The speaker pro tempore on this vote the devil rayr yeas are 228 on this vote the yeas are 228. The nays are 198. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the question on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal which the chair will put de novo. The question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. So many as are in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The journal stands approved. Pursuant to House Resolution 695, House Resolution 661, and the House Resolution 693 are considered as adopted. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from massachusetts seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that i may hearafter be considered as the first cosponsor of h. R. 1915, a bill originally introduced by representative cummings of maryland for the purpose of of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pu
Disney and merck are your dow leaders. We could get a deal this week for disney to buy much of foxs movies and tv assets a good day for some energy names like chesapeake, newfield and haliburton u. S. Employers posted fewer job openings nearly six million jobs were available and total hires rose 4. 4 prz. Brook Field Properties 14. 8 billion offer. Brookfield is considering a new offer. Ge announcing its Power Division will reduce count by 12,000 we begin this hour with bitcoin moving higher today after this weekends roll out of futures trading. Bob joining us with more important thing is its finally trading. Take a look at where the coin is right now. 17,000 area. The important thing weve got it out. This is the futures contract were talking about. Opening 15,000 its trading at a premium to the underlying cash. Not a lot of people are allowing it lets review what a futures contract is. What do we do when we get a futures contract its an agreement to buy or sell a commodity or financia
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Mixed day today european equities after the benchmark stock exchange. Investors are waiting for the outcome of the tax vote in the u. S. Equities. Mixed day for fx. Look at the yields rise. Ireland, france, belgian, germany, commodities giving you a feel of the market today. Some Business Confidence out of germany, unexpectedly weakening its december. The gains remains near its alltime high, as you can see from the line right there, respecting the fact that the economy has excelled this year amid robust domestic spending and recovery in global trade. Debt surging this year, taking benchmark yields to the lowest level since april of 2015. To spanish levels, theres more credit defaultts swaps so says richard hodges. If movies follows fitch in upgrading the sovereign debt next year, Sovereign Rating next year, he says the swap should narrow the gap widths main as well gap with spain as well. Portugal versus spain, a 10 year yield spread is the white line. Very quickly, this is the oneday
And in company news, the situation is getting dire for a retailer, seeing credit withdrawn as an accounting scandal threatens to doom the business. That is all ahead. Julie hyman is here. It sounds like the rally is taking a pause. Julie it definitely looks like a pause. Ulie we have seen stocks bounced between gains and losses since the open of trading, and see all three major averages into the red. We have some of the interestrate sensitive sectors like utilities and Real Estate Investment trusts lower along with technology, which you can see by the decline we are seeing. We have some analyst calls from largecap stocks, apple among them. Apple getting a rare downgrade from nomura. The analyst says positives are already priced into the stock, lowering the rating to neutral. Le shares up just 0. 8 apple shares off just zero point percent. Walmart, an analyst getting ready, saying ecommerce can be a competitor to amazon. Finally, General Motors are the third in our trio of largecap stoc