Morning, still below 2. 5 . As for europe, so much discussion over the weekend with what is happening in portugal. Markets responding generally positively that portugal will use some of the leftover rescue funds to try to recapitalize a new bank there and were seeing some credit spreads on the back of that as well. Half an hour away from the market open. Lets begin with the road map today. We take a look at markets with u. S. Futures looking for a comeback, International Tensions temper positive earnings news. Investors continually reinterpret the current take on its consumer. And in an interview with the economist, president obama telling ceos they should quit complaining. So before we get to all of that, lets start here with the market, according to a higher open, selloff with the worst s p since june 21st, in fact. Data showing growth in china sector but the shanghai market is at an eightmonth high overnight. So jim, are you bidding up portuguese paper here . So many things went wro
Them back into slavery. Clinton was not an abolition of slavery was thriving in the British Empire at the time in the west indies. He wasnt trying to abolish slavery but he said weve promised freedom and taking keeps his promises. So somewhere of a 3000 slaves left with the british concluded a couple of George Washingtons own slaves. He said of clinton, either way i would like you to keep an eye out for a couple of my slaves. They left with the british. They scattered all over the place. Some ended up in candidate, some in britain, some independent sierra leone. Some were sold back into slavery by the british and ended up in the west indies so they had the own very interesting stories. But the fact that 3000 or so africanamericans gained their liberty through the british not to the americans is another just sign at the contradiction in American History right from the birth of our republic. Host absolutely. The book is titled gateway to freedom the Hidden History of the underground rail
Pronouncement that the gcc countries would be more aligned associated with juror done and morocco, fellow monarchyiesmonarchies. So this is not completely new in reaching out to those two countries, but reaching out to sudan is in part, because sudan is a neighbor of egypt and has its own armed forces. But in an effort to broaden the diversity of the coalition. Mr. Sharp. I would say that its certainly not new, as john points out. But we are at a moment. One of the interesting strategic things to think about in terms of this conflict in yemen and really whats been going on since the socalled arab spring began in 2011 is this concept of regional integration albeit military or economic something thats been talked about for decades. Right . If you look at just from the economic side, saudi arabia, kuwait, the uae are financially supporting countries that fiscally cant do it themselves anymore, whether its egypt jordan, be certainly yemen needs the assistance. All of these countries. Now t
[ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] translator the houthis have actually used the libyan example. They have used arms against everybody else, but they have expelled the president from the legitimate president. They have basically attacked the state. The problem is that the current conflagration, the current war, is actually assisting the houthis. [ speaking Foreign Language ] translator both saudi arabia and iran have their own agendas. They are basically using yemen, libya, iraq, syria to basically eke it out with each other. [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] translator iran supports its own groups. At the same time saudi arabia supports its own groups. And the u. S. Have committed many egregious mistakes in afghanistan and iraq and libya. And the problem is you get rid of somebody else but you dont build something instead. [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] translator yemen basica
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