And the next bank of england governor is to be named later. Say fda head and you bailey is in pole position. Paul lets check on how we are doing in the markets. Australia just opened. We have a staggered open, so very much early days. Ever so slightly higher. New zealand continuing to build on record highs that it reached thursday, up. 5 right now. Nikkei futures looking kind of flat. We are of course waiting on numbers, cpi numbers for november, expecting to see a slight uptick mainly inspired by the sales tax. We also have futures just coming online, looking flat as well. Lets check in on the first word news and get over to jessica summers. Central banks made headlines with policymakers in swedenying on hold but swimming against the tide and ending half a decade of negative rates. Bank indonesia kept its key rate unchanged for a second straight month, saying the economy and exports will rebound in 2020. The boj also held as expected, with the governor echoing the more optimistic tone
Import bank with chair Kimberly Reed. This is an hour and 20 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come t the committee will come to order. Today the committee turns its focus to the export import of the United States. Just last month the Senate Confirmed Kimberly Reed to be president and chairman of the Export Import Bank along with board member spencer bach cuss and judith pryor. The nominations of claudia slei Board Members are approved by this committee and pending on the full senate floor. United states exporters are able to compete very effectively in intern International Markets on the basis of price and quality. However, when foreign governments provide subsidies as a matter of policy and general practice to their exporters, u. S. Exporters are placed at a competitive disadvantage purely because of such financing arrangements. According to the 2017 xm bank, competitiveness report, chinese export credit agencies provided more medium and longterm investment suppor
In 2018 letters from both the director of naval reactors, aled miller caldwell, from the secretary of the navy, richard spencer, all stating the negative impact that low enriched uranium would have on the capability of the navy. We look, too, at the dollars being proposed to offset this. The 20 million reduction in the National Nuclear Security Administration would reduce salaries in that area by 15 . Mr. Wittman and according to nssa, this reduction would likely require a reduction in force to achieve this staffing level. They will let people go if this money is transferred to another study, a study thats been done multiple times in the past, with the same outcomes that this would have a harmful effect on the National Nuclear Security Administration. It would negate improvements in oversight and accountability and slow down the execution of critical Nuclear Security and safety programs and affect weapons modernization and Nuclear Nonproliferation efforts, the same thing the gentleman
Master of the wind, come on, sudor, hold on, president of slovakia Zuzana Caputova today appointed a new cabinet of ministers headed by the leader of the social democratic direction party, robert fico. In addition to the fico party, the Government Coalition in slovakia includes the voice party, social democracy and the Slovak National party. Following the results of the parliamentary elections held in the republic on september 30, they rely on the support of 79 of the 150 deputies of the national council. Russian ambassador to bratislavia igor bratchikov. Aired on our channel, he said that the majority of society in slovakia wants to maintain friendly relations with russia. This is what brought the new one to power political force. He really takes a pragmatic approach to cooperation with russia. He believes that the course of his predecessors in the last three years is politically erroneous and economically untenable. Unfortunately, the government , which is on duty today, has actually