Cirrus auditorium for those joining online we welcome them as well and those joining on a future occasion on cspan book tv. For those inhouse to ask if you check that mobile devices have been silenced or turned off and for those watching online we remind you you are welcome at any time to send questions or comments by emailing the speaker heritage. Org and of course we will opposed they program for your future reference. F leading the discussion is our Senior Research fellow in Public Policy and also the founder and editor of Public Discourse the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of princeton new jersey and is the author of truth overruled the religious freedom and coauthored with princetons robert george. The book what is marriage, man and a woman a defense. He has a bachelors degree fromr Princeton University and a doctoral in the university of notre dame. Thank you everyone for coming. You are in for a treat. All around us people try to deny the obvious that men and women
Up nearly 20 points. The nasdaq up by 66 points. Green, especially what happened on friday. We have basically erased our losses from friday. It is as if the past two days there really happened. About, itas talking is an energyled rally. Hownt to show you exactly green we are in terms of sectors. Energy is up by nearly 1. 6 . It has been the biggest leader by sector for the entire day. Information technology not far behind. Had been inerials the number two position, now in the number three position. Take a look at where oil has been going to run the day. Just at session highs by a little more than 3 . Highis still a sixmonth not seen since november 4. Goldman sachs increasing its fullyear price in cast to 44. 60 a barrel from 38 36 cents a barrel. Militant attacks in nigeria have been pushing down production, a cut of 30 or so. And there has been increasing demand. Of this, take a look at what is happening with oil majors. Williams company, the biggest riser by 5. 3 . The same for apach
Alley and jon fortt is at post nine, and along with kayla tausche, and joining us is steve case. Great to be with you, good morning. And lets talk politics, with Hillary Clinton widening the lead in the general election and a new poll gives her a 12point lead over donald trump, 4937, and 55 said they would never vote for trump compared to 33 for clinton and steve, we have been over the potential impact on the entrepreneurships and the vc and the changes because of immigration, and trade, and what is your read on the election overall right now . Well, i was over at the capital this morning meeting with the senators and the democrats and the republicans to the ask about the innovation, and entrepreneurship which is front and center, and frankly so far, not front and scenter. A lot about the topics, but not how the nature of work is changing, and the next wave of innovation is going to be requiring a different mindset from entrepreneurs and policy makers and regulators, and hopefully that
Starting in shanghai. Pbocdnt get some news of injecting 340 billion yen into the system. The parity weaker for a third day. Rebound, half hour away from the lunch break. That therts from tokyo government is considering an extra budget, boosting its budget by 45 billion. That is boosting some equities today. The yen has been gyrating all morning. We are seeing some strength, 100 1207 112. 07. The last time we saw that trade around that level was september 2014. It is and just think to market and look here, but if the fed forgoes a rate hike in march, then the bank of japan cant be aggressive about further easing. The dollar really facing a big turn around here, the u. S. Can no longer tolerate the stronger dollar and shifting to a weaker dollar policy. Up to now the dollar has been lenient to the currency weakness when it comes to europe and japan, but the dollaryen still strengthening today. Rishaad talking about japan, sharps board ending a meeting, no decision revealed. They are con
The chinese company, alibaba. They sold 50 of that stake in 2012. Yahoo still owns a part of alibaba, said to be valued at 24 billion. There was an idea of a spin off, but the board decided a reverse of the spinoff, operating businesses by committees selected by the board. She has announced a plan to return the Iconic Company to greatness and that is what we will talk about. I am pleased to have her. Welcome. Marissa thank you for having me. Charlie good to have you here. Tell me how you see see yahoo today and what you want to do to return this Iconic Company to greatness . What is the plan . Marissa yahoo was the original internet icon and a huge part of peoples daily lives, more than half of the viewers will view a yahoo product sometime today. And it is an amazing opportunity to say, how can we take something that was such a huge part of peoples lives, even today, and transition as we see a shift in technology. With mobile, with video, wearables, so many great opportunities in term