The effort to repeal and replace the federal Health Care Law also better and services, farming challenges and opioid epidemic. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. Excuse the delay. I guess the days of more normal town Hall Meetings. We welcome them to great bend and im delighted to be here as. Well. As you would know, congress is out of session now until labor day, and then using my time as e have almost every other august, in fact,ha every august to get t and about across kansas and you. Having conversations with all of you. This is my 1220 eighth town hall meeting as a member of congress, and great to be back. We try to do when it every count on an ongoing basis. I just cant looking so what is and it will take this as quickly as we can to the questions and commerce that you would like toi make. This is my first visit to great band since the death of bob parish was my longtime friend. Bob and polly were great friends, great supporters. They spent our honeymoon, w
End of the wednesday session. It has been a topsyturvy day. The stoxx 600 is higher. Greece, iceland, austria, and norway these currencies rising in the second column against the dollar. We are seeing yields decline across the european bond space today. Commodities and cbs are your far two columns. Crawls back carlsberg shares down with the biggest the client since august. It warned that russias beer market will shrink at least 5 this year, stunting the Growth Prospects for the brewer of two aboard beer tuborg beer. It is declining due to a prohibition of selling beer and 1. 5 liter plastic bottles that took effect at the beginning of the. The russias business was the brightest star, generating half its profits in 2009. Plunging oil sanctions, recession, higher beer taxes carlsberg only gets a fraction of its earnings there. Operating sales but missing expectations. Up the most since november. The drugmaker fourthquarter profit beating estimates. It is helped with the increase of its m
European equities are trading right now 30 minutes until the end of the tuesday session. Gmm go is your function. Their u. S. Following brothers and sisters with a lower letdown with the utilities the best performing industry group. Lots to tell you about on that the half following strong cpi data. To the we were up highest level since december 2. Now the biggest decline since february 24th. This is the biggest decline in europe by a long way. Think of for cars shares down by 21 . It fell as much as 42 earlier. This is a swedish maker of biometric id samples. The revenue is set to fall more than 50 in the first quarter. May factors cutting that on orders. The company also withdrawing a proposal to pay its firstever dividend to shareholders and say can no longer give any guidance for 2017. Shares getting absolutely hammered today. Big data in you tak the u. K. Toh acceleration more than forecast. Target it to the for the first time in more than three years, the fastest rate since septem
Absolutely wonderful. Stocks are rising today. We are awaiting the outcome of the house vote on the replacement for obamacare. Those currencies, sterling up and the others down on yields bond yields rising today, greece, portugal, austria, and the netherlands. Function function of a , ftse 100 volatility, just want to bring it up in the wake of the fact that it fell to the lowest level in two years on friday showing a pickup in volatility on some measures. This measures volatility in the next 30 days. Five consecutive days and we have risen by 39 , the worst stretch since november. You can see we rose to the lowest level in almost two years. Happening before the key political event next week, wednesday, when theresa may triggers article 50. Meanwhile, the ftse is heading for the largest weekly drop in two months. Just wanted to show you after such a long period of a lack of volatility. I can tell you on the month we saw a big pickup in retail sales up i want. 4 ahead of estimates. It l
Therese mark 30 minutes to the end of wednesday session. Down,quities, the ftse you can see that in the lefthand column. Mirror. 5 . A a mere port a mere one half of 1 . On the brexit decisionmaking process, she wants to keep her negotiating very close. And wein europe are down are awaiting the fed minutes. Deutsche bank, interesting news after raising 3 billion. For 1. 5bank returns billion, twice what it paid to aro a year ago. Mostly the same investors who bought last week operating at a slightly lower premium at 290 basis points. Pointsmium was 300 basis compared with 143 basis points. This shows that borrowing costs have risen at Deutsche Bank. Deutsche bank dollardenominated bonds, and the blue bar is the average yield on bank bonds generally. Get to a gold and silver producer listed here in the u. K. Which said that production ofwed to two availability equipment. Since the stock fell to a 170year low in september, 5 . This year it is the thirdbest aftermer on the ftse 100 Anglo