Talklking office last month. The summit began aboout an hour ago. I understand knnees wra is a ke member of the association of Southeast Asian nations. Japans Strategic Partner and shares basic values. Chief among his priorities is securing a pledge to Work Together on a range of regional issues including addressing chinas growing maritime presence in the nation. Suga wants to step up cooperation in the field of security including holding a meeting of foreign and defense ministers from both countries. He plans to speed up negotiations on the transfer of defense equipment to indonesia. The coronavirus pandemic will also likely be only the agenda. Indonesia has the highest number of cases in southeast asia. Suga will likely offer loans to help limit the economic fallout in the country and hopes to secure a plan to ease entry restrictions for nurses and caregivers coming to japan as foreign workers. Japan is seeking deeper defenense ties with australia a they champion what they term a fre
Changes to the 30 stocks in the index. Three changes that tell a huge tale about where Corporate America is today. Before we get to those changes, though, the old dow jones average had a pretty darn good day rallying 128 points, s p climbed. 7 . Nasdaq jumped. 62 . Wouldve been more except for apple. First president obama talked about more diplomatic kind of more diplomatic outcome, the syrian crisis, perhaps allowing Bashar Al Assad to work with russia. The fluid situation offers a way out of congressional defeat of president obamas war resolution or the possibility of a wider war with far worse consequences than a missile strike targeted at the regimes leadership. Remember, the stock market craves certainty more than anything else, and the uncertainty of waking up and finding out whether we launched missiles last night has kept some on the sidelines, and had others relentlessly selling until either the missiles are in the air or the fear of a strike has subsided. You take that off th
America is today. Before we get to those changes, though, the old dow jones average had a pretty darn good day rallying 128 points, s p climbed. 7 . Nasdaq jumped 6. 72 . First president obama talked about more diplomatic kind of more diplomatic outcome, the syrian crisis, perhaps allowing Bashir Al Saud to work with russia. The fluid situation offers a way out of defeat of president obamas war resolution or the possibility of a wider war with far worse consequences than a missile strike targeted at the regimes leadership. Remember, the stock market craves certainty more than anything else. And the uncertainty of waking up and finding out whether we launch missiles last night has kept some on the sidelines, and had others relentlessly selling until either the missiles are in the air or a fear of a strike has subsided. People selling, what are they doing, probably just side lined or maybe, buy, buy, buy buy plus, second reason to buy. Oil is coming down. The probability of a wider middl