 10. 2 billion, as you know that when y
Mark, we have been pleased to join you in discussions with you and your team for bringing your expertise on Global Development to the table. I know i was pleased to join both of you at the oval office at the signing of w gdp and we were very proud to work with capitol hill on the passage of the womens entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment act and we have some members of congress who will be talking about that shortly. The truth is there are a few agendas that bring together people and that are as compelling and as unifying as the one we are going to talk about today. In this town it is quite nice that we have a topic that does that. Gathered here is a wide array of stakeholders that have come together because they believe in the initiative we will be talking about. I see friends from the administration, from the white house, state department, friends from capitol hill from both sides of the aisle. The leaders are also known as the strange bedfellow coalition because we bring togeth
Deutsche bank in the crosshairs, u. S. Investigators with the malaysia scandal investment fund. The tale of two listings. Budweiser asia offering is set to price later today. Less than half an hour until the start of European Equity trading. Ftse futures look like this, positive, as if we will get more out of the minutes or Powell Comments we heard yesterday. Storyle catchup, the before that session is a positive one. Lets see where we are on the asian session. A strong session, fully pricing in everything we heard from paolo overnight. The expectations for july have an cemented. The jobs report on friday did not change the fed thinking on what should be done with insurance cuts against the slowdown globally. Higher. Arkets going this is the fx picture. The japanese yen on the rise. The dollar retreating. Lets put up the other side and show the fixed income side. There are bigger questions about what happens to sovereign trade if we look to reinflate the u. S. Economy. In terms of the