Time its turn at the podium. Im chris edwards. Editor of cato. Thanks for all you folks coming today. Infrastructure is certainly a priority issue for the new administration. President trump has repeatedly called for a trillion dollars infrastructure plan. We dont know exactly what that means. Does he mean a trillion dollars in new federal Government Spending or does he mean the plan put together by his advisors wilbur ross that called for a tax credit for new investment in infrastructure . Im not a fan of either of those approaches, so im hoping that the white house is open to different ideas on infrastructure reform such as the ideas that are panelists are going to be talking about today. Everyone agrees that America Needs to improve the efficiency of its infrastructure investment, trump has talked about deregulation as one way to reduce the cost of infrastructure. Hes talked about for example, reducing the cost of highway building so we would get more and better highways and so i th
Lea japans nikkei index down three tenths of 1 and chinas shanghai composite ended higher by six tenths of an . Lauren United Airlines removing a passenger from their seat. We will have the latest on the story. Lea after the investor pushing all those due turnaround efforts are put to grocery up for sale. Chicago cubs hoist the world series championship flag at Wrigley Field and miami heat rallied to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers and keep their playoff hopes alive. Lea 5 01 a. M. In new york city. Welcome to fbn am, your first look at morning markets and breaking news. Lauren thanks for joining us. Good morning. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson scheduled to arrive in moscow after attending the g7 Foreign Ministers meeting in italy. His visit to russia comes at the white house issues more warnings against syrian government. Not just here, but the world saw last week and a president is going to ask decisively and proportionally in the justification when it comes to actions like that. I wi
Good mornings. Warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody. Good morning to you. Great to have you with us. Lets get straight to the Global Market action. A lot of news to break down. U. S. Futures are pointing to a higher open, this after stocks did close lower in yesterdays trade. Geopolitical worries casting a shadow over stocks. We did see bonds rally. The cbo volatility index hitting the highest level since november, thats before the election. As you can see, dow jones up about 25 points. Nasdaq indicating a higher open by. Bo 8. Yields picking tier yesterday, off slightly, just off 2. 3 , yielding 2. 29. I think the big takeaway this week is twe could expected biggr declines in the market, we didnt get it, so resilience. Some data out of asia. Chinas consumers prices rose 0. 9 , slightly below forecast. The Producer Price index rose 0. 3 , month over month. In general, all of that data was in line. We have seen japan and shanghai decline today. Jap
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Issue with the spectrum and make it more usable in that kind of environment. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Youre looking at a time lapse video recorded by the library of congress showing the process of constructing the exhibition jacob riis, revealing how the other half lives. Next, on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life of the danish born journalist and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director and office of the library of congress. Im barbara bair, the curator of this exhibit and im a historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. This exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives is a copresentation with a museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress, the jacob riis papers have been married with the photographs that are stellar collection