Heinz following earnings beat. Dunkin driven by demand for premium drinks and expresso and iced coffee. Melissa in the capitol, house approves impeach investigation into President Trump. Well have the latest from washington. First we kick it off with fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman at at the white house. Grady trimble in chicago and jeff flock in chicago. Reporter chicago purchasing manager es index dropped to the lowest level in 40 years. It had biggest drop in nearly 40 years. Lowest level in four years. Not such good news if you look at the last three months you can see growth in august, according to this index, but then, contraction in september and october. Another question in this index is whether tariffs impact businesses for manufacturers in the midwest. 26 of them said that tariffs have a major negative impact for them. Taking a quick look at manufacturing stocks. Theyre also down today. Now it is important to point out this is a regional index. The National Manufactu
In a legislative hearing to hear testimony on hr 2694, the pregnant workers fairness act. I note for the subcommittee that ms. Mcbath of georgia, ms. Underwood of illinois and mr. Cohen of tennessee are permitted to participate in todays hearing. Members who sit on the subcommittee and are present shall have First Priority task questions, followed by members after all only Committee Members who are present have gone shall members who are not on the committee on education and labor asked russians. Pursuant to Committee Rule seven c, Opening Statements are limited to the chair and Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provide all members with adequate time to ask questions. I recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. As a mom and policymaker, i know how important it is to protect the Economic Security of pregnant women and working families. Unfortunately, our current laws are inadequate and many pregnant workers are placed on unpaid ,
Office. President meeting meeting with y of state Rex Tillerson and after announcing plans to put north korea on the terror list. What that means and why the white house says this is critical move. David getting back to stocks climbing today. They were driven by shares of cisco, verizon and home depot. Nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. I want to start with Janet Yellens resignation. Happened 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. No movement in the market there was a time anything that the fed said, particularly janet yellen said over the past seven years would move the market. Seems like that power is gone completely. Very interesting that you say that. I guess the expectation she would be stepping down shortly as fed chair. We know we have a new fed chair powell in line to take over that was a little bit of unexpected news but truth of the matter is, youre absolutely right, weve been higher throughout the day. The dow finishing up 72 points. Not really reacting to fed
Thank you. Ill just conclude. Any comments or questions that went unasked, please if you could provide those answers. Just to speak to it, the idea of a goal that we developed with the napa bill and also the g7 at the w. H. O. Assembly isnt that its to sharpen the mind into marshal resources, as you know. Thats why at asr, were on the right path to either achieve it or come close, and even coming close will be an achievement. I do dr. Mohs, you make the point to develop truly effective ways to treat and delay on sets will require many studies, potential medicines, patient assistant technologies and a combination of approaches. We are doing that, right, or are we lagging in any of those areas . We are doing it. I think it could be done a little faster. The scientific uncertainty is still great and so the only way to tackle that is to accumulate knowledge as fast as you can and that requires how many compounds are being tested i think the last we checked there were about 30 something in
Rosenstein testified on capitol hill wednesday about special counsel Robert Muellers investigation of russias influence in the 2016 u. S. Elections. During the hearing, several members of the committee asked questions about alleged bias on the part of agents involved in this and a previous fbi investigation into Hillary Clintons handling of a private email server. From the house Judicial Committee, this is about four hours. Good morning. The Judicial Committee will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight hearing with Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Ill begin by risiecognizing myf for an opening statement. Thank you, deputy general attorney general rosenstein for appearing for the first time. There is much to discuss today and we look forward to your testimony and answers to your questions. As chairman of the committee with primary oversight of the departmen