We are seeing stocks fall to their lows of the session. Weve seen a sharp gyration during the course of the session thus far. Some of it appears to be driven by oil, perhaps some people paying attention to those comments by robert kaplan. But overall, we are definitely seeing a negative at this point for the major averages. Take a look at the bloomberg here for the groups on the move. Healthcare is the worst performing group. Then theres technology, financials and energy. I should mention amazon is actually in the Consumer Discretionary index in terms of where it is sectorwise, and that index is very slightly higher, so its not grouped with technology in the s p 500. When you look at healthcare and see the big decline, at least some of that is due to gilead. The companys profit missing analyst estimates. It had disappointing sales of its two blockbuster hepatitis c treatments, and so that is whats behind the steep drop were seeing. Then theres a cycle, which is a Health Waste Managemen
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Problems in a number of ways. But quite often address them in ways they dont address the underlying problem itself but deal with the symptoms. And i think there are many examples of that. There are many i think if we think about International Tax broadly. What does the International Tax do. We go back to the 1920s compromise. Dividends, royalties, interests now that might seem like a good idea in the 1920s but causes problems. We have to figure out what royalties and dividends. And many of the problems of trying to allocate profits between different jurisdictions combined to those kind of problems. Weve already talked, for example, about how we is it corporations that plays effective management control and those kind of issues. So actually, as an aside an aside in five minutes, be quick, but the oecd, for example, is taking the existing system as a given. Started off by saying were going to have a fundamental review, but its taking those principles and trying to fix some of the problem
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Thompson, for five minutes. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the 25 fund act of 1980 required 25 of the tax receipts from timber harvested from the u. S. National forest to be returned to the counties where the tax receipts originated. Since local property taxes cannot be leffveed on federal lands, these dollars along with payment in lufe taxes, or pit funding, are critical in National Forests and other federal lands. This is because the 1908 law specifies that they directly support local schools and road activities in National Forests. Unfortunately
Membership growth is down slightly from last year, and sales in lincolns corp. Business core business were up 52 , but trailing last years numbers as well. This is a company that helps to match jobseekers with jobs come a based on data. Cory johnson as well as our immediate are joining me. If facebook blew it out of the water last week and twitter was disappointing this week, where does lincoln fall . It is like goldilocks, right in the middle. Not to not too cold and not too hot. We see slowing growth. You expect from growth for a company that is more than a couple years old. We see a company that is continuing to monetize better. Revenue. Revenue per user is gently picking up every single quarter on a sequential basis. At some point, this might be a story where sequential does not matter, where things are seasonal. To me, a business that is not seasonal like this shows you that they are still growing linkedin has been investing more in its mobile products. In terms of where else they