No we're going to get lunch with our friends, I'm here for the weekend I was just going to come up for like Monday Tuesday because I'm in studio but I uh Ryan got off so I came earlier to hang, I slept three hours last night and I didn't sleep at all on the plane so wish you best, what? Wish me luck, wish you best, um I got 15 minutes of REM sleep so I'll be going to bed early. I just got three drinks, this is the best pizza ever. The job is kicked off Tinder and the founder, or one of the founders of Tinder is sitting like two like tables away from us so we're going to have her go get our account back. Well you can make slight mention of it, just a nice hello, how are you? By the way, if you don't mind I didn't have a quick question. We're making it to Cha Cha Matcha for my night show latte, they're making me be your followers, you realize the crosswalk is barely, so cute. You don't understand the significance of this drink guys because this drink is never, like it's never working, it's like the McDonald's ice cream thing, the nitro matcha latte, it's really good. Good morning guys from Los Angeles, it is seven something and Dominique and I are both up, Dawn has recently become a morning person and I keep forgetting, how do you like your life as a morning person? This Saturday I walked in here tiptoeing and Dawn's house is like why, it's like older, it's like what I want in my nice house, well I guess I haven't said that yet but I kind of troubled. I haven't told them about the house fully yet, we'll talk about that in the next vlog. The one issue with it is that every step you take it makes a noise and then I feel like I'm waking everyone up but she was already awake so don't even worry. I started a new book called To Love Jason Thorne, the night before I left at like 11 and I slept like three hours it was horrible and I couldn't eat whatever and I would have read the entire thing in one sitting but I made myself go to bed even though I couldn't possibly and I kept reading it and I finished it before my flight even took off the next morning, it is so good, like very like steamy romance, very like like smart or whatever they call it. What does that even stand for by the way? Do you know? Okay, thank you. Anyway it's so good and there's a second book in the series so I started that last night at like 8 a.m. and I went to bed but it's Saturday, I'm going to try out a new workout, the heated room and I'm going to blue out all with his friend and then I'm going to come back and change and then I need to go to Beverly Hills, I'm going to get a blowout, I'm going to I'm going to stop at Jennifer Fisher, it's like a whole thing you know, but anyways whenever I come to LA I just, when I vlog I like forget to talk to the camera, I just film like, I don't know, whatever. I've also brought my product sides back that Dom said were really ugly but I bought them anyway, so I brought them here to spy on her. When I bought them and I was in New York with Preston that I faced on you and he said no don't buy those. Dom's new thing, it's like she gas lights me like crazy, I was like I promise you she said that. Anyways, hope you're having a great day. I'm thrilled over the moon. I'm back at Dom's, I just showered and changed, I'm going to Beverly Hills, I did a little bit of shopping this morning, Dom's at coffee with a friend right now and then I'm going to get a blowout and then I think we're probably, I'm at least getting lunch with Sab, I don't know the exact plans. The heated room class was really good, it's easier than hot pilates. If you've done hot pilates and you hated it, the heated room, I just feel like heated yoga from the most part of all the classes that I've taken is typically a little bit easier than hot pilates, but it was really good. It wasn't that hot either, I liked it. It was a good like weekend class. I also did a little bit of makeup, which I haven't put makeup on in like a week and I'm going to regret it because they're going to get my face wet with the blowout, but I brought some stuff, which I never do. I'm coming prepared, if you will. So this is my look. Top of skims, bottoms are, I think they're, or what are they? Yeah, they're T and A, they're Ritzia, and then I'm just wearing, oh my god, and then I'm just wearing new balances. I can't decide if I want to bring my, I feel like I don't really want to bring these even though I do want to listen to something. I'm looking at stuff like an hour. I don't need them, I don't want to carry them. And then my sunglasses, which are Versace, which I somehow messed up in Europe. How do I fix this? Like, I don't even know. So, anyways, this is my look. Got some new earrings. Not the ones I expected to buy. They're cute though, I like them. These are my favorite hoops ever. I wear traditional hoops every single day. Just got a smoothie from Creation, the Yellow Diamond. It is my favorite smoothie ever. I haven't had it in so long, but it is so good. I just met up with Dom. He's not doing look slayed. Hey, you look slayed. I guess the guy that she went on a date with is in the restaurant. Okay, okay. This is better, I like it. No, this is better. Why would you put more clothing on? Okay, we gotta go, we gotta go. We'll keep you guys safe. You have to order for whatever you get. Whatever you get, I'm not happy with it. We sat down and we're like, literally directly in front of him. And I've never seen Dom so stressed ever. I told her we could leave 15 times. Yeah, you look slayed. Hey guys. Yeah, so it's time to return this time. We were right just behind me in the kitchen. And I have literally had these things when I was taking and I know... I've never seen her this stressed. Yeah, I should. This is worse than you when you used to get nervous or like around a crush. When you were like 20? I would never. And like I always feel like going on a date with like... But speak for yourself. It's like literally like my flags. I'm like, oh yeah, yeah. No, no, no. I know what I'm going on a date with. He's literally the chef. Oh, he's the chef. Open kitchen. Oh yeah, by the way. Hopefully he doesn't poison my food. I hope he doesn't get our food orders confused. Make sure you get something that like is very different and I'll make it very obvious that that's your food versus my food because I don't want to get poisoned. If you get poisoned, that is not on me. Okay, goodbye. Enough. Guys, I just asked Dom what percentage her phone is at.  She was 152. Thank you. She's so nervous. Oh, she's so nervous. 152? Don't go on dates because they're actually really bad for you. Don't have one night's dance though. That actually, like they were onto something with that role. And yeah, just like honestly at the end of the day, like when it's all said and done, when you really get down to the point, yeah, 152, like. Talking because she's so nervous.  Yeah, when it's all said and done and shaken down and we then I think like. That's right. Yeah, also by the way, great. I'm so excited. There's an art place pop up on Melrose. So beautiful. This is amazing. This is just actually amazing. I just love everything. It's been a really wild turn of events. I was, it's 10 p.m. which is midnight my time. I see. I don't want the black and black because it really washes me out and then we'll do my makeup. Somehow Don got me to come out. Me? I literally did not even, I said, I literally, Kessie was like, I can't, like I'm exhausted and I was like, I do really want you to come out, but I'm not going to force you to come out. And then I was like, all right, well, bye. Kessie was like, wait, I think I have energy. Yeah, something just happened. It's weird. I haven't been sleeping well and I've been able to sleep lately. So anyways, yeah, I don't know. Something, something changed in me. I was lying on the couch. They were watching TV. I watched a little bit of it. All of a sudden, we're going. Which I was waiting for. Anyways, how was your day? How are you feeling since lunch?  Like I literally kept trying to be like, think of like coherent facts or thoughts, like name five things you see, like name five things you can touch, like whatever. And I like couldn't like, I was like shutting down so bad. For everyone, by the way, because we posted this and everyone commented, yes, it is the guy from the show. That's what we said. And okay, so this, Oh my God, you're like really going on like a world tour because every, No, because every show that I will, the show, They all want stories. They literally just keep asking, what's the last date you went on? Yeah. And don't start going on a date. So I literally haven't gone on a date since that. And so I'm like, That wrote it for you? It didn't wrote it for me. I just was like after that, I was just like, I'm just exhausted. I went on like literally so many dates. Like I should have done the 2022 recap, like date thing. Oh, you still can. Just like my last year of dating.  