We will bring you that as well as remarks from some of those mr. Biden had to beat to get the nomination, including former mayor Pete Buttigieg. He will speak in just a few minutes from now. We welcome Bloomberg White house reporter mario. Give us a sense of what joe biden has to do tonight and what he wants to do. What is a win for him tonight . Mario obviously in his 50 year career in washington this is the biggest moment of his political career. This is the biggest speech he will be delivering tonight. His Campaign Said earlier that he will lay out is positive vision for the country and reaffirm his core belief that he can unite this divided nation. So anything that would hit that note would be a win for joe biden. David who is he speaking to . He is speaking to all of us but who is the target audience. If there is one person he wants to reach tonight and maybe change their mind, or at least get them enthusiastic, who is it . Mario he wants to get the voter back that donald trump in
[background sounds]. [background sounds]. Host hello and welcome to the 24th annual book festival. My name is katie and im an executive editor. Here today to talk to amaryllis fox author of the book life undercover comingofage in the cia. It is a wonderful book and i encourage everyone to pick up one down here at the stand. She is going to be signing copies. I will give a quick introduction then i will ask a few questions and leave the last ten to 15 minutes for audience questions. Will have a microphone set up right here in the front and another one in the back. Please silence your cell phones before weplpl start. We dont want any surprises. So even before she finished, studying at oxford, before 911. And before her writing mentor daniel was captured and killed. Amaryllis fox was already invested in the international affairs. She took great risks, a message out of burma when she was just one year out of high school. She eventually got a masters in conflict and terrorism and georgetown
A slight rebound in oil. A pretty significant rebound in copper. The treasurycross curve. Had two backtoback be a equities sitive it will be interesting to see what the sentiment is when we come into work in the morning on wednesday. Still with us, scott rendon. Cohosts joey weisenthal and scarlet fu. Appetitealk about risk , when you look across the globe and you may be look at emerging markets, do you see anything attractive given how far we have seen the dollar move higher and the issues in funding markets . Think there will be some problems. We are also underweight developed International Markets and u. S. Small caps. Right now, we are very focused on u. S. Large caps, u. S. Midcaps. While our targets show positive returns for all of those asset classes, far and away the two best opportunities, at least in capspinion, our u. S. Large and midcaps. We do not want to get overly aggressive in these International Markets. Right now, we are underweight those markets. Well, i did not hear
Walk us through the day. Romaine two things. First, it started with all eyes on washington, waiting to get that almost 2 trillion stimulus package. Summoning some encouraging some some encouraging signals from leaders that this was being worked out. Then we could potentially get a vote today in the senate. Then, it would go to the house. We had the president about effectively reopening the economy by easterday in the u. S. , less than three weeks away. A lot of people took that as an encouraging sign that Economic Activity would at least start to normalize. We saw the s p rally big time. The dow jones had its best day going back to 1933. I know none of us are old enough to remember what was going on in 1933. On that date we had the big rally in the dow, that was just two days after we had that first fireside chat from fdr and he sort of put some optimism back into the economy about what the government was going to do. We are seeing sort of shades of that here where the market is sort o
Early facebook investor roger joints me for a conversation from tech regulation to politics. We begin with the coronavirus and the outbreak spreading beyond china. In the United States, the first known case of unknown origin was reported in california. Two hours north of san francisco. The state is monitoring thousands more for signs of exposure. President trump tapped mike pence the task of overseeing the u. S. Response. Trump spoke from the white house wednesday. Pres. Trump because of all we have done, the risk to the American People remains low. We are ready to adapt and do whatever we have to. This one is different, much different. This is a flu. This is like a flu. I think the stock market will recover. This economy is very strong. Emily but the markets were not all fine, with markets pinned to the virus threats. The s p 500 and dow jones suffered big losses this week. At some point, as much as 10 . As for the tech sector and supply chains, microsoft and apple sounded the alarm.