The omega Family Office. Nice to see you we just welcomed a conversation on stage. You just heard the Vice President who is on stage now describe the economy as booming, the stock market as near record high the fed cut Interest Rates yesterday. All makes a lot of sense. The administration wants even more what do you how do you make sense of it . Look, japan has had negative Interest Rates for 3 1 2 years what has it done nothing. Europe has negative Interest Rates. Their economy is doing very poorly the Vice President cited a bunch of factors, in of which on my list, Consumer Confidence is up, retail sales Strong Economy growing at trend, corporate profits are decent Corporate America if they were pessimistic, they wouldnt be buying back all the stock theyre buying rates are already low. I pity the poor guy or girl thats worked their entire lifetime when they go to their Financial Planner and ask for advice about retirement. How can they afford to retire . Theres no income. Good luck b
Being dragged down by health care and utilities. The 2500ry close to level. The dow is also down. 1 , while the nasdaq is at 6417. Yield look at what they in the 10 year is doing. We are seeing a little more safety demand after north korea just ramped up its rhetoric against the u. S. , suggesting they could include a Hydrogen Bomb in the pacific as part of their threat. 10 year yield of falling. The yen has actually risen the most in two weeks. But not in the double digits. We are seeing the pound falling. Theresa mays much awaited speech was lacking details that we were looking forward to. Creative and imaginative were the words she used. Uber has lost its license in london after investigators cited a lack of corporate responsibility. The company has 21 days to appeal the ruling. The general manager of uber in london said they intended to immediately challenge it in the courts. Bring in our senior tech editor from san francisco. Brad, how will the new ceo approach the defense of uber
Embarrassing this country and throwing the election of donald trump. Lets make a deal. Vw shares get a boost after report that german automaker could be nearing a deal with the u. S. Justice department and shares of lufthansa over challenges to Earnings Growth. Good morning everybody. And welcome to the show. Very glad to be back and glad youre all with us for this hour. Still a new year for many of us. The stock share of 600 opening to slightly mix hadded this morning as you would have seen edging just a little bit lower despite the positive data from germany. A 2. 2 rise in the year to november. A 5. 6 rise in exports as well. That was quite a bit better than anticipated. In europe were still just moving a little bit lower. When it examines to some of the sectors and our main markets that trend is reflected in the markets. Autos bucking the trend. With regards to some of the auto sales figures looking quite perky. Basic resources higher and telecoms off by right around 1. 3 . Well be
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In congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid, some additional states, many are talking to cms about what might be possible in the way of theyre talking about waivers, what can be done. And so to today were going to k about, our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year, so writer we are, what the aca did, where we are with medicaid, whats under discussion, and were going to talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Youll notice there is one empty seat, and that belongs to trish riley. Unfortunately, because of the crazywet we had in d. C weather we had in d. C. , trish is not going to be able to get boo town, so she will not be with us. But fear not, our three other panelists watch whats happening in the states very closely and will be able to give us a full picture of whats happening. First to my left we have diane rowland, executive Vice P