Like I don't like that I sometimes, like I don't like that I can't remember all the people I went on a date with. Yeah, I can't relate. In my lifetime. You know what I mean? I mean, Yeah, I guess. But I just don't like that. Like even people are like, Oh my gosh, I guess. Yeah, when you did go on a date. And I can't even remember some of their names. Like I don't like that. I don't like that I can't remember people's names. Like that's crazy. I guess. It's not crazy, but Yeah, I mean it's kind of wild. I just like don't want to be a person who like can't remember things. I'm like this isn't good. Yeah, no. I mean not remember names.  Especially when you're like, Well I would care more if I take someone that I just met. Of course, but I'm like, Bro, I don't care about these. I'm like, well in my mind too, if I don't like, If it doesn't work out with someone in my mind, I'm like, I'll never see you again. Like this town's not big enough for the both of us.  Actually, not in the past. Dude, I haven't. Not for people that I've dated. Well, actually that's not true either. I haven't ran into a freaking soul. This is the first time this has ever happened to me. And I was like, shook the shook up. Like the shake, like the shake up, shake down babe. Like it was not good. Kenzie was going to have to like, literally hug me. Cause I've like never seen you like that. And I've seen Dom, like every single emotional state that you could possibly see someone in, in the extremes. And I've never, you don't get like nervous. I feel like, if I do get nervous, I think still I get like bashful. Yeah, but I don't get like, you don't get like, like I can't operate. I literally couldn't even like, like I was just like, oh my god, like, what is happening? This is so bad. This is so bad. But, she persisted. And we're persisting onto tonight. So anyways, I'll probably talk to you guys tomorrow. Wish me, wish me luck. Good morning guys. We are at creation. I got the yellow diamond smoothie again. Waiting on our food. I have a workout class in like 10 minutes. And Dominique drove me. So kind of her. We're getting the same breakfast. This is my favorite smoothie. Do you like it? Yeah. I see these all the time. No. Okay. Don just said, it's healthy. I think it's good. No, it's good. It's a smoothie. It's a smoothie. It's good guys. Hi guys. Happy Sunday. Dominique and I are on our way to get some coffee. I worked out this morning.  I'm going to join in Venice tonight. Eat the whole thing. I got right back from my workout. And did you notice that I showered and got ready in like 5 minutes? Yeah. It's pretty quick. This is what I'm wearing. Nothing too special? Slay. I'm really tired. I haven't had coffee all day. And it's like 2pm. I was really just thinking that. Yeah. I kept yawning in my workout class. And the teacher kept talking about it. And I was like, Alright. She said she's gone too. It's because it's heated. You can't get like a, it's 100 degrees in there. You can't really get like a full breath out. It's hard to breathe. I just can't. You know? Like that made me like feel super, like right now. I just felt the heat on my face. It just like ruined your day. Drain me. Good morning, y'all. It is 8am.  But I messed it up in like a heated workout and I'm recording like 6 episodes today. We are recording with Mari, Peyton, Dom, and Mami. So I have I think like actually 5 recordings because 2 of those are swabs. I'm just packing my bag. And then we're going to go. I do have a nice break in between which I normally don't have breaks in between so it'll be nice to like get food and you know, not like die throughout the day. So I'm just wearing a really casual outfit. Today's going to be a chill day. Pretty much all the recordings are like kind of chill. But yeah, I'm going to go and like finish up my episode prep. I have my episodes prepped but like just like look over while I'm getting my hair done. It's going to be a good day. Back to dear media. I've been to the L.A. studio in a few months. So it's always good to go. Dom is such a diva when she's in the studio. It's crazy. I'm actually working for you because I was going to wear my orange sweater and then I was like I'll have the orange soda. Yeah, actually I almost wore that sweater today. Actually, I do have a story I could tell. From the podcast? I was trying to think of a story. You don't have No, because you have been in a healthy, stable relationship for like six years now. So honestly, it's crazy. Seven years. Seven? Well, yeah, actually. Seven. Yeah. In two weeks. That's so wild. Isn't that so insane? Yeah. It's like 6.30. And that's going to work out. I'm wearing this year of our set. Hocus. I'm going to be evolve with Maddie. Last night after the studio I just came home and waited around in red. Today I have three more recordings and then after that we have dinner with JC, I think. And then bringing it off Ryan and then tomorrow I'm not really working and then I go home. So it's going to be a pretty easy day. Just so excited to go work out. I really need to. I'm also wearing my set. Active set. I love is like one shoulder supports across from them with the sculpt flex I think material or whatever. They weird. They're so supportive. Like I wear them in cardio. It's really wild. But anyways, set is your bars. Ready to go. Going to Alfred. Just left people. Great workout. Okay guys. Now I'm heading off to the studio. I'm getting my stuff together. I'm bringing my puff bag. As like my work bag with my headphones. Oh, I forgot I got orange juice at Alfred. What a nice surprise. My laptop. All that stuff. My bag. I'm going to bring a hoodie because I'm cold. I'm only doing three recordings today. So I will be in and out so quickly and only two are for my show which is it's easier to gas on someone's show obviously. So I'm about to go and I'm wearing a skim dress. So cute. And I brought a loafer's. And that's it. Hey Busties. We're back. Ryan's here. Ryan and I are having a nice sleepover and Dom. But obviously this is Dom's house. There's couches all the time. Well you know this is new too. Oh, we should have Dom do an 8GT tour. This is a top-breaking couch. This is a world-class night. I think back on all of the couches that I've sat on. Mm-hmm. This is top-breaking. Wow. I wonder where it's actually done. It is a very nice couch. Let me give you guys a little. It's spacious one, right? Yes. Spacious, comfortable. It's got a nice texture to it. One more could you ask? Truly and this over here. I mean that's truly the best. I'm wearing Dom's hoodie, my jeans, and my proper loafer's. What do you guys think of these shoes? Personally, I love Dom's cousin. It's fine. It's fine. I'm fine. I'm going to do the great whites. Wait. Second time in four days. Yeah, and I'm probably going to do the exact same thing. They have this salmon pizza that is unbelievable. People ask me what my La Rex are all the time and I don't have Rex because I go to the same four places. New York friends would say it's to die for. Yeah. Truly. It's so good though. Oh my God. We're meeting up with Jaycee and Tyson, if you will, French. Yeah, I'm really excited. We're doing a little bestie date. I'm so excited for you guys too many excited.  There's just no one who besides you involved, of course. My two funniest friends. Besides them, he's like number three, you know. I did bring your besties to dinner night. How cute. Oh yeah. I was not paid to say this. Actually, by the way. No, no, no. Because I'm not just saying this. Everywhere I go with this bag, someone stops me. Did that happen when you're wearing it? Yeah. Like, every single woman is like, where'd you get that bag? Studying. How much one day and I literally like give them a spiel. I haven't memorized it. It was amazing.  I kid you, yeah, it's the best. And we just went to dinner. It was great. We didn't go to dinner. I'm just confused as to why Donald wouldn't go to dinner. I'm honestly really surprised about that. Just go. She said she would do a dance workout. Just a little. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. It's just something like, right? Just having what happened in the quintessential Beverly Hills morning. It doesn't get the perfect, the streets are perfectly lined with palm trees this morning. There's not a cloud in the sky. We're going to work out. We're going to Whole Foods first. I haven't been to this Whole Foods since, like, Connect Groups. Is that crazy? It's not the best. I like it because it's older. It's like cozy. Yeah, it is. Yeah. It's a kind of real neighborhood feel to it. It brings you back to, like, drama in college. Like, I can think of, like, three things that happen here. Yeah. That makes we need to hear Vamonte. We haven't even talked about it on the blog yet. It's a good outfit. Guys, we're going to make Ryan a TikTok star. Everyone, please go follow Ryan's TikTok. It's really something. We're going to be both chicken and talking. Chicken and talking. We made it to John and Denny's. Our workout went great. I loved the equinox.  I just felt I slept fine. What would you think your issue was? I think I was just sensitive to the space, you know? So I, yeah. I was just, I was halfway there. I was living on a prayer. Interesting. Well, we're at John and Denny's. We're getting breakfast. What did you do this morning, Ken? What did we do? We woke up at 6 a.m. Oh, at the gym? Mm-hmm. Oh, I, well, I told you I was going to have acid. I said, I did, maybe I did, like, between like an 8 to 10 incline for like 30 minutes, like whatever. And then I like kind of did this. We stretched a lot.  