Good morning! Levi’s is selling Dockers, senators share concerns with Paramount Global Chair Shari Redstone, and Fortune’s Most Powerful Women International Summit is underway.
– Fortune‘s global investment. Fortune’s first Most Powerful Women International Summit in the Middle East kicked off Tuesday, where my colleagues, including Emma Hinchliffe, Diane Brady, and Alyson Shontell, hosted panels with Lisa McGeough, president, CEO, and head of banking at HSBC U.S.; H.E. Dr. Hala bint Mazyad Al-Tuwaijri, Saudi Arabia’s head of human rights; and Accenture CEO Julie Sweet, who is No. 2 on Fortune’s list of the Most Powerful Women in Business for 2025.
Diane’s interview with Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, chief investment officer and head of the investment strategy group at Goldman Sachs, caught my attention, as she discussed the heightened emotions many individual investors might be feeling now due to the current political environment in the U.S., something that Fortune has reported on extensively. But Mossavar-Rahmani took a more measured approach, saying while the Trump administration has introduced more volatility into the markets with its tariff policies, corporate America is still hopeful for more deregulation across different sectors that she says could be a boon to the market.
