With a full round up of all the days news but first of all hard talk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk from singapore. Im stephen sackur. This citystate is one of the remarkable economic Success Stories of the last 50 years. If you want to find a place that has ridden the wave of globalization, well, this is it. But storm clouds are gathering over singapore. President trump is challenging assumptions about global free trade, Security Tensions are rising across east asia. I have an exclusive interview today with the Prime Minister of singapore, lee hsien loong. Is singapore feeling vulnerable . Theme music plays. Prime minister lee hsien loong, welcome to hardtalk. Lets start with the International Political climate. Donald trump is now president of the United States. He talks about protectionism, he talks about ripping up trade deals that have been bad for america. How dangerous is this new Political Climate for singapore . We are watching it very carefully. We of all countries
With a full round up of all the days news but first of all hard talk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk from singapore. Im stephen sackur. This citystate is one of the remarkable economic Success Stories of the last 50 years. If you want to find a place that has ridden the wave of globalization, well, this is it. But storm clouds are gathering over singapore. President trump is challenging assumptions about global free trade, Security Tensions are rising across east asia. I have an exclusive interview today with the Prime Minister of singapore, lee hsien loong. Is singapore feeling vulnerable . Theme music plays. Prime minister lee hsien loong, welcome to hardtalk. Lets start with the International Political climate. Donald trump is now president of the United States. He talks about protectionism, he talks about ripping up trade deals that have been bad for america. How dangerous is this new Political Climate for singapore . We are watching it very carefully. We of all countries
U. S. Debt limit, tax reform, and liquidity requirements for Community Banks. He also discusses possible provisions to deter currency manipulation and future u. S. Trade deals. Held by the House Financial Services committee, this is three hours. The committee will come to the committee will come to order. The chairs authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. Members will have five legislative days in which to submit extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion the record. The hearings for the purpose of receiving the secretary of treasurys annual report on the state of the International Finance system. But before proceeding to that report, i will give you a report on the hollingsworth family of indiana. Would like to share with you some bury good news. Hollingsworthbert the fourth arrived this morning at 1 38 a. M. , weighing in at seven pounds, 15 ounces, mother and baby are doing well. Husband and father is a total wreck, but congratulations to our colleague, ray c
Positive as youll see right there, but not too much. Although uk actually having a fairly good morning. Japan not so much. Problems toshiba certainly weighing on that market. As for our tenyear note yield this morning in crude oil, which we always like to show you, 2. 556, and wti up ever so slightly. David, our road map for the hour begins with the dow on the edge of market history again. Futures higher. Will today be the day . Plus, some new Holiday Spending data suggesting a late december boost. Wall streets top picks going into 2017. And amazon crowned ever cores top internet pick. Did the company do enough to win christmas though . But first up, the trump rally, thats what we call it now, and the march to dow 20,000. That continues for yet another day. Futures as you just saw are higher, certainly would indicate we will be close at the open. The dow aiming for its eighth straight week of gains. And, well, what else, of course another tweet on the markets from president elect donal
Attack by the president elect. Its tuesday, january 17, 2017. Worldwide exchange begins now. Good morning. Welcome to a very special edition of Worldwide Exchange. Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Were coming live from the World Economic forum in davos, switzerland. This week its the annual gathering of the Global Political leaders, ceos, bankers and decisionmakers. As u. S. President elect trump prepares to take office friday. Among our guests this morning, we have the ceo of Society Generale here. And we have jacob frenkel. We will talk geopolitics with ken rogoff. Ian bremer joins us as well. So many big stories to talk about. A forum of international leaders, ceos and global elite. Starting in just about ten minutes time, president xi jinping, the leader of the biggest communist economy in the world will address a whole load of corporate leaders, likely to back up the argument for free trade. In three days time, the new leader of the biggest capitalist economy in the world will lik