Modest moves in the stock market. Orthis month has been big investors. In fact, it could be one of the very best for longtime. Optimism has been improving but toomy there was caution ahead of the trade talks between the u. S. And china which are set to take place later this week at the g20 summit in pan. Today the Dow Jones Industrial rose to 26,727. Nasdaq was down 26. 5. E s p was down today despite these small moves, recent rallies have sent the major indexes close to new highs. But does this months move higher have staying power . Mike santoli takes a look. Reporter this tripo a fresh record is perhaps the most confusing in terms of how it happened and what comes nexnd its come with treasury yields anchored near 30 month lows, recession fears slowing and manufacturing stalling. The rallyas been driven by defensive stock sectors such as utilitieas and gold broken st to a multiyear high. Investortiment has been quite cautious. Purely based on the historic probability, the market at a
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The committee on health education, labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now, and she has asked me to proceed with a hearing because we have six excellent witnesses, and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. And we want to senator tuesday have a chance to ask questions of each of you. And so patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes while well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then well resume the hearing. Morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to one half of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spend on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James, and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. Thats 1. 8 trillion, three times as much as we
Bills. The committee on health education, labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now, and she has asked me to proceed with a hearing because we have six excellent witnesses, and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. And we want to senator tuesday have a chance to ask questions of each of you. And so patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes while well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then well resume the hearing. Morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to one half of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spend on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James, and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. Thats 1. 8 trillion, three times as muc
We begin with a new debate in the 2020 campaign and the issue of democratic socialism, something that Bernie Sanders talked about in his speech at George Washington university and in a recent cnn interview. We want to ask you this question , specifically, would you be willing to pay more taxes for Free Education and health care . Here are the numbers. 202 7488000 if you say yes. 202 7488001 if you say no. You can also join us on social media at cspan wj on twitter [video clip] twitter. J on we want to get your calls and comments in a minute, but to frame the argument there is this the new york magazine. Why does bernie so fervently cling to the issue of democratic socialism. Host thats this morning from new yorker magazine. Getting to your calls in a moment, but first, following his speech at George Washington university, which is by the way available at our website, senator sanders appeared on cnn and was asked this question. [video clip] onlye United States is the major country on ea