Is in our interest and in a broader idea and acceptance of what it means to be an individual and what it means to be free. Thank you very much. Thank you jim. And worldwide increases of Economic Freedom this year have been driven by improvements. [inaudible] higher Government Spending and it reflects the continuation of the interventionist stimulus policy that grant was making in the United States and in the other country. Our global agenda is based on these index and their calculated using four pillar areas and ten indicators. The sensitive issues they represent surface as challenges in every region of the world. For example, while International Trade plays an increasingly significant role in the economy of the United States and other countries, unfortunately negotiations for further global trade liberalization through the have gone to a halt. The global agenda notes bright spots for global trade. The ongoing effort of a trance pacific trade agreement. As documented in 2015 index, Pro
And while fizzling on ibm, theres one ceo in particular that mr. Buffet really admires. Well have details in a moment here. He doesnt own his shares, by the way. Aparentally not. Constellation brands, corona on fire this year, theres the shares, up huge, about 17 . The cfo joins us exclusively to talk about the beer giants strategy moving forward. New report says amazons jeff bezos and apples tim cook could bury the hatchet. The hatfields and the mccoys getting together. Well explain a little bit later. Lets begin, though, with mr. Buffets market moving comments on ib mrgs today. This is what he told becky quick on why he sold a third of the shares. I dont value ibm the same way that i did six years ago when i started buying them. I mean, overall, i think the six years that i revalued it somewhat downward, and as a matter of fact, over the 180, we actually sold a reasonable amount of stock. You sold a reasonable amount of ibm . Right. Last id seen you, Something Like 13, 14 billion dol
Courtney reagan in for sara this morning. Good morning. Happy monday to all of you and our viewers. Lets get straight to the market action. Record highs throughout the week. Last week we ended the week with the s p down 3 . The nasdaq was the leader at 3. 5 for the week. Its worth pointing out the nasdaq since the election up only 4. 8. So much of the gain coming last week. It was playing catchup having lagged behind some of the other indices since the election. The one really up most of all since the election is the russell 2000. As you can see this morning, were pretty much flat in the premarket. The dow eking out a slight gain on the futures market there, the s p and the nasdaq slightly negative. The big market mover this morning is oil. Oil prices up some 5 . If we have a look just shy of that now, 53. 94 comes off a week of gains. They were up 1. 3 as a whole last week. But prior weeks, they were up 12 when the initial opec deal was struck. The reason we have the extra bounce toda
Inauguration late last week. Im very proud of that. Very proud of that. The Business Community and the labor community, you saw that with the labor leaders that came out. One said it was the single greatest meeting i ever had with anybody. Its the highlight of my life. The dow on top of it just hit 20, first time in history. Im very proud of that. Now we have to go up, up, up. We dont want it to stay there. Vice president mike pence tweeting the dow closes above 20,000 for the first time in history. U. S. Economy is being unleashed under President Trump. Lets get you caught up on whats going on. We have a 30 billion pharma deal. Johnson johnson buying actelion for 280 per share in cash after weeks of exclusive talks. We talked about this transaction before. A 23 premium to its Closing Price yesterday. Both companys boards have aprefapref approved that deal. Today is the busiest day of earnings season, 38 companies in the s p 500 reporting results along with three dow components. Before
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