Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. The future of american troops in afghanistan is being decided by a group of Afghan Tribal leaders. Afghan and american leaders said yes to a security deal and today afghan President Hamid karzai is pushing a council to accept it. The decision now lies with the loya jirga. Translation you are here representing the afghan nation. I was under pressure not to organise the loya jirga. When it comes to issues of National Significance it is important to hold the jirgas. Up to 15,000 troops could remain in the region if the security pact is signed, including 8,00012,000 american troops. It is entirely train, equip and assist there is no combat role for the United States force, and the bilateral Security Agreement is an effort to clarify for afghans and for United States military forces exactly what the rules are with respect to that ongoing relationship. Here are the terms of the deal u. S. Forces that remain after next year rece
Time. You are back to school today. I am. Call it backtoschool time. Summers over, but does that mean the rally is as well . A tepid start to stocks kicking off the month of september. The s ps lower by two. The Major Industrial average down 40 and the nasdaq higher by 10 points. It didnt seem so long ago that the cruise industry was on the ropes with one mishap after another. Remember all those pr problems they had a couple years ago . Yeah, the smelly problem, the, mmhmm. Today it gets a big vote of confidence with news that norwegian cruise lines is buying oceana and regent seven seas, combined into a group called prestige. Its a 3 billionplus deal. And we will speak exclusively with norwegians ceo, Kevin Sheehan, in a first on cnbc interview coming up here later on the program. 400 for an apple watch . Recode is reporting that might be a highend price point for the longanticipated wearable that apple is expected to unveil a week from today at a major product event. What kind of fea
Where the jobs are for the graduates of the class of 2014. First, to sue, who gave a very good commencement address at merritt a week or so ago. It was. It was a wonderful day for me, ty. We have breaking news on the fed an the economy in just under an hour from now. So were going to begin with the unintended consequences of the fed and its easy money policies. Yields in the benchmarks plunging 15 this year, now holding the 2. 60 . Mortgage rates at the lowest level in a year, but thats not helping housing. Diana olick has details on that. Hi, diana. Reporter hi, sue. The sxekdation was they lower rates would boost mortgage volumes, even if it was only refinances, but that did not happen form the average contract rate on a 30year fixed fell to 4. 26 last week. Thats the lowest in a year for the highest quality borrowers, the rates were nearing 4 . Jumbo and fha loan rates even lower, but no reaction on the application side. Refinances down 3 week to week, and applications to purchase a
Lefist Palestinian nationalist group that formed after the Six Day War of 1967 and pioneered terrorist strategies in the early 1970s. Once a key player in Palestinian politics,the PFLP lost influence in the 1990s and was sidelined as Yasir Arafat established the Palestinian Authority.
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