Susan patty rhule, in your job at the newseum, you and your team have been charged with telling the story of the news media in society. We will talk today about news media and president s. When you think about that relationship from a macro standpoint, what has characterized the relationship between president s and the press throughout our history . Patty it is an interesting courtship, the relationship between the president s and the press. Early on during the campaign, the candidates want to woo the press. They know the power of the press to get their message outside. When they get in office, when the celebration is over and the reality of governing comes in, and they realize that the role of the press is to be a watchdog, to be the peoples watchdog on government, to see how are they doing the job youre doing . To be a check and balance on the president. Few president s enjoy being criticized. That is often the role of the press. So that relationship for people who dont understand th
Pmi data for the euro area. Look at european equities. We are trading down. 8 . The forecast was 52 so it is a miss on the composite. We are already seeing Euro Weakness ahead of this so we might see a leg lower in the euro. European equities on the back foot which is a divergence what we have seen with u. S. Futures. Mixed messages over the weekend over whether there is optimism or pessimism coming in over trade talks. He drop of the 10year yield brent crude is coming off the highs from earlier. Concerns around iran and the speed of saudi a ramp saudi aramco. We are live at the Labour Party Conference to speak to the director general. That interview with Carolyn Fairbairn is that 9 45. Viviana and the u. K. , that is where we begin. Boris johnson is the latest leader to say iran was behind the attack on saudi arabia. He made the comments to the u. N. General assembly. The comments coming at eight tough time for tehran. It. Denies i am not confident, i am confident that we can not star
Thank you for coming. Welcome to infrastructure week. We have been looking forward to this awhile. Infrastructure was a thing that all pundits after the election when we were in this fractured state after the 2016 election, will democrats and republicans be able to Work Together on anything, people said infrastructure. Why . Democrats like spending money and donald trump likes having things built, sees himself as a builder. We were supposed to get something. We havent gotten something yet, and well, policy always proves more complicated in practice than in promise. And thats the complexity of this, why we assembled the excellent panel we have today. Anybody that follows stuff about transportation infrastructure, the way cities work follows nicole. Senior fellow, contributing editor and columnist at new york post. Nick lawyer is of heritage foundation, focuses on energy, environment, regulatory issues. A Deputy Director of the thomas rowe institute for Economic Policy studies. Finally,
First Person Program and our firstperson today is mrs. Irene weiss who you shall hear from shortly. This 2019 season of first person was made possible by the generosity of the Lewis Franklin Smith Foundation with additional funding from the arlene and Daniel Fisher foundation. We are grateful for their sponsorship. Firstperson is a series of twiceweekly conversations with survivors of the holocaust who share with us their firsthand accounts of their experience during the holocaust. Each of our firstperson guest s serves as a volunteer at the museum. Our program will continue through august 8. The museums website provides information about each of our upcoming firstperson guests. Irene will share with us her first person account of her experience during the holocaust and as a survivor for about 45 minutes. If time allows we will have an opportunity for you to ask irene a few questions. If we do not get to your question today, please join us in our online conversation, never stop asking
Yields coming down, the 10year right now coming down to 4. 85 , and new york crude gaining ground, up 11 , of course, a source of some inflationary pressure. And some midday movers on the equity side, were looking at shares of apple. People familiar with the matter tell bloomberg it is closing in on an agreement with open a. I. To use the startup tech on the iphone. The two sides have been finalizing terms for a pack to use chat gpt features in apples next iso. Tesla hiring back some of the almost 500 members of its super charging team that were dismissed last month. Theyre being embraced as the Industry Standard with competitors adopting its tech. Lets go now to bloombergs john farrow at the summit. Scarlet, thank you. Alongside me, the bank of america chief. Good afternoon. Its not bad, is it . Good to see you, somewhere different. President macron, is he trying to sell you a french bank, whats happening here . No, hes not trying to sell it. What hes trying to sell is doing business