Lets look at these markets and our into the european trading day. Stoxx 600 in europe up by. 1 . And even start to the trading day. Evenly divided winners and losers on the European Equity markets. Lacking any direction. Into the u. S. , also lacking direction. We have seen a little bit above the flatline. Not getting a great bicker great bit of direction. A big focus on Central Banks and a u. S. And a focus on u. S. Policy. Titians, ay trade tensions, that coming up. Wrist bank leaves behind five years riksbank leaves behind five years. Is now what we are showing you. We were showing you the norwegian krone. Not to be confused with the riksbank. Bank, we scroll back to what they did there. That was as expected. See a to this picture, we number of Central Banks leaving policy unchanged. They were treated for negative Interest Rate hiking. They were moving in their own direction moving against the cutting cycle for many previous months. We continue to do that. Lets get a new lets get an
Drone, and the Trump Administration responds with a cyber attack. But iran has a Cyber Strategy of its own. How they are attacking u. S. Banks online. First, to our top story, the continued back and forth between beijing and washington has put tech squarely in the crosshairs of the trade war, impacting Companies Like apple, huawei, and many more. A new article in Bloomberg Businessweek details how chinas tech sector is mostly insulated from exposure to the u. S. On many fronts, but there is one area where it is still dependent semiconductors. Over the last decade plus, china has seen a surge in chip imports. Now more than 300 billion. For more on the trade wars ongoing impact on tech in both countries, we spoke to Bloomberg Bloomberg techs ian king and our Global Executive editor brad stone. Ian esoteric parts like broadcoms switch chip, more common parts like an intel microprocessor or an amd graphics chip, china really cant replicate those yet. They have been trying for years and it
10 year system, so we had a good time debating that entire set of questions. Im confident i won but i have to contest that it worked very well. The most recent book deals with the topic most of us dont know much about and that is the utterly shameful condition of americas indian reservations and the utterly shameful treatment that native americans receive from the federal government. Naomi has very properly entitled the book the new trail of tears how washington is destroying American Indians and when she tells the story you will see why this is such a fitting title and why the story she has to tell is so important. [applause] thank you for coming out today. It appears been won the argument when he was still teaching here. I usually offer a warning before i give a talk about this subject, not the kind you may be used to but a warning you might want to get something stiffer to drink because it is a depressing topic and i dont have good news for you today. I will begin. 3000 people live
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Globely and an increasing number of iraqis are falling into extreme poverty myanmars road to democracy. The power is being discussed by Aung San Suu Kyi with the out going Prime Minister. Obama says the asmt s is stepping up the fight against i. S. I. L. More special forces will be sent to help fight the armed group in iraq and syria. The ground troop mission will be carried out besides continued diplomatic efforts. Reporter the United States is intensifying the war in iraq and syria in the hope that it will event eventual ly go towards peace. We will assist sources to put more pressure on i. S. I. L. These operators will over time be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence and capture i. S. I. L. Leaders. That creates a Virtuous Cycle of better intelligence which generates more targets, more raids, more momentum. Reporter the military says when they find an i. S. I. L. Leader, the teams will go into syria to get him and then get out, adding even more special forces w