The u. K. Pearmanent speck tarry spoke earlier today about defense strike thategy and rela with the Strong Alliance with the u. S. From the atlantic counsel, this is just under an hour. Good afternoon and welcome to the atlantic counsel. Im frank miller and a member of the board here at counsel, and the principal of the group. Were all very pleased today to have the opportunity to hear from steven who is the permanent secretary at the minister of defense in london. Steven became the permanent secretary in april of 2016 prior to that he was department of energy and Climate Change and had a distinguished career before that both in government and in the private sector. For those of you that dont know, the permanent secretary is the governments principle advisor on defense and has responsibility for policy, finance and planning as a deputy accounting officer. The principal, the sorry, the permanent secretary sets strategy for defense including Corporate Strategy and Overall Organization ma
The u. K. Pearmanent speck tarry spoke earlier today about defense strike thategy and rela with the Strong Alliance with the u. S. From the atlantic counsel, this is just under an hour. Good afternoon and welcome to the atlantic counsel. Im frank miller and a member of the board here at counsel, and the principal of the group. Were all very pleased today to have the opportunity to hear from steven who is the permanent secretary at the minister of defense in london. Steven became the permanent secretary in april of 2016 prior to that he was department of energy and Climate Change and had a distinguished career before that both in government and in the private sector. For those of you that dont know, the permanent secretary is the governments principle advisor on defense and has responsibility for policy, finance and planning as a deputy accounting officer. The principal, the sorry, the permanent secretary sets strategy for defense including Corporate Strategy and Overall Organization ma
More about the Congress Schedule and members returning with a capitol hill reporter. Post as congress returns, the number one item on their list is the socalled joint conference of plan of action, the iranian deal, and we are joined by julian, joining us from capitol hill. When Congress Comes back, they will take it up as a resolution of disapproval. Tell us about the time frame of this debate . Sure. Mitch mcconnell talked about this honest on the senate floor, and the question is aether they can overcome filibuster, led mainly by democrats, and then it will go to the house if it gets passed the senate, and that if it passes there, it will go to the president s desk, where he will likely veto it, and this is an item that the president is really supportive of. He really wants to see this deal go through. Host and this started with the negotiations at 2013, i believe, and then the deadline of september 13. E a deadline in there . This is legislation, the Iranian Nuclear deal review act,
About 15,700 to be in the green for the week. We are well in that territory right now with this 140point gain. And why are stocks higher with another anemic jobs report . Is the street discounting the number due to the bad weather weve had . Is it betting janet yellen will taper the taper because the economy isnt where it needs to be . Well get a team of top minds making sense of all this including former chair of the White House Council of economic advise errs cris errs christina. And smash burger expanding across the ghuntcountry in a bi. Why they have confidence to grow and create more jobs when others are seeing red flags. Lets recap where we stand as we head into the final hour of trade. The dow up 140 points at 15,771. That leaves it in positive territory for the week. Take a look at the nasdaq, up 60 points to 4117. And finally the s p 500, pretty strong rally adding 20 points. Its now 1,793. So here we go. Final hour of trading in what has been a very volatile week. Joining us
Alltime highs a quarter of a percent. Dow jones industrials up 11. And this after what we saw last week where we sold off a little bit after nine weeks, so that was a big deal to break that trend. Watch a mcdonalds coming out with the same store Sales Numbers and it turns out in europe, japan u. S. Had weakness. Some names of the same sort of realm when you look at mcdonalds, wendys, burger king underperform some of those names but there is chipotle and yum brands. Connell here we go again, fun times in d. C. With a week left before the house leaves for the rest of the year the clock is ticking for congress to reach a deal over the budget. Dagen rich edson with the latest on this. Rich it is working that direction, try to find a way to set Government Spending levels for the next couple of years to avoid a Government Shutdown over the next couple of years. But now theyre still figuring out the top line numbers. It would be a twoyear agreement if this goes through. It would replace the s