Washington many. But it is stronger than expected much more on china coming up in a few minutes. European equities, again, sliding in the last few hours. Germany basically flat were taking that to 3 decimal points here. France, uk, spain slightly negative, italy essentially flat as well. Finally treasury yields, the tenyear hovering right around 1. 7 1. 69 is where we have it right now. So certainly something that investors are watching. Yeah. You have yields slipping again a little bit this morning, but were off the lows of last week, which briefly dipped below 1. 6 on the tenyear. Thats encouraging yields had such a big effect on equities as we all know. I think on europe the interesting thing to note this morning is that were not seeing a gap up again in terms of the spread of italian over german yields and talk about the potential new election coming up hong kong, is down 9. 5 , shanghai down 5. 5 it is weighing more on the shanghai market. We saw that elevation escalation of conce
With tim cook. And one company is shrugging off concerns about an economic slowdown in china. Well tell you which one it is. A moment of truth for lyft as insiders get their first chance to sell shares at the open stocks are set to build on fridays rally, were heading into this mornings trading session, the dow is within 394 points of recouping all the losses from that wednesday selloff of 800 points is the economy at risk of recession . Take a listen to what the president and some of his top aides said yesterday i dont think were having a recession. Were doing tremendously well. Our consumers are rich i gave a tremendous tax cut. And theyre loaded up with money. And theyre buying i saw the walmart numbers, through the roof. I dont see a recession we had some blockbuster retail sales consumer numbers towards the back end of last week. We had the strongest economy in the world money is coming here for a stock market also coming here to chase yield and our bond market. Vice president tod
[inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she is asked me too proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure we hear from each of you and we want the senators to has questions of each of you. So patty should arrive at about ten. When she comes we will interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago doctor brent james from the National Academy testify before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic up to one half of the American People spend on healthcare may be unnecessary. Let me repeat that, up to half of the 3. 5 trillion, the United States collectively spent on healthcare in 2017 was unnecessary according to doctor james and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. That is 1. 8 trillion, three times as much as we spen
And ace is not having holiday for the holiday, and you if take ac transit, they have a couple fourth of july detours because of some of the parades so check out their website on line because they have a couple areas where they could be dropping off and picking up at different spots than they normally do, and va, they are on a Holiday Schedule. If your service doesnt run on a sunday they probably dont have the service today. You need to check online. Aside from this, this is how the majority of the bay area is looking. Ill send it back to you. Not much happening on the roads there, but a lot will be in the sky later on tonight as we celebrate the fourth of july, and by getting you ready for the holiday morning, you want to have a special holiday addition of today in the bay. Thats right. President trumps version of the celebration is causing controversy. Tanks will be in the air, and planes in the air, and theres a mix of emotions surrounding the event. We have the support and the backl
Youre watching the context on bbc news. They said that only 15 people were wearing life jackets and that they had to wade in the water for hours before finally being rescued by a cargo ship. The numbers are truly horrific. As the numbers increased, attempting to find production and safety across across the mediterranean, so are the deaths at sea. Often they have moms and dads and cousins in view of the European Countries and theres simply no way for them to get here except by taking these extremely dangerous routes. It shows once again there are huge necessities for states to take responsibility to send vessels capable of rescuing people on the move and to coordinate such distress cases. Good evening. Thank for you joining us. 41 people died as their small boat capsized trying to make the crossing from tunisia to italy and a string of incidents in the mediterranean. Coming up, joe biden is expected to ban capital adventure investments in china. Well have people talking. And the deflati