South africa the countrys ruling a. N. C. Is set to recall jacob zuma as head of state and government but ruled the scandal tainted president comply. And historic change at the helm of germanys social democrats andrea nala set to become the first woman to lead the countrys Largest Center left party but this party is deeply divided especially over its Coalition Deal with the conservatives well get expert analysis. Plus the trial of a Palestinian Team turned protest icon this video of i had to mimi slapping Israeli Soldiers went viral back in december now shes facing twelve charges including assault before and Israeli Military court our jerusalem correspondent has all the details. And as calls for political change in nigeria gathered pace our correspondent there sits down with former president ola saying. An older sanyo now a vocal critic of the countrys current leadership. Brian thomas great to have you with us the former president of georgia turned ukrainian protest leader Mikhail Saak
Currently, it is down just slightly, but still the elevated levels hovering at just 26. Last week it hovered at 36 which gave some investors pause. The dow is down about 6 in august. The s p is off just about 5. 5 . The nasdaq is down close to 6 as well. Year to date, though, the nasdaq is actually the only major average that is positive by close to 2 . So far, this year. Certainly, a decidedly different trade for the nasdaq on the year. Biotech, some of the highflying tech is helping that. But a 2 gain can be fixed quickly as volatility continues. If its up 100, are we going to say its unchanged . I mean, its nothing, right . It was basically unchanged. 100 points, lets get the latest out of china. Overnight, the central bank injecting 220 billion. And now beijing abandoning the chinese stock market on largescale share purchases. Instead, the paper says chinese efforts will step up efforts to find and punish those destabilizing the market. The benchmark shanghai composite closing down
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I used to work for a company come and Large Companies of about 20,000 employees. Our insurance ran for all of us was around 400 a month. Thats the full cost to the company. For the Health Insurance. Now, and what weve got here is a situation that were trying to fix this and if we want to fix this what we would really do is say, take the Health Insurance, turn it all into individual policies. In its companies wanted to pay for each employees insurance, they could pay it is an individual policy. In other words, each individual policy, and theres a model for this. Aflac does this all the time. Host can you wrap this up very quickly . Caller if they wanted to do this host we got the point. Guest thanks. Personal with regard to sincerity i hope you realize that we are very sincere that the Affordable Care act isnt going to work, its not good for america to help america gets the message thats what weve been saying since we got elected as majority of house and 2010. With regards to the idf, y
There. But you really do see some opportunities. I really do. Its interesting, we talk about the jobs report, 158, good or bad. We talk about gdp, minus one, plus one. All that is a power point. Our economy is sluggish today, and theres no reason for it. We have a wonderful country. We have great resources, we still have a free world, the opportunity to move forward. Heres my message to the leadership in washington, get in the game. Thank you. Join us on monday. Have a great weekend. Squawk on the street starts right now. We have breaking news on this jobs friday. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im melissa lee, with Carl Quintanilla and david faber. Were closing in on 14,000. A leg higher in futures just moments ago. The dow looking at 112 points at the open. The s p 500 looking at about 11 at the open. Of course, this is after the best month for january, since january of 1987. As for the picture over in europe, taking the lead from here in the United States in terms of gains, we do s