Again, good morning and welcome to the fifth annual United Statesjapankorea trilateral symposium organized by International Student conferences and generously sponsored by Sasakawa Peace foundation usa and the Korea Foundation. We thank you all for joining us on this cold and blustery day as impacted hopefully other parts of the east coast more than us but we know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you that i follow us and paying attention today on social media we like to point out that we have greater a hashtag for todays conference and that is hashtag isctrilat. For those of you not following on instream and twitter that at so my name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master of ceremonies for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins. The preps perhaps more portly r todays event i am a lump of the 63rd japan america student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of wa
And london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 9am in tokyo, where japans nikkei index has sunk more than 4 in early trading. The malaise has spread to asian markets after share prices plummeted in the United States the dowjones index finished nearly 5 down, dropping by more than 1100 points. Its the biggest one day fall since the financial crisis a decade ago. You can see the asian markets here. The hang seng will start trading in about 30 minutes time. This fall in the asian stock market is the steepest in over one year due to fears of a surging us economy leading to sharp Interest Rate hikes by the Federal Reserve sparking speculation that banks may be forced to tighten policy aggressively. Shifting our attention now to the dowjones industrial average, shifting our attention now to the Dow Jones Industrial average, that finished nearly 5 down, dropping by over 1100 points. The nasdaq also down by 3. 9 overnight. Lets speak to t
Closing down 4. 6 by nearly 1,200 points. It is the worst drop in points since september 2008, when a plan to rescue the us Banking Industry after the financial crisis was rejected and the worst single day point decline in history. With me is karishma wasvani, our business correspondent. In two trading days the fall of the dow has been more than 1800 points. What is because of this mayhem as i was talking to some traders before we we re was talking to some traders before we were meant to have this discussion on air. A lot of them we re discussion on air. A lot of them were saying to me this morning that really this is a natural reaction to what many people have called an overheated stock market in the us. It seems counterintuitive, doesnt it . The fact that the us economy is doing quite well, job growth has been relatively strong, we are hearing about this from the Donald Trumps tweets, of course, and wages are rising marginally, not as much as people hoped or expected, so why would yo
From the darkest moments. In the midst of this historic storm of the people of texas have responded with their very best. This could well be texas finest hour. Drain to the damage could wreak havoc on the busy travel season. Gas prices hitting a twoyear high as the nations largest field pipeline runs from texas all the way into new jersey, new york city even with temporarily shutting down its main fuel line from texas to new york because of outages. Turning to tax reform, President Trump calling on congress to get to work when they return to washington next week despite the push to many polls say americans are not confident lawmakers will get anything done. Futures are showing this in your market. Dow futures up 72 points. Much to miss them. Weve got the good reading on secondquarter Economic Growth coming in at 3 yesterday. The dow up 27 points yesterday and had he not at least the start of the last day of trading in august. Europe stocks higher across the board. Case in england, fran
The significant interests we see in todays event of course is attributable to the quality and reputation of our speakers and our panelists. It is also a topic that is foremost on the minds of policymakers and embassies in washington, what kinds of realistic Diplomatic Options do we have to prevent a Nuclear Catastrophe with north korea, and how do we evaluate these options. Today as japanese citizens unfortunately grow accustomed to Missile Warning sirens and text messages, it is worth remembering that a decade ago this month the second phase actions of the sixparty talks were jointly decided for implementing north korean denuclearization in exchange for diplomatic normalization and Economic Cooperation. This included dismantlement or disablement of north Korean Nuclear facilities, among other steps. A year later, however, the sixparty talks had all been collapsed. This was the last major Diplomatic Initiative to address the socalled north korea problem. So today we are fortunate to he