I don't even, like, when I'm in, like the workouts to begin and they stretch, I get this over with. That's so funny to me. You didn't have acid at all. I mean, I could have given a lot more. You did cardio. You did 30 minutes of cardio. I did this. You did some shoulders. You did some I did this. It's just crazy because these days I'm just so strong from what you looked at. I'm literally a bodybuilder. So I think that like anything feels lesser. You know? Yeah. Yeah.  That's crazy. Yeah, I know. Wow. Yeah. I love our little Beverly Hills morning. This is the only part of Los Angeles that I did. I feel aligned this morning. Oh, I love the walkthrough. You know, I was here the other day. You know, the dry bar and Jennifer Fisher right next to our neighbors. They were thinking of me. It's underrated. Don't you think so? This neighborhood? Yeah. People sleep on Beverly Hills. I think people think of it as like extravagant flamboyant. But it has small town charm to it. There's a quaintness to it that people like if you don't see it in the movies. No. I like the quaintness part of it. I don't care about like rodeo. I care about the like small town. So anyway, we're having some breakfast. Making some TikTok, doing a TikTok challenge. Working on Ryan's future career and the digital space. It's true. We've got some good tits talks through it. Right. Sometimes have you thought you were just going to hang out and I cornered you into a Christmas tree. It's a regular endemic. A good amount. I wouldn't have it in any other way. I do this to everyone. So anyway, it's by the way my hoodie. It's Dom's but it's about happy. Very cute. This office is beautiful. All right guys, the L.A. trip is coming to an end. Dom has been I'm about to head back to Texas tomorrow night. We have the calentines thing or work out the morning Just got to get back in the zone if you will This was a great trip. It's just like Bizarre to me that I ever lived here. I know it's like very weird and like when I come back It's like nostalgic just because I love like my certain friends here But it is very wild to me that I ever lived here like I just feel like it is so not me It's very very weird. I don't know how to describe it other than it just feels like it is so not me But I had a great time and I am ready to be home I'm always ready to be back in Texas. Honestly, so I'm packing up my stuff by the way this Luca I actually probably will use my path bag But yeah, actually switch thought anyways this Luca duffel is the best carry-on. I will link it below It is just so good, but I'm trying to get as much in here as possible I just want like an easy chill like the last thing over here. I was gonna play it, but it is what it is So anyways That was my LA trip and then we'll resume when we're back in Texas. Good morning from Texas guys. I'm home I have my coffee. I'm about to go into hot flotties I got back last night and I read and I went to bed and now I'm in this new look It's so cute. You follow me on Instagram or talk to you as you've seen it this new set From out your voices. I think it's like their seamless collection. I will link it because it's amazing. It's also one shoulder one thing about me I love a one-shoulder Sports bra, so anyways going in I've been like really I mean I'm always my workout crime, but like Really like looking forward to it every day, which is the best feeling and I'm just I'm so excited truly I'm back from blotties. I changed. I'm running errands. I'm getting a blowout. I Have so much to do because tonight is our Dallas Gallantons party So we have a lot of girls coming Some of the alcohol is being delivered like super last minute, so I might just go Pick some up. I don't know. I'm gonna work from the chair, but I need to get my car washed desperately I had to pick up dry cleaning. I just have a lot Happen and I need to stop by our Cosby because I need to go get a gift because I have a nephew Being born next week and Sophie becomes a big sister So I'm gonna get them like matching little cowboy boots over keel and just like stuff to make it like special and sentimental like outside So anyways doing that and then I'm gonna come back get ready and then eventually I'm going to go to the space early to help set up obviously so Here I just hit it's like peak adulthood. Well first things first. I think I forgot to vlog completely I wouldn't go to blow out my hair looks amazing. I go to Erica. I do have a driver of membership And I get to dry blowouts there a month and then I also go to Erica Erica's actually my favorite bloods They're brother pricing and just the best bloods in general, but I just get blows like too often too You know ruin her schedule like that. So anyways, just for myself you guys can go Anyways, if you go to Erica and you wish my name you get money off She does everything but like a really good blowout and it is the best price that I have a Dallas and I love her It's the lefty stylist on Instagram. I tag her on my Instagrams and TikTok and stuff But anyways, I've reached peak adulthood today because I dry-cleaned my bedding Okay, and I was supposed to stuff last week and I totally forgot until today. So I'm going to go But you look so cute I'm going to actually my bedding on because I feel like I'm like right now You know when you're like in college and you don't have like real adult bedding and then Like any time my bed is messed up it makes me feel like I'm in college again And that's just like not a good feeling. So one sec BRB also looking how cute she looks Hi bestie My best girly. I just love her so much Oh, I just love you She's not interested in me. But guys, it's gonna be beautiful. She's looking.  Oh My god, guys, she looks stunning. Oh Coco you look incredible Keep it up girly. I could literally just stare at her for like years Okay, so it's looks better, but I'm in the middle bunch of stuff and I can't really fluff it all And I'm sitting here and you know, whatever, but at least I have my bedding back I think I'm gonna wear this tonight. It's gallantines attire.  I don't know. I'm honestly hitting a wall I only drink half my coffee this morning. So I need to go make another coffee Unbox some stuff get things together. I'm gonna start getting ready in like an hour. I've got to pick up some things Spritz came through like super last minute. I'm so excited. Spritz is actually really doing great in Texas They're a GB specs like so many places So if you're in Texas be sure to go check them out But they're giving us like I think it's a hundred hundred fifty cans So we're gonna have so much sprints for tonight. Oh my god. Okay. Hi guys. I'm back. I'm dressed I'm wearing these like silk pants from daily drills. I got them in a size. Well, okay, I should have steamed them But my steamer is I think it just this car for the okay and stuff I'm not seeing them. Am I kidding guys should anyways these pants are daily drills and I got them in a size medium I would have gotten them in a size small. I don't even think that these are available anymore though So never mind everything that I said, but if they are Yeah, because they're oversized I have this sweater that I got at Zara months ago And I haven't worn yet because you know like all my closet is pink and I really need to stop buying pink But I just continue to do so actually don't need to stop buying pink It's just my hair color to wear and I have you guys sit pink heels. These are a same element. I have my scarf I'll probably wear a coat. I can't Decide it because I just don't know if I feel like lugging out around and then I am wearing My new bag if you guys watch the line of law actually vlog after that You know that I bought this brand new left it in London and it made its way back to me So this is my lucky girl syndrome bag.  Anyways And I'm gonna pick us up Jenner at sweet green the event starts in three hours.  All right guys. We're here. The event is starting I'm really hot. I really should have I should have something tight on top, but I was just not feeling it today It's just well, yeah, because Jessica, which we are all for these jeans We didn't even buy them together. It's wearing her Fendi skims. What a fashion queen We've set up the pop-up area. We have so much food How cute this is looking so much spritz guys spritzes like all of our types of these days are also available at H.E.B. Now we have ranch riders, which is basically like ranch water is very good and then son of a butcher So much food. You have a cheese board. I mean an ollie pop I'll talk everything below but amazing All right guys. I'm finally home It is 10 30 and I am socialized out. I am just I need a nice day tomorrow. I'm gonna have a nice Recharging day I work out. Okay, that was not as I say Like I was saying I'm gonna work out. I'm going to maybe my nails done Gonna get a little bit of work done read. I'm going to the ranch Get dinner with friends. It's gonna be very chill Friday So if you guys enjoyed the Zigg My Life vlog I'll be here so much and I'll see you guys next week How do you keep work-life balance with a nine to five?


