Huffman to be sentenced today. What her case could signal for high profile defendants. All that plus lifesaver, the revolutionary treatment for children with peanut allergies at could be one step closer to reality today. Defending the duchess, our exclusive interview with one of Meghan Markles friends. The big new project meghan launched. One play between the panthers and buccaneers. The dramatic kickoff to week two of the nfl season. Today, friday, september 13th. This is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning, nice to have you with us on a friday morning its friday the 13th, were the lucky ones because we have a great crowd out there. No kidding. When Meghan Trainor shows up on your plaza, we see a long line of people, its a great way to end your week. The spirited debate in houston, between the top ten candidates, they went hard after the current president and each other. Well talk about how its playing with v
Nasdaq at 5,120. S p 5002,087 and the russell down almost a full percent. But we begin now with the big deal in health insurance. It is official. An them agreeing to buy cigna for 188 per share in cash and stock. An enterprised are value of 54 billion. Straight to bertha coombs. Combined anthem and sigma would unseat United Health to become the largest u. S. Health insurer with 150 billion in annual revenues. More than 50 million members covering nearly 1 in 5 americans. Anthems ceo joseph swedish aide mitts put admits putting the two big firms together will be challenging but with that scale they can generate operating savings and make them more affordable. It will improper our ability to serve customers across commercial medicaid medicare and International Markets and create greater efficiencies and afford ability for our customers. But the anthem deal taken with aetnas proposed merger with humana would result in the big five insurers becoming the big three. One antitrust lawyer tell
We are articulated in a clear statement what our objectives are. 2 inflation and our interpretation of maximum employment. Every three months, all members, all participants of the fomc set out their explicit projections for key variables and also the Monetary Policy path that they regard as appropriate to achieve those variables and we publish these projections now its not a single committee endorsed view but it does show the range of forecasts and assessments of what appropriate policy would be if line with those forecasts and we update those projections every three months in line with incoming data and i would regard that as quite a bit of information and a systematic approach. We are telling the public what the range of opinion is about appropriate policy and the associated path to the economy and, of course, there is uncertainty. So policy is not on a pre set bath. We update those pronls, but we are showing what we think in a systematic way. I would think we had a nice conversation
Can trackback. Use of the tool like thunderclap, can you commit that whatever your going to do with social media that you will use tools or leave in place an audit trail, inability to see where it came from and who did it . I certainly know who worked on these issues internally. Right. Was not able to retract that. One of the things i try to explain although i dont agree with gal come i am not disrespecting their decision. The guide in on how you would use this command we followed it and will make sure. There other information is coming in. Anonymously do things. The one thing you can be sure. I got you. Well, 1st and 2nd. There are other offices that are like ovens. Our system doesnt know the difference between winter and summer time. I apologize. We have a number of members have a numbera number of questions we would like to submit for the record. Like you dont have enough to do. Again, thank you for being here this morning. I thought it was incredibly informative. Thank you for bein
Inflation. Senator shelby do you believe this economy although it is a number years old has peaked or near peaking or will start declining and put us into a recession or you just dont know and something you are watching . Chair yellen we are watching developments very carefully. There is always some chance of a recession in any year, but the evidence suggests that expansions dont die of old age. We are, as i mentioned in my testimony, looking very carefully at Global Financial markets and economic developments that create risk to the economy and were evaluating them, recognizing that these factors may well influence the balance of risks or the trajectory of the economy and thereby might affect the stance of Monetary Policy. At this point its premature to make a judgment we will need in march and our committee will carefully deliberate about what impact these developments have had. Today, i think its premature to render judgment on that. Senator shelby are you saying basically, the fed