Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. President trump said today he believes he has the votes in the Republicancontrolled Congress to pass his tax reform bill calling for what he claims are record tax cuts by the end of the year if not sooner. Itll be the biggest cuts ever in the history of this country. And i think that theres tremendous appetite. Theres tremendous spirit for it, not only by the people were dealing with in congress, but for the people out there that want to see something. Sreenivasan the republican plan proposes tax cuts of up to 6 trillion and is expected to add up t
Trading session for the first trading session of the month of november. Stocks just off session lows, take a look at the declines across the board here, dow down by 85 points. S p is down by. 6 . Nasdaq down by. 6 as well. Health care, as well as telecoms, among the biggest losers here. Watching small caps down, down by 1. 2 . Outpace and declines in the overall market. This is a sector, area of the market seeing twice declines of the overall s p 500 in the past month. Apple, a drag overall, ubs survey indicating demand for the new iphone in china, seeing that stock just off session lows, down by 1. 5 . Thank you very much, melissa. Im tyler mathisen. Welcome. Here is what else is happening at this hour. Gannett says it is ending a sixmonth long bid to buy the newspaper publisher trunk. I love that. Construction spending falling in september. They were expecting an increase. And the fed picking off a twoday policy meeting in washington. Well have full coverage of the feds decision on I
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