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i m suzanne clark, senior evp here at the u.s. chamber and i am delighted to welcome you here today. now, when you have my job, you get to be in this room and say that sentence a lot. but i actually mean it today or mean it more than usual. not just because you re a charming audience, but because i started my career at the american trucking association and you know you don t really ever get it out of your blood i don t think. so it s an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. ed leads our transportation efforts. we re lucky to have him. this is a founding sponsor of iweek. does anybody besides us say iweek? it s a thing, all right. we re a founding sponsor of iweek. and we re really proud to be a part of the bipartisan steering committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event ha ....
the first speaker today is , the author ofnd five books about the men who rode with john mosby during the civil war, his first one is mosby s rangers, which deal with withen from bmi who served mosby, and who has subsequently which tellre books, the story of 110 more men who arved with mosby and it is fifth volume at press right now with will probably be the final volume in that area trade in that series. he s received the jefferson davis historical gold medal. mr. buckland is a graduate of the university of kansas and had a 22 year career in the u.s. army in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, slightly higher than i got to when i was in the army. and he has many awards and serve much of his career in special forces. if you ve seen some of the awards he received her in that time, we certainly thank him for his service. works for the united states government and lives with his wife, maureen, in centreville, virginia with three sons in the title of his pr ....
protesters torched government buildings. is the market already starting to price in his departure? less than half an hour away from the european open and i am not sure if we will see ripples from brazil although that story is important and fascinating. take a look at futures, up across the board here. this is after we had new records in the u.s. yesterday, gains in youn stocks as well and so see european futures gaining here. also take a look at the bund trade. we have the yield coming off fairly substantially so investors are buying german debt right now i m a pushing the 0.8. down to zero blowing out the u.s. german spread. pretty ridiculous, our guests said as the german yields need to come up. that is definitely not happening today. the li na. that is something to talk about having an impact on the euro rates as well. greece is on offer. look at the greek stock market down 2%. you ve equities broadly bid. the bloomberg dollar index is down by .2 of 1% and the yen ....
coming up later on the program, how would brexit be different if the u.k. s labour party won this election? we speak to the shadow home secretary, diane abbott, at 9:30 london time. let s check on your markets. i want to start with crude. a slump weighing on energy shares as global equity markets seem to the heading for a lower finish. crude below $50. it is a little bit higher than it was a couple minutes ago. however, there s a lot of speculation on whether opec stuck to the most predictable outcome in its plans, and what that means for the future. the onshore yuan heading for its strongest weekly gain against the dollar in four months and pound falling as polls show theresa may may be losing ground. let s get straight to the bloomberg first word news. here s nejra cehic. nejra: let s start with the u.s. the justice department has vowed to challenge a freeze of a travel ban against six muslim majority nations. the judge says the directive trips with intolerance and di ....
melting. why are the highest temperatures of the decade essentially the hottest temperatures we ve seen on reco. e ve actually been in a hiatus since t late 1990s. charles: joining me now one of my favorite climatologists peter morici. peter, the fact of the matter this wasn t even about climate, was it? it was about economics. absolutely. this deal was a terrible deal. i wrote that in the watch man times two years ago and on fox s website and so forth. i mean, basically it committed china to start cutting back co2 emissions in 2030 and until then, it could grow. heck, our emissions are lower now than 1990 because american industry has been responding on its own. it does not need the administrative states. by the way, i have sandbags by my back door. and they didn t get wet. charles: yeah, i got i am on a rowboat this weekend, though. i ll keep it somewhere in the house, maybe the garage just in case. it feels to me, peter, and maybe you can help me here. former ....