Day after briefly touching that level. And it did so with confidence, surging triple digits. This is the blue chip indexs 4,000point milestone this year. Ibm played a big role in todays advance. Shares of big blue soared nearly 9 , its best day since 2009. On the back of its Quarterly Results that we told you about last night. Solid earnings and improving Global Growth have also contributed to the markets seemingly uninterrupted rally. When all was said and done the Dow Jones Industrial a gained 160 points to 23,157. Nasdaq rose just fractionally. The s p 500 was up nearly two. Bob pisani takes a look at why nothing seems to s reporter stocks seemed to be racking up record highs. The dow grew 5,000 points in 18 months. That means the dow has advanced 1,000 points on average every 3. 6 months. At this rate well hit 24,000 at the end of january and well be celebrating 25,000 in the middle of may. The markets keep rallying because everyone has come to believe that all the problems of the
With fiscal 17 lagos to the end of september and became together over the weekend in this Week Congress will be processing with the mid flight midnight deadline. And that is part of those key issues spinet there is something for everybody to like to share that extra defense spending and they are glad they kept out the priorities poolsides half cheered extra funding for research to shore up the Health Benefits fund for retired coal miners that had been struck for natural disasters. Those that god the more hardline conservatives Foreign Policy provisions. So the house but on wednesday talking about the opposition house with that pushed back at on democrats . Been there will not beat too much push back the general criticism is that it is so late the bill will find a government for the next five months without appropriations cycle to kick in. So it is late but better late than never. Idol think it is enough for our people to pass to get that appropriations cycle over with. So far the other
With fiscal 17 lagos to the end of september and became together over the weekend in this Week Congress will be processing with the mid flight midnight deadline. And that is part of those key issues spinet there is something for everybody to like to share that extra defense spending and they are glad they kept out the priorities poolsides half cheered extra funding for research to shore up the Health Benefits fund for retired coal miners that had been struck for natural disasters. Those that god the more hardline conservatives Foreign Policy provisions. So the house but on wednesday talking about the opposition house with that pushed back at on democrats . Been there will not beat too much push back the general criticism is that it is so late the bill will find a government for the next five months without appropriations cycle to kick in. So it is late but better late than never. Idol think it is enough for our people to pass to get that appropriations cycle over with. So far the other
Medicares longterm fiscal conditions. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Everyone. Rning everyone here and everyone on cspan to the American Enterprise institute. Were having a discussion today about the Medicare Trustees report, the report was issued late yesterday afternoon, and is an annual report that gives some indication of not only the current fiscal status of the Medicare Program but also the longterm outlook. My name is joe antos. And i will be introducing the panel in just a second. I did want to highlight a few things that the trustees said in their report. The perhaps their biggest concern has to do with the outlook, as they said in their summary. A major concern has to do with the growth of health care innovation, which has its positives and negatives. The positives, of course, is with modern technology and modern techniques were able to cure or address the Serious Health conditions of many more people than we could have in the past, but as the trustees say, while most health
Plunge into the teens behind the snow. When the snow falls. Workers at the department of transportation are making sure the roads are free of trouble the dots command center in downtown milwaukee. Its the brain of the operations where dot employees monitor more than 400 Traffic Cameras across the state. There were 258 crashes across the state this weekend nearly half the amount of crashes reported after the states last snow storm on march 2nd. Cars in ditches, crashes, nothing major no full closures. Probably because it was sunday ye was a monday into tuesday so lower volumes, less people out on the roads. They were able to stay home hunker down and let plows do there jobs. In Racine County where 7 to 8 inches of snow fell plows were out early this morning, clearing roads, side streets and parking lots. Dot workers are sending out this reminder. Slow down and dont crowd the plows. Customers to keep natural gas meters and vents clear of snow and ice. It makes the meter visible to snowpl