Ne on worldwide security threats with the director ofburns, fbi director r wray. They joined other leaders from the Intelligence Community to talk about the importance of continued support for ukraine, the israelhamas, competition with china, and efforts to combat the spread of misinformation. This is about two■ . Hours and 15 minutes. I would like to call this hearing to order and welcome to our witnesses. Ctor of National Intelligence avril haines, cia director bill burns, fbi director christopher wray, assistant secretary for intelligence and research at the state department, brett holmgren. Director of National Security agency, general timothy hop. i and Defense Intelligence ageny dea director jeffrey cruz. Thank you for appearing before the senatentelligence Committee Annual worldwide threats hearing. It is important for congress and the American People to hear the leaders of our Intelligence Community about the threats and challenges facing the United States. I would like to fi
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460, seven basis point move and bitcoin barreling past 67,000. We are too thousand dollars away from the new record high. But as talk about some midday movers, we have some green and red on the screen and we are watching shares of american and boeing after the Airlines Announced plans to buy planes from boeing and airbus and emperor air. American airlines down 3. 5 and boeing up less than. 5 . More on the airlines and a lot of news here, jetblue and spirit edit plans to merge following antitrust concerns here. They are making it official, jetblue up 2. 6 the spirit extending its decline more than 30 present on the day. Jetblue had hoped that the 3. 8 billion dollar deal would boost growth at a time when both are in short supply of planes and pilots. We talk about that later in the show. Shares are continuing to decline. It has eclipsed saudi aramco making at the Third Largest company in the world. Esler shares are slower after shipments from its factory in shanghai plunged yearoveryear
Of qontigo who gave us his expectations for chinas latest factory activity. Its likely to continue for a wild because it is still driven by manufacturing and dependent on global trade and, you know, geopolitical environment, and we are not having any of these right now. Even germanys Industrial Complex is sluggish a bit so its notjust china but everywhere. Global demand in mostly services is given by technical Communication Services and big tech so shows and manufacturing are a bit sluggish, yes. I shows and manufacturing are a bit sluggish, yes. Bit sluggish, yes. I want to talk about bit sluggish, yes. I want to talk about japan bit sluggish, yes. I want to talk about japan because l bit sluggish, yes. I want to talk about japan because it talk aboutjapan because it took markets by surprise in terms of what its central bank has done which makes its Bond Yield Control policy more flexible. What are your expectations about that . Inflation has been above the target for a few months so
Alarm bells are ringing about the outlook for china, but officials remain confident this is a short term blip. Only last month, the chinese premier, li qiang, said his country was still on track to reach its annual Growth Target of around 5 , a modest target after china grewjust 3 last year, one of the weakest showings in nearly half a century. Lets talk through whats at stake with jane foley, head of fx strategy at rabobank. Iam hoping i am hoping she is there. Good morning to you. I am hoping she is there. Good morning to you. Good morning. A fourth month morning to you. Good morning. A fourth month in morning to you. Good morning. A fourth month in a morning to you. Good morning. A fourth month in a row morning to you. Good morning. A fourth month in a row of fourth month in a row of contraction although it is slightly improved from last month, hasnt it . It slightly improved from last month, hasnt it . Month, hasnt it . It has slightly month, hasnt it . It has slightly been month,