Hello and welcome to CMC Mark, it's on Friday the 30th of November and this quick look at the week ahead beginning the 3rd of December and we've got quite a bit of event risk coming up. First and foremost we have the OPEC meeting, we have a couple of central bank meetings and we also have US payrolls and I think the payrolls data will be particularly interesting in light of the recent softening of tone on a part of the Federal Reserve with respect to the outlook for US rates for 2019. I think the fact that we've seen the US dollar finish the week slightly softer on a slightly softer tone, I think has raised expectations that while we may get a rate rise in December the outlook for rates going into 2019 is probably slightly less certain than it was a week ago and I think that's fairly welcome. What we've seen in terms of the rebound in US markets is we've seen a fairly decent week for the S&P 500 and the Dow and the NASDAQ, slightly less certain I think in terms of how European markets have performed as we head into the weekend, there's still concerns about the G20 and I think that's really where the main focus will be as we head into a new week, whether or not there will be any sort of consensus out of the G20 as we head into December in what is likely to be I think a fairly quiet month given the volatility that we've seen over the past few weeks. So if we look ahead I think for the coming week and particularly I think in European markets we have seen a little bit of a rebound over the course of the past week or so but that rebound now starts to be running out of steam. We've seen it here in the German DAX where having rebounded off the lows of 11,000 we've fallen short of the 11 and a half thousand and started to slip back. Key line in the sand still remains I think for European markets around this 11,000 area on the DAX, if we look at a similar support level on the FTSE 100 we've got the key support in and around 6850, 6870, a little bit of a disappointment heading into the weekend but at the moment I think the momentum still remains fairly positive no more so than when we look at the S&P 500 and the really big support line that I've drawn in from the lows on this particular chart here in momentum does appear to be starting to turn a little bit positive on the oscillator but ultimately much will depend on whether this key support line here holds in the short to medium term. But looking ahead to the coming week obviously we've seen a big decline in oil prices and that is really why I think front and center will be the OPEC meeting on the 5th of December. Now the sharp dive in oil prices over the last eight weeks has been extraordinarily painful for OPEC members in particular Saudi Arabia who've been fairly vocal about the prospects that we could well see a production cut. We've seen prices come down peak to trough to around about over 30% coming to test the 200 day moving average but also retracing 50% of the entire up move from the 2016 lows of around about $27 a barrel to the peaks just shy of 87 so the big level I think on Brent crude is around about $57 a barrel so keeping a close eye on that there has been some talk that Russia might come on board with respect to some form of production cut and I think that's why we've seen a bit of a rebound in the past day or so. Certainly good in terms of inflation expectations and I think that's why we may see we have started to see a little bit of softening and headline inflation and that's prompted a little bit of a pull back on the hawkish rhetoric from central banks more broadly if we look at European inflation headline inflation softened from 2.2% to 2% and we've seen a little bit of a softening of tone from US policymakers as shown by the latest Fed minutes and obviously the recent comments from not only Fed chair Jerome Powell but also vice-chair Richard Clarida which brings me on to a couple of important rate meetings that are coming up. Bank of Canada rate meeting on the 5th of December and also the RBA rate meeting on the 4th of December. Now in November the RBA left rates unchanged at one and a half percent 27th month in a row. They cited weak household consumption despite further falls for the unemployment rate. At the moment unemployment remains at a fairly low level pretty much across the board. Globally Germany unemployment is at a record low and US unemployment is at a multi-year low as is UK unemployment. This week's payrolls numbers are going to be fairly important in terms of the outlook for I think not only whether or not we start to see a slowdown in the rate of jobs growth in November and I think that's unlikely given the amount of temporary hiring that goes on in the holiday season in the US but also in terms of wages growth which have moved above 3% in the US for the first time in quite some time. We're expecting to see a further development on that score in the November numbers with average wages expected to increase to 3.2%. The headline number for non-farm payrolls we saw a big rebound in jobs growth in October to 250k but a large part of that I think was a rebound from a hurricane-induced slowdown that we saw in September of 134,000. Headline numbers for US payrolls were expected to come in around about the average for the past few months around about 205,000. So not really expecting to see too many surprises in the payrolls numbers though we could see a further increase in wages growth which is welcome at a time when oil prices are falling and headline inflation does appear to be showing signs of topping out. A non-farm payrolls is due out on the 7th of December. Talking about the Bank of Canada obviously the decline in oil prices is good news for inflation probably not such good news for the Canadian dollar. We can see that borne out in this daily chart here the Canadian dollar has been weakening progressively since it made those levels of around about 128 in early October the end of September but it is running into a very very big resistance level around about 133,8134. So I think even if the Bank of Canada does nothing which I fully expected to do absolutely nothing the weakness on the Canadian dollar is likely to run into resistance at around about 134. It's also a fairly big week for manufacturing PMIs. Recent Chinese manufacturing PMI slowed again in November coming in at stagnation at around about 50. We are going to get another reading for Japanese manufacturing PMI that hit a two-year low last week. We've got the latest Germany and France flash numbers final numbers and we'll also get US ISMs as well over the course of the next few days. Not expecting to see a great deal of volatility as we head into December I think if most investors haven't made their money already they're likely to take they're unlikely to take large scale big positions as we head into December but certainly in the context of dollar CAD it's going to be a very interesting week given the US payroll numbers the Bank of Canada rate decision and the OPEC meeting. Obviously we've got the background noise from Brexit negotiations and a likely in the lead up or the countdown to this meaningful vote which is likely to come out on the 11th of December. The pound is suffering quite significantly on the back of that. The pounds had a disappointing week it's likely to find upside very difficult. Divisions remain as wide as ever between the various camps and we've now got to the point where the two main party leaders Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn can't even agree on which TV channel to have their debate on the EU Brexit deal such as the state of affairs here in the UK. Anyway I'll leave that as my parting shot thanks very much for listening. It's Michael Houston talking to you from CMC Markets.


Coach the Raiders are struggling, but sometimes the team can trip up unexpectedly by looking ahead to the next game. Is there a fear that's a trap game? No fear. Not at all. This is the NFL and everybody is a threat. We stress that weekend and week out. The second you overlook an opponent is the second you make headlines for getting upset. W. The Raiders are struggling and all players will have negative five break tackle, play recognition, and tackle for this game. That's tough. Sucks to be the Raiders. Salt on the moon. Beat the Raiders and avoid falling victim to the trap game. Storylines boys. Let's go. W. W.  I think it's awesome.  So I'm afraid to move with the camera on. It's sad, but it happened. Oh, those are kind of, these are kind of gas. Hold up. These are kind of gas. Like I said, my YouTube editor is having a baby. He's in the hospital right now. His first child. How dare him? Skip out on CFM videos to have a baby. I'm questioning finding a new editor. You got to put priorities first in this world, you know, right? No fight. He's shown no fight. Like what are we doing? No, so I will edit these videos and you guys can judge me on my skit my editing skills. But shout out to my man, McCullough, for having a baby, his first kid. God bless. Hope everything goes well. Maybe we'll try a little two-man under here. To start this game. What do we think, boys? WRL. That's called McKinney. I used to edit my own videos. Then I grew up. Come on, Dean. We got to do better there, kid. He's got Stefan Diggs, Dak Prescott. That's good. That's a good job. That's a good job from the boys. That's a good job from the boys.  I might as well not even have Dean on. I'm going to put a shitter on Stefan Diggs. Because there's no point in having a good corner on Stefan Diggs. He's going to lose every time anyway. And I'm putting this guy in the zone. So let's put Snead in the slot. Come on, man. Najay Harris. Okay. How do I click on that fast? I got really nice fingers. I have a Diet Coke. I want to open. Hell no. Let's go. Fourth down. Snead. I don't know what happened there. We need some rush here, boys. We really do. Ain't no way he runs here. Fuck, I'm too slow. God damn it, man. Oh, that was such good defense, too. I'm just too slow. My use is just too slow to see that, man. Junior, come on, man. Like, we got to be better there. Come on, fellas. Let's go. Let's fight. Let's fight. Let's fight. There's nothing. He got nothing. He got nothing. Let's go. Third and goal. Come on. Get the man off the running back so bad right here.  Was that a throwaway? Are you going for this, kid? Are you going for this? Turning point. Oh, what do you guys smell, chat?   Cheese sticks. Okay. Nice. I don't know. We played pretty good defense there in two men under little adjustments. I'm not trying to be cute. I don't know why I take the ball out with this guy named Jacobs. Never mind, Jacobs. Oh, I will tell you, update, update, update. Quest Watkins does have short and elite now. W, W, W. Do I wear deodorant? I look like I wouldn't. Only on the weekend, dude. Are we a zone team? No. Tyler? Going up top?  