Everybody. We are really glad you were here. For those of us joining online and certainly in person, welcome to the second installment of the Strategic Landpower dialogue. On general bob brown i am general bob brown. We cannot do it without the support of General Dynamics make in this series happen. Thank you for the great support to make this possible. He opened up the first Strategic Landpower dialogue a few weeks ago, pointing out the longoverdue need to have a forum like this to discuss Strategic Landpower. We could not have picked a better kickoff event than having secretary wormuth and now confirmed chief of staff randy george. They did a great first job on the dialogue. But there is no better way to follow up than getting general Charlie Flynn, commanding general big u. S. Army pacific, an incredible war fighter and pacific expert, here to discuss the role of land power. I saw when i was u. S. Army Pacific Commander that the indopacific is a region where we most fall victim to t
Emma its very, very, very quiet today. Clearly people, traders still enjoying christmas break. Not many of them at their desk today. The theyre going nowhere, and what we saw in the s p, volume opened was at about half of recent averages. Europe is closed, as you alluded to there. The next biggest market trading today is the nikkei, and that saw volume down about 44 f. We look for anything that may be dragging things down, its the tech sector thats down about 1 , and thats probably why were starting to see a few moves. And then lets look at apple, because thats one of the things thats been dragging things down this morning. We saw analysts have been lowering their projections for the iphone 10. They said shipments in the First Quarter next year are going to be much lower than expected. They cited lackluster demand. So what were seeing is a number of main apple suppliers falling today. And analysts see a 22 drop from their prior estimate in terms of demand for the iphone 10. So skyworks
Plan to mark the 175th anniversary by expanding their reach in areas of research and education. They also discussed reaching one billion people a year through a variety of expanded additional arms are investment any an institution hosted this 42minute event. My name is porter will consent. I am the chief of staff at the board of regents for the smithsonian institution. I would like to welcome you to building, and thank you for joining us for this short conversation about the future of the smithsonian. This event is also being live streamed on the smithsonians si. Edu, andedu on facebook live, so i would like to acknowledge our viewership. We will have leaders unveiled their bold vision for growing the institutions reach, relevance, and impact over the next five years, leading up to the institutions 175th anniversary. The smithsonian is probably best known for its worldclass museums, but today we hope to show you we are doing as much to shape the future as we are to preserve the past. A
The director of National Intelligence dan coats was before the Senate Armed Services committee this week to take questions on Global Security threats. At one point he was asked about a recent report that donald trump asked him to deny evidence of collusion between russia and the campaign. There was also testimony from vincent stewart. This is just over two hours. Sen. Mccain good morning. Senate Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on worldwide threats. We are pleased to welcome our distinguished witnesses. Dan coats, who is the director of National Intelligence and ewart director of the , Defense Intelligence agency. Out of respect for the scheduling commitments and members, we will conclude the hearing at 11 30 in the interest of time and ensure senators ask questions i will be brief. I know that comes as a disappointment, especially to the senator from south carolina. I would ask witnesses to please submit their written statements for the record if they c
Dow coming off a high and the s p and nasdaq coming off. They are sort of mid range is what we are looking at. The risk off attitude has resumed to some extent. It is the nasdaq doing the worst of the bunch. Losses double what we have seen for the s p 500. We have bounced off the lows as the nasdaq traded down. Here is the today chart and the bounce we are seeing even yesterday. We saw the nasdaq close off the lows of the session. If you look at the percentage declines in the nasdaq 100 three of the four worst are not even tech stocks. Ats to neutral firm davidson, the analysts saying there is a deteriorating nearterm business fundamentals if you look at the company, and the companyceo had presented a thoughtful Strategic Land but were lacking, as was execution specifics. Dollar tree is down as well as we saw forecasts disappointing perhaps. It is interesting that it is not just tech and the nasdaq. You look at the 52week highs versus lows, we are at 44 . Just last week where the nasda