Latin america could go hungry this year because of covert 19. After weeks of protests u. S. Federal agents may be pulling out of court. U. S. President ali trump has long accused germany of not pulling its weight in the Nato Alliance and now hes taking action against it hes ordered a major scaling back of the u. S. Military presence there maybe 12000 troops a 3rd of those based in germany will be withdrawn around half will be sent to other bases in europe the rest will head to the United States the european command and special operations h. Q. Would also be moved from germany to belgium changes are expected to cost us billions of dollars. As anyone can see the repositioning of our forces in europe constitutes a major strategic and positive shift wholly in line with the n. D. S. And consistent with other adjustments to the United States just much the United States has made within nato in previous times these changes will achieve the Core Principles of enhancing u. S. And nato deterrence
Millions of people in latin america could go hungry this year because of cooping 90. And i mean weddings are the sports news as it is a 1500000000. 00 relief fund for World Football and each of its 211. 00 member nations will save a 1000000. 00 grant to kick start the game which is being here in the virus with half a 1000000000 h. Set aside for womens football. Too big to dominant an all too powerful thats whats being levelled at the Biggest Companies in the us right now in a hearing in washington d. C. U. S. President donald trump is also joined in the criticism threatening to quote bring fairness if congress doesnt take any action the chief executives of Facebook Google amazon and apple are all being quest. Into the hearing of accusations of anti competitive behavior together their companies are worth almost 5 trillion dollars theyre making the case that they are operating fairly and within the rooms but speak to him for issues following the hearings on capitol hill so out of this co
He is the chief officer building capabilities for the military and department of homeland security. We can talk about that as we go through the interview. Thank you for being with us today. Just to start, what led you to do this book . I know you have been thinking about these issues for a while and it is something you have encountered a lot on the Armed Services committee and senator mccains policy advisor, but what was the genesis that led to you sitting down and writing the entire book . Great question. I ask myself that constantly. Why did we get into this every day i was working on it . Basically two things. Both of these were a product of many years i looked at these issues, just thinking about this on a daytoday basis but the first was the growing realization that we had a fundamental problem i felt was underappreciated that people didnt appreciate that we were losing competitive advantage, we werent where we needed to be from a technological standpoint or operational standpoint
The dow is looking for about a 300 point gain right there at the opening bell. S p up about 34. Look at that nasdaq go. Technology is doing well, up 104 points. Thats premarket for the nasdaq. Now, lockdown winners. Clearly emerging. Lowes, the Home Improvement people, headquartered in North Carolina. Profit up 28 . We stocked up for the lockdown. Target, they really organized their online delivery and store pickup operation, lumped together under digital sales, up a whopping 141 . Walmart, same story. Stockpiling helped them, too. Amazon, kings of the online selling business. Boy, did they clean up. The stock is near a record high. And the netflix, well, they are the kings of the streaming business. What else are we supposed to do when we are ordered to stay home for weeks on end . There are a lot more virus winners and we will go through them throughout the show. Meanwhile, the revolt continues all across the country. Businesses are defying the authorities and opening up despite the
Exclusive conversation with him. Plus insider buying, our friday segment. We are seeing the most bullish that we have seen in months. One Company Insider buy. It is not a name that we talk about. Well name that name and 13 million reasons he is optimistic on his companys future. Friday, may 22 you are watching Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Good morning, welcome from wherever you may be watching we made it to another friday great to have us here it seems interesting here memorial day seems early this. Stock few you ares down about 170 points seeing a little weakness here. Markets seeing a relatively mild day. Huge up on monday, down half on tuesday. Gain some of them back for wednesday. Lost it yesterday. Really has been a roller coaster week that Hong Kong News well get to stocks tumbling and our futures down 170 lets get now to that news the communist party looks set to crack down on hong kongs remaining freedoms futures are down 170 points now. I believe you have eunice yoon who is rea