Carry this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the president ial election is marred by violent protests and Opposition Strongholds at least one person has been killed. Protests against madrids plans to remove autonomy from catalonia but the next move of the regions leader as im clear postpones a key speech. Iraqs Prime Minister rejects the kurds offer to freeze the referendum on secession as he travels to iran to meet with leaders there. With the latest. Record is the. Level of baseballs world series body and i dont just. Violence has erupted in Opposition Strongholds. And kenya where people are heading back to the polls for the second time and in just over two months voting for a new president got underway earlier on thursday except for in consumer who were most polling stations are closed because of security concerns police there fired live rounds and tear gas to break up protests against the vote and at least one person has been killed twelve others i
Third. Hang seng down 0. 2. European equities, heres a look across the board. Seeing red, that is bleeding over into our markets. The ftse 100 the worst performer, down three quarters of a percent. The german dax, relative outperformer, down 0. 1 there. As we keep an eye on the trading in that session. Crude, obviously continuing to be important for the market. Kind of hovering around these levels here. 51. 52. Wti, brent both up a bit. Nat gas making a move as well. It has been whipsawed around the last couple of weeks. Ecb holding its first policy meeting of the year. President mario draghi will hold his normal News Conference at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Last month they decided to extend the Bond Buying Program until late 2017. Look at the euro. We are trading 1. 06 versus the dollar, the yen, 114, and against the pound, 1. 23. In the u. S. Today, fed chair janet yellen will deliver another speech. This time in stanford, she will take questions from the audience. In remarks yesterday, a h
This is two hours and 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the meeting will come to order. Senator whitehouse is next followed by senator young. Senator whitehouse. Thank you, chairman. Lets me ask first to put into the record a letter from our governor in rhode island, which says in rhode island im quoting here we have actually seen exchange premiums decrease in two out of the last three years. Ended that this has saved consumers nearly 220 million since 2012. So, the story on the Affordable Care act in rhode island is a good one. I would also like to put this little graphic into the record, which to explain briefly, the red line along the top is the cbo estimate of where our healthcare costs were going to go back when they were making the estimate in 2010. Then, at this time 2016, after the aca was in place they took a look at the Actual Experience up to that point ended a new new projection Going Forward based on the Affordable Ca
Meeting will come to order. This senator whitehouse. Let me ask first to put into the record a letter from our governor in rhode island which said in rhode island, we have seen exchange premiums decrease in two of the last three years. This has saved consumers 220 million since 2012. The story on the Affordable Care act is a good one. I would like to put this graphic into the record. To explain it briefly, the cbo estimate of where our healthcare costs are going to go in 2010 and then at this time, 2016 after the aca was in place they took a look at the Actual Experience and did new projections Going Forward based on the Affordable Care act, just in the following ten years, from 2016 to 2026, they are forecasting 2. 4 9 trillion in federal healthcare savings that relate back to the Affordable Care act. This is where that came in. We throw this thing out at our peril if you care about saving medicare, the savings to which are a significant part of this 2 . 9 trillion. With nothing to re
Meeting will come to order. This senator whitehouse. Let me ask first to put into the record a letter from our governor in rhode island which said in rhode island, we have seen exchange premiums decrease in two of the last three years. This has saved consumers 220 million since 2012. The story on the Affordable Care act is a good one. I would like to put this graphic into the record. To explain it briefly, the cbo estimate of where our healthcare costs are going to go in 2010 and then at this time, 2016 after the aca was in place they took a look at the Actual Experience and did new projections Going Forward based on the Affordable Care act, just in the following ten years, from 2016 to 2026, they are forecasting 2. 4 9 trillion in federal healthcare savings that relate back to the Affordable Care act. This is where that came in. We throw this thing out at our peril if you care about saving medicare, the savings to which are a significant part of this 2 . 9 trillion. With nothing to re