Hanukkah. Hn, chiefrt is gary co Economic Advisor to the president. This is about 45 minutes. Welcome. I want to greet all the thousands of brave souls who did not look at the Weather Report when they planned to be hair ignored thend then actual weather when they took the trip over and joined us for this Lighting Ceremony of the National Hanukkah menorah here in washington, d. C. I am the executive Vice President of american friends of lubavitch the sponsoring organization for this event. Thank you. We are delighted to have the opportunity to celebrate hanukkah, the festival of lights, which marks our religious freedom here on americas front lawn. This is a privately sponsored event. We are going to condense the program some because of the inclement weather but we are going to take care of all of the major components and we have our special guests that all the kids tent for a moment. Are waiting for warming up in the tent for a moment. But this event might be the most prominent of the
2. 48 our roadmap begins with futures on the rise as the tax bill passes the senate set to pass the house again. Well get the latest on what the highly controversial plan means for business and individuals. Fedex shares are up on strong earnings and ceo laying out how he believes the new tax plan will benefit his country. Bitcoin in bear market territory. Well look whats driving the wild xring swings and one crypto is out. One step away from the president s desk, the senate pass the gop bill along party lines after amending it because of a procedural snag legislation goes back to the house for a revote slated to take place in a few hours. The president will hold a News Conference afterward gary cohn, the chief white house economic adviser spoke to mike allen a few moments ago. This is what he said about taxes and how the stock market is spend responding. I think theres more momentum in the stock market. What do those two baskets tell you that tax cuts are not priced in the stock market
New products to members of British Steels Pension Scheme. It it may highlight the fact for other Pension Schemes in the future, and this may not happen on this scale again, hopefully it doesnt, but thats little comfort to people like myself, you know. And a strong start for dom parsons in the skeleton. And a strong start for dom parsons in the skeleton. And coming up in the sport on bbc news. All the latest from pyeongchang, as britians curlers continue their campaign on the ice hoping for more round robin victories. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Police in florida have charged a 19 year old man with 17 counts of premeditated murder, after a mass shooting at a high school. The gunman, nikolas cruz, was a former pupil at the school whod been expelled. Witnesses said cruz set off a fire alarm, and shot at people as they left the building. It was the eighteenth shooting incident in a us school so far this year. A warning you may find some of the images in neda tawfiks
I know a lot of confusion. What is going to be and even if we get it through, what happens in the senate, if it does not like what we were talking about . Somentense time and confusion over the details. Time when different it was shelved in march. As we watched the developments, a check on how markets are trading with julie hyman. Julie we are not seeing much reaction to the Health Care Bill. Stocks mostly on earnings and energy. In the 2 the 2 big themes. That has been the case most of the day. I want to talk about health care. Health care is up a little bit, it has been up since election about 11 which is about the same the s p 500 has risen. We have a chart on bloomberg of valuation, the Health Care Index versus the s p 500, the price to earnings ratio in white and the s p 500 in blue. For much of the last several years, health care has been more expensive. That it changed and the spread on the bottom. That changed in late 2016 after the election and we see health care trade at a di
I know a lot of confusion. What is going to be and even if we get it through, what happens in the senate, if it does not like what we were talking about . Somentense time and confusion over the details. Time when different it was shelved in march. As we watched the developments, a check on how markets are trading with julie hyman. Julie we are not seeing much reaction to the Health Care Bill. Stocks mostly on earnings and energy. In the 2 the 2 big themes. That has been the case most of the day. I want to talk about health care. Health care is up a little bit, it has been up since election about 11 which is about the same the s p 500 has risen. We have a chart on bloomberg of valuation, the Health Care Index versus the s p 500, the price to earnings ratio in white and the s p 500 in blue. For much of the last several years, health care has been more expensive. That it changed and the spread on the bottom. That changed in late 2016 after the election and we see health care trade at a di