Implemented properly. Agriculture, nutrition and Forestry Committee members talked to farmers, Rural Utility Service officials and Healthcare Industry leaders about issues impacting Rural Communities. Including access to Rural Broadband, Water Infrastructure and Health Care Services and agricultural production. Good morning. I call this hearing of the Senate Committee on agriculture and nutrition and forestry to order. Todays hearing advances this committees continued oversight of the department of agricultures implementation of the 2018 farm bill. A principle duty of this committee is to ensure that the department had the authority and resources to provide the agriculture producers with the necessary tools to feed a troubled and hungry world as well as this country. But the responsibility of the committee and the usda does not stop there and it is critical as Partnership Supports businesses and the electric cooperatives and telecom providers, schools and clinics and the product manufa
Captioning performed by vitac families in Rural Communities are also concerned about access to health care. Especially with the Mental Health and Opioid Crisis taking a devastating toll on small towns. We address this head on through expanded telemedicine to provide critical treatment for those who suffer from addiction and mental illness. To ensure that every family has safe Drinking Water, we prioritized rural Water Infrastructure investments for small towns. Rural communities need strong locally owned businesses and good highpaying jobs. Rural Small Business investments are critical to creating jobs, promoting entrepreneurship and revitalizing main street. In michigan where we make things and grow things, agriculture and manufacturing are both at the heart of the economy. Thats why we created opportunities to support bio based manufacturing. Companies are creating new products from americangrown crops. We also provided permanent funding for value added agriculture grants to help far
Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla Morgan Brennan has the morning off. What a morning it is too beginning with major tech earnings four big one, twitter, amazon, alphabet and intel and intels ceo bob swan will sit down with us as we look at potential datacenter recovery, pcs and unbelievable characterization of what china was like last quarter. Yeah, surprising mix, the pull in from people freaked out about tariffs actually had some benefit, sounds like, for the pc business, of course, there were some problems there as well but interesting stock action this morning. Intel actually a bit in the red this morning it had been up as much as 4 , i believe, at the open and near there. Up kit a bit afterhours and amd higher than intel which is an interesting dynamic that ill want to dig into but, you know, beyond just intel, you have lots of different earnings story, people surprised. Google, alphabet had been in the doghouse compared to peers and a lot of people got surprised by the
Biggest tech companies. Soared to a record high, with tmobile, netflix all adding fuel to the rally. Alphabet posting its oneday percentage gains since july for death july 2015. Joining us to discuss, senior markets editor mike regan. Facebook, twitter, all reporting results. Where do we see the biggest result biggest move . It was a major week for companies. Very tech centric. Theabet is the star of show, rising 10 . All seem to be firing on cylinders. Announcing that major 25 billion share buyback, that is taking the edge of edge off of the concern of the probe of alphabet. Also twitter doing well, showing an 18 gain for sales. Amazon was an interesting story. They had a big earnings miss, but it was in an amazon typical way. Developed a more robust oneday delivery operation, and thats the type of thing amazon investors in the past sort of embraced, even though it caused a hit in the shortterm. I think the Semiconductor Stocks are a major story this week. Instruments, semiconductors
High, with tmobile, netflix all adding fuel to the rally. Alphabet posting its oneday percentage gains since july for death july 2015. Joining us to discuss, senior markets editor mike regan. Alphabet, facebook, twitter, all reporting results. Where do we see the biggest move . It was a major week for companies. Very tech centric. Alphabet is the star of the show, rising 10 . They seem to be firing on all cylinders. Announcing that major 25 billion share buyback, that is taking the edge of edge off of the concern of the probe of alphabet. Also twitter doing well, showing an 18 gain for sales. Amazon was an interesting story. They had a big earnings miss, but it was in an amazon typical way. They developed a more robust oneday delivery operation, and thats the type of thing amazon investors in the past sort of embraced, even though it caused a hit in the shortterm. I think the Semiconductor Stocks are a major story this week. We saw texas instruments, semiconductors are a weak spot. Tex