Potential conflicts of interest and the possibility of recusals. From capitol hill, this is about 2 1 2 hours. This hearing will come to order. This morning we will hear testimony on the nomination of jay clayton to be chairman of the United States Securities Exchange commission. Mr. Clayton has extensive experience in our Financial Markets as a highly regarded securities lawyer. For decades he has helped Companies Access our Capital Markets, increased their ability to invest in the United States, and grow and create jobs. One area on which mr. Clayton has already indicated he would focus is Capital Formation. Capital markets drive innovation and job creation and access it the life blood of our economy. The jobs act helped revitalize the primary markets in both congress and the sec should continue to find ways to help companies go public and allow their investors to share in their success. Recently, this committee marked up several bipartisan securities bills and we encourage you, mr.
Takes a key iraqi city. We tell you what a victory means for the militants after the u. S. Kills a Senior Leader in syria. Mark countdown hello, welcome to countdown hello, and welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. Manus and i am manus cranny. Anna a South African finance minister, in just over an hours time. Manus lets get straight to the markets now and bring you up to speed with everything that has happened overnight. Joining us from hong kong for a look at the asian markets yvonne, we have these chinese property prices. Run us through these details. Yvonne there were actually some more signs of recovery that we saw in the chinese Property Market, the second straight month of recovery, and we are seeing a lot of this in terms of the stocks, asian stocks in general really a mixed picture. We did see a little bit of a selloff starting in the morning but now slowly seeing some gains, but again, the chinese property prices looking slightly better. Fewer saw home prices decline. It was
The japanese economy posted a record current deficit for december. As for europe, heres a look at the major averages in early trading. These are green arrows with modest advances. The cac is up by 10 points and the ftse is up by 5 points. Well go to Ross Westgate in a minute in london, but for now well go to andrew with the top corporate headlines. Thank you, becky. Welcome back to you and joe from pebble beach. Heres whats going on this morning, a big battle shaping up between carl ikahn and a major proxy firm iss. It is now recommending shareholders vote against the Share Buyback proposal for apple. In a report iss says the apple board has returned the bulk of the u. S. Generated cash to shareholders by aggressive stock buybacks and dividends payouts. In light of these goodfaith efforts and its past stewardship has retu , the boards latitude should thought be con striblgted by a Shareholder Resolution that would micromanage the companys Capital Allocation process. This could pave the
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