Acceleration in investment since june as industrial output eats estimates beats estimates. Could a firmer recovery be underway . Treyew brexit e. U. Chief pulls no punches on his First Washington trip, cautioning President Trump about protectionism and shortterm thinking. We spoke about him exclusively on resetting relations. The objective of the visit is to try to reset the relationship,t ry to understand each other in relation at the moment and find Common Ground with the United States. We started on a positive note. Matt barclays is cutting around 100 senior jobs across corporate and Investment Bank as the lender looks to rein in costs. Morgan stanley plans to 80 dozens of staff at its wealth business in asia. Lets look first at futures. Even after the new record we hit yesterday, were looking at gains in futures, and fairly substantial gains at that. Dax futures up 0. 5 . U. S. Futures, not the same size but the same direction, green a rrows on the nasdaq, s p and dow jones futures
Quote, took proportion gnat measures in selfdefense under article 51 of the un charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack. President trump tweeted, all is well, missiles launches from two military bases a sassessment of casualties and damages taking place now. So far, all is well. I will be making a statement tomorrow morning, meaning this morning. We are awaiting word when to expect that statement from the president. Stock futures initially sank with the dow pointing to more than 400point loss today. Futures have paired those losses now dow futures down a few points even with those declines, the dow only down by six points. Along with the nasdaq and s p. S p was down over 50 points overnight. Right now, you are looking at positive territory for both of those. Whip saw action in crude oil oil for wti up to 63. 02. Gold prices briefly touched 1,600 overnight you are going to see 1,582. 5. The boeing 737800, not a max, crashed in iran yesterday the jet went down moments afte
Christopher ford is the assistant secretary of state for International Security and nonproliferation. He talked about Nuclear Security policy at the Stimson Center. Some other of the topics included Nuclear Terrorism prevention, efforts to denuclearize north korea, and chinas role in fostering Nuclear Security in the region. Well, ladies and gentlemen, a very good afternoon to all of you and welcome to the Stimson Center. My name is brian finlay. Im president and ceo here at the Stimson Center. For those attending this very event for the very second time, many apologies. It was not, as you may have assumed, our speakers agenda that caused the cancellation, but an exploding manhole. We started paying our bills yet the Stimson Center again and were back in business and very pleased to be welcoming dr. Christopher ford back to the stage. Chris, for those of you in the know, is of course the assistant secretary of state for International Student and nonproliferation. Chris previously has d
Operation twist, where we just had a liquidity dynamics last time i was on we talked about Earnings Growth bottoming and reaccelerating of course the rate of change is what boosts the multiple so were this one of those periods where it should extend not just through end of the year, but into the beginning of next year as well. So if you think about when those rallies stalled out after qe2, that was the point where everyone realized all that liquidity didnt really boost earnings all that much and by then stock prices were ahead of fundamentals but between now and then, i think that the path of least resistance is still higher lets take a quick look at treasury yields. The fed operations is a large part of why. The ten year is yielding 1. 73 and meanwhile Chinese State media, remember on sunday the pro democracy candidate scoring a landslide victory winning almost 90 of the district down can still seats. And now beijing is calling the election a setback for hong kongs Democratic Developm
Christopher ford is a assistant secretary of state for International Security and nonproliferation. He talked about Nuclear Security policy at the Stimson Center. Some other of the topics included Nuclear Terrorism prevention, efforts to denuclearize north korea and chinas role in fostering Nuclear Security in the region. Ladies and gentlemen, a very good afternoon to all of you and welcome to the Stimson Center my name is brian finlay, im president and ceo here at the Stimson Center. For those attending this event for the very second time, many apologies, it was not as you may have assumed our speakers agenda that caused the cancellation, but an exploding we started paying our bills yet the Stimson Center again and were back in business and very pleased to be welcoming dr. Christopher ford back to the stage. Chris, for those of you in the know, is of course the assistant secretary of state for International Student and nonproliferation. Chris previously has done a tour on President Tr