Of an all hands on deck meeting at the white house. A Health Reform deal. Obamacare reform now hangs in the balance. Were going to bring you any further comments from the president and the senators, if they have them. Now we have gop leadership delaying the obamacare replacement vote until after the july 4th recess. We will not be on the bill this week, but were still working toward getting at least 50 people in a comfortable place. We want to make sure we are preserving the access people have for coverage for preexisting conditions, and also, we want to make sure that medicaid is sustainable, not just for today but for the future as well. As i said while it may look a little bit, we are intent on rescuing americans from a failed system that has driven up their cost and made it more difficult for them. We eliminate the mandate that people across the country hate that you have to buy a governmentapproved product. We eliminate all the taxes, and we return a lot of authority to individual
Mcdonalds allday breakfast fueling a yearlong sales surge, but customers are losing their appetites. An hour fromhalf the open here in hong kong. Any tailwind,ting more like a few headwinds coming out of wall street. Lets have a look at the markets about to come online, singapore, taiwan, kuala lumpur. Flat,a stocks fairly giving a mixed picture in asia. What is happening with australian stocks given the jump in metal prices helping miners on the index. Helping halted today drop. Trumps remarks overnight, the dollar on the defense which is putting pressure on japanese shares in the nikkei 225 down. 25 for a second straight day. To stop in focus is to conduct, is takata falling for the second day, dropping 17 last i checked. Lets take a look at what else is going on. On the cost be, they have swings so far, automakers dragging the most with hyundai leading the drop. Reversing the days earlier advanced to a twoyear high, falling over 1. 5 cent. 1. 5 . This morning, it did deliver a fourt
Jobs number friday. Markets slipping after weak overnight data. Present hitting new fiveyear low. The dow as we said within nine points of 18,000 and retreating today. Merck buying cubist more than 18 billion and cash. Comments late in the hour. Mcdonalds delivers another weak number. Sales missed the street, down 2. 2 worldwide. More than that in the United States. Well get to all of that later on. But first up, dow and s p, each posting a sevenweek winning streak since late november of last year. Blue chips within 48 point of the 18,000 mark. Futures falling on disappointing chinese trade data. Japans economy shrank more than initially estimated in q3. Crude falling to that new fiveyear low. Morgan stanley cut its forecast, oversupply to peak in the Second Quarter next year. But in their words, guys likely to get worse before it gets better. Once again, i mean, heres here we go. Theyre weak, thoi this is our strength. When europes down, by midmorning the money comes here we have the
People will benefit more from this and the government will. Thats not the question whether you think and whether we think it. Do you think the cuban people are going to be working for these companies and now we have been permitted to go into cuba and the cuban people want their government to take their pay . Im sure they dont. Whose side are we on . Are there going to be opposition parties new opposition parties . We will continue to support those who want to have their voices heard. But there have been no concessions on their part so we have changed five decades of u. S. Policy and they still wont have any independent unions opposition parties. I can imagine they are going to have opposition newspapers and the rallies, this is a regime that the castro brothers came in and once they were in power they murdered the patriots who overthrew the regime, they personally did. The putt fellow that we were negotiating with ticket pistol and took these patriots out and shot them in the head by t
It is good being with you. Let me first go on record saying i wholeheartedly agree with the president s change in direction. I think it is clear that over 50 years nothing has changed with the policy we had. Time says if you dont do the same thing over and over again and you get the same result. I wholeheartedly agree. I should also say that i do feel the passion of, for example, my good friend the Ranking Member of the western hemisphere, listening to his opening statement. And i would hope the kinds of questions just because the passion he has is for the people of cuba. In his opening statement, some of the quest as he has, hope it is that kind of dialogue that goes forward with some of the questions he has a trying to make sure there is a better day for the cuban people. And so in that regard, ive been down all of been to cuba several times in other places in latin america and the caribbean. And i have found that one of the major obstacles we have had in the region is on cuban polic