2020 the Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us our Investment Committee with us today. Jim, the brothers, megan and cnbcs jim cramer. He, the host of mad money. Stocks up for the first time in four days. Trade headlines again the stories, still the worst week for the dow in four months investors getting whip saw ed b the deal no deal drama jim, just call me when a deal and im done okay i cant deal with this day in, day out. Theres a deal, theres no deal. May not wait, may not have one before the election. Were close, were not close i was a judge on the apprentice for many years. There are always two sides i have to tell you, many time, sworn about what happened in the actual room, but we wanted these guys to be pitted against each other. The ratings wouldnt go down if it was just resolve like this. We had to kind of have an eliminati elimination. You got kudlow schwartzm schwartzman, navarro perhaps. So what happens is t
A living as the iraqi capital is overrun by protests. Students in hong kong have paralyzed the city for a 5th day in a row over night protesters fired arrows and threw molotov cocktails from University Campuses are calling on the government to commit to holding local elections on november 24th demonstrators are gathering for a rally in the Central Business district on kong is experiencing one of its most violent weeks since antigovernment protests began back in june rob mcbride joins us now from hong kong so rob whats whats happening where you are today. Thats right michel well this week is ending with another unprecedented rally bringing the center of hong kong to a standstill just as the week begin of course this week we have seen a change it seems to tactics with the protesters having these flash mobs right type of demonstrations targeting transport links some major highways and so on and today friday again they have brought some various areas of Hong Kong Island to a standstill we
Towards the airport as well and of course their main. Reason for this is to cause as much destruction as possible but there were there were calls by the civil by the government to a civil disobedience protest take place as well which would involve the cutting off of streets as well as hitting the Main Communications areas and transport hubs well such as the airport but this is something that is going to definitely be continuing throughout the week. Still ahead for your knowledge is there at least 3 protesters killed in guinea during a rally condemning the president s plan to run for another term. I once again welcome to the look of the international forecast has seen some sharing just spilling out of the caspian sea across parts of northern iran is in the process of play tiring out so its looking largely dry and sunny as we go on through the next couple of days to run it 25 celsius further east getting up to simla temperature in kabul 35 therefore kharaj a little more clout across the
Negative situation when the trading day gets underway. That is a long way off for the moment. Nikkei feeling it. The hang seng, lower. Shanghai feeling that down drop. Lets get to those moving parts. The u. S. 30 year treasuries, levels we have never seen before. 1. 9. The whole curve is below two into the u. S. We have stronger than expected fors fixed gain. Is the message still continually one where we are seeing them sending this message out that the yuan is not a oneway bet . 11 days of declining. The new Zealand Dollar on track to go down to 62 u. S. Cents. Confidence to come out earlier on in 11 years. We will be hearing what is going on. We will be talking to this San Francisco fed president mary daily later on. U. S. Dollar against the pound, here we go, we have the have the last headline. We will have five weeks of that parliamentary debate. Some are saying they are trying to stifle a deal on brexit. Effect, thees in most viable option, i guess the most embedded on option righ
[applause] thank you all for coming. Thanks to cspan and its important audience as well, my new book, the rise and fall of peace on earth, revolves around a particular question. The question is, what are the prospects for peace . That is a timely question at any point and i will give my answer in the course of my remarks but it does presuppose, another question not often asked but one that is also relevant to the book. That question is, what do we mean by peace . How do you define peace . The obvious definition is, peace is the absence of war. Thats always welcome but its not very rigorous. After all, the world hasnt spent its entire existence in a continual war. War isnt continual if its episodic. So i propose a somewhat regulation or deep peace. As the absence not only of war but of the eminent threat of war. Emergent preparations for war. Its the absence of Foreign Policy conducted under the cloud of war. That is an unusual circumstance. Indeed by my reckoning as i see in the book w