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Again, good morning and welcome to the fifth annual United Statesjapankorea trilateral symposium organized by International Student conferences and generously sponsored by Sasakawa Peace foundation usa and the Korea Foundation. We thank you all for joining us on this cold and blustery day as impacted hopefully other parts of the east coast more than us but we know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you that i follow us and paying attention today on social media we like to point out that we have greater a hashtag for todays conference and that is hashtag isctrilat. For those of you not following on instream and twitter that at so my name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master ....
Are at isctrilat d. C. So my name is Alexander Evans and of the your master for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins sais. Perhaps more important for todays event i am an alum of the 63rd japanamerican student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of ways it was bad experience that really continued to motivate me to study japan put you on the path that i am in the creek of that experience. Particularly given that it was right after the march 11 triple disaster, an opportunity when japan was not open to many students to be able to go in and have persontoperson exchange with something that i would say it may sound corny but i changed my life. And so before we get sta ....
For the first time, but economics continue to struggle. And hsbc chairman says china is managing change extraordinarily well. He tells us what he thinks of trump policies. Indeed, thats going to be tracking markets, front and center, we have the whole Federal Reserve issue to be dealt with in the next 24 hours. Theres a 100 expectation that there will be a rate hike, its about what is going to happen in 2017. They say two rate hikes coming up. We can dive into it and see what weve got right now. The next rate hike possibly being as soon as february there as well. 86 chance of that happening after this one which is nearly a 100 probability of the high taking place there. Fed pretty much front and center. Seems like its going to be normalizing. We are 30 minutes from open in china and hong kong. Singapore, taiwan, just coming online. Heidi, how are the markets looking . Were looking a little bit mixed at the moment. Tokyo shares fa ....