The deal he this number pivotal ahead of tomorrows opec meeting. P. M. , the twoyear had a did to cover ratios yesterday, the highest in a year so watch the option. , whent the fomc minutes it decides to leave rates on home. How does the Balance Sheet pay into that . Robert kaplan and Neel Kashkari will be speaking. David it turns out china has a lot of debt. We may have known that before, but it is official overnight. They downgraded chinese debt for the first time in 30 years. The Senior Vice President had this to say about the decision. Be a gradualto erosion of credit metrics. We are looking at the policies the government isnt lamenting. The authorities have recognized the risks with high leverage and have a very broad structural reform. We think that counts to the point where leverage will increase more slowly than it has in the past. Still, these measures will not be enough to reverse the increasing leverage. David joining us now is chief economics correspondent for bloomberg. It
For the fifth day and arose a row. Anna chandra is here. Multiple reports that president lawyers are trying to undercut Robert Mueller, who is investigating russia. According to the Washington Post, they are saying he has conflicts of interest. The president has been asking about pardoning aids, family members, even himself. Had anican student imprisoned in north korea. He was in a coma when he was released from eight north korean prison. The imf is ended two years of speculation and agreed it to another bailout of greece. Ilionw loan was 1. 8 dollars. That is contingent on debt relief. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries, this is bloomberg. Jonathan thats a you get the euro down. I dont know if investors are by that. My own draghi brought the doves out. The euro is not buying it. The table andd the stimulus program. He delivered a hawkish message to the ecb. Highestthe euro to the in almost two years. Join this is Ri
Supply. It involves many issues including market structures. And we could go on and on. Substitution possibilities, etc. But but what we tackled so far were the difficult issues of things like helping ukraine face the winter, etc. This year and that will continue. But this year frankly a harder issue. We are due to report onto the g7 leader summit. And that is a real intermediate to longterm plan for integrated collective Energy Security. And that gets into some very fundamental policy issues in different countries. But that will be a big agenda item for this year. Finally let me say a few words on the quadrennial Energy Review. I have to say a few words about it first. Some of you are familiar and some are not. This is an admissionwide effort that is looking to weave together all of the equities and threads of an Energy Policy across the government. The first of the quadrennial. It to us its one plus one plus one plus one. And in the first one, we are focussing on energy structure. Tr
The physician payment sunshine act. It was a bipartisan piece of legislationo senate by senatorrofz grassley. Republican from iowa. And senator herb kohl a democrat from wisconsin. And the bill sought to lift the veil on the relationship between industry and it was a true piece of Bipartisan Legislation that was founded on a lot of the research that youre going to hear from some of our great speakers today. It was written in conjunction z with the information that we gotrcd from the research community, and the consumer community, represented by pew and allen here today and aarp and amsa and me concerned that these r b2bk ; relationships, the Financial Relationships, were impacting both the quality of health care, and the cost of health care. J2. Sn and i have to say that the process was long and tireless. At the time i worked for senator herb cole and we had, with my colleague Chris Armstrong from oa senator grassleys office, about 300 meetings with consumer a d z tr t hahp hc groups,
3. 7 billion in payments to p n hospitals in fiveu r months of the first year of reporting. Thats a÷n1szw eajjr hvqp . Those are funds that are either going to research and product development, and thats important and important for the public to understand. Or going to drive uptake of particular products. Thats also important and important to understand. eb÷ so where are we now . Pew has been involved in this acs issue in a long time, as have the other folks on the pafj0o today, and many other organizations. And since passage we have s continued tkgf hp orking group of consumer organizations, and also individual companies to build shared understanding about how the data should be presented. And about some of the technical challenges in getting that data d,s7÷ . uujeu q ublic domain. Data for the first full year of reporting has been collected. 2014 data has been collected. It will be submitted to cms in march. And in june we will have publication of the first full ÷ bko year ofut9