Your question. Think you, everyone. Thank you, everyone. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here in thank you to the several hundred people joining us virtually as well. And president of the council on Foreign Relations. Today is a rare occasion because we are joined not by one, not by two but by three ambassadors. As a former ambassador, i can tell you how ambassadors time is how valuable ambassadors time is. We are honored the three have agreed to be with us today. All of our panelists today. The ambassador from france, the ambassador from singapore, ambassador from australia on the screen. They know china exceedingly well from prior experiences. Ambassador rudd spent the last eight years at the asia society looking enviously at the council on Foreign Relations across the street. [laughter] comes to washington after having served as Prime Minister and foreign minister and a longtime china expert. Indeed, during covid, ambassador rudd decided to go back to school and get h
Stifle from the strength of swiss franc. And the reverse takeover in the British Assets in a 1. 3 billion pound deal. Good morning, everyone. Another episode of Worldwide Exchange. Good morning to you, seema . Yeah very good how about you . A lot happening in the gold market overnight. Absolutely. Lets get to the stop story. The price of gold has slump tide fiveyear low. The precious metal was trading as much as 4 lower after the asian markets posted. That mood with randall resources hit the hardest. Spot gold currently off at 1. 6 . And s p down 10 . Northern star down by 0. 2 . And the chinese selling and triggering stop loss orders. 1 million being traded on that very exchange. Thats after the government said on friday that the gold reserves were up 57 from six years ago, abdomen that was a lot less than people had had anticipated. A lot of factors seem to be weighing on the price of gold right now. You also have the fed indicating that they will raise rates sometime this year in th
Im pleased to cochair this hearing on the present and future impact of Virtual Currency. My friend senator merkel and i appreciate the work senator heller has done and senator kirk will be joining us as well. Were going to do this a little different because its a joint subcommittee hearing i will chair the first panel and the senator will chair the second. The uses of Virtual Currencies have proliferated in recent years. My hope for this hearing is to educate the Senate Members and others and start the education of the public about Virtual Currencies, including the potential and drawbacks. I also hope to explore how regulators are keeping up with this technological innovation to protect consumers. Ive got a full statement here but i actually have to acknowledge that ive been following this development of bit coins for the last two months. I would think im only starting to wrap my head around the potential upside, downside, regulatory issues, Monetary Policy issues, taxation issues, Con
And how do we know it will last. Well, we need to tell the tore to the first question. Here is a lot of what we accomplished to compare where afghanistan was in 2001 with where they are today. And then to take it to the next level by, as laura said, talking about why this is still important for the United States. So im hoping that in the next year, because this upcoming year is the critical year, we will have a much greater awareness and a better connection among people who know whats at stake in afghanistan from either a moral perspective, a human rights strategic, strategic, economic, political, whichever way you enter into it, every one of those is at stake and to think of ways we could be creative to support the women and men who are trying to move afghanistan forward. We will certainly, the three of us, be deeply involved in making that case. But we need a virtual army now that the real army is leaving, we need a virtual army to help us make the case and to build that awareness he
Hour with no signs scientists are remotely close to a vaccine, much less a cure. Should we start counting the months until this disease strikes again here in the u. S. . And a crisp virginia afternoon giving way to a grisly scene and crime tape. Police finding human remains deep in the virginia woods. Have they finally found university of virginia student Hannah Graham . Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Were going to begin with the national lead. She was supposed to get married this week. But instead, the fiancee of thomas eric duncan, the first u. S. Ebola patient to die from the virus is trying to sort out how to return to some sense of normalcy now that her famililess been released from a 21day quarantine. The quarantine denied her the chance to attend a weekend Memorial Service for duncan, the man she loved. Seemed almost miraculous that louise, her son and two nephews nfr contracted the virus despite being in contact with duncan. The two nurses wearing protective gea