I didn't go over his roster. I was kind of anxious to play this one here. Somebody's 0-8 in the game, in the game. All right, deep route knockout one step ahead, medium knockout on that guy. He doesn't have much on defense. I'm going to be honest with the boys here. Mixing? Oh my God, that was tough. Just got to be man here. He's blitzing that guy. You clicked off in the middle of the field. Holy hell, get me out of these leagues, dude. Snap the ball. Come on, man. This guy's kind of sweaty here. He's kind of sweaty. He is 2-3, 2-5 or something? You got one. Just block, boys. Oh no! Oh, who is that guy? God. Dude, I literally can't guard this guy, man. I'm just... Fuck, man. This bot-ass play, man. Come on, dude, like you're in a... I can't lie, my team's run defense. We got to shed something here. Good job. Just got to try to run here, right? There we go. There we go, boys. Hem it up down there. Go. Good job. I mean, this is one of the number one things that I had to switch in this CFM is my red zone defense and get used to how bad it is in this mode compared to MUT. My defense isn't good, but we hold two field goals here. We got to score. Maybe CFM zones are different than MUT zones. I'm flipping bomb to fire move. I really would. That's what I would do if it was MUT. I would flip and then do a bomb to fire move. He's going to click off. Yep. See, that's what you got to learn throughout the game, that this guy is a click-off guy. Remember I complained earlier about him clicking off?  So all you got to do is do a move that's ready for the computer. If you wouldn't click off, then maybe you don't juke, you know? You just run and you try to swear, but I knew he would click off. And you don't click off on that play because the computer can't make that tackle. You know, you got to make them do a move. You got to stay clicked on until they make a move and then, you know, make them slow down so your computer can catch up your other players. You don't click off there ever. We have to do a better job on the run, dude. Like this, I don't know what's up with my boys. Like, what's up with this big, dark brown guy, man? Bay's been killing me lately, man. Like, we got to do a better job on digs. I almost, like, have to, like, double team them. There we go. Good press. Good job. That's what we need to do. That's what we need to do. Good press, man. See, I switched my good corners to the inside. You saw that crossing route was absolutely bad, dude. There's just no way that he fried you that bad, Dean. Like, come on, man. Come on! I don't know, this is not a play-action. Just to run the clock, you should run the ball right here. You want a play-action? That should be a pick.  He should. Off the snap of the ball. He's just got so beat right there. Oh, my God, man! Just bad.  Oh, my God, I feel so helpless, man. I can't cover this white tight end with no abilities. I can't cover anybody. And Stefan Daze is just opened by an hour. It's just miserable, man. Ah, I should kick a field ball soon here, boys. The runoff in this mode is ridiculous. The runoff in this mode is actually crazy crack. It really is. I knew it, dude. I knew it. My running back just got mauled on the block. Thank God. I don't even know if I can make this. I don't even know who my kicker is in this mode. God, damn, my running back just got absolutely mauled. I need new players everywhere. There's always got to be ready to hold B and spike always. You got to be ready for that. I don't know who my kicker is. I really have no idea. Some guy. He's a baller, though. Motion routes. Yeah, that would definitely work, dude.  Where do you find these guys? Oh, my running back just can't block this guy, man. He's getting me killed. Come on, man! Jesus Christ!    Like, can we block? Please. Please, can we block somebody? Here's my right tack. Dude, like... Oh, my God, this game, dude.  I mean, this dude is just wild. Pick. You threw that? You threw that pass! Step on digs for just free...  Just saved me from these shitters, dude. Good knockout, RB. You gotta hit RB right there.   Oh, my God, man. I'm gonna lose my mind.  Thank you, boys. There we go. John Franklin Myers, the Lord. Making plays. Just turn around and hold... Why does Y not work there, dude? How does Y not work there? How? Oh, my God. Tim Patrick, you're never juking again. You will never juk again on my field.  I'm mad y'all had to watch that. Let's go mixing. Oh, no, it's no way. You just were the one that got it. Come on, man. I didn't know he was that bad at juking. He's a wide receiver, right? Like, he could have, like, 79. It looked like that was, like, a fat... Like, that was the worst juk you could have. I will tell you, that part of running... That part of CFM is way better. Like, the run is actually like... You got to actually try to stop it. Like, the run is usable in CFM. Maybe it's like that in regs, but, like, in mud.  I'm cool with my defense right now. Like, I don't want to say I'm cool, but, like... I feel like I'm not... I just got to stop digs, man. I don't know, like, what the best way to do it is, really. Come on, Snead. Like, come on, man. Like, you were guarding him and it moved out of the way. He was bagging him and just like... Dog, like, oh, my God. It's just, bro, I feel like we're getting time, or we're getting pressure, and it's just nothing I can do right now. Or we're getting decent coverage. I just can't...  There we go, big fella. There we go. Let's go fumble that. He's trying to break all these tackles. Come on. That's why I have a flat pass there. Dog, 35.  Oh, my God. Put Snead on digs right here.  I want to put Dean on that other guy, and we'll put Crawford over here. Audible, audible, audible. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm wearing Outrout. I got to put our Outrout here. Nice. Good waist time out. I got my stud corners on the right. Okay, motions to bunch.  That is beyond fine. Let's move this guy so he can't throw the running back. Throws the ball away. Another field goal. Good job. Come on. That's a good defense. I swear to God. If this was Mutt, I'd have 14 picks. I really would. I would have 14 interception if this was Mutt. I feel like CFM would be lit. Hear me out, chat. Hot route master, set feet lead and pick artists for everybody. That's the only abilities. WRL.  Of course. Of course. Why not, man? And take it to the crib because you deserve so much scoring, man. You really do. You just absolutely deserve so much, man.  You deserve so much. So much you deserve that. You deserve that more than anything in the world, man. Round of applause, man. Great defense right there. Sully OB. Great defense, man. Just great job. Just great job, dude. Great job. Just excellent. Good coverage, everything. Yo, there is nothing worse in Madden than a strip button. Nothing worse. Make them hit stick me. Make them have some type of user. Make them have a good defensive play. Seriously. There is nothing worse than the strip button. I have no problem with a hit stick. You can avoid a hit stick. And a hit stick takes timing. It takes a hit.  Strip his user. God, this guy just really, like, won't stop. He can see my red route. Nice, dude. Nice. Exactly what we needed, huh, boys?  Nice.   It really don't. It's sad, but it really doesn't. So he can see my red route because he got a fumble. That's awesome. Ain't it, boys? Ain't that awesome?    Just hurdle somebody out of bounds. That's awesome.     How much momentum? How many plays do I need to get rid of momentum here?  Please go out of bounds. Thank you. I need points. Are you sure? Are you sure I need points? I didn't know. I didn't know I need points. Like, one or two? How many points do I need? Do I need seven here? Do I need seven? The boys got to be trolling. Like, they just got to be trolling. Let's go Muth. Let's go Muth. Let's go Muth. If I honestly kick, he will kick a field goal and it gives me an extra play to stop him.   That was like a mental... I can't do that. That was bad. I got to do something on defense here. I really do, boys. I got to, like, take a... because it's just so easy to, like... I just can't... I ran into somebody. Bro, I cannot cover Stefan Diggs at all.  I just... I'm guarding him the whole way and I just run into somebody. I just literally run into somebody and, like, everybody's bagged.  I can't... I just... I have no pass rush. I have no nothing right now.  Brutal. He's gonna run base. He's gonna run base. That's tough. God damn, bro. That was the best thing that could have happened. That was literally the best thing that could have happened. It really was. Come on, man.  Come on.  Come on, Snead. Come on, Snead. Alright, we'll fall down. We're good. Let's go. Come on. Just throw a dude standing right next to him. He's standing right now. Oh, fuck, he might catch it. Come on. Quas! Let's go, man. Good defense, dude. God. No one of these kids can play CFM their whole life. You can't throw interceptions on CFM. You can't guard Quas Watkins. Let's go. Come on, man. We catch a pick right here, man. I didn't... I didn't keep... I don't fumble the crib. It's not a game. Because I looked at the time and he had two timeouts. He would have still got the ball back and needed a field goal to win the game. He only got my end zone like one time this game. I feel good about my defense.  Oh, my God.  We can't. There we go. Bring a couple extra. Come on. He don't like that.   Again, we get him! Forfeit forever! Bum-ass player. Is this... Did you just give up? No, did you just give up? The game was lit. I mean, he lost anyway. It was forfeit 30. Like the fuck? To not try to throw the ball up? Like what type of human is that? Seriously. Like, dawg, you got to get...  I just don't understand. I really don't. I really don't understand why you would not throw that ball up.  Who cares? But we clutched. Kyler Murray. We do that first pick early. But 21-29, 383. Receiving. Our boy Joe Mixon had 100 on the ground. Quezz 154, of course. Will Fuller, Tim Patrick. Muth only 6 yards. Was a toddy though. Love to see it. Defense. Who had 2.5 sacks? Jamil Dean, okay. Franklin Myers. Our boy Derek Brown had a sack too. Love to see it. Snead with a pick. That's tough. Love to see it right there boys. Love to see it. Cover the spread. 300 yards, no touchdowns. We won that game on red zone defense. We really did.


In the wake of the Yield Tide, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, River State Command, says it will deploy 1,500 personnel to all recreational worship centres, flashpoints and other locations where the critical national assets and infrastructure are located. The state commandant, Aliya Baturi, assured the residents of a H3 Yield Tide celebration as adequate measures have been taken to nip any ad capable of undermining the already established peace and the state in the bud. The commandant called on residents to report all matters that could escalate and hamper the free movement of persons during the season for prompt retress.


