As much as 5 Billion each day according tojpmorgan analysts. Us retailers, automakers and other businesses now face Ballooning Freight rates ahead of the crucial festive shopping season. Large retailers have pulled forward imports of much of their Holiday Merchandise and made reservations with west Coast Ocean and Rail Carriers in hopes of avoiding any disruption. Lets speak to peter sand, chief analyst at xeneta, an Ocean Freight analytics firm. Hello to you. I know you have already calculated what this could mean if the Strike Action goes ahead, so do tell us more. A disruption like this always comes at a bad time for European Exporters into North America as well as North American exporters out of thE East Coast And Gulf coast. It will be impacted at first but this seems to be a first for almost 50 years, has the potential not only to lift Freight Rates higher due to the disruption from the strike, but certainly also to have wider implications, one or two months later down the road w
For george w. Bush Steven Hadley now with the atlantic counsel. Well have opening remarks and then switch over to the executive vice chair. I would like to extend a few thanks to some of our partners here with us today, penny, michael margolis, thank you very much. Without further ado, ill turn it over to you. Well, thank you, julia, and my thanks, also to steve hadley for moderating the discussion. Congratulations to the Atlantic Council for the opening of the center for geoeconomics. After having looked at your goals, its an extremely timely undertaking. More broadly now more than ever, the Atlantic Councils mission of a strange transatlantic relationship. Covid19 has affected our way of life. As a look to the future, that the right values guide us in a postcovid world. Thats why the transatlantic relationship so important. It represents over 40 of the worlds gdp and nearly half of global personal consumption. But it is about much more than the economy. It is a community of values th
Lot of panic just yet. Nifty futures in the positive in singapore. But see how other markets are faring. Jakarta coming online. That is 1. 5 lower in indonesia. We are watching chinese stocks under a bit of pressure. As we see shortselling on these local exchanges, reaching a record. Hang seng down 112. Hsbc and Standard Chartered having another bad day. And the kospi as well, 1. 5 lower. As take a look in terms of what we saw overnight. The dollar very much in focus. The biggest gain in three months surged on this haven buying. We see real yields are higher. Those things have stabilized a bit. Did see brent crude actually, wti falling from 4 overnight. Gold is hovering around 1916 and silver really took the biggest hit yesterday with the fall of nearly 8 for silver. Taking a look at fx, with that dollar, we are seeing negative reaction that comes across g10 in asia fx. You see the pound. Cultic concerns back in the forefront. We could hear more from boris johnson. The Prime Minister h
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