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Held by the council on Foreign Relations, this is an hour. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to todays council on Foreign Relations meeting with senator chris murphy. Ill be presiding over our conversation. In addition to the Council Members in washington, i want to welcome those of you around the country who are watching on cspan this afternoon. Obviously todays meeting is on the record. Our speaker is senator murphy. He was elected to the senate in 2012 after representing connecticuts fifth Congressional District for two terms in the u. S. House of representative. The senator services on the appropriations committee, health committee, and most appropriate services on the senate Foreign Relation ....
We will have exquisite interview with the chairman and founder of Colony Capital, tom barrick. We want to check in on the markets. Jon is taking a look at the turkish indices and the turkish lira. Jon equity markets are down 5 . Not reflected elsewhere, you can see markets in europe fairly stable, the ftse outperforming, a third of 1 . There is a big move there. There is a 40 premium offered by softbank or that deal look looks like the ftse gets a nice little lift. Market, the turkish lira, a big move. Slightly stronger in todays session. But that riskoff tone not really reflected in the fx market, it is a weaker japanese yen story. We trade at 105. 62 on the session. In the bond market, this is where things get interesting. Last week, an ugly session for treasuries. Ields up 20 basis points again today, you see bond yields inching higher on treasuries. In the commodity market, slightly softer. 47. 36 is how we trade on brent. Ali ....
Held up the arms of moses so that joshua could defeat the amalachites, the greatest enemy of the jewish people. Today rabbi leonard motomky will give the memorial prayer. Rabbi William Gershon from dallas, president of the Rabbinical Association of the conservative movement will give the prayer for israel. And rabbi fred reiner, chair of the atid Legal Society of the central conference of american rabbis will give the prayer for the United States, and they will help us hold up our hands as a unified people in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in israel. And a great thing about rabbi matonky who is going to go first. As they lead us in the prayers, theyre going to do it quite quickly because we dont have that much time today. And thats not easy for rabb ....
After me, we appreciate that they have all strongly supported israels right to defend itself. We also appreciate their efforts to help israel achieve a sustainable ceasefire. And i speak directly for my Prime Minister here. The criticism of secretary kerry for his good faith efforts to advance a sustainable ceasefire is unwarranted. [applause] there is broad understanding between israel and the United States about the principles for a sustainable ceasefire, and we look forward to continuing to work closely with the United States to advance that goal and a durable solution to the problems in gaza. The demilitarization in gaza is critical if any ceasefire is to prove durable. Hamas must not be allowed to rebuild its war machine. Effective mechanisms must be put in place to assure that cement is not used to build terror tunne ....