Today, extraordinarily low volatility. Basically, a market that means nowhere and seems to be unchanged every day. Amanda it is inching higher. The s p 500 hit that intraday record. Scarlet maybe hitting is not the right word. Inching up. Amanda playing around with. Huge tech week. Amazon, apple that. Which had a rather good week, was a weight on the market. Basically flat to slightly sold off. A little profit taking. There is hewlettpackard, though. Report today, report only, that kkr and carlisle are considering a run at hp and that has the stock shooting higher. Speculative move up. We have no confirmation of that but the market is interested in the rumor. Joe lets take a quick look at u. S. Government bonds. Lower across the curve today. One of those days were equities rise and bonds and treasuries rise as well. Kind of the story for a while that we see equities and treasuries doing the same thing on the same day. Scarlet in terms of currency, we are focusing on the dollar this wee
So many of our laws today are directed at people we dont like or metadata, not people we are afraid of. I used to practice law years and years ago. When i was in law school taking my criminal justice, or rather i criminal law required for graduation i was taught to things. What is a crime . Thats the first question we have to answer in class. I suspect most of the people in this room may not know what a crime is. But i was taught that a crime is what the statute says is a crime. Thats not true today. There are lots and lots of things that are crimes that have nothing to do with statues. The second thing i was taught in law school, which i fancy pants law school where we are supposed to know everything. Certificate was taught was to commit a crime unit had the intention of doing the actor was violative of the law. Thats no longer true. There are things that are crimes that a legislative body never voted on but there are things that are crimes that nothing do with ones intent or ones bel
For tuesday in vienna. The gathering is likely to focus on,0 how to maintain peace afte fighting erupted in countrys north. French prosecutors say large payments may have been made with connection to tokyos bid to host the 2020 olympics. They released an interim report that looked into allegations raised by the independent commission of the world antidoping agency. Prosecutors claim that in july and october of 2013, payments were made from a Japanese Bank to a singapore firm. Believed to be linked to the son of the former head of track and field whos already broadband investigated for corruption. They were made within months of the city being awarded the games. The prosecutors did not disclose who sent the money, but said they are looking into the purpose and timing of the transfers. The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee denying involvement in the alleged payments. Officials say they believe the games were awarded because the nissan is set to become the largest stakeholder in scandalh
Second official logos were revealed, replacing the ones alleged to have been copied. Now theres a probe by french prosecutors into the question of a 2 million payment. Translator i dont believe there were any illegitimate payments. Translator i was involved in the bid myself, but im not aware of the entire bid process. Translator we will hear from the tokyo government and the Japanese Olympic Committee to understand whats going on. Reporter the prosecutors are looking into bribery of money laundering. They suspect the money was transferred from a Japanese Bank to a Singaporean Firm in two installments, one before the international Olympic Committee chose tokyo. And the second after. The company was located inside a governmentrun condominium. But according to public records, it was shut down in july 2014. The firm is linked to the family of nowdisgraced lamin diak. Who was an ioc member when tokyo won the bid. The head of the global governing body for track and field. He was arrested on
For tuesday in vienna. The gathering is likely to focus on,0 how to maintain peace afte fighting erupted in countrys north. French prosecutors say large payments may have been made with connection to tokyos bid to host the 2020 olympics. They released an interim report that looked into allegations raised by the independent commission of the world antidoping agency. Prosecutors claim that in july and october of 2013, payments were made from a Japanese Bank to a singapore firm. Believed to be linked to the son of the former head of track and field whos already broadband investigated for corruption. They were made within months of the city being awarded the games. The prosecutors did not disclose who sent the money, but said they are looking into the purpose and timing of the transfers. The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee denying involvement in the alleged payments. Officials say they believe the games were awarded because the nissan is set to become the largest stakeholder in scandalh