Ladies and gentlemen, he's going to be talking about building greatest brand intellectual properties and how to build on a brand's emotion. Ladies and gentlemen, a man who is respected widely in the industry. Please give a big round of applause for the director of Fountainhead Promotions and Events. Please give it up for the man who tells it. Let's give it up for Brian Tellis. Good afternoon. I know I'm coming between or in between you and lunch but you've got to trust me when I say they didn't give me an option on this one. I need the clicker. Okay, so I've got I'm told 15 minutes to kind of take you through how to build an IP around a brand and I'm going to kind of cut to the chase as soon as I possibly can because we are indeed running behind schedule for one and my clock is already counting. So I'm going to skip any more pleasantries and cut to the chase. I'd like to believe broadly that when we are given the task, the exciting task, if I might add, of building an intellectual property, whether it's the greatest or otherwise, is subjective. How to build a property, I think one of the key ingredients really is how to build on a brand's emotion. I just lost the visual on screen completely. Okay. Let me just say that the first thing we need to do is actually get into the need of the brand, understand the brand, understand the brand world attributes, the personality of the brand very carefully because unless we do that, we're not going to get anywhere close to achieving the objective. So let's figure out what the defining purpose of the brand is. Now the defining purpose of the brand, I believe one of the key people or peoples who would be able to take you through it and make you understand it better, obviously are stakeholders of the brand. That doesn't need any convincing, I'm sure. And in my estimation, there are three really broad key elements that will help us determine what the brand is and what its need is or the purpose is. I think the first is actually the product or the service. What is the brand? What is the product? Is there a lineage and what is it about that lineage that we need to talk about? Another obviously very key ingredient because this is B2C in most cases is to understand our audiences, understand the language and tonality of the communication because it's crucial to really understand the demographic of the audience you're talking to, the psychographic nature of the relevant audience, what do they like, their lifestyle, their aspirations, the time they have available and of course the objectives. I mean to decipher the brand journey is a lot easier said than done. Crafting a goal-oriented objective, objectives can include goals that address brand identity, brand imaging, recognition, awareness for the brand, advocates for the brand, engagement, market share, margins. So there are three broad areas that we spoke about. Talking about product service, audience, objective which should lead us really to brand voice and the cultural context. What is the brand voice? What is the brand trying to say? To whom is it trying to say? And when you understand this very carefully you will understand context that you need to provide or should I be saying cultural context that we need to provide. Three broad areas again, once you know exactly what I've spoken about, there are three broad areas that will define how you roll out, curate the IP and how you roll it out. Content, community is the first one, not in any order of importance I must add. There's community, there's content and for obvious reasons there's consistency. Let's talk about community first. Authenticity, when you understand the community that the brand is talking to, you have to dwell on how one can be authentic. Because in this crowded world we live in, authenticity is one of the key or one of the keys rather to creating that creative glue or creating that important glue between brand and potential or existing consumer. Delivering the right core offering. Obviously there is relevance. If you're not relevant in today's day and age forget it, you're out the window. So relevance is extremely important to create for your audiences. Clarity, I think clear objectivity leads to clarity and of course clarity will lead to obviously efficiency in communication and of course the fourth quality that you need when you're talking community is quality. Again I must repeat in today's day and age where engagement and engagement mediums are there a plenty. If you do not have a quality offering you're going to lose your audiences off the bat. So quality is extremely important. I wish I could dwell a little more but I don't have that luxury. But broadly speaking when you're talking community there's authenticity, there's relevance to your audience, clarity of understanding and thought and of course quality in the offering. Let's move to content. So we've highlighted our community whom we are catering to. It's going to help us identify the various, should I say, cultural contexts that the brand could be investing in. Outlining conversations that the brand can dive into and by virtue of which create relevant, interesting, pertinent content. What is the platform we choose? Again this is a little more of a science than we make it out to be. Sometimes we let content be decided by what we love. They engage me, I love music so I want music to be the content. Maybe it could be I love theater and hence I want theater to be the content. Maybe I want food and beverage. You know maybe the brand needs rather food and beverage or theater or music. We have to disassociate our personal likes and dislikes and actually focus on what is the platform we're hoping to adopt, should I say, to actually give resonance or create as the engagement tool between the brand and its objectives and the audience. So deciding the platform very critical. The geography and this can differ from case to case. Look there are many, many objectives or purposes that a brand can have. The budgets could come from marketing budgets and hence the objectives are marketing objectives. It could be sales objectives and quite rightly so it could be budgets coming out of CSR which means it needs to resonate on a far larger, larger scale and so be it. Sometimes there's a combination of two, maybe all three of these engagement mediums. So extremely important to decide what the geography is that you're addressing. It could be something that's city specific. It could be something that's national by way of you know the target. It could be international. It could be global. So we need to clearly, clearly understand the geography we're talking to and then of course the curation. And here again I know I fall victim to this off and on where when you're curating something for a brand you tend to let personal biases rather than personal knowledge and professionalism actually come to the fore and that could be a big folly. It's a very interesting exercise sometimes not easy to disassociate personal likes and dislikes from brand needs and brand requirements. So very quickly on content, platform, geography and curation. Let's move to consistency. This is a really interesting one because I think there are four clear areas that determine and enable consistency. The first is engagement.  You're not even off the starting block. Creating a product that has sustained engagement actually keeps the community occupied through the relevant content created for the IP. So it's really important to think really long and hard about the engagement. How are you going to engage? What is going to be the medium of engagement? Like I said earlier and how are you going to keep it alive? How are you going to keep it pertinent? We are talking consistency at the end of the day. I think in most cases, if not all cases, you need to have multiple touch points because we're not just talking about an event. When you say it's an intellectual property, it means you're going to engage on various levels. You're going to engage on the touch and feel level, on the personal level and very importantly as the term suggests on the intellectual level. And if you have to engage on these levels all at once, it needs your offering, needs or your product, call it what you wish, needs to go way beyond just the one day, two day or however long the event is. You have to keep conversations going with your audience, with your prospective audiences and in various ways, various mediums of engagement. So multiple touch points, I think is an absolute necessity for sustainability of an intellectual property or for consistency of an intellectual property. And then of course, we call our business experiential marketing obviously has to have a uniqueness to the experience that helps the brand in creating or monopolizing a conversation, creating a sensorial experience like I said earlier for community, positively connecting experiences that encourage a meaningful dialogue with the brand. It's not just about the product, it's way beyond like I said. And I think most importantly to create consistency, you need to have a high element of emotion in your offering. Catering to the right emotional outcome, creating consistency across the communication platforms being used is critical, ensuring linear brand recall for another way to say it is critical. So I think broadly speaking, there are three areas that we need to look at, community, it's defined here, the content around which you're going to create this offering and of course very importantly consistency because it's a tough one. I'll tell you, I mean, you know, as many of you in the room are, I'm very immersed in this intellectual property exercise, exciting as it might be, it's a tough one to kind of keep going. So here we are, the three pillars, if I could call it that, building a relationship with the consumer outside of the product or service. Again, this is another folly we sometimes fall prey to where we believe that the product will do all the talking. Well, yes, the product does its share of talking, but the very reason you're creating an intellectual property is to create a whole ecosystem around the product that will create resonance with the eventual consumer or buyer. I want to quickly, I think I have five minutes more and I want to quickly take you through two examples which will kind of quantify, I hope, all that I've said over the last 10 minutes. So Aadhyam, the theater project that we conceived and are happily running for the Aditya Bidala group, the core objectives, augmenting the theater industry. So what does that mean? I think enabling large-scale productions or larger-scale productions that have existed in the past in our world of theater, opportunity to new talent because theater is very interesting. Theater really is swatches of manifestation of life, put forth to derive, should I say, a model of the story or some interesting takeouts for the consumers like you and me. So enabling large-scale productions, opportunity to new talent, increase the consumer base also was a very important objective, bringing new audiences to theater because theater, and I will admit it, in India, unfortunately, is considered fuddy-duddy for the old and the irrelevant. All of these additives, all of these statements are statements I've heard for a long time and they are changing, which is a really happy situation to be in. So increasing the consumer base, bringing new audiences to theater, making theater more accessible in today's day and age, to today's potential and current consumers, and breaking the traditional style of theater promotions. And we are hoping that we have achieved that. We'll take a look at some of the results later. Brand building and recall was another key objective in Aadhyam, establishing the brand, the Aditya Birla group as a patron to the arts. That's a softer objective I might add. Working hand in hand with the theater ecosystem, and this truly is one that puts smile on soul as well, generating interesting content in the media. Again, like I said, it has to have multiple arms and that's another really key area to look at, building a theater community via Aadhyam spotlight. One must go beyond the product itself so we have a community that we have developed that we brand under the Monica spotlight. And there are various advantages you achieve as being a member of spotlight. And I won't go into the details, I don't have that luxury of time. Just a little look at some of the objectives or realization of the objective. So interestingly, 3.2 times increase in number of theater productions in the country since the year 2015 when Aadhyam started. So I do believe Aadhyam has helped in adding theater to the cultural currency of the country we live in. Today, theater, you know, there are minimum of 30 theater productions every week in Mumbai. And that's quite staggering. Theater slowly becoming the preferred entertainment option, certainly on weekends. 