Distinguished leaders in the field of athletes rights and representation who can speak to a number of current challenges facing athletes across the movement. As we do, i want to take a moment to remind our witnesses and to all those who are here with us and listening on the live stream, that this commission is not just focused on olympic sports, but paralympic sports as well and i hope we will all be mindful of that. Id like to introduce our witnesses. First we have donald. Until last year he served as executive director of the National Hockey League Players association and he was previously the executive director of the Players Association for major league baseball. He has spent nearly half a century as an advocate for athletes and in doing so, not only help make our favorite pastimes more equitable and fair, but stronger and more commercially successful as well. We are also joined by a former prosecutor, champion athlete, pastor of the u. S. Opc, a longtime advocate for athletes Due
Not we need to revisit the concept of u. S. Enterprise funds. U. S. Enterprise funds were launched in early 1990s by george h. W. Bush. U. S. Government dollars funded investments in developing countries. It was an idea that was ahead of its time. And there were several dozen of these Enterprise Funds that were launched. Many of them were very successful. Some that had some hiccups. But most were broadly very successful, but you would ask yourself, why hasnt there is any number of Different Countries where you would say we ought to be applying this. Thankfully, in the Obama Administration, there were a number of countries where there was political will to apply this tool, and i think its a very valid and useful tool for our tool kit in the United States. And so we have examples from tunisia and egypt that were going to talk about, as well. So were going to talk a little bit about the history of what are these things, how they come about, what can we learn from the past. How are some of
They will meet later today. They will hold a joint News Conference this afternoon and tomorrow the president reportedly will speak with russias president Vladimir Putin. A warning for the next time you pick up your phone. They authorized charges on your credit card. Along with starbucks. Both reporting last night the report dash mac results results that were disappointing investors. Check the markets right now. Theyre searching for direction this morning after another record high yesterday. Its up just a fraction. And same same with the nasdaq composite. Fractional moves here to tell you about. In Europe Markets are mixed. In asia overnight mix performances as well. Take a look at the shanghai composite. And ek average was up a third of a . The 50th anniversary of the apollo one fire. Nasa is opening a new exhibit to monitor the crew. In joining me to talk about it is my team. Happy friday. Its always a great morning with talk about that. This week has been no shortage of things to tal
Now, wmur news 9 at 6 00. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] stephanie happening right now police are stepping up security , at the nashua holiday stroll. In the wake of recent terror attacks, officers are taking extra precautions to make sure everyone at the event is safe. Good evening and bank for joining us. I m stephanie woods. Thousands are enjoying the Ice Sculptures and events tonight. Wmur s mike cronin joins us live in nashua with how people are enjoying the night. Mike several attractions downtown. One of the crowd favorites is the Ice Sculptures right behind city hall behind me. Considering with the weather was like a earlier, people are mostly happy with Mother Nature s cooperation tonight. Holiday cheer filled the streets of nashua for the annual Winter Holiday stroll. The rain was an unwelcome sight earlier but it held off by the time the events started. Tens of thousand
Another busy day for earnings after the bell. Cvs and news corp. Will lead the charge. Well have analysis of all the numbers. Before we get to all of that, lets look at where we are in the markets right now. The markets have been whipsawed today by International Tensions. The dow down as much earlier in the session as 93 points. Right now were down about 75 so we are headed back towards the low, 16,368 is the level there. Nasdaq is off 15 points. S p 500 is off ten. Tyler, it is now down to 1,910. Joining our Closing Bell Exchange this hour, heather hughes, meg green, larry mcdonald, and our very own rick santelli. Welcome, one and all. Rick, id like to go back to something that you showed graphically. Might not work quite as well without your graphics. On power lunch, you looked at the performance of some bond charts versus the equity charts. Would you sum up what you were saying there . I will. As a matter of fact, were going to be showing those same charts right now as i talk. If yo