In europe. Sterling is a little bit lower. You had the moodys downgraded friday but the market yawned at that. Im looking at wti versus brent, and unbelievable move, almost at seven dollars. David its time for your morning brief. We will hear for room we will hear from a range of central bankers. William dudley will talk about Workforce Development at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time and then we will had to russells where the ecb president mario draghi will speak at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time. Charles evans will be this afternoon. At 12 40 p. M. Neel kashkari will speak at 6 30 p. M. This evening. Jonathan thats your morning beef brief every day. When they dont talk they do, when they do when they dont do they talk. Jonathan a victory in germany was marked by the popular party. A major new challenges in front of us namely the fact that the afd has entered parliament. We shall certainly analyze this closely because want to gain back those voters of the afd by solving these problems, by giving them
Good evening, everybody. Please find your seats. Good evening. Thanks for setting up this wonderful event. Mr. Robinson, members of the board, alumni in attendance, students, and ladies and gentlemen. For me, it is a pleasure and an honor to be able to open this event today. I am pleased to see so many faces. Some fairly young faces. And i am particularly pleased knowing the students today do not necessarily cherish things that happened 30 years ago. Be it jon bon jovi or George Michael or dirty dancing, there have been cooler periods in history than the 1980s. That is what my children keep reminding me. This is, however, different. With president reagans speech [speaking german] from president kennedys visit, might be better known in germany and the u. S. Foreign policy nerds know that there is nothing like president reagans addressing withtarygeneral gorbachev his call to tear down this wall. Interestingly, the speech received very little coverage at the time. However, the chancellor
Join the discussion. Justice Department Officials agentied at the foreign registration act, which requires all to register with the government and disclose finances and recommended changes to the law and how it is enforced. Charles grassley chairs the Judiciary Committee. His is 1. 5 hours all today the committee will examine the Justice Departments enforcement of the Foreign Agents registration act. I want to thank the witnesses here today for working with the committee to schedule this hearing. I know that some of you even had to change your travel plans and i want you to know that the committee appreciates your cooperation. We had to postpone this hearing while trying to schedule two new witnesses and obtain the cooperation of a third who was first invited on july 5. It is unfortunate when uncooperative witnesses cause unnecessary inconvenience for those of you who are easy to work with. After he failed to negotiate to with the committee in good faith, i issued a subpoena in coopera
Kinship between the pope and the president. Now they are really worried about it. All weekend every weekend on cspan3. Next Justice Department officials testify on Foreign Agent Registration Requirements. Horowitz discusses a review his Office Conducted looking at the Justice Departments enforcement of the Foreign Agents registration act and outlines rich outlines recommendations for enforcement practices. This is an hour and half. I want to think the witnesses here today scheduling this hearing. I know some of you had to change her travel plans and the committee appreciates your cooperation. To postpone this hearing while trying to schedule to schedule two new witnesses and of taking the cooperation of a was first invited on july 5. Unfortunate one on cooperative witnesses cause unnecessary inconvenience for those of you who are easy to work with. After he failed with Dean Committee in good faith. I issued a subpoena and cooperation with senator feinstein to Glenn Simpson for his appe
That caucus dissension from christian forms, pushing up gilt yields. Lets take a look at the 10year yields. These markets are opening now as well. Were looking like we are up one basis point on the 10year yield. We are seeing 10year yields move higher in france and germany as well. The frenchgerman spread widening ever so slightly. 10year gilt yield, 1. 26 present. Looking at the stoxx 600, who cite close at its highest since december 2015 yesterday. Euro stoxx 50 volatility dropped the most on record. 600, bit ofhe stoxx a softer open on the benchmark overall. In terms of Industry Groups, taking a look at the map, were seeing a bit more red here. Materials stocks leading the losses, down 0. 4 , followed by energy. These two Industry Groups were leading the gains yesterday. Financials doing pretty well, up 0. 3 . I talked about volatility. I want to show you this great chart. Futuresril versus may and then youve got this bnp paribas Political Risk index. The last reading for that bnp i