Reporter a girl saved by her eyeglasses and may have deflected a bullet during a driveby shooting. A very good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im thomas and good to have you with us. Today is the key deadline for the Affordable Care act better known as obamacare and have it kick in on the first and the troubled website can now handle a rush but it could prevent people from signing up and al jazeera has more. If you have not already you might want to pencil in a couple hours to sign up for healthcare, millions of americans remain uninsured in most states and monday december 23 is the deadline for selecting a plan if you are looking for coverage that starts january first. Its important for people in highrisk pools to get insurance now, that includes those with preexisting conditions, people who lost coverage when insurers cancelled 2013 plans and people in states where medicaid is scaling back. But the january first deadline varies in states that operate their own health excha
We dont have trading in tokyo. It is the emperors birthday. John, good morning. Japan is closed or the emperors birthday today. China stocks are gaining. Apple as well and also foxconn part of that. Japan is closed. U. S. Gdp better than forecast. More details on what is happening as far as asiapacific stocks. Lets get back to our top stories. Apple finally signing a long awaited deal to get iphones sold through china mobile. Stephen engle is our china correspondent and he is in beijing. This is a long time coming. It is a pretty significant deal as well. X years six years worth of negotiation coming to fruition. Accessll give apple to access to customers on chinas biggest wireless at work. China telecom corp. The china apple have been offering since about 2009. Telecom has offered it since march of last year. The big stumbling block for apple and china mobile has been mobiles insistence to have apple make a handset that could be used on the Homegrown Technology that china mobile was f
And the other cracked down on Sexual Assault in the military. Julie hyman is digging into the discounts that have run far and wide, but not all retailers are playing ball. Olivia sterns is following the headache for many of these stores, with the return season beginning. Julie hyman, who resisted the pressure to cut prices . Consumers are coming to expect that. Case we havee base seen across the retail spectrum. Some retailers at the highend who think they can preserve brand equity keep prices at relatively elevated levels. Lemonked about lulu held prices. Is a teenage retailer that introduces a number of products to see what will be successful. Finally, anthropology, which is owned by Urban Outfitters, an upscale brand, where people are not so much buying gifts, but buying stuff for themselves. Now, the advantage of this strategy is obvious you preserve operating margin. One retailer that has discounted less, not resisted entirely, hasnt michael kors with margins of 30 . Margins are a
Mascot change, a little less elephant and a lot more coyote. Mr. Coyote, that is, known to his friends as wile e. Classic cartoon fans will remember him as one of the stars of the looney tune animated series. The smart guy whose obsessive focus on stopping the roadrunner leads him to all kinds of wacky shenanigans enabled by acme company gadgets. The bomb. The rocket. The flying bat suit. The giant slingshot. It seems to me the republicans would be able to relate because this week they reached into their own grab bag of schemes and unveiled the latest strategy in their ongoing attempt to stop the Affordable Health care act from running. Investigate it to death. From ru. Investigate it to death. Thursday the house held the first of multiple hearings to figure out who, what, and why behind the botched rollout of the exchange website. During the hearing, members of the house energy and Commerce Committee grilled a panel of representatives representing the contractors responsible for build
Doublebarrel washington shotgun of a Government Shutdown and a debt ceiling crisis . Really, how were we down so little . The given that our precedent was on earlier this evening talking about the federal workers who will go out pay and how we are entering a height of irresponsibility moment for the federal government. The house of pain lets ponder. Lets ponder while were barely down, believe me, 0. 6 on the s p barely down. Nasdaq down a quarter after being up 25 for the year after coming into the session, thats barely a selloff at all. First we have to wonder whether there was something mechanical today. It was the last day of the quarter. I told you endlessly that the big mutual funds like to show you theyre right about the market by owning the biggest earner. They dont tell you when they bought it you have the assume theyre brilliant, clairvoyant even. Hedge funds like to stand underneath. Meaning theyre bidding below the market. This happens. They dont like to give up the ground t