President s would weve ever had. And a grandfather, whirl wind johnson hosted a tennis camp including for Althea Gibson and arthur ashe. My grandfather, a phenomenal physician, but somehow managed to be a student of the tennis game and transform that learning into a program that would, for decades, provide players an opportunity for africanamericans to integrate the sport. Watch the cspan cities tour saturday beginning at 5 p. M. Eastern, sunday at 2 p. M. On American History tv on cspan 3. Working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. Health and Human Services secretary, alex azar spoke before the Senate Finance committee this week about the president s proposed 2019 budget. He answered questions on a range of issues, including funding for medicare and medicaid, the Opioid Epidemic, Community Based clinic training and autism and also discussed the administrations approach for lowering Health Care Costs including Prescription Drugs. Mr. Azar was sworn in as hhs secretary in
They are small potatoes. Kathleen i had an interesting conversation with bill dudley and i am putting that comment of small potatoes from bill dudley seenrspective we have much worse, however, he is convinced as well that, rate hikes will continue and is interesting to me that it isnt just u. S. Fed officials but other central bankers downplay the stock market volatility. We heard it from greg spencer yesterday, and we heard it from ecb officials yesterday, saying it will not affect the policy path. Unless it gets worse and last longer. Yvonne we heard the boe chiming in and it is fueled by the selloff that we saw overnight. Interesting contest of last week, or earlier this week that the worst may be and this is a technical shakeup given the fact that most of this market with short volatility, but now that trade is that, perhaps the dust settles, we should be ok. But today was an indication that we could see more to go. Kathleen may more dust coming, we shall see. The s p dropped takes
Today, Hurricane Irma struck with less force. Stocks rising for a fourth day. The dollar is rising. All of these currencies are declining against. We are seeing the dollar, we are seeing a move in bond yields, commodities. Sterling is holding its own against the seemingly unstoppable euro, suggesting investors are finding some value in the uks currency. Sterling concluded a second weekly advance as the common currency strengthened to its years on theo dollar. The moves showed negative trading psychology on the pound is breaking. Best 92 s 92. 67 pence. Now. Pence as of Money Managers saw the value of copper plunge last week by 2. 5 , halting the longest rally in a decade, is consecutive weeks of games. Hedge funds, large speculators increasing their copper long position by. 4 . The short position rose for the first time in six weeks. Copper supplies are tightening. Production shortfalls are overhyped. Goldman sachs has said the metal is 10 above fair value. The price of one of the most
Come next year, we will probably have the ecb with a stable balance sheet, and we will talk about Interest Rate movement after that. Anna welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe, our flagship morning show from london. Manus another day, another set of Earnings Results coming for. Lets go to commerzbank, germanys secondlargest bank. Operating profits, 314 Million Euros. That is confirmation that the turnaround plan is indeed having a good start. They confirmed their fullyear outlook. Loanloss provisions just below where we would expect. 196. 5 million. When it comes to net income, this is the storm. 217 Million Euros. The market had penciled in 74 Million Euros. The bane of European Bank ceos lives, capital 12. 5 . The target is 12 million customers by 2022, shareholders gave them a d rating, but a good set of numbers. Just think back to september. Is validation of strategy 4. 0. Anna we will be speaking to the cfo later this morning. He will join the team on surveillance. Matt miller is o
This briefing is part of a series on the future of Health Insurance and we will actually be doing three summits on the future of health care this year starting with the future of Health Insurance, chronic care, and the excited that youre here and its certainly i think fair to say that when it comes to Health Insurance the future starts here and now in the senate. We have a lot to talk about today but before we do i want to thank our sponsors for todays session, our annual Summit Series sponsors are an thumb, ascension and health is primary and i would like to thank them, also the Blue Cross Blue Shield association, cvs health and other sponsors for their generous support. I would like to point out one of our Board Members who is here with us today, one of our new Board Members is me go murray from the association of Community Plans so inks that for being here. We will hear a couple brief words. First i would like to introduce sean martin, Senior Vice President for advocacy, and policy