Screeria nigeria. Next education secretary arnie duncan on the president s 2016 budget request. Then a house hearing on the immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. After that, u. N. Ambassador Samantha Power on a house hearing on the president s 2016 request for the u. N. And foreign operations. Labor health and Human Services and education. He told the committee that sequestration is impacting learning and needs to be addressed. This hearing is about an hour and 40 minutes. The appropriate appreciations subcommittee on labor, health and Human Services and education of the latest agencies will come to order. Glad to have certainly secretary duncan with us today and secretary, thank you for being here and thank you for conversations we have had prior to this hearing today that we look forward to working with you. You know one of the longterm commitments to the National Government, even before it was the government under the constitution, was to do things that encouraged education. I
That is red flagged for them, like past Sexual Misconduct is a red flag . Sexual misconduct is a person who was disciplined, received any discipline. They on their form, check it. Office of Security Programs does a review of that. The office of security, have they ever revoked somebodys security clearance for people engaging in prostitution . I dont know about prostitution. I know that they have revoked security clearances so other than the three from cartagena, im not sure. Mr. Horowitz have you looked into the security clearance possibility . We didnt look into what could have happened had they been referred to the office of Security Programs. Primarily because a concern we saw was that they werent being referred to the office of Security Programs. So we werent in a position to review what acs they doak with regard to these matters because we learned that opr, when they did finally get these allegations, never turned around and sent them to the ops. What do you say . Thats one of the
Wayne rogers and company. Connell some news on the fed from five years ago. Lets go to Nicole Petallides and the dow is up today and Nicole Petallides at Stock Exchange. Nicole good morning. We are seeing some up arrows and major averages pushing them into positive territory for the week but looking here like the dow is going tab three straight weeks of gains, 60,154 last friday. Squeezing out gains is a good way to say it. Up 1 1 4 . The tech having nasdaq doing well, also up 1 3 of 1 . We are seeing gold higher by 5 and buying across the board for retailers to drugs to banks, transports doing well, we have gone some notes out from the big houses such as jpmorgan this morning saying to buy equities, dont sit on the sidelines, lot of movers, a hewlettpackard, ala of movers here will keep a close eye as well. Connell thanks. Dagen breaking news from the Federal Reserve, central bank releasing transcripts of its meetings from the height of the financial crisis in 2008. Connell coming thr
Gain since july and europe mixed for the time being. Our road map with more bad data from american retailers. Walmart sales and profits below estimates, kohls disappoints blaming on the weather or a weaker consumer. David tepper says theres a time to make money and a time to not lose money. Can you guess what time it is now . Cisco beats as sales fall. John chambers sends the stock higher. First up walmart did report numbers of 1. 10 a share, a nickel below, sales fell for a fifth consecutive quarter. The quarter forecast shy of consensus, weather shaved 3 cents a share off the q1 earnings, and kohls missed with quarterly results. Comps down 3. 4 , but walmart is the real story, jim. U. S. Comps down 1. 4, we were looking for a slightly positive number in this country. Comp traffic down 1. 4, really just not a great quarter. I like to scan these in preparation in coming up in the show and go over the release. Im looking for something positive, something that says double digit. So this
Jeremy siegel will weigh in on that. Sign upe deadline to for Government Health care. That is if you can. Hours ago until enrollment closes, healthcare. Gov goes down twice. All that and more coming up. The market on the down. Julie hyman will look at the big tree as we head to the close. Then the underlying bit in market because of janet yellen. Lets talk microsoft. The new ceo continues to make management changes, today announcing in a memo that there are new heads for the cloud and devices business, two, businesses that are very important to microsoft. Seeing those shares rise as he pushes the company forward. A lot of movement in biotech and pharma. Specific test results. For edwards life sciences, studies released shows perhaps we could see an increase of the manmade heart balls that can be inserted without cracking the chest open. Study beinghe presented at the american cardiology conference underway right now. Medtronic rising on similar studies. Biogenic rising as well as they