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Thanks for joining us. Thank you for joining us. Lets look at the market picture it comes off a day of fractional gains. Essentially markets were flat. For the week, the dow is up 1 the s p and nasdaq 0. 6 p , 0. 7 were set to open 11. 3 points higher for the dow yields above 2. 3 for the tenyear, that nice rise in yields we saw over the course of last week, up to highs of 2. 34, 2. 35, just down a bit. 2. 32 the yield on the tenyear. Another quiet session in asia with markets in main lan china, hong kong and south korea closed today the nikkei up just a hair. 0. 01 . I guess it counts as a gain. Hardly at all. Lets look at europe a marginally mixed day on wednesday. If we look where we are now, we are mixed here we see markets totally flat in france the xetra dax down 0. 2 . Spain rallying again here, 0. 6 . Spain closed down 2. 8 yesterday. That was after the king made a speech the prior evening, did not go particularly well sort of elevated fears of more clashes or catalonia calling
On tactical Public Private innovation collaboration, a number of the public and private sector issues on cybersecurity. Want to also echo frank and thank our sponsors for this event, north rup grumened, and Marcus Edwards who has been our sort of partner in getting this organizes for the past few months. In addition to his day job, hes also a doctor of engineering student here at George Washington university. I dont know how he finds time to do both of those things, but thanks, marcus for all of your work on this todays conference. Ill briefly introduce the panel that we have before us, and then well go right into a discussion with some time at the end of the 50 minutes for audience questions. First, immediately to my left, your right, scott aaronson, executive director for security and Business Continuity at the Edison Electric institute. Hes been there since 2009, working in a variety of roles before getting his current position. Before that, worked on the hill for congressman lantos
Separatist barcelona, standoff. Lets be clear, what we are seeing now has nothing to do with what we saw 30 years ago on this october 19th, thats when the dow fell 22 in one day. Thats a crash. [laughter] liz who is that . Stuart you could have gotten a better picture than that. How cute. Stuart i was fully functional. [laughter] stuart the crash shook the Financial System and shook me. Look at the picture. Ashley look at the hair. Stuart i had hair in those days lou dobbs on this program today. Thirtieth anniversary. All right, lets get to politics. This could help stocks, a vote on the budget is coming today and its expected to pass. That would mean the republicans could pass tax cuts without help from senate democrats. Now the president tweeting about this this morning, republicans are going for the big budget approval today, First Step Towards massive tax cuts, i think we have the votes, but who knows. Relax. Varney company is about to begin. Spain moves to take over catalonias gov
The e. U. Says the catalonia crisis is a domestic spanish issue and that it will not intervene spain gets ready to impose direct rule on the region. And the syrian mother managed to flee the war in her homeland now all she wants is to be reunited with her three children explain why some germans want to prevent this from happening. Plus hes been dubbed the czech donald trump populist billionaire andre bobbish is set to win the Czech Republics general election what will that mean for the European Union. And theyre back cartoon characters asterix in public so setting off on another adventure in ancient rome writers say the new book contains some important lessons for contemporary european. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us. British Prime Minister theresa may has urged e. U. Leaders to agree to a brags that deal that she can defend to people in the u. K. At an e. U. Summit last night she also asked them to approach the issue with more urgency may wants to move talks on to the