And we start in europe after 8 years at the helm of the e. C. B. Mario druggy is final policy meeting is famous 2012 statement whatever it takes to preserve the euro at the height of the financial crisis will go down in history successes leaves behind a divided governing council last month a 3rd of its members oppose his move to restart quantity of easy printing money to buy bonds from governments and companies as a way of stabilizing the euro zone. His final press conference that ended just minutes ago he was asked by a reporter what kind of advice he has for his successor Christine Lagarde heres what he had to say. This is the she knows perfectly well what would she has to do and by the way she has a long period of time ahead you know we should have to floor him her own view too good that we can go in council about what to do but the stop here really. So that britain sells it doing a financial correspondent in the front 1st who is listening to this full statement he leaves an empty a
Do and by the way she has a long period of time ahead you know we should have to form her own view to get it with a go in council about what to do but the stop here really. In a frank 1st who is listening to this full statement he leaves an empty arsenal there for his successor Christine Legarde a chemist spector change of direction from. Christine lagarde and all of her public statements so far has sort of mirrored drive these policies she said this sort of highly accommodative policy is warranted if you look at the european economy at the same time there are sort of these of these bigger questions of what d does Christine Legarde have at her disposal now you know mario draghi has really taken Monetary Policy to the edge of whats possible and theres a there are definite questions about that there are a lot of discussions about things like raising the limit of bonds that. The e. C. B. Could by cutting rates even lower but even in the press Conference Today mario draghi was sort of just
And possibly easing sanctions on iran. Josh, kind of a quiet market day here interesting rotations going on what do you make of the action today . This week its just been incredible for anything of value versus growth, anything small over large and theres a tend densy when we see these outside moves. For example, russell up 5. 5 over the last week theres a tendency to look at that and say ive missed it or that has to be the top of something. When you actually go back and find examples of this sort of thing happening in the recent past, actually that always had taken place at notable bottoms in the russell 2000. For example, we had three versions of this in the year 2016 where you have just this incredible week for small cap, for value and it wasnt the end of something or a blip it lully was the end of the selling. You can stay with this trade if youre on and. Portfolio tilt for smallend value. After a really long drought of good news. So a lot of people are happy about that take a look
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The plot to bring down President Trump details how he did time for deleting his facebook account he joins me now from Los Angeles George welcome to going underground if any before any of our view is think that you work with the russians the Mainstream Media talking about that for years just to say obviously in the book you make it clear you consider yourself an american patriots im going to begin. At the beginning of the book as it were but with Boris Johnson whos tipped to be the next Prime Minister here in britain how on earth did you get into a situation where you were asking an f. B. I. Agent whether they had contacted Boris Johnson thats thats a great point and thank you very much for having me what youre referring to is a meeting i had with the muller team in december of 20172 months after my name one public regarding my guilty plea and i was in. In discussions with millers team basically trying to actually understand what was happening in my case because at that point i started