Designed to partially roll back Obama Administrations strategy of engaging with the people of cuba. A few months from now, cuba will undergo a historic leadership transition while reckoning with a moribund economy and a demographic challenge in a relationship with the United States that is rapidly deteriorating as a result of President Trumps policy changes and still unresolved attacks against u. S. Diplomats. In fact the diplomatic drawdown , in havana had a direct impact on this event as the suspension of Visa Services in havana prevented us from bringing a speaker from cuba to participate in todays discussion. Nevertheless, to help us make sense of what has happened and assess what the future might bring for cuba and the United States we are privileged to , welcome to the dialogue three distinguished friends and colleagues with decades of experience working on cuba. To my immediate left, Emily Mendrala is the executive director of the center for democracy in the americas. Emily serv
What a week it has been, where we have powered higher once again can i want to head to the markets desk where bloombergs Ramy Inocencio has the latest. Stocks are on track for their fifth week of gains, and we are Holding Strong with markets in the green with about one hour left in this trading session. The s p 500 is up. 33 . The dow is up by. 5 there. Interestingly, i want to talk to you about what has been happening year to date. We have seen two slips. Date, the s p 500 is holding onto gains, up. 10 today, and rising a little bit. Yesterday, you will remember it popped into positive territory briefly, but pulled back. The dow is now up by nearly 1 year to date. Yesterday, it pulled into the green. The nasdaq, as you can see, a ways off from climbing into positive, down by 4. 4 . Hop into my bloomberg, and lets take another check as to the s p 500s 10 sectors the imap section. You can see we are split down the middle five sectors in the green, five sectors in the red. As it has been