Be ironed out. Behind closed doors, negotiations are underway to get to 50 votes. For more on the latest, we are joined from washington. Welcome back to the program. Give us a sense of what is going on right now. We heard over the weekend that senator collins of maine was expressing concerns. The real action is going on behind closed doors. A lot of the debates you see to they as it relates tax bill is mostly theater. The real negotiations are between Republican Leaders in the house need to keep 218 votes. In the sen. S the senate need to have 51 votes. That didnt work when they try to repeal the Affordable Care act. They want to succeed here. They are going over various senators whoding are worried about the individual mandate repeal and high premiums. Others have concerns about red ink in the deficit. That is not sitting well with people like senator corker. As stop the Senate Returns on november 27. Sherry give us a sense of what happens when the Senate Returns on november 27. Be th
Vote the presiding officer on this vote the yeas are 52. The nays are 48. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the bill. The clerk calendar number 266 h. R. 1 an act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles 2 and 5 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the senate that senator wyden or his designee be recognized to offer a motion to commit the bill, text of which is at the desk. I further ask that the time until 8 00 p. M. Be equally divided between the leaders or their designees and that at 8 00 p. M. The senate vote in relation to the motion to commit with no intervening action or debate and that following the disposition of the wyden motion, the majority leader be recognized. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Wyden mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from oregon. Mr. Wyden i ask unanimous c
Yesterday stocks had steady gains throughout the day the s p 500 snapped a threeday losing streak and the dow was up for the first time in three sessions overnight in asia, nikkei was up by 1. 4 . Hang seng positive, up by 1. 2 shanghai composite up by a half percentage point breaking news out of europe. Uk reached a brexit deal with the European Union willem marx has more on that story. Good morning good morning. This is good news for theresa may, the british prime minister, she can go back to london from brussels and present her cabinet and the country with evidence shes managed to get the conversation moved on to truck being britains future trading relationship with the European Union, a major factor driving that brexit vote last year in terms of the european side, theyre happy that some concerns have been addressed, specifically over the irish border neither side wanted to see a hard border between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland. Leo varadkar, the irish prime minister
Bloomberg scoop. It shelving his plans to study cryptocurrency has fund hend fund. Erik schatzker broke the news. What do we know with this . Erik as you may recall, Mike Novogratz talked about or had plans to start a 500 million Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund biggest regulatory constraints he cannot talk to us, that he talked about his enthusiasm for cryptocurrencies at assets. Stores of value, and tokens that have the potential to change the way that companies did business. He Still Believes in that. Bitcoin wasthe Time Training at about 4000. Or was it just last week . More than 19,000. Mike novogratz is a career micro trader macro trader. He warned this would be the biggest bubble of our lifetimes. He is the guy. Knowing what it would take the function as a fiduciary. Eitherprospect of buying an bitcoin at the same time as having to risk manages own personal account and maybe sell those very same cryptocurrencies at the same time, he could not stomach it. The schizophrenic side was too
Weakness in italy and spain. When it comes to the treasury yields, this is what were watching closely, the tenyear is trading at 2. 433 should we be doing a Weather Board . Like a freezing cold Weather Board . I saw this morning that 90 of the United States is freezing or below a third of the continental United States, the lower 48, are actually below zero. As was predicted. Its cold because its warm. Dont do this as a Global Warming thing. No, no, because only weather that proves Global Warming like every brush fire is Global Warming. Every drought. Every flood. Thats all Global Warming. You didnt see the day after tomorrow. It got freezing. If the atmosphere traps more heat, you would think it would not be as cold you know what sorkin, dont act like you studied this i have studied this what i have as it happens, i have. Sorkin, if it was 40 degrees, and it was a very warm winter, would that be indicative of Global Warming or just answer that question. If it was unseasonably warm, wou