Declines across the middle east and asia, impacting early trade in europe. A slowing in chinas Services Expansion weighs on sentiment but trade tensions lift as beijing prepares to send a delegation to washington to sign the phase one deal with President Trump. And japan vows to tighten its immigration rules after the countrys first prosecutors break their silence on Carlos Ghosns escape, calling it illegal and unjustifiable. Welcome to street signs, everybody. Our top story today, there have been International Calls for calm after iran announced it would abandon its commitment to the nuclear deal following the killing of general Qasem Soleimani. They have urged washington to, quote, not using force while calling for restraint from both sides. Germany worries the roll back on Irans Nuclear commitments could be the end of the 2015 commitment javad zarif said the pullback is capable. We are seeing reactions in the market today a sentiment has certainly taken a hit on the back of this esc
Part of the his is Financial Services industry. The chair will now recognize an elf for five minutes for opening statement. First off, thank you for joining us today for what should be a thisinteresting hearing of task force. Today were looking at exploring how a. I. Is being deployed in Capital Markets from automated Portfolio Allocation to Investment Management decisions. Were also going to consider how the use of this technology is changing the nature of work in rendering ervices, some jobs obsolete and changing the skill sets needed to excel in others. It would not be much of an exaggeration today to say that quite literally is run by computers. Of those are the days screaming on the new york stock pour ge and they would over the ticker statement and Financial Statements to gleam value. Into a companys i actually hear about those days from the limo driver who takes e back who used to be a floor trader on the merc. Today, floor trades are orders are d executed in microseconds. E. T.
S an hour and a half. The task force will now come to order. Without objection, the chairs authorized to declare a recess at any time without objection members of the full committee are authorized to participate in todays hearing consistent with the committees practice. This hearing is entitled robots on wall street, the impact of ai on jobs in the Financial Services industry. The chair will recognize himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Thank you all for joining us today for what should be a having interesting hearing of this task force. Were looking at exploring how ai is being deployed in Capital Markets from automated trading to Investment Management decisions. An e minutes for opening statement. First off, thank you for joining us today for what should be a thisinteresting hearing of task force. Today were looking at exploring how a. I. Is being deployed in Capital Markets from automated Portfolio Allocation to Investment Management decisions. Were also going to cons
Stories. We begin with ongoing protests in hong kong. President trump signed a bill backing protesters. This pump to china to threaten retaliation against the u. S. As it nears a phase one trade deal. The chinese spokesman saying u. S. Stopsuggest the sticking obstinately to its course or china will take resolute countermeasures. Where does this leave them in that phase one trade deal . Reporter it is very interesting because for several days, weve had the chutneys threatening nonspecific countermeasures, but there havent really got into any detail. The most weve had is the suggestion they might put a ban on those who drafted the bill from entering china or hong kong, which is a pretty lowkey response. The fact that we had several days of this without any suggestions without any specifics suggests beijing is grappling with how to handle this. It is clear the u. S. Once a trade deal done very soon. The chinese want a trade deal done as soon as possible. They dont want to bring in tensio
Points that key level broached 3100 for first time ever. The nasdaq is higher today all three of the major indices are on track for more record closier close closers. President trump said trade deals with china could happen. Eamon is there and has the details. Reporter thats right. The big question going into the speech today was would the president say anything specific about china give us any dates or locations any indication of where this signing ceremony might take place. The answer is no he didnt give us any specials. Here is what he did say. Were the ones that are deciding whether or not we want to make a deal were close. A significant trade one deal with china it would happy it could happen soon we will only accept a deal if its good for the yiet for our workers and great companies. A little vague there on the specifics. The president also really lashing out at some of his critics including democrats on capitol hill and the Federal Reserve. The president saying he wants to see n