Aye. Aye. Opposed . The minutes are approved. Item 3 is directors report. Good afternoon commissioners. You have drethers report in front of you but because it is so timely we would have director of policy and planning come up and talk about details of the aca repeal and replaced legislation called the American Healthcare act. So, colleen. Please. And any items that you have questions on the directors report happy to answer. Good afternoon commissioners. As you may have heard yesterday the House Republicans introduced the American Healthcare act. It is two bills that will be taken up sime ultaneously in committee tomorrow or not sime ultaneously but currently in two committees tomorrow. It is on quite a fast track. It looks like it might get to the floor the house by the week the 20th and perhaps ovto the senate by the week of the 27th. I have in your directors report a summary oof the key elements of the proposed legislation and can go through a few of them. There are many elements an
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This is the worlds most valuable company. It released earnings after markets closed in the u. S. Shares rose postpostrelease, and post market of both postrelease and post market. Numbers are falling. Unit look at revenue and thatts, profits were not good. Several billion yet less than last year. Iphone t means that the model, peoplest were doubting whether it was a little too expensive for but it pickedts, up traction. That seems to be what is saving apples numbers, especially when you look at projections. 45 point 5 billion 45. 5 billion. That is the bottom end of the target range for apple, if you look at the projections. As far as that is concerned, it seems to be over growth. Sales are falling. Another thing to mention, the cfo basically said at the start of this, for the past quarter, they were not able to keep up with demand. Now they have put in the necessary capacity to meet back up demand, so they do expect this for the next three months. The iphone is still the most important
Finishing up here at the National Press club. You can see this on our website cspan. Org. Going to a conversation with World Bank President jim yong kim. Hell be talking about preventing the next pandemic. This is happening at center for strategic and International Studies here in washington. Should start in just a moment. Good morning and welcome to csis. Welcome to those who are joining us online and those who are coming in via cspan and else where. Its an honor to be here today to welcome dr. Jim yong kim president of the world bank to speak on how to better prepare ourselves for future out breaks in this era of the new normal of recurrent out bakreaks weve se. Im the Senior Vice President here at csis. Just a few minutes of opening remarks. Dr. Kim has been president of the bank since 2012. And in that time has used his leadership quite strategically to bring about many changes internally and externally. Hes positioned the bank to be a lead player, a key player in pandemics, in sup
Global stock market after the fed held back on rate and really, it seems, bought investors more time. The expectation is that the fed will raise rates. A lot of the commentary we are seeing this morning. Their major averages remain higher. Down to some degree at the moment, but we want to mention we are seeing strength in tech. Amazon and out for that are trading at records today and apple is resuming its recent rally we have been seeing on expectations for sales of the iphone seven. Roleology is playing a here and has been playing more of a role. We have not been talking about the stocks. We were earlier in the year. A breakdown of the Industry Groups in the s p 500, the votest post exit low on june 27. You see since then technology is the best performing group, a 18 followed by financials, 11. 5 . Is playing a big part of the recent rally we have seen. Looking at the stock and the other assets here, we have got the 10 year yield at the lows of the day, down fours four points. Alan gr