Good afternoon. Welcome to the center for strategic and international studies. My name is threat heather conley, and we could not be more more delighted to welcome secretary of state for defense Michael Fallon here to the u. S. I was explaining that the news cycle is so quiet, so slow the last few days, we were so glad he could come here and help elevate our discussion but, he comes at an incredibly important time. Certainly on the heels of several days of incredible news not only securityrelated issues, whether that was the north korean launch of an icbm but also as we watch unfold the historic meeting between President Trump and president putin today. Secretary fallon thankfully is a frequent visitor to csis. He was here two years ago in march and the topic of the discussion was in defense of a rulesbased order, how that transatlantic relationship can be used. And i think now in todays discussion, we will again look at the defense of the rulesbased order and he see where we go from h
Courtney reagan in for sara this morning. Good morning. Happy monday to all of you and our viewers. Lets get straight to the market action. Record highs throughout the week. Last week we ended the week with the s p down 3 . The nasdaq was the leader at 3. 5 for the week. Its worth pointing out the nasdaq since the election up only 4. 8. So much of the gain coming last week. It was playing catchup having lagged behind some of the other indices since the election. The one really up most of all since the election is the russell 2000. As you can see this morning, were pretty much flat in the premarket. The dow eking out a slight gain on the futures market there, the s p and the nasdaq slightly negative. The big market mover this morning is oil. Oil prices up some 5 . If we have a look just shy of that now, 53. 94 comes off a week of gains. They were up 1. 3 as a whole last week. But prior weeks, they were up 12 when the initial opec deal was struck. The reason we have the extra bounce toda
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Latest epic from mark insults martin scorcese. From martin scorcese. Welcome to you both. We have to work a bit harder this time. Before we look into the stories, lets look at the front pages. The Financial Times leads on what it would call a £24 billion expedition on Closing Oil Rigs in the north sea. Theresa may says her comments on brexit is the biggest key yet that we will be leaving the Single Market. Snp leader Nicola Sturgeon is calling for another Independence Referendum for another Independence Referendum for scotland unless the uk holds on to Single Market access. The telegraph reports that borisjohnson is in new york meeting some of Donald Trumps top team. A star is forecasting an arctic blast that these uk as freezing weather that has killed people in north america and europe heads here. The queen makes her first public appearance since a heavy cold has caused had at cancel christmas engagements. The sun says it to nhs patients die everyday from first. Compensation is dema
Latest epic from mark insults martin scorcese. From martin scorcese. Welcome to you both. We have to work a bit harder this time. Before we look into the stories, lets look at the front pages. The Financial Times leads on what it would call a £24 billion expedition on Closing Oil Rigs in the north sea. Theresa may says her comments on brexit is the biggest key yet that we will be leaving the Single Market. Snp leader Nicola Sturgeon is calling for another Independence Referendum for another Independence Referendum for scotland unless the uk holds on to Single Market access. The telegraph reports that borisjohnson is in new york meeting some of Donald Trumps top team. A star is forecasting an arctic blast that these uk as freezing weather that has killed people in north america and europe heads here. The queen makes her first public appearance since a heavy cold has caused had at cancel christmas engagements. The sun says it to nhs patients die everyday from first. Compensation is dema