About chinas economic challenges, calling the country a ticking time bomb. Lets begin with the markets on this final trading day of the week as investors digest todays ppi number interesting, sara. I mean, 0. 1 is not that dramatic we had a negative revision, but coming off the stellar reception to cpi yesterday, maybe it looks a little bit worse yeah, after a zero percent in june, you dont want to see it tick up to 0. 3 in july, which is what we got, and we know Producer Prices are wholesale prices that feed in, so maybe a little deemphasized because we already got the cpi read but you just dont want to traders, investors are on guard for inflation to hook back up. Right . Like, we hope people are hoping that the inflation data, which has shown moderated inflation, been celebrated as good news, will take us down to the 2 target and the feds work is done, but theres a chance that, look, it could be sticky we still see a really tight labor market where wages are rising we see Oil Prices
We will call the committee to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chairman be authorized to declare recess any time during todays hearing. That is so ordered. As a reminder, members insert a document in the record please email them. At this point i will recognize myself for the purposes of an Opening Statement. We are here today to discuss the initial federal response to march 26, 2024, Early Morning incident involving the cargo vessel and Francis Scott key bridge in baltimore, maryland, which resulted in the subsequent collapse of the bridge. The first one at all and six workers who sadly perished. I want to express our condolences and offer prayers to the families and their loved ones. I also want to express our appreciation to the harbor pilot and the Maryland Police authority who saved countless lives close in the bridge prior to the incident and all the First Responders who were obviously involved in that process. Finally, i want to commend the federal, state, and local offici
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Organization dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of Health Policy issues for the policy making community, the media and the surrounding stakeholders in the d. C. Area and beyond. So welcome this morning to those who are joining us live on cspan2 and watching from home. And before we begin, i just want to make a quick note about the dates for the next several breakfasts. Well be doing them about once a month. The next one will be march 29th, and we will be talking about pandemic preparedness. So quite different from todays topic. Today we are delving into the broad topic of shifting dynamics in the Health Care Market, and were going to take a closer look at the issues around market concentration, consolidation and integration. And although there have been a lot of recent headlines about this topic, this is not a new issue in our health care system, and so the panel of experts today is going to help us understand whats happening right now, what the implications are and als
Right now. Good morning very warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Im Courtney Ragan sitting in for sara eisen. Great to be here with you lets have a look on the markets this morning a good week for the dow and particularly on friday we saw about 0. 7 0. 75 of gains for the dow. Were about 2 of gains for the week as a whole. The s p was up more at. 9 as a week the nasdaq up half a percent financials were the best performing sector. Up 2 . A lot of that coming on friday as yields rose this morning were caught by 14 points on the dow. If we look at the ten year treasury note we can see that the yield closed close to the 2. 4 thats where we remain this morning, 2. 39 . Spains Prime Minister is seeking new powers to control the region until new elections can be called. Meantime, some catalan lawmakers are calling on the regions president to declare independence from spain this week still a lot going on and undecided in that region if you take a look at spains ibex i