Mr. Lankford mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Lankford i ask unanimous consent to viscerate the quorum. The presiding officer the senate not in a quorum call. Mr. Lankford mr. President , i want to get a chance to address an ongoing conversation thats going on in washington, d. C. , right now and will be over the next 36 hours. As unusual as this may sound with all the drama thats happening here, just outside this building there are tens of thousands ofeople, most of them students, that are gathering in washington, d. C. , preparing for something called the march for life. This has happened for decades now. For students and adults that come from all over the country to be able to come to washington, d. C. , to quietly speak for those who cannot speak for themselves children still in the womb, to be able to speak out for the protection of life. It is an interesting conversation that has a tremendous amount of science and a tremendous amount of faith a
Francine welcome to bloomberg surveillance, and im Francine Lacqua in madrid, where i have been speaking to ana botin. Mark barton is in london. Mark good morning. We have seen a big drop in the last couple days for global stocks. The msci all country world index, the biggest two day drop through yesterday since september 2, 2016. Check out the stoxx 600, up for the first day of three. Strongest months in september. The start of the year, gains for every european benchmark with one notable exception. The ftse 100 heading for a drop in january, weighed down by sterling. The euro is up by 1 3 of 1 , gaining by a second day. Highest on a closing basis. Extent headline inflation to slow. Core inflation to pick up. The german tenyear yield is down five basis points, 60 basis points dropping for a second day after rising to a 28 months high on monday, when it rose to 69 basis points. Ande oil is down to 64an change. The euphoria giving way to some concern that u. S. Stockpiles will rebound a
Today from senator cornyn. Out ofas optimism coming the last cr vote that ultimately increase on defense spending, that budget caps would be lifted. Hat message do you have for leadership as far as breaking to a passe, and getting larger deal to fund federal government . Senator yes, get away from crs. I can remember when i first started, it was understood, we were going to have appropriations bills, 12 bills and have not quite frankly, the partisan element to this, because we have to pass them out, majority, we cant get them on know. Loor, as you minority can block for now as far as the one that has to pass, is the one for our National Defense. Nd we have to get past the budget caps, have to get, give an example, if we dont do right now, it is when we pass authorization bill military, 700 billion, we have to go and cant get the cap and go to strict r, that is going down to 549 billion and that would absolutely be devastating, weve military and ur cant do it unless we pass it or we ion
Yields our top story is the u. S. Stock market officially falling into correction territory in yesterdays session. The dow was down by 1033 points. Thats a huge drop weve seen one earlier this week as a result were on pace for the worst week since 2008. The nasdaq was off by 275 points since the slide began back on january 26th, nearly 2 2. 5 trillion in market value has been wiped out from the s p 500. When you look at Global Markets they lost 5 5. 2 trillion over te last two weeks well, you add that up and you look at the u. S. Equity futures, the good news is that things are stabilizing a bit and even turning around after that big decline. Thats not what we saw earlier in the week. Right now it looks like the dow is indicated up by 270 points. If we were to open here, the s p would open up by 33. The selloff we saw yesterday continued in asia. The nikkei was down by 2. 3 . The hang seng was down by more than 3 . The shanghai was down by 4 . European equities in some of the early tra
They host a forum today on federal investments on innovation and science. Newt gingrich and Business Specialist along with academic researchers will be talking about the issues our live coverage just about to get underway on cspan3. As we wait for senator warren, well bring you a story from the Associated Press regarding the Iran Nuclear Deal president obama traveling in ethiopia, and the ap reporting he delivered a belittling rebuke of Republican White House hopefuls monday calling their attack on his landmark nuclear deal ridiculous, if it werent so sad. Obama suggested the rhetoric from some gop candidates was an attempt to divert attention from donald trump. A wealthy businessman whose popularity is con founding the republican field. Maybe quoting, maybe it gets attention, maybe this is just an effort to push mr. Trump out of the headlines, its not the kind of leadership that is needed for america right now. The associate press quoting president obama during a News Conference in et