And thank you for transcribing all that were doing. And thank you to cspan for covering us. Without objection, all members will have five legislative days within which to submit additional written questions. Just a few moments left in this testimony. Well go live now to capitol hill for a Senate Subcommittee hearing on data breaches and cybersecurity. Among the witnesses is the Vice President for microsoft. This is live coverage on cspan3. For two invited witnesses who apparently dont share your commitment to discussing this issues. One is for tiktok. If you dont know what tiktok is, you should. Its a chineseowned social media platform so popular among teens that Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly spooked. For facebook, the fear is lost social media market share. For the rest of us, the fear is somewhat different. A company compromised by the Chinese Communist party knows where your children are, knows what they look like, what their voices sound like, what theyre watching, and what they sh
Director of the Global Energy center here at the Atlantic Council. Thank you for joining us today for this discussion, assessing democratic president ial candidates climate and energy policies. I dont think this could be anymore timely given today is the first day that President Trump can formally begin withdrawal from the paris agreement. And a year ago a year ago yesterday is the election. So we have a whole another year of this. President trumps animosity towards Climate Policy is at least part of the reason Climate Change has become a top priority for Democratic Candidates in the president ial race. Its also the result of increased media coverage, climate induced flooding and wildfires, calls to action in the Green New Deal and the Global Climate strikes and voter demands for candidates to formalize demands for energy plans. The september townhall was unprecedented in the seriousness that candidates and at least part of the electorate had in addressing the issue. But the devil is i
The region levanon syria and iraq and clearly this is a sharp escalation so far iran and its allies have not retaliated they are now threatening retaliation the words of the hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah were quite strong hes saying that these drone attacks will not be left unaddressed and we cant allow israel to continue violating lebanese airspace so a sharp escalation if those retaliation if the if those groups start to retaliate then the situation could spiral out of control still head on al jazeera. Migrants friend in israel a rush to get into ecuador late on sunday plus. Im going fishing in Hampton Virginia where the people here are commemorating 400 years since the 1st africans were brought to the English Speaking qualities and forced to work their sleeves. Hello once again the philippines will become the source of the developing tropical system of some sort you get an idea of the big circulation he was thats not the one thats going to make a difference in the next couple of
Livingstone, Deputy Director in our Global Energy center where i need to work on climate and advanced energy. Thank you very much for joining us here today. Its a terrific to see a full room, particularly amid the dark days of august when so many folks in dc leave for cooler or at the very least, less humid climates. It is surely a traffic registration of interest in this topic and before we get started let me give a big thanks to zach strauss and are Global Energy and art interns who are instruments and making today happen along with our talented medications and events team. They are truly a testament to the assets and professionalism of the Atlantic Council. Dive in to todays discussion by noting that not only are you here because youre fascinated by the narrative that surround the climate challenge in the Energy Transition but you are likely also very interested in the narrators that help us to understand the complexities, ambiguities, leading characters in the emerging solutions at
Look at what to some other action was taking place in the markets. What were you watching, abigail . Abigail im going to talk about the risk assets but on a longerterm basis this comes from bank of America America lynch. He joined us for charting features. What we are looking at and yellow is the s p 500 going back to january, 2018. In blue, highyield bond index. In white, that investmentgrade bond index. We see as the s p 500 was putting an alltime high and a strong january, those bond indexes were sliding. As the s p 500 climbed into its september alltime high, they were climbing a little bit but pretty tepid. Out of the Fourth Quarter bottoming, a huge rally for stocks, investmentgrade bonds and highyield bonds. Believe a steve to new alltime high is ahead for the s p 500. Emma of course, the big move in markets today came in the oil markets. Both wti and brent crudes rising about 4. 5 . Should be able to show you a chart that shows as the highs of brent crude, the biggest intraday