Democracy. Correct nasa administrator bill nelson testified on President Biden 2025 budget request for the agency before the house science, space, and technology committee. He was asked to comment on a number of topics including u. S. russia space relations for de orbiting of International Space station, competition with china and Public Private partnerships. This is two hours and 15 minutes. The committee will come to order. That objection shares authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. Welcome to todays hearing entitled an overview of the teBudget Proposal for the natiol aeronautics and Space Administration for fiscal year 2025. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Today we hear testimony from administrator nelson about the president s25 Budget Proposal fr nasa for fiscal year 2025. This committee plays an Important Role in nasas mission by providing policy direction authorizing activities for the agency. While we make progress with language
For boj officials given you have the week yen that could be adding to the inflation story but still they are not likely to hike at this point. Weekends supports the exporters and today weak yen supports the exporters. And we saw sharp losses in the tech sector. Lets look at korea at the start here because we see it moving a little higher, trade data dropping, first 20 days of april numbers for trade and exports rising 11 for the year, positive for korea and a barometer for global trade as it could play into the story korean won has been against the backdrop very much of king dollars so just recapping the trade numbers for the first 20 days of april, exports up for the year and imports gaining as well and we have as i said again the first 20 days of april so a reversal from a contraction the month prior. Paul australia has just opened for trade and it is a stagnant open but we see modest again modest gains. A theme we saw towards the end of last week even though losses on asx gold stock
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Overnight we had the big spike in treasuries. Certainly putting Dollar Strength into the story and putting pressure on a lot of asian currencies. The japanese yen is a true standout. We had seen the weak in helping some of japans exporters of late. Today though, that story is not translating. Youre seeing them move in the wall street session, weakness in the s p 500, closing down 1 . The nasdaq dropping, in turn, you see that reflected so far in the session. We also have to open for korean equities. We can see in the open here, a drop at the open. Its not just a story of you the u. S. Inflation print that came in hotter than expected. We also saw south koreas president suffered a big loss in the parliamentary vote and that is playing into the dynamic given the opposition gained slots. The president is looking to be in a weaker position for the last three years of his term. We just had some trade data. The first 10 days of april. We saw exports rising more than 20 22 percent, actually,