Dow, it will be an eight straight month of gains for the dow and s p 500. Strugglest for the Technology Sector once again. Lets look at what happened overnight in asia. You will see that the nikkei ended up by close to 0. 6 points. Stocks in china under pressure the hang seng down by 1. 5 points the shanghai down by 0. 6 . In europe, in the early trading, it looks like there are green arrows across the board. Biggest gains from the major averages come out of germany where the dax is up almost by 0 0. 8, the ftse up by a quarter percentage points. Right now looking at crude oil prices opec and nonopec producers, ie russia, are expected to announce an extension of output cuts until 2018 a lot of concerns about that, whether there will be Sticking Points along the way thats why crude oil was under pressure yesterday things have picked up this morning with a gain of 1 for wti. Up 53 cents to 57. 82 well get a live report from the meeting of opec in vienna. Thats coming up at 6 30 a. M. Eas
Are i should say some of the many reforms that are included in this legislation. What he talked about is critically important. If america is going to be competitive in the global marketplace, we have to change our tax code, because it is completely outdated, completely antiquated relative to any of the countries with whom we compete. So as the senator from pennsylvania pointed out, the reforms that we make in this bill allow American Companies to compete and win against those other countries around the world. The chinas of the worked the russias of the world, those countries that america has to compete with on a daily basis have a huge advantage over American Companies today simply because we have a tax code that doesnt recognize and reflect whats happening in the global economy. And thats why modernizing and updating our tax code was such a critical part of our tax reform efforts. Mr. President , this is, i would say, contrary to i was listening to my colleague from vermont. I think t
Their parents now facing possible life in prison and the journals just discovered that could shape the case. And will tom brady be back for the big became . Or will an injury sideline him with the super bowl on the line . I make a prediction. Sidelin okay. Tom brady will be playing. But happy friday, everybody. But this is concern about the injury. He doesnt practice and its his hand. Hes a quarterback. He needs it. There is concern. Concern or not theyre going for their seventh consecutive afc championship game, which is ama amazing. And theyre taking on the Jacksonville Jaguars. And the big question, will brady practice today . That showdown over the Government Shutdown and money set to run out at midnight one year to the day from the president s inauguration and the ball is in the senates court after a vote in the house last night and our senior Congressional Correspondent mary bruce is on capitol hill with the latest. Good morning, mary. Reporter george, good morning. With just hou
Is representative Virginia Foxx, republican of north carolina. Newsmakersa chair of educatid workforce committee. Soon scheduled for floor action. Thank you for being our guest. Let me introduced the two reporters who will ask questions. Both of them cover education beats for michelle of the wall street journal and michael of jalisco. Started, we are taking this on thursday, yesterday, betsy devos gave a well covered speech where she was highly critical of the bush and obama hynde, no child left he and essentially said it had no tangible results and is seen as the death knell of with in the Education Departments. Is your critique of the legislation as strong as hers . No tangible results . Foxx no child left behind had great motivation behind it. The title, make sure every child as long and as good of an education as you could possibly give him or her. But in the input phase by the bureaucrats, they put students and did anells enormous amount of testing. Example of good micromanaging a
Questions. Both of them cover education beats for their publication Michelle Hackman of wall street. Journal and Michael Stratford of politico. As we get started, we are taking taping this on thursday, yesterday, betsy devos gave a wellcovered speech where she was highly critical of the bush and obama era law, no child left behind and essentially said it , had no tangible results and is seen as the death knell of of the federal Education Departments. Is your critique of the legislation as strong as hers . No tangible results . Rep. Foxx only knows what the research has shown. No child left behind had great motivation behind it. The title, no child left behind, make sure every child receives as long and as good of an education as you could possibly give him or her. In the Implementation Phase by the bureaucrats, they put carved up cells of students come up with them in little cells and did an enormous amount of testing. I think it is a bad good example of micromanaging at the federal le