The market rally lets get to dom chu to give us a broader picture of what were seeing here. The whoopwhoops are happening all over the place, not just on the floor but across wall street and investing america because we are, again, at record highs for the overall stock market the best start to a year for the s p 500 since 2003 back then, it gained around 6 were at that 4. 5 , maybe close to 5 at this point. Check this out the s p 500 over the past week is up 1. 5 industrials, consumer discretionary, energy, financials, cyclical, economically sensitive the ones who do good in a rising economy. Those sectors are outperforming. Meanwhile, Interest Ratesensitive sectors like real estate, telecom, utilities, Consumer Staples are the market underperformers. As for the best performing stocks in the s p 500 and the worst ones, check this out because we have at least Seagate Technologies showing its going to be the best er performing stock so far on the Dow Jones Industrial average side, no sur
Britains elise is disqualified from the 1,000 metre speed skating heat ending her 0lympic dream. Good morning, it is tuesday the 20th of february. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. 0xfams chief executive has apologised to mps this morning over the way the charity handled claims of Sexual Misconduct by its staff in haiti. Mark goldring said he was sorry for comments in which he appeared to downplay the seriousness of the allegations. The International Development committee has called an urgent questions have been asked about how 0xfa m questions have been asked about how 0xfam handled their staff. He was asked by the Committee Chairman if he would apologise for the actions of the charitys workers in haiti and his comments in a newspaper which appeared to downplay the seriousness of those allegations. appeared to downplay the seriousness of those allegations. I do apologise. I was thinking under stress. I had given many interviews. I made many decisions to try and lead 0xfams response. I was
Were talking out with leo shane, a capitol hill sheath the future of defense programs is the topic. Remind us of first of what the senate is up to now. What is the Defense Authorization bill . This is their big policy measure. This is in conjunction with the appropriations bill. This is for the purpose of the budget for next year. We have a military pay raise, all sorts of bonuses, equipment a wide range. Measure forthe key defense on capitol hill, ill as well as with the appropriations bill. What else does the Senate Version have in it . At 700 billion. We saw the house version thats havetly less, all of these a base Defense Budget of over 600 billion, well above what the caps on are for the fiscal 2018. One of the things that had to be resolved is how to pay for this. We havent seen anything so far. Democrats are saying, this is great exercise, but its ridiculous. Were not getting anywhere. This, wee to pass would see budget cuts across the board. Pathreally presented a here on how t
Year. You are here to help us understand this new element that is part of the Defense Authorization bill calling for the development of space corps. What is that . Guest the idea here is to create a separate military service like the navy, the marine corps, army, and air force. There would be a space corps that focuses specifically on the space domain. It would align authorities and resources under this organization and they are focused on developing and operating military space capability. Host what is behind the development of this . Why do we need it and why now . Guest the argument has actually been going on for decades now that space has been a stepchild within the military. Most of our military Space Capabilities are under the air force, but not all of them. The navy actually builds and operates its own fleet of military communication satellites. The army has some Space Operations as well. The idea is that space has been so fragmented that we are not able to effectively coordinat
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