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Good morning. Thanks for your patience director of the Strategy Group yen to welcome to this session on american in goal leadership first i want to take they thank you for giving us this base with our members of our Strategy Group let me tell you about our program this morning the Strategy Group is 35 years old with the notion that even in washington there could be an organization that is nonpartisan we have been resolutely nonpartisan over 35 years the founders meet annually in aspen in colorado to discuss and debate big ideas of americas Foreign Policy and our Global Leadership in each year ...

President of south africas anc. He has been elected president of the anc. President ofuty the anc. He beat the chairwoman of the African Union commission and also the former wife of the former president. We know that he got 2440 votes. We are now seeing the rand react. We saw the rand gaining ground on up to fit optimism that he would be elected, gaining 3. 8 at the moment. Bonds are lower as well. Orot of buying on optimism the hope that it would be a change and be better for the south african economy. Julie hyman is with us. We are halfway through the trading day. Wanted to mention what is g...

Bloomberg scoop. It shelving his plans to study cryptocurrency has fund hend fund. Erik schatzker broke the news. What do we know with this . Erik as you may recall, Mike Novogratz talked about or had plans to start a 500 million Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund biggest regulatory constraints he cannot talk to us, that he talked about his enthusiasm for cryptocurrencies at assets. Stores of value, and tokens that have the potential to change the way that companies did business. He Still Believes in that. Bitcoin wasthe Time Training at about 4000. Or was it just last week . More than 19,000. Mike nov...

Just under 30 minutes until the end of the close of equity trading. A big picture at across asset, equities, a little bit of a mixed picture, ftse 100 in the u. K. With a record high today. Dax and cac 40 trading sideways, a mixed picture in other industries and in the fx face, broad based weakness and the today,shed through 119 just below that now but up 3 10 of 1 . Cable meanwhile has gone above 134, slightly below that now, 133. 97. Up to 10 sub 1 . Fixed income space, the 10 year yields, generally yields moving lower. Metals on the front foot, let an aluminium moving higher with brent crud...

And spending the consumer wants reliability and the consumer will pay for it thats the lesson of the icr, the big consumer conference i spent all day learning from. A day where the dow gained 150 points, s p climbed 0. 13 and prices were higher earlier today. So many retailers are suddenly doing so well from kohls to childrens place to restaurants like darden. Remember, they are owned by olive garden and then end up with a winner, of course, it is never that easy i think its worth focusing on the consumer side. At least for now even as many of the big gains in the market are coming from what w...