Good evening everybody. Good evening on this beautiful evening. Thank you all for joining us. We are very excited to host this launch in d. C. Of a monumental new book, train three. It is already getting excellent reviews in the New York Times. If you havent seen it, that should be the second thing you read after her book this brave new world. We are excited to have anja manuel joining us in conversation. I will give you just a brief sketch of both of their biographies because they are so well known to all of us in this room. Three is a lawyer anja manuel is a lawyer and handles the asia portfolio for the undersecretary of state who handles clinical affairs. They have served as the Deputy National security adviser among many positions as chairman of the u. S. Institute of peace. This book is really a wonderful work. Its important and comes at an important time when so many of our policymakers and Business People and are trying to determine precisely how to think about china and where t
Welcome, youre watching countdown. Chinese authorities have stepped up targeted stimulus to shore up growth in the worlds second biggest economy. Kong. Joins us from hong tentative, small steps the chinese are taking this morning to shore up little of the chinese economy, but it could paint a picture, couldnt it . We have a hong kong economy catching up from yesterday. Straight out we saw the Hong Kong Market, that rise really significant compared compared to what we have seen in the european and u. S. Sessions on thursday. Look at that, the Hong Kong Market is up 2. 7 . Hadfirst to report there been stimulus measures coming through from the chinese government, also as you mentioned, playing catch up to that big rally we had in the region yesterday when hong kong was closed. You can see galaxy is leading. Casino stocks are looking strong today. There is weakness for the former export company. Elsewhere we are seeing solid gain. That has helped to be benchmark today. Helps the benchmark
Rleased on malyasia flight 370 reveals the jet ran out of fuel. Trader larry shover of sfg alternatives joins us on this wednesday morning. Happy wednesday to you, larry. Good morning. Its a good morning for investors another record run in the stock market. How long can this go . Well as long as we continue to have good Economic Data like weve had last week and even yesterday and stable housing data which we saw last week and yesterday and continued good Central Bank Commentary around the world, we can continue to ratchet higher it wont be linear, but we can continue to grind higher because we are healing. What is putting the fear into the oil market . Russia came out and said that those gas deliveries likely to continue through europe at least into june, but here we are at 104 per barrel. A lot of that was the ukraine. People were worried about what was going on there so weve had easing in geopolitical tensions yesterdays at least perceived, and also we realize that we have a little m
Lets get back to one of our top stories this morning. Kurdish forces battle sunni militants. Iraqs military situation is deteriorating. Phil mattingly joins us now. How important is a resolution in baghdad to the fight against the Islamic States and the militants . Officialshat u. S. Continue to point to as the only longterm solution. Last night, it looks to have taken a major step back in terms of political resolution. Malakitioned that the president sue for trying to extend and not malaki to be named Prime Minister. Be aware ofgoing to adding more support. It is something president obama highlighted. We can conduct airstrikes, but there will not be an American Military solution to this problem. There will have to be an iraqi solution that america and other allies of support. That cannot happen until you have a legitimate iraqi government. Officials have been clear, behindthescenes, that they would like to see maliki step aside. That has come to the forefront. One of the top state off