Good morning. Stocks continue on a winning streak. The markets still call fear gauge now falling to its lowest level in more than three years. Asian equities coming off the highs on property stocks. Meanwhile, a slow start in europe this morning. In washington, paul ryan will be unveiling his partys Budget Proposal today. Its tuesday, march 12th been 2013. Squawk box starts right now. Good morning, everybody. Im becky quick along with Andrew Ross Sorkin and scott wapner in for joe today. The dow and the s p closing higher yesterday, up for the seventh session in a row. This is the blue chip indexs first winning streak like this in a year. Its worth noting the index is not into the First Quarter with a double digit percentage gains since 1998. U. S. Equity futures at this hour, at this point youre looking at a very slight decline, down by about 8 points yesterday although its worth noting we saw everything in the red in this hour and all those indexes turned around and did close the day
captioning sponsored by wpbt today, after almost a century of trying, today, after over a year of debate, today, after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the united states of america. ( applause ) tom: president obama signs the $940 billion health care overhaul into law. susie: but adding 32 million americans to the insurance rolls won t be fast, cheap or easy. you re watching nightly business report for tuesday, march 23. this is nightly business report with susie gharib and tom hudson. nightly business report is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tom: good evening, everyone. it s official: healthcare for all americans. president obama signed the affordable healthcare for america act in a white house ceremony this morning. susie: tom, now comes the hard part: implementing it. many of the benefits go into effect immediately, but it s goin
captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: google s taking a new approach to china, sending users there to hong kong for uncensored search results. coming up, what the move means for google, its investors, and other businesses working in china. tom: and there are big changes on the way now that health care reform has passed congress. ahead, what it means for businesses small and large. you re watching nightly business report for monday, march 22. this is nightly business report with susie gharib and tom hudson. nightly business report is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. susie: good evening, everyone. president obama is expected to sign america s landmark health care bill into law tomorrow morning. tom, the historic vote last night approved reforms that will make dramatic changes to the u.s. health care system. tom: susie, today a lot of people were asking, now what happens? and what