Cspan3. Dr. Kirk newman on his book hearing children. The a surgeons story on the front lines of pediatric medicine. The conversations i hear are cutting things like medicaid and cutting the nih and doing all these things when were on the cusp of such terrific discoveries and when you think about half of the people that are on medicaid, half, of the beneficiaries are children, so whose going to get hurt. Why do we want to do that . Were not doing that to the elderly on medicare, why would we want to do that . We should double down and put more into our children. Watch the entire Program Saturday at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Also on book tv on cspan2, david good hart on his book the road to some wrrks the pop lift revoelt and you see this in the contempt that people in my email chain after brexit. You had left wing professors why did we give these people the vote without some kind of iq test. For more go to book tv. Org. The Senate Finance Committee Held a hearing last week to consider Presid
Consider the nomination of mr. David cotter to serve as assistant secretary of treasury for tax policy. Mr. Cotter, welcome to the finance committee. We appreciate your willingness to appear before us today. We also appreciate your willingness to serve in this capacity. And im sure that the significance of this position at this crucial time is not lost on you. Its not lost on any member of this committee. Tax reform has been a major focus of our committee for some time now and we are grateful to have you here to discuss your thoughts on these matters. On a number of occasions, i stated my view that president ial leadership will be a key component to any successful tax reform effort. Just the last week i quoted president obama in a speech on the senate familiar back in 2012. He said things like, quote, our current Corporate Tax system is outdated, unfair and inefficient, unquote. The problem was that president obama never really got around to truly leading out on tax reform. I expect mo
The nikkei up a half percent hang seng up 1 111. 2 . In europe, big effort gains in spain. Crude, the one big driver for crude the past couple of days would be harvey. Now a category 2 storm were seeing wti crude up by 0. 7 brent up by 0. 7 welcome back. Thank you great to be back when did you get back last night. Last night. 8 00. All right do you feel different . Do you why would you ask that, joe. Im wondering feels g right . Enjoyed it. Congrats. Everybody knows by now now they do if they dont, theyre about to. Misses melissa lee. Is there a new name. Im still me. Congrats. Good to have you here. Thats dedication, 8 00 last night anything anything to help you out, joe i will do. And the viewers heres the big stories were watching today that was maybe the biggest in corporate news, uber could hold a vote for its next ceo as early as today uber is holding a Board Meeting later total. According to sources hpe c eshs Ceo Meg Whitman will not be there, but former ge Ceo Jeff Immelt will
Energy and technology names. At any moment we do need to tell you the president expect today meet with Senate Leadership on both sides of the aisle, the latest meeting in a jammedpacked second day of what mr. Trump plans to do, he is opening his ears and listening to friend and foe aligning. In this hour, it is crystallizing, lays focus all day on the Economic Issues that the president campaigned upon when he was, of course, a candidate. Look at this, three ceos who on any given day are sworn competitor enemy, all of them together, all three major auto companies, ceos brought into the white housthis morning to speak with the president. Former senate leaders, democrat, republican on whether they think that the President Trump is making all the right moves at the moment. The dow is up 137 points, we are less than an hour to the closing bell. Lets start the countdown. Liz breaking news, we have a big market rally. We are also watching the white house at this hour. At any moment President
Good morning, a very warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im will fred frost along with Courtney Reagan whos in for sara. Lets get straight to the Global Action for record highs. All three of the major indices plus the russell as well. We had about 0. 4 of gains for the s p. The nasdaq a little behind that. The dow a little ahead of that. And a record in today share price not market cap high for apple, but the rally was really clearly led by financials. We had the bank of america up around 3 . The broader financials index up 1. 25. The spark was janet yellen being a little more hawkish than expected and that pushed yields higher which benefitted banks. Futures expected to open higher once again to new records. The dow higher by shy of 50 points. The tenyear treasury note, as i said, that move in yields that fed chair janet yellen sparked did help the bank stocks in particular. We crossed 2. 5 as march seemed to be back on the table with some of the comments, albeit investors rea