[no audio] kayleigh hello, everyone. Is another historic day at the white house. I have ambassador rick grenell, National Security advisor robert obrien, and Senior Advisor jared kushner, to talk to you about history made at the white house today and then they will take a few questions. Robert it was a great morning in the oval office. Through theogether, hard work of great diplomats, led by rick grenell of the serbiants direction, and kosovo have normalized economic relationships. This serbiakosovo conflict has gone on for decades. They have been unable to move onward for many years, and the president some time ago decided we knighted we needed to try something new, break the deadlock and move forward with the Peace Process with serbia and kosovo. To have the Prime Minister of kosovo and president of serbia and the oval office was something, given the history of those two countries at the history of the United States with respect to serbia and the conflict in the balkans, is remarkabl
More Domestic Travel to a little more overseas travel now. Theaad lets get to markets and have a look at what is going on. Nikkei, in with the leading japanese shares, just seeing stocks drifting to the upside. We did see jobless numbers come out. Slightly better than expected, looking for a 3 jobless rate, but 2. 9 . Looking elsewhere, retail sales out of hong kong, looking also at the futures for the u. S. , pretty much flat. Asian equities drifting slightly to the upside. Looking at the shanghai composite, lets look at how the gpi is behaving as well. Just about flat. The shanghai comp, 0. 2 lower. Chinese Economic Activity continued to rebound. Expansion in manufacturing activity, just slowing slightly there. A Rate Decision out of australia later on. Expecting the rba to keep rates. And the singapore market 0. 6 lower. Quick check on the currency is, weve got a fifth straight monthly drop for the dollar. Bloomberg dollar index down by 0. 25 . The yen, a tad weaker. Euro currently
Brought me to the smithsonian because i lived in baltimore, and it was free. And i came to love the smithsonian, so when i had a chance about a dozen years ago to become a regent of the smithsonian, i jumped at the opportunity. I got to meet somebody then who was then building the africanAmerican History museum. He started with nothing to build that museum and now made into one of the most popular museums in the entire country. President obama i am so proud of lonnie bunch. We are so proud of the work he has done to make this day possible. David and then i was the chair of a search committee, and we looked at many candidates around the country. It was clear that lonnie bunch was the best person to be the secretary. He knew the smithsonian, was committed to the smithsonian, his life was the smithsonian. So, it was an easy choice. We are at the housing museum part of the smithsonian, and lonnie bunch is the 14th secretary of the smithsonian. You were the first africanamerican to be selec
Continuing to be all about tech. Surging since the best monthly performance since 2000 u. S. Equity futures, youll see at this point you are looking at some green arrows across the board. Nasdaq indicated up. Dow is up, so is the s p 500 well talk about zoom. It is those Technology Stocks leading the way. Looking here to date, they are up more than expected. Looking at the treasury market, it looks like the 10year is yielding around the same amount of 0. 726 . Zoom, huge news. Right now, top single stock of the day is zoom the stock is on fire that may be the least impressive thing. Jumped over 300 year over year. Free cash flow up 2,000 year over year. New customer subscriptions delivered 81 of the Revenue Growth and less customer churn than expected. Kelly will join us to dig through the quarter at 8 30 eastern time stock up 80 right now how would you like to be in a business where your Free Cash Flow was up 2,000 it sounds like a kids lemonade stand. Thats what has happened to zoom
On the value of its new business, following the fall since it listed the most. We will be joined by the ceo. Reports amid rising u. S. Tensions and fears of backlash from the white house. More challenges may be growing closer to home. Lets get a quick check of the markets with sophie kamaruddin. Stocks with a subdued start, futures lower. Kiwi stocks higher by 0. 2 . At m a, andlooking south korea raising a red flag. In sydney, stocks hit a fivemonth high. Qantas hosting its first loss in six years and warning it will not make money in the next financial year. 2000 after retreating on the fed minutes. The index going since jumping the most since june on the fed. One analyst said he does not think positioning is stretched, but even with broad dollar weakness, asian currencies have underperformed, but record forex reserves are one key reason. Steady afteryuan retreating from a sevenmonth high, retracing gains it has seen since last month. Focus, callsira in for the central bank in turkey