Welcome to the Virtual Event we are having. This is concerning confronting the healthcare crisis in Rural America. Today we are releasing recommendations for this. Im bill hoagland, a Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. We are all adjusting to this new way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as we go through and i want to say thank you to the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined this zoom platform, you will receive a message shortly from one of our staff, morgan bailey, in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website, bipartisan policy. Org, and a link will be on the bpc events page under the health section. Later this morning, you will h
Says those affected by last weeks hack will be reimbursed. Betty it is a gamble on the bitcoin markets, but sometimes with the ball wrong you feel like you are gambling if you are buying into the bull market. Busy thisbe extremely week, lots of data in the u. S. , john stayed on friday, the fed meeting, Janet Yellens last, and i want to pull up this chart. 9379, it is really on peoples minds. He melt up so to speak it shows you historically that if you look at what happened with other bull markets, this is the one that ended up in the crash in the 2000s, and this is the 1920s will run that ended in the huge crash in 1929. We are not even there yet. If youre looking at patterns, were not even in the melt phase these longer bull markets were in, it could be some reassurance for those who believe we are at a peak. Yvonne its quite interesting, you might not be able to call it a melt up. The stats are incredible, the s p has been traded within 5 of its record high in 399 days. We have not
The biggest surge ever is if the sign of a bubble, a frothy market . Containing the measles in america from california to the midwest. Measles are back. What you need to know to protect your family. All that and more this hour of power. First, to sue, at cnbchq. Stocks under pressure today, all about earnings. The impact of the strong dollar the continued drop in oil, and so lets get you up to date on numbers with the Dow Jones Industrial average now in the green by about 43 points. Nasdaq composite down 12 and s p 500 is fractionally lower less than a tenth percent. Mcdonalds is higher after replacing its ceo, and boeing continues higher after the strong earnings. In the commodities sector, oil is the big story this hour. Crude hitting a six year low, dipping below the 44 per barrel mark, and brent held up better than west texas intermediates high. Thats what they watch this hour. Thank you, sue. Crude in the 40 a barrel and now they are feeling the pinch and pain and smart money smel
Decision not to seek reelection next year. But first, lets get you to the top stories we are following today. Lufthansa may face unlimited liability payments. The germanwings copilot intentionally flew the plane into a mountain. A specialist says that would mean no caps on awards to victims families. 150 people were killed. Authorities found medical documents indicating that Andreas Lubitz was unfit to fly but he had that from his employer. Officials said they want to know about the copilot posse motional state copilots emotional state. Five investigators searched the apartment for clues. Mark yesterday, the ceo says the pilot had recently been found when hundred percent fit to fly. Thats 100 fit to fly. An invasion of yemen is in the planning stages. They are bombing shiite rebels in yemen. The rebels are backed by iran. Egypt and saudi arabia want to send in troops. Their plan is expected to get the ok of the arab league tomorrow. The fighting risks turning into a wider war in the re
Right now all we mayybe clocking in some losses for the third day in a row for the dow and the s p and we havent seen that since september. Dow jones industrials down 66 points at 15,932 and nasdaq down sitting at 1797, friday is jobs friday, watching for that. Also a close eye on dow chemical which jumped to little bit yesterday on this news, pulling back now, trying to spin off part of their business so we have seen this moving back and forth, gains going back today. Connell breaking news in a detroit courtroom where a federal judge is ruling whether or not the city can continue with its bankruptcy filing. Dagen a win for the city . Jeff flock live from detroit with the latest. Jeff it is accused ruling. For the First Time Ever a federal judge has ruled in detroit std may cut, diminish the pensions of Municipal Workers in bankruptcy, first time there has ever been a ruling like this and it may have huge implications across the country. We are seeing out here on the street protests ag