Showing and paying tribute to the past 50 year, celebrating 50 years of promoting Sustainable Development models to credit operations, resources, and support and the technical and financial structuring of projects in the public and private sectors of latin america. Welcome. [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ applause ] all right. I hope you guys all enjoyed and video, and welcome once again. To help start off for two days of what promises to be engaging and lively discussions, i would like to introduce the president of cast and also mr. Michael shifter who is the president of the interamerican dialogue. They will each offer welcoming remarks to open the conferences. [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] good afternoon everybody. [ speaking Foreign Language ] im thrilled to welcome all of you to the 23rd annual conference widely known as the cast conference, organized by cast, the Development Bank of latinamerican, the interamerican dialo
Nh hold a hearing on the nation partial roads. This is an hour and 20 minute portion. You can watch the entire hearing on cspan. Org. I want to welcome our witnesses in particular. To todays hearing as we are looking at the need to reauthorize not the cities our cities and counties are looking to us. A the focus has been on revenue especially since it is the most difficult thing we have had to do. And people are using other methods to bring us into the 21t century on transportation. So we are looking at some of those questions and the nuances of federal polling policy on congestion pricing and Technology Solutions to address congestion. So while congress. But to negatively attack never before but not to mention the quality of the air that we breathe and the failure to deal with climate change. This was not even discussed at the time of the last reauthorization to indicate just how far time has moved and to catch up. The urban mobility report and you might want to look at what it says f
The Committee Welcomes order. Witnesses. Me the we are here to have testimony from a range of industries that tell us about the importance of the United States, mexico, Canada Agreement and we prefer that to usmca. Fromok forward to hearing witnesses about the significance of the agreement to American Business both small and large, the workers and farmers we all represent. Thank you for being here. Canada, and mexico, our countrys most important trading partners. Americasone third of merchandising went to mexico and canada. Nearly half 1 trillion in American Goods the year. The foundation of our strong praise relationship with mexico and canada has been thus far nafta. The United States negotiated and agreement between 1990 1993 and at the time it was a Gold Standard of trade agreements. It enabled American Businesses, workers, farmers and ranchers is andanges without tariffs nontariff barriers and for decades, burdened our ability to compete in those two countries. Andourse, the u. S.
The china trade fight is clearly escalated. The president s holding on to a very strong line. Any resolution, it seems to me, pushed down the road. More on that coming up. If you combine the jobs report with the china story, heres how the market opens today. I thought we would be down about 100 points but we are coming back. We are down about 20 points for the dow. That will be 29 minutes from now. Maybe the markets taken the Financial News to mean that the fed can lower rates in the future. 600 points down the last two days, down about nine at the open this morning. The s p down about four, nasdaq down about 44. Tempering the losses. Heres another really big financial story which i dont think gets the right exposure. Interest rates. The tenyear treasury yield all the way down to 1. 88 . Money is pouring into america. Why not . Interest rates in germany today hit a record low. You want interest on a bond, you got to come to america for that and thats exactly whats happening. What a day
Release nearly 10 million Canadian Dollars in donations to those who set up the fundraisers. Controversy sorry about that. Arthel i was going to say the controversy is prompting accusations of hypocrisy for some while others are accusing gofundme of outright theft. Whats up with this, bryant . The crown funding site took down the fundraiser support, the convoy of canadian truckers because the website only supports people protesting. Gofundme says that Freedom Convoy had unlawful occupation Downtown Ottawa in the capitol city. The Fundraising Site said Law Enforcement provided Police Reform proving unlawful activity taking place. As a result, gofundme set Freedom Convoy organizers would no longer have access to the over 10 million Canadian Dollars raised for their cause and instead, the money would be sent to credible established charities chosen by the Freedom Convoy. This led to swift backlash online from both sides of the border, ron desantis really, its a fraud for gofundme, the 9 m