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President Donald Trump is looking dazed, confused, and dangerous. President Donald Trump is looking dazed, confused and dangerous.

Hyperactive Japanese tech titan soft bank is getting not much love from its investors,

and Italy's bad boy, Silvio Berlusconi, may have tricked Chinese buyers into scoring an M&A own goal.

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a weekly conversation among breaking views columnists about the ups and downs of the world of finance.

I'm Anthony Curry, and I'm here with my colleague, Jennifer Saber. Hi, Jen.

Hello.

All right, let's start off talking about U.S. President Donald Trump,

who this week, for the the first time addressed members of Congress

and offered breadcrumbs as to what his spending is going to be with health care and tax reform,

the defense budget. Anthony, you've been following this. What details emerged, if any, from his

address to Congress? Well, really not many. I mean, you say

breadcrumbs, I would say it's probably not even that, although I'm sure that certain Republicans will pick it up and say this is a start. His speech to Congress on Tuesday night was, it's part of the course. I mean, it was billed as being a way of him to try and reset his presidency, you know, 34 days in or whatever it is. Right. And it was much more conciliatory and not...

It was meant to be. Although, you know, there were times in there where, you know, he's talking in about building the Great Wall along the border with Mexico, even though you've got a bunch of people, including Republicans in Texas, of all places, we don't need a wall. And you think Texans would know, since the right on the border.

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