Merkel stays in front. The only televised debate fails to move the political dial. Im being polite. Is a grand coalition the most likely outcome . Novartis and a surprise theuncement, they say that ceo will be replaced. Is it stoxx underperformance relative to its peer group . We are less than a half hour away from the start of european trading. Thats take a look at where futures are pointing after the north korean situation seems to be the one concern, after the bomb test, that markets could focus on today. Here you see futures down across the board. Or look at bunds across the sovereign debt spectrum, there is no cash trading. If you like it just look at ds, investors are buying the german debt. Looks like people are getting a little bit riskoff this morning in order to prepare themselves for the possible fallout. Guy ecb this week so we have to think about what that means coming out of frankfurt. It is riskoff. Riskoff. Big the u. S. Is closed but there is a reaction to the latest n
Have your back in terms of all people in our country, including people of color. This spending bill, it does just the opposite. I hope the members will understand the message that were sending to communities of color in this bill and rectify some of the problems. You have a chance to reject further institutionization of any quality and injustice and recognize how painful these cuts will be to people of color and women. Im going to give you my examples and my amendment shows what im talking about. The jackson Lee Butterfield amendment, this would increase funding by 16 million for the office of job corps. This amendment is fully offset with the department of Labor Administration funds. I offered a similar amendment in committee, and while that amendment failed, i believe that this amendment before us is not subject to point of order. Its critically important. You know that many minority youths and disadvantaged youth who have benefitted significantly from job corps will be locked out of
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Repeal and replace bill passes the u. S. House. What does this mean for President Trumps ability to turn policy into legislation . Lets talk about whats happening in the markets now. This is the move you are seeing at the moment. European equities opening soft this morning. London looks like its going to outperform just a little bit. We will circle back in just a moment. Probably a bigger focus is oil right now and the rest of the commodity complex. Lets turn our attention there and take a quick look at the gmm. Seeing dollarcanadian dollar down. It is a commodities story. So the risk is up aversion trade is on. The Australian Dollar is under pressure. In some ways, you would expect this to be more under pressure. Were going to talk t about that with mark cudmore. Lets show you the column that really highlights it all. There are a bunch of contracts that you can use for iron ore. This is one of them. This is the deli at contract. It is down at the moment. Entire energy the complex, tra
Educationrelated agencies will come to order. Good morning to everybody, particularly good morning to secretary devos and thank you for appearing before the subcommittee today. Blount blount this is a defend. Budget to the president signed into law an appropriations bill that included 161 billion in discretionary funding for this subcommittee. While that was a billion dollars less than we had the year before, we were able to eliminate programs and prioritize programs in a allowed pell eturn yearround where students will begin this fall to have the opportunity to have a pell grant available to them year round. His year, the fiscal year 2018 budget requests proposes a ignificant funding decrease in laborh. H. S. , 24 billion below what we are spending in the current year in the agencies that are reflected in the work of this subcommittee. That is 15 cut below the bill we passed just last month or past the end of april. For the department of education, the proposal includes 59 billion whi