Margaret thank you to all of you for joining us tonight, to our dedicated staff here at George Washington university. To our media partner, cbs news and sirius xm and our incredible production team. Thanks for helping the Bipartisan Policy Center sponsor this wonderful debate. Its the fourth in a series by the senate project. Tonight promises to be an interesting and informative discussion on some of the most Critical Issues facing our country and our world. We are honored that senator chris coons and senator marco rubio agreed to participate in this important program. Thanks to both of them. As you saw in those two video, the genesis of the senate project came from two u. S. Senators who had very different points of view but looked for Common Ground. Youll be hearing from senator tom daschle in a moment with more on their relationship and what it meant for the senate as an institution and for our country and all of us. I also have the privilege of collaborating with senators kennedy a
The japanese Financial Companies because we have the likes of mitsubishi and more, all releasing their numbers. Nomura also one we are tracking, given he reported earlier this week. A big interview earlier with the head of wholesale banking speaking about the outlook for japan. He sees the japanese yen strength coming back so perhaps a question around whether boj moves with the policy settings. He also sees the 10 year yield exceeding 1 . You see continuing yields ticking higher. We are around levels we have not seen going back to november of last year. Equities wise you have optimism but that very much tracks the wall street day given we saw the s p 500 pushing higher ahead of the u. S. Inflation print. Haidi take a look at the day after the budget. The big headline is after back to back surpluses, the budget is set to swing back into the red. A lot of this has been funding for legacy programs were left unfunded by the previous government. Some of this also comes down to some of the s
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