you for joining us today for our event on the state of the union. when we scheduled this event we expected that president trump would be delivering his annual address to congress on tuesday night. he s not doing so, and the exact timing of the speech remains to be set but we thought we would convene our panel anyway to discuss both what we expect the president to speak about when he does appear before congress, but also more generally to talk about the current state of the relationship between the legislative and executive branch. i couldn t imagine a better panel of folks then my four colleagues here with me to tackle these questions. you have full bios but briefly went with us e.j. dionne, who is the harriman chair and senior fellow in governance studies. benjamin wittes, senior fellow. john hudak, deputy director of the center for effective public management, and vanessa williamson is also a senior fellow. so let us begin. so e.j., some folks have argued this point the sta
these are your markets. lift.le bit of a bounce00 up and a nice in china as authorities say they will do everything it takes to shore up the economy. italian two-year yield. geopolitics for the moment and when it comes to the u.s. economy. italy, the fact it was not downgraded to junk and people, investors are signed a sigh of relief. fiat after the carmaker decided parts to moreto rarely. marelli. we will get the latest from some of the regions biggest chief executives including ryan air s ceo. straight to bloomberg first word news. here is sebastian. outlining theresa may progress on the brexit and a saying it is 95% complete. people attended a demonstration demanding a second vote. secretary said more flexibility on one of the red line on that key issue of the irish backstop. the one big issue remains this breach between the end of the implementation period and the future relationship. if you listen to the mood out of brussels, probably good a pragmatism. we need to see
ms. zezima: welcome, everyone. thanks for coming out on this rainy day. i am the national correspondent for the washington post. we have the assistant secretary of health at the department of health and human services. , visiting fellow from duke university. and john hudak from the center for effective management at brookings. i m going to ask questions. we will hopefully get a robust conversation going and open it up to questions from all of you. i m going to ask everyone on the panel to respond to this question. there has been quite a lot of public policy and limited around the opioid crisis, but the number of deaths is continuing to rise. , given thatg done people are continuing to die at alarming rates? what must be done to stem the tide of overdoses? admiral, go ahead. good morning. thank you for inviting me to be on the panel. i look forward to open discussion. i have trouble sitting down and speaking, but i will do my best. times andsaid many will continue to say,
welcome to surveillance. the stoxx 600 off about one quarter 1%. the hang seng was lower by more than a percentage point. risk off perhaps with the trade war escalation yesterday. thenew those imposition of 200 billion dollars of chinese tariffs were coming. investors took an opportunity to sell. if you look at european equities , the best performers of an media stocks and oil and gas. high. a two-month above $72. brent above 80. they d only be boosting production of customers wanted. they pushed back on trump s demands that prices were too high. three .08r yield at a handle. a 3.08 handle. in the past couple of weeks, we have been seeing treasury yields boost higher but dollar weakness last week. are up 9%. one of the best-performing stocks on the stoxx 600. comcast basically knock it out of the park with its bid. little but below that 1724 right now. we have headlines coming through on the bloomberg. we will show you those numbers as soon as they come through. on surveill
bloomberg surveillance. there is a lot of concern about the coronavirus but it is not impacting markets as much. traders are focusing on the money thinking this can be contained, and earnings better than expected. happening, the u.s. 10 year yield 1.61. on bloomberg surveillance later this hour we speak to the biggest maker of diabetes drugs. let s get to the first word news in new york city. here in the u.s. we begin with the state of the union address, president trump striking a triumphant tone, stating his bid for reelection on the strength of the economy. america s fortunes are on the rise and its future is blazing bright. the years of economic decay are over. make no mistake, it was a deeply partisan affair, the president turning his back on nancy pelosi as she offered to shake his hand. when the speech was over, nancy pelosi ripping up the transcript of the speech. companies pushing into streaming is off to a swift start. disney plus soaring to $29 million by earl