You very much, and welcome to our 13th virtual signature events of our 35th season. I wanted to thank all of you for joining us, we have with this today and number of special guests that i would like to mention the investor from singapore, we also have members of economic members of detroit, we also have members of economic of new york, and we also have a number of people who are members and our members guest. Thank you all for joining us. Today were going to have a Congressional Panel that are going to have medical panel. Our congressional pana, i will talk about us number of subjects including the recent attacks on the us capital, the political environment, security measures, and the way for to national unity. The two members that we have are very honored that are joining us today Debbie Debbie dingell brooks in the 12 district of michigan and shes a democrat and tom reed representing the 23rd district of new york hes republican. And i will give them a more formal introduction in a m
Normalize relations between isra and the arab nations. Also middle east policy goals for t Biden Administration challenges posed by irannd the israelipalestinian conflict. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome David Rubenstein come present of the Economic Club of washington, d. C. Welcome everyone, to our ninth virtual signature event of our 35th 35th season but its really not completely virtual because for the First Time Since covid has hit we are actually having live guests here today and its because its a special program and i want to thank our live guests for coming in at participating and a unique programor us because we have been doing everything virtual for almost nine months now i guess it is but our guests are here to talk out something very special, the Abraham Accords which assigned at the white house on september 15 with hea of each of these countries as well as President Trump eating there as the official host. Let me introduce our guess and i will make some announcemen aft
And possibilities of things that could happen if theres uncertainty about the outcome. They are bob bauer a distinguished scholar at nyu school of law now on leave as a Senior Adviser to the biden president ial campaign and Benjamin Ginsberg an election attorney in the cnn commentator. I like to recognize some of our special guest today the ambassadors of singapore sweden new zealand and the european union. Id also like to recognize our sponsors our Title Sponsor bank of america of the Greater Washington d. C. Area larry, thank you very and are sponsors terry women senior partner and also its like to recognize siemens usa ceo. Thank you for your leader sponsorship. Sponsors onrporate the screen and the like to thank them as well for their support we have a few Upcoming Events as some of you know about already but let me just remind you on november the 18th at 10 00 a. M. We will have that bandwidth alex of course he who is the chairman and ceo of Johnson Johnson. As you probably know J
Held by the Economic Club of washington, this is 50 and its. He is now only as a Senior Advisor to the joe biden president ial campaign. Attorneyurg who is an and a cnn commentator. I would like to recognize our special guests today. They are the ambassadors of singapore, liechtenstein, and other countries. I would also like to recognize our sponsors. The Title Sponsor is the bank of america. Our emerging leaders sponsors as well. Recommendso like to siemens usa. Our other corporate punters sponsors are now on your screen and i would like to thank them for their support. We have a few upcoming events. On november the 18th at 10 a. M. , we will have an event with alex gorsky. Of the johnson is one companies that is working on a virus. He is a very impressive person. I think people were really enjoyed that conversation. I will also have a conversation with another impressive person on december 9 the chief executive officer of accenture. She has been a member of the Economic Club board fo
Sep currently up 0. 4 percent, on the back of protests over the weekend. Rishaad 44 minutes to go before we get trading underway in india. Nifty futures coming under pressure, down by 0. 4 . Looking at the crude oil picture, they are sustaining some of the gains we have had. A 10 rise in the last five trading days. It could be on, the march to the 100 level according to some. And a look at what is going on with the yuan, at 6. 76. We see the fiveyear loan prime rate holding study from the previous month. Holding steady from the previous month. Lets have a look at what is going on with the first word news. Lets join karina mitchell. Karina a very good morning to you. New japanese Prime Minister has held his first call as leader with president trump, with the para bowing to strengthen ties. They also agreed to incorporate on a vaccine. He may meet the u. S. Secretary of state soon. Others. Spoke with trump says he will nominate a successor for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg th