Hence were noon in the eastern part of the United States and it has yet to begin formally trading. Were watching that. Were watching crosscurrents of the markets, buoyed about prospects for possibly a china deal and lower Interest Rates at that came with it. Although off the earlier highs, largely on concerns we might be staring down a possible conflict if iran ever since they shot down a u. S. Drone overnight. The concern that it will spike oil prices. That is exactly what is happening but it has not spilled over into the rest of the market. President trump, meanwhile as we mentioned earlier will meet with canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with all his finance ministers in tow as well. Possibility of a proverbial pool spray. You know the drill with that. The canadians are here in town to make sure they nail down the agreement with the United States along with the mexicans. The mexicans okayed it. The canadians okayed it. Theyre worried about the chilly reception on it is getting
Growth and uncertain growth. The aussie dollar is falling sharply on that news. Australian stocks, on the other hand, rallying more than 2 on the news. In asia, japans markets were closed for the Constitution Day holiday. Chinas Managers Index shrinking to a 14month for its 14th month coming in below forecasts. A bit of a mixed picture. Shanghai compost up 2 . And hang seng almost the lower. All eyes on . Yeah, go for it. Moving forward, in pretty negative territory. And germany is lower than 2. Ftse lower than 1 . Italy and spain off by more than 2 perhaps because the eu trimming its 2016 growth forecast to 1. 8 from 1. 9 . Its 2017 growth forecast from 1. 9 to 2 . Also cut Inflation Forecasts despite their efforts to do Everything Possible to try to lift inflation. Watching european financials, ubs reporting a sharp decline in management wealth business. Which was supposed to be all the european banks going into wealth management, they were going to be smoother when it comes to their
Were now into the second week of the edward cusic trial. Cusic is accused of murdering his mother tee years ago on old marion road. Last week we learned abououcusics Mental Health as well as his suicide attempt. Cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson was in the courtroom today. Stephanie, what happened . Throughout tt trial today cusic barely made any eye contact with anybody. He did speak to his attorney when the prosecutors brought up thr witness, dr. Trel. Tranel. Dr. Tranel did not personally interview cusic but he reviewed cusics mental history and gave his expert opinion. He talked about cusics iq test and showed results of the test for the jury. He compared cusics iq results from two different psychologists. Both tests were given ten months apart from one another. Cusics sce differed slightly between the two tests. Based on the tests, dr. Tranel suffer from long term brain damage. Sot well my opinion about that is his behavavr during that call is sufficiently coherent and organiz
Dont fare much better. Of the 20 companies which spend the most on lobbying in washington according to figures by opensecrets. Org, only google is on the list, spending 50 million on influence in washington much the nation a association of realtors spends twice that. And kind of pretty sure that Julie Samuels is a lobbyist though. Her organization, engine, prefers to say it supports the growth of technology, entrepreneurship through economic research, policy analysis is and an advocacy. Let me introduce John Schwartz of usa today, mick hall efram of fortune. Are you or are you not a lobbyist . For starters there is a Legal Definition of lobbyist and i am not one. Okay. Register as a lobbyist. You have to say i am a lobbyist. Correct. We will get to why an undocumented lobbyist . Well, i work in at vo cassie. I work in at vo cassie. We will get to the difference in a second. When one registers as lobbyist, what does that mean that youre not . What is the difference that my understanding
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