Month of gain and nasdaq ending august at an all time high. Federal and local officials are trying to sort through the week of hurricane harvey. It dropped 50 inches of rain on the houston area and 39 people are dead and 39000 in shelters in texas. Harvey making its presence known at the pump. One quarter of all refining is shut down. President trump making his case for tax reform in missouri on wednesday, calling it once in a generation opportunity. The president reiterating the call to slash Corporate Tax rate from 35 percent. To 15 percent and simplify the tax code. Provide tax relieve to the middleclass in bricabrac profits from overseas. Maria, back to you. Maria technology is the best since President Trumps election victory up 25 percent. Even with amazon and google contributing, some Tech Companies are opting to stay private longer. There are 160 properties valued 1 billion or more, including established unicorns like huber, airbnb, pinterest. And what is the next big company to
August at an all time high. Federal and local officials are trying to sort through the week of hurricane harvey. It dropped 50 inches of rain on the houston area and 39 people are dead and 39000 in shelters in texas. Harvey making its presence known at the pump. One quarter of all refining is shut down. President trump making his case for tax reform in missouri on wednesday, calling it once in a generation opportunity. The president reiterating the call to slash Corporate Tax rate from 35 percent. To 15 percent and simplify the tax code. Provide tax relieve to the middleclass in bricabrac profits from overseas. Maria, back to you. Maria technology is the best since President Trumps election victory up 25 percent. Even with amazon and google contributing, some Tech Companies are opting to stay private longer. There are 160 properties valued 1 billion or more, including established unicorns like huber, airbnb, pinterest. And what is the next big company to join the unicorn ranks . Joinin
The newspapers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are nigel nelson, Political Editor at the sunday mirror and sunday people, and political commentatorjo phillips. Tomorrows front pages. The Observer Says the knives are out for theresa may as the conservative Party Conference gets underway. It reports a senior cabinet minister has refused to back her remaining in office. The sunday times continues the theme one of its headlines claims borisjohnson believes mrs may will be gone in a year. A rather kinder front page from the telegraph, which says the pm is set to announce a tuition fees revolution to help younger voters. Thats more like it, mrs may is the verdict in the express. It reports the pm will launch the change as part of a policy blitz to woo younger voters. The mail on sunday says shes gambling that the tuition fees changes will head off a tory coup. But the paper calls it another huge u turn. And more on the conservatives in the sunday mirror, which claims the prominent pro
I recognize myself six minutes. Minutes. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Frelinghuysen i rise to present an amendment to h. R. 3219 to make america secure appropriations act. This legislative package provides critical appropriations for National Security, including for the department of defense, department of veterans atares and department of energys Nuclear Programs and the legislative branch bill. My colleagues, this is the primary constitutional duty of the congress to ensure the safety of the homeland and the American People. This legislation was carefully crafted to meet that responsibility, funding our critical material priorities, supporting veterans and making our borders more secure. The core of this package is full year funding in the department of defense and intelligence community. And i thank chairwoman granger. Provides 658. 1 billion, an increase of 61 billion in base discretionary funding for fiscal year 2018 enacted levels. This is no doubt, this is a signif
Good morning. Joining us kara swisher, executive editor at recode. Before we get to kara on the top tech business, lets get a check of the markets the dow is as just hit another record high. Its just backing off of that point. But if the dow manages to close higher, that would be the ninth record close in a row. And the tenth straight day of gains for the dow. Certainly the Big Multinational Companies have outperformed. Take a look at the nasdaq. It is doing better at. 25 coming off a week of losses. Well see if tech can continue this rebound it is sort of a mixture, a mishmash, mike, of companies that are leading right now you have Goldman Sachs and apple leading the dow. As far as the s p 500, tech is strong, Consumer Staples off that tyson report. We have a lot more earnings to come this week, disney, cvs, time warner and retail later in the week nasdaq is up 60 of the volume in advancing stocks the bread sj good and the nasdaq nod as g the market just holds steady the s p 500 is ha