Combating diabetes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] shall be give this hearing a start . For this joint economic hearing i actually have 2 give senator heinrich and the entire team, democrat and republican staff, has been in discussion for quite a while. As we look at the Health Statistics of the nation, particularly diabetes, its cost to society not just in healthcare costs, but in so many of our brothers and sisters that just have misery. Where this partially came from is 2 or 3 years ago we were doing a weird experiment. Whats the real cause of income inequality in america . And yes, we saw education, we saw other things but the one thing we werent prepared to see was health. The numbers of folks, hate to use the economic term, that had real Health Issues, the number of it was diabetes and so we have spent almost two years digging around in the literature trying to understand whats going on in society, particularly the growth of our population that are suffering
Equities. We will comedo, back to this in a second while we fix this. Vonnie i will check u. S. Markets first because we are 90 minutes into the trading day. The dow is up. 25 . The s p up. 1 and the nasdaq tax reform helping the. S. Profit outlook david from mainstay capital think the trading weve been seeing this year is equivalent to euphoria. Perhaps this wont end well. Theyre interesting when we contrast this to a great chart we have in the bloomberg. We are looking at the number of death without a 5 pullback or greater. We are looking at the number of without a 5 pullback or greater. The s p 500 in blue. We are looking at the number of days without a 5 pullback. We are on day 295. Week,eek, it was last it was day 292. You have to go back to 1965. One of the bestperforming sectors on the day helping the record high, the financial sectors. Citigroup and bank of america higher. We have regional banks higher. Behind this trend, not surprisingly, yields. The 10 year yield is up five b
Media, all that coming up after the close tonight. Plus in case you missed it, former chair fed addressing. We have the sound for you coming up. Yes, well get responses to that as well. Oracle shares are down 11 this year so far. Jeffreys is upgrading that stock to buy with a 50 price target. You see the trading at 39 and three quarters. You have the analyst on oracle coming up moments from now. On markets today, the dow up four points. The s p higher. The nasdaq doing better up 20 points. Even though facebook is still low were after the earnings support. A lot of people liked what they saw on the numbers. By the way, apple is down today too. Lets get to our closing bell. For this thursday, ben willis, kind of a muted day today after tremendous volatile earlier this week. Whats going on today . Actually a very interesting trading day. Once again, we saw the ability to buy on the dip where the education from the Economic Data we saw took the dow jones and the s p to the loads of opening
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The committee on health, education, pensions and labor will please come to order. Senator murray and i will each have a statement and we will introduce witnesses. After the testimony senators will have five minutes of questions. There is a vote scheduled for 10 30. I think we will continue right 10 45. Until 10 4 and then we will alternate going back to vote. I think we will have time for all the witnesses testimony before we have to leave for the vote. We are holding the second in a series on Prescription Drug costs in response to a bipartisan request led by senators cassidy, senator franken, along with senators sanders,white house, and warren, as well as other senators who are interested in this object. Not only was the request for these hearings bipartisan, but both his hearing and the first hearing on drug prices were bipartisan, which means senator murray and i agreed on the witnesses. Despite this, our first hearing in june went so far off track that i delayed this hearing , inst