30 productions every week, that's quite a staggering number. Aadhyam has also set precedents for organizations to be patrons to large-scale theatrical productions. You know, I think we've all seen and heard of The Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, more recently Sing India Sing. And if all things go well, we could be seeing King and I and a whole host of international, large international productions visiting our shores. And how good is that? So Aadhyam has made quality theater accessible to all. I'd like to believe with moderate ticket pricing. Just a quick snapshot. Over four years, 20,240 spots on air. I'm showing arms and how they have worked as well. Print ads, 2,310. 131 days of focused theater. Two cities, Mumbai and Delhi. My eternal hope is that we can take it to more cities than we do already. 191 shows, 19 proscenium productions, which is something that I take great or we take great pride in and the brand does as well. Two black box productions, the slightly smaller, more immersive variety. 232 actors engaged in this process. We do believe that we're building an offering that is going way beyond the hour or hour and a half that you spend in a theater. A 14 crore plus PR valuation. And of course, 141,290 tickets sold. I think that paints a nice happy picture. I must reiterate that it's work in progress. The vision is way larger. And we hope at some point in time we can go much closer to the vision that was charted initially. A quick look at Aadhyam spotlight. But like I said, I've run out of time and I yet have one more very important sharing with y'all. I'm going to move on to again another deep, deep favorite of ours, the Mahindra Blues Festival, which will be going into its 10th year in 2020. Absolutely. And we have two gentlemen here in the room. One of whom will be addressing us, who have played as large, if not a larger role in making it what it is. If I keep smiling through this part of the presentation, you know why. But the core objective was enhancing the blues community, obviously. International quality premium blues music experience, opportunity for new talent to be recognized through what we call the Band Hunt, the Blues Band Hunt, creating content in the blues that is consumable by fans across the globe. And there is stuff to prove that objective, or prove we met the objective. A little bit about Mahindra and Mahindra brand recall, of course, importantly, establishing the brand as a patron of the arts of the blues community, generating interesting content and keeping the blues alive, as we like to say. Building the blues in India and, importantly, the world over, creating the largest global online community of blues enthusiasts. And I say this with incredible pride. 200,000 members on Facebook, and this is the active community. I hope I am right on this, but I think we have the largest active blues community in the world. And that is quite a statement. And yes, thank you very much. I'll soak in that one, because it's with great element of pride. Being the first Indian music festival to have created an international edition in the USA. I mean, talk about taking call to Newcastle. We're taking the blues to America. Over the last couple of years, we have the Mahindra Blues Festival in Chicago. And you'd better believe me when I say soon enough, we're going to be taking it to New Orleans as well. And how cool is that? Pardon me if I'm sounding a little indulgent, but I cannot help it. Being the first Indian music festival, like I said, to have international editions. Again, in another historic first, the Mahindra Blues Festival, an Indian music festival being nominated for keeping the blues alive award by the Blues Foundation of America. It's again a really creditable first. And the festival was the first music festival in India to record and master the entire festival on Dolby Atmos sound. So again, DVD is available. We're taking it way beyond the actual live experience. Again, another quick mapping of what we've been able to achieve so far. I keep reiterating that all of us, while this is really proud achievement, it's work in progress. And hopefully we can lift levels, raise the bar, and really take it to a way higher kind of achievement level. So a digital reach, like I said, a 50 million plus, 14,000 plus radio spots on air, nine years in existence, and we're going into our 10th, like I said, in 2020, early 2020. 5,000 plus square centimeters of print advertising, 46 artists, most of them international that have come into India and performed for us, or 20 crore plus PR valuation, 8,000 attendees. This really is a classic example of the fundamental festival being, I won't say small, but being controlled to control vibe, to control experience. But the brand world extensions of the Mahindra Blues Festival have been astronomical and it's really unprecedented. So a quick snapshot, maintain a constant stream, showcase new and upcoming talent, creating larger-than-life music installations are some of the things that have driven us. Part of the green initiative, this is again very, very important, to create resonance. In our total of 93.7% of the total waste generated was recycled last year. And I think that's phenomenal. The only festival in the country to have a year-long radio campaign in the form of the Mahindra Blues show, and I have a smile on my face for reason, some of you know, it's something that we take great pride in starting with me. I won't take you through the micro details, like I said, I ran out of time a little while ago. What I just want to say, that creating intellectual property not only is a really exciting journey to go through, I think fulfillment, or the sense of fulfillment that one achieves when one, you know, kind of goes on this journey is unparalleled. And I have had the privilege of actually delving, flirting, living with the various forms of the performing arts and ingredients that go into the performing arts. And I have to say creating and indulging in intellectual properties on behalf of and with brand and brand custodians is just quite simply the highlight of my career. Thus far, and I suspect for the swatch to follow. Thank you once again for the opportunity and I hope I've done justice to intellectual properties. Thanks again. Thanks, Brian.


Dear participants, colleagues, excellencies, my dear friend, Thierry, first of all, I want to congratulate Thierry and Ifri once more organizing such an important event on a very timely organization and I want to express my thanks to Ifri, to the French government as well as to the Moroccan government and his majesty as well. Global governance is a big issue, a big title. But before going into some details, I want to make a comparison between last year's meeting in Doha and this year's meeting in Marrakesh. Last year in my speech, in a very short statement, I made a reference to unpredictability in international relations. Unfortunately, in the last one year, this unpredictability has increased. Last year, the meeting was immediately after the election of President Trump. Everybody was worrying what will happen in the United States. I am sure that worry is still continuing, even growing. Because yesterday, President Trump mentioned that Secretary Tillerson may not continue. So nobody knows what may happen. But one thing is clear, which I will make a special reference on national issue, that the relation between establishments and leaders. When we look at EU, last year we were talking more on Brexit. But this year, not only Brexit, we have the issue of Catalonia. And we don't know what will be the next. And also the four elections in last year in Europe, in Netherlands, Austria, Germany and France, the rising trend of exclusivist right-wing parties is not only a worry for these nation-states, but also for the basic values of European continent, of our continent. When we look at the Middle East, we had a Catari crisis. In fact, not Catari, a crisis in Gulf. An organization which has been very influential in the past and becoming a deepening organization in the last 20 years. GCC first time became a problematic institution in itself. And one country of GCC was isolated by three other countries. And this is a problem of inefficiency in regional organizations. And last year we were talking about Aleppo, the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo. Aleppo has fallen, but we had still chemical use in Syria against civilians. The cases in U.N. and U.N. has agreed on, has testified this fact. But also we had problem of Kurdish regional referendum in Iraq, about the future of Iraq, and it was coincident. At the same time, Catalonia and Kurdish region referendum brings new issues to nation-states. And today, Prime Minister Hariri has designed in Lebanon. So every day we are getting news from the Middle East, which makes the situation more and more worrying. And this year also we have North Korea crisis rising. So when we look at the one-year agenda, there is almost no good news in the positive way of global governance, even keeping the status quo as it is. But there is a rising psychological pessimism, which we, when I say we, not only Europeans, Asians, Turks, French, Moroccans, but we, all the representatives of humanity, statesmen, intellectuals, we have to think more and more about what will be happening next year or the other years. Nobody can make a rational analysis anymore, because we don't have a rational analysis of the question what went wrong. I want to make a short summary in last 27 years after Cold War what has happened through making an analogy of earthquake. We Turks, we know earthquake very well, and it is a good analogy to understand the systemic earthquake of international relations which I call systemic earthquake, because there are certain signals. If you take caution, you may overcome. There are certain tragedies during the process and aftershocks. When we look at these, in the last 400 years, there were war after conferences or new orders after big global wars, like