Known the Canadian Pacific will come back with another proposal. A merger of the two were great a real wrote transcontinental reach. Railroad transcontinental reach. For the first time, someone has contracted ebola inside u. S. Borders. The victim, a Health Care Worker in dallas, was caring for the liberian man who died. A Hazardous Material crew has begun decontaminating the apartment where the woman lived. Authorities say she was way protective here but at some point there was breach of protocol that may have led to the infection. The cdc warns there may be more cases. Possibleunately, it is in the coming days that we will see additional cases of ebola. This is because the Health Care Workers who cared for this individual may have had a breach of the same nature of the individual who appears now to have pulmonary positive test. To the world health organization, there are nearly 8400 cases of more than 4000 deaths stemming from the ebola virus so far. Turning to hong kong where a truc
Of the senate with Mitch Mcconnell as the majority leader. Vice president joe bidens swearingin new members. Can they work with president obama . We have to assume it is going to be better. Divided government usually yields better results. We hope that today will be the start of getting things done actually getting bills passed and budgets passed and doing the work of congress the way it should be. Meanwhile, john boehner is suspected to win reelection as speaker of the house, but some republicans will vote against it. This is a live shot of the house floor. And it is a no go for spacex. The Elon Musk Company scrapped its launch just a minute before about blast off. The reason trouble with one of two motors used for thrust steering of the rocket. They will try again friday. They are hoping to land the rocket back on a platform floating in the atlantic ocean. Ubers latest trouble spot south africa. The Ridesharing Company facing suits in florida where there are cease and desist letters
Congress. Julie hyman. Taking another drop lower. Another drop lower. Another expectation that they will show an uptick and supplies that will show more bad news for oil. The fifth straight day of losses for the s p 500. The longest losing streak in 13 months time. It seems as though good news in terms of the drop of oil has definitely turned to bad as we have seen the ripple effects from the drop in oil. The s p down for. 5 since a last hit a record on september 29. Crude oil still trading below 50 per barrel and extending losses. Whereas before we were just seeing Energy Shares take the brunt of the selling it has really spread to other industries. Interestingly when you look at what stocks are doing today, financials are some of the worst performers. Energy also doing poorly. Any rituals on the list. There seems to be mounting concerns about some of the investments these Financial Companies have made. Energies also on the list. Also we are seeing in small caps it is exacerbated. The
And allow the borders of europe to be redraw and. Redrawn. A slow rise for Chinese Consumer prices in january. It is the slowest pace in more than five years. Falling food and tumbling oil and metal prices are pushing inflation lower, raising real Interest Rates. I trust regulators and china have reached a decision on qualcomm. Regulators in china said the company used its dominant position to force unfair conditions on customers. The Measles Outbreak is spreading. The cdc says there is now 121 cases of the measles across 17 states. Until recently in the u. S. , it was on unusual to see more than 100 measles cases in the u. S. In an entire year. Boston smashing records for snowfall. 69 inches of snow in the last 30 days. Truckloads of snow have been removed and dumped on fenway park. That is not where they are putting the snow. I am kidding. Boston is just getting hammered. We are not. We keep forecasting this blizzard that is yet to materialize. Boston has seven feet of snow on the gr
They are on assignment working somewhere else p we kick it off top stories. Full rally mode. He dow up 175 points the s p 500 has been down as much as 1. 5 . Wednesday was the real bloodbath. All of the index has rebounded after comments by st. Louis fed policymakers should consider delaying the end of their bond buying program. Reporting for quarter earnings that almost doubled, beating estimates. An increase in revenues for trading stocks and bonds. The ceo tried to boost returns from fixed income trading. He has cut staff and the announcement of capital allocated. Is greatlyn says she concerned about growing wealth inequality. The bottom 50 of u. S. Households had just 1 of the wealth last year. The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant incoming wealth gains for those at the very top. Instead, moving standards for the majority. I think its appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nations history. The wealth gap h