Invent inventor, somebody that made a blood testing machine or something without checking it out first. When i first invited blake schull in 2016, i had doubts about his ability to build a super sonic airliner. After all, his previous job was at groupon and he thought he could build a 21st century concord. I talked to those in the know and he said he could do it because he assembled a dream team. So at the end of a 2016 segment im about to show you, i said to blake, come back when you have an actual airplane. Blake schull come back when you have an airplane. I believe in you. Goodness knows, elon musk did it and so many others. Blake is black. Im guessing the fact youre here almost exactly four years later, you built an airplane. We did. The xb 1. In 2016 we unveiled it in mockup form and today its a real airplane. It hasnt flown yet, though, right . You will fly it later . Well fly it next year. The rollout we had marks the hand off from building the aircraft to testing the aircraft.
Experience of union and confederate soldiers and take viewer questions via chat. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us on this new program were trying out. Were having a morning conversation over coffee. Im kyle dalton, the membership and Development Coordinator and yeah, im jake winn. And i am in washington, d. C. And im in frederick, maryland, next to our main location. We are happy to have all of you joining us this Morning Bright and early. Especially for the unfortunate viewers on the west coast. Like i said, today were talking about coffee. So ive got my cup of joe right here in the appropriately branded mug. You got yours there, jake . Yes, im supporting George Mason University today. We support education. Thats so my coffee, you can see it behind me here, its new mexico coffee which is really tasty. I made it in my french press here with filtered water. I do enjoy my coffee, fresh ground is best because that releases the flavors. If you buy Ground Coffee, we were watchi
Hello everybody welcome to the brookings event on election and here at the Brookings Institute to have several colleagues to join me for an indepth discussion on this topic we will do a twopart event today starting with what you see before you. With the integrative process and then as second panel on the problems tackling this implication with a campaign were in the midst of. And with those keynote remarks some one from someone on the front lines. And the infrastructure security with the department of homeland security. And with they are doing with those t issues and then to go into a discussion with mark harvey with the National Security council for the person in charge of coordinating all of the initiatives. And with Election Security and integrity. And at the Harvard Institute of politics will also trying to work with the outreach on those issues and to understand whats involved on the various issues and to be and in the midterms. And with the organization especially devoted with th
H shares in now and hong kong up by. 5 . Pretty marginal gains here in the last half hour or so with it brings us near the top of the 2015 bubble. On the other of the argument hsbc is cutting china to neutral f this rally. Something to keep in mind as we take a breather here from the exuberance weve seen in chinese stocks. One more thing were watching is the hong kong dollar. Now 15. 7 billion hong kong has been injected into the system there. Solid that pair and the renminbi with a six handle for the First Time Since march. The strength of the renminbi certainly helping the equity markets as well. And gold still holding. Some breaking news from sri lanka, the federal bank cutting its lending rate to 5. 5 . Its a big cut, a 100 basis point cut bigger than expected. Economy expanding at a pace of 3. 8 in 2021. Much bigger than anticipated. Lets dig deeper into the ofkets and bring in ahead forpacific thank you joining us. Lets talk about china. Its going gangbusters in the last seven da
Investors seemingly optimistic that the worst of the economic distress has peaked as states continue to reopen across the country. Meantime, disney presenting its plans to reopen disney world in florida on july 11. We spoke with Disney Ceo Bob Chapek. Disney shares ending slightly up. I want to bring in abigail doolittle, who has been watching all the moves today. What happened today . Abigail this year has been all about volatility. Earlier this year, that huge plunge. We had the huge rebound rally. Earlier at one point, the nasdaq down more than 1 , the faang index down for percent. On the close, looking at green, but with notable divergences. The rotation onto some of the beatendown areas. Take a look at that faang index. Down day, down about 0. 6 . Rising tensions with china, around hong kong, the china index down about 1. 2 . Interesting divergences on the day. Theof this does speak to volatility i was mentioning. Nasdaq,or the relatively elevated, the key 30 level. But nonetheles