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Out this new silk road. Whats the environment like in hong kong with the overhang of andchina trade war, the political unrest that led to a lot of demonstration in the last couple of weeks . Can carrie lam shift the focus and gain more confidence among the investing committee as well as government officials. Here more than 5000 expected in the next day or so. We have a lot of guest. Lona ng and simon loong are joining us this hour. They try to build smart cities around southeast asia. Talking about the opportunities for the also simon loong joining us in the 11 00 hour. Talk about fintech, com...

Be paying off, and remaining optimistic in the face of retail hit and miss his. We hear from ceo rob scott. Lets get you started with a quick check of the market close on the tuesday session here in the u. S. It was a wild ride with u. S. Stocks paring back some of the gains we saw in the morning session. The s p 500 lost. 3 and the dow lost 120 points. We saw financials leading to clients and the 10 year yields fell below 1. 5 . We had high volatility in the vix, some trade optimism coming from the g7 but with chinese officials not confirming some of those remarks by President Trump , Investo...

Steve mnuchin says the u. S. And china have made significant progress ahead of new trade talks next month. Iran will also be eight on the agenda. Be on the agenda. And the alibaba cofounder steps down. Kathleen lets take a quick look at how u. S. Stocks ended the session. Lets go write down because the Dow Jones Industrial average up about. 1 . Health care stocks helped boost it. Closed minutely lower. It got within one point 6 of its alltime high. Despite the trade war a lot of people are still buying stocks. Nasdaq down about. 2 . Stock futures pointing higher. Moodys got fords credit rating...

Next, a National History center briefing with a political scientist and a historian who have spent their careers studying americaniranian relations. In light of current tensions between the two nations, they traced the history of u. S. Policy towards iran and Irans Nuclear program, which began in 1957 with the assistance of the Eisenhower Administration as part of an atoms for peace initiative. Good morning. This is an amazing crowd. We have already turned away a good 50 people or more. Kennedy, director of the National History center. I want to welcome you to this rethink on the history of u....

I want to give a few thanks, first to the Mellon Foundation for providing funding that makes these briefings possible. I also want to thank our assistant, jeffrey, for helping o make the arrangements. I want to thank the office of gerry connolly, which booked the room, and i want to remind or explain why there are index cards on your seats and why i passed index cards around. What we will do after presentations by the speakers is we will get questions, and we would like you to write those questions on the index cards, rather than ask them in front of the audience. So, keep your index cards rea...