Jackie we have gerri willis on floor of the new york stock exchange, jeff flock in chicago. What happened today . Dow only needed 36 points to do that. It beat that level. Were at a new high. As you were saying that is the 21st record close of the year. S p only needed a little more than half a point to finish record territory. It achieved that, and more. Here we are, fueled mostly by apple shares. Finally, we got the nasdaq through 9,000. Very big finish for the nasdaq. Tech very critical part of stocks move. Well talk about amazon for just a second here. The company saying they added five Million People as prime members over the Holiday Season. They said it was a record Holiday Season for them. They did very well indeed. And, just adding a lot of people who can add to their bottom line. Some of the people actually signed up for a trial membership on prime. Others actually paying that 119 a year. So amazon, with a very good day. Meanwhile, apple also pushing the nasdaq to new highs, f
A day of solitary confinement he made the allegations to a friend in a christmas phone call. Duty and rang me because he spent christmas with me and my family in 2010 but you know what time it sounded he said to me but im slowly dying. With the biggest stories of the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well welcome to the weekly on r. T. International i mean oneill. Our breaking news this hour we are getting reports that 3 people have been wounded after several rockets hit an area near the u. S. Embassy in a heavily fortified green zone which houses government buildings and Foreign Missions additionally the Iraqi Military is saying that a separate carried out by Islamic State occurred in the countrys north killing 2 servicemen. Meanwhile the u. S. State Department Says they are disappointed with the Iraqi Parliament resolution calling for the expulsion of all u. S. Foreign troops the vote followed the United States assassination of irans most powerful general in an e
Everybody sits together we will get started the subcommittee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time so to discuss Climate Change on the future Economic Impact i will defer the Opening Statement for myself and when we spoke earlier i mentioned the fact we would hopefully to do a hearing we have time for Opening Statements but what i would like to do is to give each of you the opportunity to do so. Let me introduce the four of you have all freight oh gomez from the Accountability Office senior director for environmental risk the institute for Economic Freedom doctor greenstone Milton Friedman and the honorable Stephen Benjamin mayor from south carolina. So you are now recognized to give an oral presentation of your testimony for five minutes. I am pleased to be here today how to limit the federal government fiscal exposure by reducing risk this is an area on our high risk list since 2013 recent disaster has shown the need for planning
Minute. Mr. Hoyer this vote today, madam speaker, is a reminder was even while the house working on a serious matter regarding the president s abuses of ity for office, we are still working hard to deliver on our promises the American People to focus on economic opportunity. Nd in this instance, we are working together. The usmca agreement before us is vast improvement over the first version shown to us by team. Ent trump and his we worked together. That now includes critically mportant changes offered by democratic members in order to ensure that its enforcement stronger, that a protects American Workers, and that it protects American Workers and Lowers Health costs prescription costs. This will remove the uncertainty created by the tariff policies pursued by the president. I am glad that our House Democratic working group was new provisions to ensure that americas trading uphold the rights of orkers to unionize and bargain collectively. I am glad this agreement includes strong, Rapid
To front running 2020 with a max keiser and Stacy Herbert as we look ahead to the 2020 lecture looking at all the policies and. Today we have to take a deep dive in to china and china is it forcing us into a sputnik moment now of course donald trump ran in 2016 on make America Great again and part of that is now a clash with china joining us to discuss this issue is dan collins and marshall our back now according to the i. M. F. Using purchasing power parity china is already 25 percent larger economy than the United States and cons of course you live there for 20 years what did you see here youre in brooklyn as you can hear around us were across the river from manhattan and youre seeing a construction boom here by u. S. Standards but put this into context of our competitor nation as trump calls thats whats going on there component here china has a distribution economically of course and sort of were right the economy in brooklyn where were at is going to be different than little rock a