Legislation to let Congress Review a u. S. Nuclear deal with iran after threatening to veto an earlier version. Republicans and democrats agreed. 17 billion in several months. He does people with knowledge of the process straight executives are meeting with investors this week in new york. According to the wall street journal, the journal said ge is trying to hold onto bankers at least until the Company Exits the company business. Alibaba naming a new ceo. Daniel will become a new ceo on sunday replacing jonathan lu. The company replacing a 45 percent increase in revenue shares. You can see it on the news. Less than an hour to go to the close of trading. Scarlet fu is looking at the action on the street. Scarlet this morning, i leaving leading ways to gain spirit every 2000 is down on the new york stock exchange. The dow jones is up by 100 12 points. Points rising for only the third time in the past 12 days. A 15 year low. In terms of crude oil, looking at a drop of 2. 4 . Below 59 per
After mettling around through most of this week barely going anywhere. They get a third of a point increase. You can take that to the bank slightly but the volatility over the last five trading sessions has been next to nothing. Were looking at that with the futures again. That feels like summer. The weather yesterday does not feel like summer at all. 57 degrees yesterday. But you know what the ocean temperature is here. 50s. Yeah. So enjoy that weekend. Buying is going to be lou i can today. Probably not super strong. Lets talk about the big stories were watching this morning. The bank of japan keeping its monetary stimulus unchanged as expected. Also slightly revising up its assessment of the economy. Lets tell you whats going on in europe. German business moral weakening in may. Thats the first decline since october but the closely watched survey remained at a high level overall and then mario draghi was beginning a speech in portugal reiterating his call for euro zone countries to
I guess i dont like it a whole lot. What would we find i sound just like my dad. There are great people out there, i know it. And i dont mean to condemn it but i think its passed me by a little bit. I still have a wonderful career and a beautiful audience that i really love but the spotlight is elsewhere now and im a known quantity now. And thats fine with me to play out this hand. But i dont pay a whole lot of attention to i never did listen much to the roofment when i was a kid i did. I dont listen to music much. Kim works with the boston symphony and we get a lot of classic cal music in the house. We have 11yearold twin boys and they have their preferences, maybe its because theyre playing most of the popular music im hearing in the house i have such a negative take on it. Do you have an i pod . No an ipad. Do you listen to music on there . No i listen on cd and vinyl. They have said taylor swift is named after you. What do you think of her music . I like her music. And i like the n
Investments we need to make to train our future work force and to create an environment in which we can care for the elderly. The think americans will remain optimistic but this did of the economy . If we have not tackle the things we have just talked about like the cost of education, the Housing Market . We are figuring out some philosophical issues about taxing and funding . I think the economy has been growing slowly and steadily all in the absence of any movement, which we have seen over the test of the last year. I have worked on guantanamo for the past 10 years. My sense is that if there is some movement until the positive direction, which have not seen out of washington and enter a long time, in a long time, at least we will not see head winds. We are making some progress. I see that continue. I want to come back to what todd said earlier. I am concerned about confidence being fragile. Todd reference what happened until august of 2011. We saw in limited to lie confidence tank. M
Like Honey Boo Boo and im watching its. I think that is a huge part of the experience and i think it is sold short. I still think a lot of americans love the enjoyment of escapism and being able to roam around the tv jungle finding things they did not know were there. Michael powell on the future of television. On cspan2. Now a forum on highly skilled immigrants on the u. S. Economy. A panel talks about how immigration laws affects mat scuents. Well hear from mark warner. Hosted by the university of virginias center this is about an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you, david. Good evening. Welcome to the National Press club for the keynote round tail. I would like to pay special tribute to mark kaplan whose vision has made this annual conference possible. His commitment to Public Service has been stead fast through the years and were grateful for his abiding friendship. I also want to recognize, as david has, the hard work of david, mike, jeff, of the center. Who is responsible for convenin