Patrol car. And nigerias booming hair industry, how braids, weaves, and wigs are boosting the countrys economy. Hello, it began as a pro democracy revolt. Russias Foreign Ministry hopes to host a meeting between Bashar Alassads government and syrias divided opposition. But its unclear who will officially take part. And there has been no let up in fighting in syria. There have been airstrikes in the Northern Province of aleppo. 39 people are thought to have died in the past few days. Areas controlled by else fighters are being targeted. Elsewhere in Syria Government wa warplanes have hit the southwest. At least five people are said to have died after government jets bombed a residential area. And Government Forces have bombarded the rebelheld town of douma. The air assault has killed at least five people. [ sirens ] lets get more now from our correspondent Kimberly Halkett in washington, d. C. For us. What more door know about these planned possible peace talks . Well, what i can tell y
We are live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Im guy johnson. Francine lacqua is not here today. Lets start with some big market news. At the end of the first trading our this monday morning, that act in germany the dax in germany has hit an alltime high. We are through 12,000. We are up nearly 1 . European equities are largely money continuing to move into the european space. The gap between u. S. Equities in valuation terms and u. S. Equities, european equities, absolutely massive. How long before we see that starting to compress . Oil is the flip side of all this. 2009 lows is where we are. We are down by nearly a percent this morning. Nymex over in the states trading at 44. 46, down 0. 8 . Big event of the week we all know what it is. The fed, is that language going to be changed . How significantly will it be changed . Anyway lets figure all that out. Lets get some context from hans nichols. Hans, i guess it was an inevitability. With the euro doing what it is doing
In the technology area, we already witnessed a different kind of thinking. Right now we still enjoy leadership and we still enjoy standard leadership. So were able to apply some of our influence. Over time come as you know, especially in the area of Technology Evolves very quickly. By not being there, we will very quickly lose our ability to impact. Once it is harmonized based on the United States standards, for example, all the businesses will suffer because that means we potentially have to create different that the products, different sets of services. That will ever stamp act our ability to expand commerce. Thank you are a match. Too many of the other panelists want to comment on that . Yes. I know john lancaster, we are colleagues together on the United States institute of peace. I dont mean to put words into his mouth, but it is their laments to it the United States can expect to do in terms of influence in other countries. You dont have to be exactly what we would like you to be
One is talking about what happened before the Affordable Care act. If we could take our seats and welcome to this important hearing this morning. The purpose of todays hearing is to explore the Success Stories of the rollout of the Affordable Care act in states throughout the country, where teamwork and cooperation has proven to be exceedingly effective. We will also hear from a federal panel that will talk about the federal rollout and some of the challenges that have presented themselves. Normally, we have the federal panel first and the state panel second, but at the discretion of the chair, i reversed it, but require the federal leaders to be here to hear from the state exchanges and from individual Business Owners about how the situation could be improved. Id like to begin by quoting, i think it was mark twain, who said, a lie can get halfway around the world before truth gets out of bed in the morning and puts its boots on. So this morning, were going to try to give truth a chanc
Silicon valley. We have it covered today. Sue is at the new york stock exchange. Hi, sue. Hi, ty. And while there is fear out there, we also have a lot of optimism as well. Take a look at the russell 2,000 hitting a new record high today. Right now its up about a tenth of a percent and the transports also hitting a new alltime high today and for those of you who follow the dow theory, that is an important indicator, up a third of a percent today. The nasdaq well above 4,000, its about to have its third monthly jump of 12 in the last three months. Craig columbus is president of first allied Asset Management in phoenix. He thinks theres more upside to this market but hes also cautious. He sees some warning signs out there, reducing exposures where evaluations is most stretched. Whats making you cautious and nervous about this market . I think we can expect more upside but also prepare for more volatility. We havent had a 5 correction since late 2012, so i think 2014 looks like 2011 where