The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. The presiding officer madam president , last week the Judiciary Committee held its hearing on judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination and it was easy to see why judge barrett is held in such high regard by her colleagues, students, and peers and why the American Bar Association gave her its highest rating of well qualified. We knew well before the hearing that judge barrett possesses an extraordinary intelligence and comprehensive command of the law. After three days of testimony americans got to see her qualifications for themselves. They saw why she has been described as a jurist, a formidable intellect, a brilliant and conscientious lawyer and staggering academic mind. Even the democratRanking Member on the committee couldnt hide the fact that she was impressed. Judge barrett understands the proper role of a judge in our system of government. As judge barrett made clear, she understands the job of a judge is to interpret the law, not
Democrat, were willing to accept extraordinary disadvantages to american jobs. Billionaire telling the fed, they are, quote, screwing savers and says donald trump is wrong for his attacks. The president is doing a lot of wrong i wrote down yesterday, i said Consumer Confidence is up, retail confidence is strong, consumer net worth is at record levels, economy is growing at trend. Rbs investors welcome allison rose to become the first female ceo of a major british bank. Sterling hits a twomonth high after they say a brexit deal is possible hes open to a deal that might replace the irish backstop good morning the u. S. Vice president mike pence told cnbc at the alpha conference that President Trump is defending economic interests as they resume trade talks in washington, d. C. Today when it comes to china, it is a whole different ballgame we run 500 billion trade deficits with china and we estimate we lose almost as many in intellectual property theft almost every year. What the presiden
Worldwide exchange. Im wilfred frost. And im sara eisen. For meetings on the imf, all the financers and Top Economists are here ill tell you what some of my takeaways are in a moment, but first well bring you breaking news out of the nations capitol. The Trump Administration says it will stop making critically important payments to Health Insurers who sell obamacare plans. Those payments were projected to 10 billion next year. Nbcs tracie potts is here in washington with more does this come as a surprise, tracie reporter it doesnt come as a surprise i can tell you that because we have been investigating what the prices will be for the premiums next year. And already 20 and 30 increases in some areas because the Insurance Companies were expecting this was coming. President trump has said repeatedly he thinks that its too much money and that this is not something that the government should be paying so those costsharing reductions is what they call them, many people refer to them as extr
Negative sentiment, this is a good reading. Sinces the highest october 2014. Into positive territory, and that means improving conditions or at least sentiment from the thousand purchasing managers at state owned enterprises. We are getting the nonmanufacturing pmi, Services Industries like construction, itecom, banking, 53. 5 here the previous month was 53. 9. We did not have a median estimate survey for that. ,till, this is pretty robust powering the new economy, also construction a big part of that, the property rebound in china feeding into that. From july, butck still historically a robust number. Let me dig into the previous month. 53. 5, sumner to june, 53. 7, so more stability on the Services Front and a robust number for ,he official manufacturing pmi 50. 4. Ther this hour, we will get pmi. We are also expecting a reading of 50. 1, mostly a survey of Smaller Enterprises in china. Can read from this is slightly improving conditions on the manufacturing front we will dig into th
Received investment offers from five suitors and is leaning toward three of them. You can let us know what you think of todays top stories by following me on twitter. Dont forget to include the trendingbusiness. A few markets, including china, off on golden week, malaysia also on holiday today. Here is jerry with a look at what we can expect on asian trading. Here is shery. Said, china and malaysia are on holiday, also australia and korea. The market is trading at the moment are giving a boost to the benchmark. Asian stock screening ground, reversing last week losses. New zealand reversing some of the losses earlier this morning, while the nikkei is up. 9 . Emerging markets had the best quarter since 2012, while taiwan is grinning ground,s. 7 taiwan is gaining ground. 7 . When it comes to japan, we are hearing this morning from Goldman Sachs that we might see more volatility in japanese market. Incting to more volatility the u. S. Market due to the u. S. Elections. Right now, we are se