Welcome to the foundation of democrat sees. I know moat of you, i met a lot of you, glad youre here. Today marks the release of a major report, maximum pressure, 2. 0, a plan for north korea. The report offers an actionable and multifaceted plan focused on the denuclearization of north korea. Today north korea, we have a young, mercurial, brutal and ruthal despot kim jongun armed with missiles and hes using the threat on america and americas allies. You may have seen reports earlier in the week in the Washington Times that a highlevel defector from north korea sent a letter to President Trump. The defector warned the administration that kim jongun is unlikely to give up his Nuclear Weapons absent significant additional pressure. Consistent with the recommendations and ftds new report which will be discussed today, the defector urges allout sanctions and what our report authors Call Information and influence operations. We understand that people of good faith may disagree on the path fo
More turbulent if not volatile period for stocks or yet another blip on the road higher . I think you have to look at it two separate ways yeah, the seasonal patterns which will take you higher into year end i believe, but whats added that element of volatility is clearly the tax plan. If its going to happen, its not. The market trades up and down on that, and my personal view is that that volatility will persist. They gave a christmas deadline for getting it done. I dont think it happens so these are buying opportunities that we saw with tech, alibaba, for example you have an opportunity to buy them down, and i still think that the underlying trends specific to these companies is so powerful thats when you want to get the buy. We mentioned this quiet correction, josh, that doesnt seem to be getting much attention at all 184 companies out of the s p 500 are in correction territory or worse. 36 of the index. Where i come from we call that rotation, and let me give you something that may
At whatstake a look going on in to those brexit talks. The pound is up by. 2 . Stronger dollar story throughout the day and dollaryen is up to. 6 . 58 basis points. Thats really steep. Time for the morning brief. Ahead. A look at the week today theresa may is scheduled to meet with Jeanclaude Juncker. Then social democrats hold their convention. Congress has to act to avoid a Government Shutdown and we are also going to get on friday u. S. Jobs numbers. Big week ahead. Topics tax, u. K. , cvs buying aetna. The talk on the talk shows was all about taxes. Had towhat the senators say. When you heard the president say we are very close to the finish line you know he has wanted a 15 right from the beginning. Is parted to a 20 rate of the discussion. The house as a 20 right now. We are happy with both of those numbers. If something small happens in conference that gets us across the finish line we will look at it on a casebycase basis. Business tax all the way down from 35 to 20. It could be
Youre watching r. T. International live from our moscow studio with lina to welcome to the program us regulators have voted to end socalled Net Neutrality which now could significantly alter the web experience for millions of people it will allow internet providers to charge extra to prioritize their traffic effectively creating a slow lane for smaller websites heres a breakdown of how it works we access the web through Internet Service providers at the moment companies have to treat all online traffic equally but the Us Federal Communications Commission Says thats preventing websites from investing trillions of dollars in their services and now with Net Neutrality regulations gone i have peace will be free to charge a premium to prioritise certain apps and Services Reports while the f. C. C. Is latest decision will repeal obamas regulations that were passed in twenty fifteen and as expected the vote was three to two along party lines with republicans voting in favor of the. Elation or
Program us regulators have voted to end socalled Net Neutrality which now could significantly alter the web experience for millions of people it will allow internet providers to charge extra to prioritize their traffic effectively creating a slow lane for smaller websites a breakdown of how it works we access the web through Internet Service providers at the moment companies have to treat all online traffic equally but the Us Federal Communications Commission Says thats preventing websites from investing trillions of dollars in their services and now with Net Neutrality regulations gone i asked piece will be freed to charge a premium to prioritize certain apps and services so mean a car reports while the f. C. C. Is latest decision will repeal obamas regulations that were passed in twenty fifteen and as expected the vote was three to two along party lines with republicans voting in favor of the deregulation order and democrats voting against it but one democratic commissioner who voted