Ft Still Holding ground in the big apple. First, to our top story u. S. Markets posted a dramatic slide today as global trade has spooked investors. The endt weekly losses of last year while treasuries rallied for the fourth year as the trump administrations trade spats are on multiple fronts. And the s p had its worst month of the year. We want to bring in Michael Regan from new york. A lot of Different Things going on. Where did we see the bloodshed . The bloodshed was widespread. Nine of the 11 main sectors in the s p 500 were down. Theeally stems from surprise announcement of potential tariffs on mexico. No surprise that the president is ratcheting up the immigration rhetoric with mexico. U. S. Mexicocanada have a trade deal that i think most of the market had assumed was near the finish line. It was recommended to go to the senate in mexico by the president there last night. It was believed that the u. S. Congress would be voting on is soon. That calls that into question and it te
[inaudible]. Thank you, ken. [laughter]. Its, its a real pleasure to be here this morning, and thanks to weda for organizing this very, very timely session on nafta 2. 0. As someone who has been involved in the trade, war is too strong, debate is too tame, the vigorous trade discussions weve had in washington over the last 20 years, were certainly at, even in scope of those discussions were at an unprecedented moment right now awaiting to see the unrolling of the adminstations new trade strategy. We have been, weve heard a lot from the president when he was a candidate, when he was president elect. Since becoming president weve heard a lot about mexico. We heard a lot about mexicans. Weve heard a lot about nafta. We heard a lot about china. We heard a lot about it. Pp. A lot of things are going to be ripped up. A lot things will be done away with. A lot of things will be changed, yet we have little in the way of actual specifics that have come out. The president s trade team, some of t
Thank you, ken. [laughter] its, its a real pleasure to be here this morning, and thanks to weda for organizing this very, very timely session on nafta 2. 0. As someone who has been involved in the trade, war is too strong, debate is too tame, the vigorous trade discussions weve had in washington over the last 20 years, were certainly at, even in scope of those discussions were at an unprecedented moment right now awaiting to see the unrolling of the administrations new trade strategy. We have been, weve heard a lot from the president when he was a candidate, when he was president elect. Since becoming president weve heard a lot about mexico. We heard a lot about mexicans. Weve heard a lot about nafta. We heard a lot about china. We heard a lot about it. A lot of things are going to be ripped up. A lot things will be done away with. A lot of things will be changed, yet we have little in the way of actual specifics that have come out. The president s trade team, some of them have been na
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