Recognizes so for five minutes for purpose of the Opening Statement 21st century chairs sector is a monumental achievement as the product of a bipartisan vote the love effort from the committee to bring the of laws and to the modern era in one year since signed into law i remember remarking at that press conference one year ago to imagine a world that government was not the obstacle but in allied to deliver drugs and devices and cures to patients. Looking into the implementation the transformational bill to give them packed the village to researchers and scientists with the latest breakthrough there peas is seeking treatment to give help to them and their loved ones and advocates for. This morning well hear from those of are responsible for all of the Biomedical Research provisions in the commissioner of the fda coming back to the subcommittee your schedules switched and we appreciate you coming before us today at the time of the launch of the 21st Century Cures Initiative the statemen
Points s p turned negative. Down by lows to 3 points the nasdaq down by 72 points this morning a mixed bag again dow futures indicated up by 43 points s p down by 3 points the nasdaq down by 27. Overnight in asia, the nikkei ended down by 0. 3 the hang seng down by 1 shanghai down by 0. 20 in european trading, ret arroir across the board, though the ftse is at the flat line lets check out currencies yesterday cruel oil prices were down 1. 5 . This morning the dollar is up against the euro at 1. 1862 dollar yen at 112. 45 Republican Leaders in the house and senate are racing to merge the tax plans and send the bill to President Trump before the end of the year. A Conference Committee plans to reconcile the two pieces of legislation starting this week among the differences the house has four individual rates, the senate seven the house cuts the corporate rate to 20 right away the senate waits until 2019. The senate repeals the individual mandate while the house doesnt. Another point of p
Expires and the bank sees a dismissal of charges. And going higher, they do not expect to incur any losses good morning, everybody. It is december 11th, two weeks away from christmas and perhaps a snowy monday to be expected. Lets take a look at how markets are doing this morning so, asian indices were firmer overnight with nikkei with another strong session up more than 5 . And of course, last week we also saw u. S. Equities end the weej a smidgen higher new highs posted for dow jones, the 65th record close for 2017 the picture in europe looks a little bit firmer this morning, trading slightly above that flat line lets switch to indices. Of course, this is a big week for indices. Weve got lots of Central Bank Meetings coming up, the fed, of course, but above and beyond that, weve got the bank of england, ecb, not really expected to do much this week in terms of decisions, but as you can see, the picture looks fairly safe for the italian index, ftse mib, which is struggling a little an
Everyone quiet but you all got quite all by yourself with no direction. My name is jason botel with the department of education. I want to welcome you and thank you very much for coming to the k12 education summit. We appreciate you all being here and looking forward to a great conversation. In just a moment secretary devos oh, but before she does just what wanted to say couple housekeeping things. We have bottled water and coffee in the back seat can feel free to partake. And there are restrooms at the ends of the holes. If you do leave the building you can come back in but you have to go through security again, so just wanted to warn you about that. Those of you who will be participating in the conversation, you have microphones in front of you, you do need to turn the von when youre about to talk. Theres a button that says talk. The red light will come on which will tell you microphone is active. When youre not speaking please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you would prob
Devos will, but before she does just wanted to say a couple housekeeping things. If you havent found already we have water and coffee in the back and feel free to partake. That are restrooms at the end of the halls. If you do leave the building you can come back in but you have to go to security can such as wanted to warn you about that if the take some time. Those of you who be participating in the conversation, microphones in front of you. You do need to turn them on when youre about to talk. Theres a button that says talk. When you turn on the red light will come on which tells you the microphone is active. When youre not speaking please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you would probably prefer we dont hear any private conversations as well. Those are sticking day, we appreciate you being here, we ask you keep remarks to about ten minutes. I will be sitting next to the secretary at the head of the table and ill try not to be obnoxious but i may waive or give an indication