What we care about and even before the nasdatax cut. I tell you that tax cut be sill something. The u. S. Has agreed to keep pressure on north korea while secretary of state Rex Tillerson asks his counterpart to reduce the violence in ukraine. And good morning again, everyone we are still with you. Lets take a look at stocks, how things are look one hour into the trading session. We did start off on a firmer footing. It seems the momentum has changed. The profit is a little weaker on the day, lets remember, its the Holiday Season lets take a quick look at sectors, see european markets quantiti quantities 51 hundred is trading in the green. The rest are a picture in the red, struggling down 2 . Now we can delve into the sectors and see which ones are standing out a couple days for Mining Sector and commodities in the overnight session. We are overseeing it, to the down side, telecom is down. 3 technology is down almost 3 as well utilities lagging, too our next guest believes looking eas
Welcome all of you to this policy forum trip report from a trip that i, my three colleagues and 50 members of the washington institu institutes board of trustees undertook just about a week ago, completing it, to the gulf. Let me just very briefly introduce our my colleagues up here, my immediate left, kate bauer, former u. S. Treasury official, who is our bloomen steen katz Family Fellow at the institute, she will speak after me offering impressions about our visit to abu dhabi. To her left is lori boghart. A former government intelligence analyst, who will be prepared to talk about all sorts of issues from Counter Terrorism and counter radicalization to social change going on in the gulf. At the far end of the table is mike swing. Our fellow. Who will also participate in our q a session, talking about all sorts of issues under the sun, from Strategic Issues to u. S. Bilateral relations with the countries in question. Again, this was an unusual trip that we took in the sense that it w
Isolation. It has seen little progress towards ending the saudi led embargo. For more on how this is playing out we are joined by andrew bardin. What i want to start off with is what is going on in qatar. To diplomacy. The United States was involved and we saw other major parties involved. The last few weeks that used a little bit. What has changed here . Or is it just not any longer . I think it is of great interest and importance. We had a lot of backandforth, a lot of talks and signs that this was going somewhere. This has become a frozen conflict. It is not going anywhere. We are not having any talks. Both sides or do you in. Qatar has a aggressive global pr campaign. It seems to be doing well. The uae and saudi arabia are digging into her heels and reverting back to earlier demands and we are frozen. This is not going anywhere, quickly. Yousef you have spent considerable amount of time there. What are you hearing in terms of additional measures to try to protect the metrics when i
At lengthy delays to saudi arabias National Transformation plan, which aim at overhauling the Oil Dependent economy. Advisors say these delays could create more confusion for investors. And finally in the japan times an age old story, japanese tennis icon kimiko date opens up about her body forcing her to hang up her racket at a6, despite her ambitions to continue competing. Talking through these stories is camellia. Good morning. Good morning. Lets start with north korea and china and what it may or may not do. What does the South China Morning Post report . M may not do. What does the South China Morning Post report . It is reporting that china may, as you say, may agree in the un framework, within the un framework, formal sanctions and it may give north korea partial oil sanctions. This is against the backdrop of. A hotheaded debate between the chinese and the americans. The americans and demanding, clearly, that we need to do something about north korea. And saying that china is no
Back of this. They decided not to go with the hawks. Hes always been on the precipice, he decided to stay with the pack. Despite that, because of the fact we have a majority talking about stimulus over the next few months, a reduction of stimulus over the next few months, sterling is big. It has been reasonably well bit coming into today. Not news that the bank of england is saying that the market is underpricing the future Interest Rate rises. Once again, reiterating that line. Why do you think that is . Will the bank of england followthrough on the kinds of things its talking about now in a few months . Guy everyone i talked to says rates are rational right now. We have an 80 probability that the bank of england will deliver a hike in february. 50 in november. The bank will execute on a hike fairly soon. Everyone says that kind of makes sense, but then you have a whole conversation about why its never going to happen and the bank of england is not going to be in any hurry within the