Outlooks. We will also hear from the usda chief economist at this forum. It is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning, everybody. If you could please find your seat. I would like to welcome everyone to usda 96 annual outlook forum. Usda oldest annual meeting. I am stephen, deputy secretary of agriculture. It is great to see everyone here this morning. This years theme is that innovation imperative. Shaping the future of agriculture. This is a fitting theme for the secretary to announce something we have been working on at usda called the agriculture innovation agenda. We are excited to share more with you this morning. I am joined in this room by many of you that are working to shape the future of our agriculture economy. It is important that we take stock, not only where we are today, but also where we need to go to meet a growing Global Demand with rising standards of living at a time when producers are dealing with uncertainties in the farm economy and the conditio
Good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen im wilfred frost good morning to you from me as well well get to the markets and the agenda including an ecb meeting, but first the latest on Hurricane Irma the most powerful atlantic hurricane on record hammering a string of northeast caribbean islands with winds up to 180 Miles Per Hour the category 5 storm has already killed at least eight people millions are without power in the caribbean. In the island of barbuda, 90 of the buildings have been destroyed. A full report coming up as florida, georgia and the carolinas brace for irmas arifl arrival. U. S. Future force y u. S. Future force y for you a day of gains a quarter percent move higher yesterday, that comes off a selloff on tuesday but that was the only negative session in six for the dow and eight for the s p and nine for the nasdaq, within all this talk of pullbacks and directions is well worth noting. So yesterday slight gains by a quarter percent. This mornin
There. The price going up a little bit and the yield coming down ever so slowly. Road map this morning starts with the historic day for the eu. U. S. Markets as you just say are mixed at the premarket. The uk formally begins brexit negotiations to which britains Prime Minister said theres no turning back. Plus, betting on robots. The largest money manager blackrock changes the ways it picks stocks. And President Trump expected to sign a bill that clears the way for providers, your isp providers, to sell your browsing history. Well, one day after the dow snapped the eight session losing streak and the s p posted the best daily pormdz erformance in weeks, history is being made in uk. Theresa may has triggered the twoyear process or what could be the proyear process of britains depart chur from the eu. And this is how theyll approach trade. We will no longer be members of the single market. We are going to make sure we are going to make sure that we can strike trade agreements with countr