He worked at the development bank. He served as a special advisor. He was elected in june of 2018 and assumed his office in august 2018. He will make some opening remarks and then following that i will come up and preside over some questions and then have anybody here who wants to ask a question be able to do so. We will go until exactly 9 30. Everything is on the record, and so please when you do have a question standup, identify yourself, your affiliation and then ask a question, not a long statement. That would be appreciated, and one question per person would be appreciated. Okay, its my honor to do you introduce the president of colombia, president duque. Thank you so much. Good morning. Its a great pleasure for me to be here with you. I want to thank you, david, for your introduction. I want to welcome friends from different think tanks, former public servants, members of the International Development bank organizations. So my great purpose of this morning is to, in ten minutes,
Turs the dow and s p are a little lower. Nasdaq is on pace for the fourth weekly gain. Being looking at raise yeah, the nikkei up and shanghai composite. The ftse is down slightly, actually flat. So is the dax. The cac is up about. 2 . The 10year is yielding 1. 779 in our tariff news du jour, the u. S. Is going to temporarily free more than 400 products from the 250 billion in tariffs imposed. According to documents said to be published by trade representatives today. Including items such as Christmas Tree lights, retractible dog leashes. What . How did that get on the list that wouldnt work for my dogs if it went out, when i brought it in, something would be attached to the mouth. Filters for kcups, tiki torches, grills, electric skate boards stemming from more than 1,100 requests from companies. Holding lower level talks in preparation for higher level talks expected in october. Here is what Vice President pence and black stones steve squartsman had to say. For too long, one administ
President of colombia here as our special guest, president uk. Hes not pensively with washington, d. C. Hes been here for 14 years off and on and he got some of his graduate degrees here from American University and George Washington university. Hes trained as a lawyer and is working as well at the Interamerican Development bank where he served as a senior officer in the cultural area and also special advisor to the president of the bank on colombia. He was elected in june of 2018 and assumed his office in augus. He will make some opening remarks and then following that i will come up and preside over some questions and then have anybody here who wants to ask a question be able to do so. We will go and tell exactly 9 30. Everything is on the record, and so please when you do have a question standup, identify yourself, your affiliation and then asked the question, not a long statement. That would be appreciated, and one question per person would be appreciated. Okay, its my honor to do
Critics say it is not enough. And chasing tesla. New luxury car seeks to overrun tesla. We will run down the features, including the price. Slack chairs are plunging in after hours trading after the company gave its first earning report as a public company. While it beat analyst expectations for both secondquarter revenue and earnings, it projected slower sales growth for the second half of the year. Aboutsaid revenue will be 154 million in the third quarter, signaling that strong competition may dent the Software Makers rapid rise. Shares are falling about 15 in the postmarket, following the results that its poised for a record low. Joining me to discuss, nico and larry. Great to have you. Weve had a few hours now to digest the earnings. Give me some of the big concerns here. Is the big concern that Topline Revenue growth . Well, thats something i dont cover. I cover i work for technical professionals. I talk to the geek in the room, the i. T. Professionals about installing and securi
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