S p shed 8. 3 . Although we were down a lot more earlier in the session you say i got to say its about darn time hallelujah things have gotten too easy. How do i know . Because the uber driver was make together much on tesla because the shoe shine men have finally picked a winner, and that winner was amd. Because these moves have gotten way to too crazy, and they had to stop. In end, even the saint Virgin Galactic, it was felled. Yep, they even got to space, symbol spce. Or spice, as i like to call it look, all selloffs are not created equal. Some are a lot worse than others this is not a slash and burn selloff its more like the kind of pruning you do to trees that are too new the power lines. Sure it looks ghastly chen theyre done with the wood chipper, but it beats the alternative which is a california style wildfire. I like the market because when trees grow back, hopefully they grow back stronger, slower, steadier still was an odd day for the market to take a dive. There was a lot
Dow only gaining 69 points, s p climbing. 35 . You got to wonder if the buyers are simply stooges are they ignoring headlines like fallout deep yeps for u. S. Strike that was from the wall street journal. And these headlines were as wide as you can get have we forgotten that iran vowed to get revenge for the assassination of its mastermind, general Qassem Soleimani are we whistling past the graveyard of their inevitable retaliation . It sure feels that way just a short 12 hours ago, the s p were looking down 1 news on the trumps adtrati administration 200 point dow jones deficit. What a comeback. So whats going on here . All right, look, im willing to suspend my belief that perhaps the markets wrong and give you some ideas because there could be many different forces at work first, investors have learned that these kinds of events tend to be buying opportunities since President Trump took office weve actually had three conflictrelated selloffs while they may have seen disturbing at the
That bill in terms of the prodemocracy protesters. The Indian Markets looking like this, future suggesting a flat start for the session. Take a look at what happened,. 5 to the upside, since x likewise. The 10 year yields, one eye on what is going on with gdp. Growth comethat that would be the slowest rate weve seen. 71 rupees, the rupee has been the worst performer amongst andn emerging currencies part of that could be done to the weve had robust inflows of the greenback into the economy. Lets wait for that open but before that lets get to the first word news in new york. Were going to start at the u. K. Were starting strengthened as a poll suggested the conservative party may win a comfortable majority in the months u. K. Election. Hassurvey of 50,000 voters the tories winning 359 seats and the others 211. A top aide to Prime Minister Boris Johnson is warning there is a real chance of no overall victory and things are much tighter than they seem. The latest fed survey of the u. S. Ec
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Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the yeas are 83. The noes are 9. The motion is passed agreed to. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley ive got a couple of issues i want to speak on. One would be trade and section 232 issue. That would be my second one. The first one, i want to speak about commonsense entitlement reform. In the past year weve seen a flurry of drug pricing proposals. Im encouraged by efforts from my colleagues here in the senate, especially Ranking Member wyden, colleagues in the house that agree in the house of representatives who agree with this effort to reduce drug prices and the president of the United States who has already been involved for a year and a half in lowering drug prices. All have made lowering Prescription Drug costs one of the Core Principles of our efforts and particularly a core principle for this administration