Westphalian, 30 years war, Westphalian orders. Napoleonic Wars, Congress of Vienna, First World War, League of Nations, Second World War, United Nations. But what happened after Cold War, which was a global war? Nothing, no such an arrangement has been done in international field. No new convention, no new re-institutionalization of any international organization, not responding together to a set of principles to certain questions like terrorism, like nuclear weapon threat, etc. What happened in 27 years after the fall of Berlin Wall? The first earthquake was what I call geopolitical earthquake, 1991 when the Soviet Union has collapsed. A geopolitical earthquake created many questions from Bosnia, Kosovo, Transnistria, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, all the geopolitical zone has been shifted. And there was a huge hope of end of history, a new order. When we look today that aftershocks of geopolitical earthquake is still continuing, not any of these questions has been resolved yet. And plus, for example, Crimean issue is in the agenda, in the same geopolitical zone, where territorial integrities, territorial control and international recognized territories are, there is a gift, there is a gap between these. That creates a problem of nation-state territorial integrity. Second earthquake was security earthquake after 9-11 in 2001. Now after 9-11, now 16 years past, there was intervention in Afghanistan, the situation in Afghanistan is getting more and more risky every day. And the second one was intervention to Iraq and recently what we have been observing is what is going on in Iraq regarding central government and regional Kurdish region. And also there was only Al-Qaeda, but now we have Daesh, we have Boko Haram, we have Shabab, we have all types of terrorist organizations. So it means the aftershocks of that earthquake is still continuing. The third earthquake was economic earthquake in 2008. Big economic, global economic crisis, unemployment, political instabilities, because of this crisis, there was a hope of a new financial architecture will be emerged. Nothing has been done in international economic organization except a few reforms in World Bank and IMF regarding representation of the countries. And the gap between G20, which I have attended almost all meetings in G20 in the last 10 years, the expectations of the decisions of G20 has been not fulfilled. And also the gap between G20 and LDC countries is increasing. And when that gap is increasing, the refugee flow is increasing. Such an economic injustice cannot bring social or political stability. When there is such a gap, of course poor countries, population will try to reach, to reach countries' economic area in order to get job, to survive. And fourth earthquake, which I call structural earthquake after Arab Spring in the Middle East especially, the nation states have collapsed, fragile states did emerge. And still the consequences are on the agenda. Since we have not been able to resolve these fourth earthquakes, now all the aftershocks of these four earthquakes came together and created a systemic earthquake, now what we are facing. Now there is a systemic problem. And we have to approach to this problem not by conjecture or just one country based or one region based. What we are facing today is the most dangerous, risky situation in modern time. Because the means of destruction is much more threatening, not like all Middle Century's war is there. Even one country in North Korea and one crazy person can threaten everybody. Now what we need? I want to mention three levels and some principles on global governance, what we can do. First, national level. Today we have a problem of identity and legitimacy and also national functioning of institutional national level. Theory made a reference to my policy of zero problems with neighbors. Yes, when we came to power in 2002 in Turkey, meanwhile I want to just make one sentence regarding Turkey. Turkey has been right at the center of all these earthquakes, like Bosnia crisis, Kosovo crisis, Georgia crisis, first earthquake, next door to Turkey. The war in Iraq and Afghanistan-Turkey was part of Afghanistan war, military, and was affected by Iraq, intervention in Iraq. Economic crisis, European market is the first target of Turkish economy. Again, Turkey has been affected. Of course, Middle Eastern issue, structural earthquake has affected Turkey. So we are right at the center of all these earthquakes and we are trying to survive on one hand and try to control crisis on the other hand. In our first years of our government, we were not only able to stabilize the country, but also we were very effective in regional issues. On the way I was turning to theory because of Lebanese crisis in 2008-May, 17th of May, I was chief advisor not yet minister. We declared two diplomatic achievements at the same time, same day. One was Israeli-Syrian indirect talks, which I was the mediator between two sides as chief advisor. Secondly, resolving the presidential crisis in Lebanon, Michel Süleyman became president together with Qatar. So why do we have now problem? Not because Turkey has changed policy, but today we don't have counterparts to make peace or mediate. In Syria, around Turkey, seven countries do not have full control over their territories. Syria, Iraq, central government, they do not have full control. Libya, Yemen, Lebanon, Georgia is stable country, but there is an international dispute. It is not able to control the internationally recognized territories. Ukraine, detention is continuing. With the countries where there is stability, still we have good relations trying to keep that. So the problem is there is no real counterpart on the others. If you don't have counterpart, you cannot have diplomacy proper manner. You can have micro-diplomacy with every group in Syria or in Iraq. This is a basic challenge. So national level, there are fragile states like Syria, Libya, Yemen. There are states which do not have full control over territories. There are states which have serious identity problems like Iraq, like even now in Spain what is the situation is continuing, being Catalan, being Spanish, being European. Different levels of identities. There is rising exclusivist Islamophobic, xenophobic tendencies in Europe. And also there is a problem between leaders and establishments like what we are observing sometimes in the United States, which is a global power and affects everything in the world, which stability and what direction of American foreign policy is very important for international stability. But President Obama and President Trump, two different approaches to the international issues, which will bring national interest as an issue of global, a problem of global choices. Regional dimension. What we have to do for national level, I will come to certain principles. Regional dimension. Today, seemingly we don't have a global system of international arrangement. International means international, international state. But since there are problems in national states, international system is not functioning properly. And for global governance, the main barrier is today we have much more balance of power system. But not one balance of power system like 19th century. What we have today is several balances of powers are at the same time. Regional balances of power and global balances of power. When they match, you can find a solution. In Middle East today there is a regional balance of power, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia. Inside GCC, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, etc. But also there is a general balance of power between Russia, EU, US. And there is no international adjustment people could come together. And success stories like EU and GCC are facing serious crisis. So regionally there are instabilities. And regional international organizations like Arab League, like OIC, like GCC, like EU is not as effective as before. Global level, lastly. What we are facing is, as I said, what we need to do today is a new global set of conventions where everybody agrees upon. And there will be no exclusivity of these. I want to give one striking example which really hurts very much. In my heart I feel the pain during the hard times of Syrian crisis when chemical weapon was used against civilians in 2013. In one meeting I addressed to my colleagues and I said we may disagree on the future of Syria or on certain issues. But at least on two issues we have to agree together. One is humanitarian access. The other one is acting together against war crimes. These are not national interest issues. These are international conventional issues. Whoever prevents humanitarian access must be punished. Regime, opposition, whatever it is. Or whoever commits a war crime using chemical weapons must be punished. This is UN principles. But unfortunately what happened? Neither war crimes being punished nor humanitarian access being achieved. So millions of refugees escaped Syria and Turkey has suffered as a neighboring country. Today those who are criticizing Turkey must know that we are hosting almost 4 million Syrian refugees. You can imagine the cost on our economy. You can imagine the humanity. There are certain Turkish cities now like Kilis. The Syrians are more than Turks. But you don't have any racist approach in Turkey. This is a big issue in conventions. The institutional today UN, nobody expects any solution from UN. Not because of the inefficiency of UN Secretary General. I know Antonio Guterres. He is the right person to be Secretary General. When he was UNHCR chairman, he did extraordinary work. And I know him personally. He has all the abilities to do everything. Right person, right place. But UN Security Council is today reflecting a balance of power rather than internationally agreed conventions together. And therefore UN, just a striking reflection of this is today, the only mechanism regarding Syria question is the mechanism of Astana where Turkey, Russia and Iran are running a diplomacy to have no conflict zones in Syria and there is no hope from UN mediation. It means ad hoc systems are coming, ad hoc solutions. This is basically the problem of global institutions. What we need today is more effective institutional mechanisms in UN and also in international economic organizations since there is a time limit. I want to give five principles for a future global governance and I will stop there. One is inclusivity. Five eyes I say in one of my articles. Inclusivity. We need to have an inclusive national, regional and global order. Not populist, exclusivist. Secondly, integrity. We have to have, we should not be having double standards. All the principles should be followed by integrity. These are ideals. And two, the other two principles are more real politic. Interest optimization. Today what is absent is rational negotiation. There is no rational negotiation anymore.  And fourth, after interest optimization, implementation of decisions. Not just taking decisions but implementation. And the last is a new institutionalization in international system. So what we need is integrity, inclusivity, institutionalization, interest optimization and implementation of the decisions. Otherwise we will be having many more meetings on this as a good exercise of intellectual exercise but not result oriented meetings. I hope all these discussions will open away for global governance. Thank you very much.