Hello everyone and welcome to this session of the san antonio book festival of the Foundation Thanks to the Central Library for hosting us on this amazing day we encourage all of you who following us on social media so at the end of the session there will be a book signing at the barnes noble tent talk to the author and get it signed into the end of this exchange you can ask at the end of the program. Also cspan book tv is presenting this as well. The book is republic of lies. This book has come out at the right time and i wonder whats behind that. But talk about conspiracy theories to dismiss them as a joke or make fun of them or hold them up to ridicule. It is a reasonable response to events that are complex and people try to make sense of the world that we live in. So why do we have conspiracy theories are we in that golden age and how do they impact the real world that we live in of policies that impact our lives . Ill introduce our author. [applause] so that me respond are we in a
And a tense weekend of protests in hong kong. There are new warnings about the economy. Lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We ended the friday session in the u. S. We some pressure with u. S. Stocks sinking as the u. S. China trade tensions increased. There was such a wild roller as though you on ended the week down half a percent. It is worth noting it was down almost more than 1 at one point, after President Trump says the talks with china could get canceled for next week. Still, it pared back the earlier declines after we heard from a white house official that suggestions that the u. S. Might not do business with huawei anymore, they walked back the comments. Semiconductors were some of the biggest losers in fridays session. The nasdaq down 1 . U. S. Futures at the moment gaining 0. 1 . All eyes now on asia on this monday as we have markets out of action on holiday. Thats right. If you take a look at stocks in asia, they are set to kick off on a cautious note wi
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Hello and welcome. Us secretary of state mike pompeo is on his way to the middle east for talks with both saudi arabia and the uae and an offer to negotiate with iran. There have been days of extreme tensions with washington and tehran and it includes reports of an american cyber attack on iranian weapons, a p pa re ntly cyber attack on iranian weapons, apparently in retaliation for the shooting down of a us drone. Chris buckler reports. Having backed away from military strikes, america is trying to show it is not afraid of conflict with iran. Officials say they launched Cyber Attacks, which they claim disabled iranian systems controlling rockets and missile launchers, exactly the kind of hardware that was responsible for shooting down an american drone over the gulf. With tehran showing off the wreckage and President Trump threatening iran with obliteration if this ends up in confrontation, the International Community is increasingly worried. Everybody must keep nerves of steel. It is
Summer. Lets dive deeper with our markets reporters. On the piggybacking idea of what investors and traders are waiting for jay powell to say, the three year yield up 11 basis saying either investors got it too far up or down, or that the testimony will thanre hawkish or neutral dovish as expected. This chart is in play and expects we will see a the volatility of the fourth bondsr, investors seeking. The more dovish tone of the fan, dropping 2 last week. Expected better than payroll yields, we could see it going to the top of channel. We could see yield backup toward 2. 3 . Im excited to see what jay powell says. Emma also looking forward to what we hear from jay powell. I was watching the s p 500. We saw it close in positive, breaking that two day losing streak. It felt like we were headed for a third consecutive down day. Are very the gains small. Friday is jobs report has the dampening this rate policy. They are less convinced about what the path will be after that. Stockcatalyst to