And im watching copper acteding better than expected up 1 . Now for a quick look at the week ahead. It is quite a week. Tomorrow earnings from bank of america and Goldman Sachs. Then Morgan Stanley. Then the inaugural meeting of the u. S. China economic dialogue will take place in washington. At 8 30 on wednesday we get u. S. Housing starts data. Economists forecast a jump for the first time in four months. Then thursday, followed by the president 45 minutes later. And the bank of japan will release its Monetary Policy decisions. At 8 30 eastern its weekly jobless claims. Then friday well have earnings rom General Electric and honey well. And then shell watch her episode of game of thrones. Overnight we have important and encouraging Economic News from china. Joining us now from hong kong, it looks like a beat pretty much across the board. Take us through it. Good morning. A big set of numbers for china, shows that theyre on tract to contribute one third of Global Growth this year. Its
The russians hacked the election. California elector Christine Pelosi leading this charge out of San Francisco. Christine, these 51 electors, how do they break down . All of us are patriots, prepared to do our constitution 58 duty as members of the Electoral College. When we read the Washington Post report last friday night that indicated the cia claims conclusive evidence that russia hacked our election, we thought it was time for to us step up and demand an investigation. We wanted the information declassified as much as possible so that everybody neil how many are democrat and how many are republican . We have 50 democrats, one republican and one member of the working family party from new york on the record and many more republicans and democrats off the record. Neil do you want the republicans to switch their votes . I want everyone to look at the information. I absolutely want everybody to have a chance to look at the information. If its declassified so the public can take a look
Good morning and thank you for coming. Welcome to this session which is a joint session of the Brookings Institution and the Rockefeller Institute of government. Were going to talk about the results of a fivestate study on how competition is working in the Affordable Care act marketplaces and what we might learn from this study and how we think about competition in the marketplaces Going Forward. And to officially open us up, i welcome my colleague, richard nathan, from the Rockefeller Institute, to the platform. Thank you, alice. I dont work at brookings so maybe i shouldnt welcome people, but i worked here 11 years. It is a while ago. And this is one of my Favorite Places to it be able to work with colleagues. It is a pleasure today to welcome you to this conference, as alice said. The brookings and rock fefeller Institute Field Network Study of the competitive she mentioned this competitiveness of marketplaces in Health Insurance, individual, Nongroup Health Insurance marketplaces i
They do not inherently include a prohibition of the Intelligence Community. Yes, sir. Mr. Comey, are you aware whether or not the director of National Intelligence, director clapper, ever briefed the president of the United States, then president obama, concern ing the possible collection of communication between the Incoming Administration or officials . I cannot comment on that. Why not, mr. Comey . Because it may involve classified information that i cant talk about here. I cant remember with the full committee. Well have to refresh your memory on those conversations then. Mr. Comey, did president obama ever acknowledge to you being briefed of possible inadvertent or incidental collection by the Intelligence Community of any communications of members of the Incoming Trump administration . Ill have to give you the same answer, mr. Turner. Mr. Comey, the first question related to whether or not mr. Clapper had briefed the president of the United States. He will be appearing before us
Us in an exclusive interview. Theres talk of a bubble in the retail industry. Now being acknowledged. Biotech boom. Moves from 25 to 30 to 74 . And well see whether there might be still more up side for the companies youre looking at. But we start with the big news out of washington. Youve been watching it on cnbc. Fbi director james comey testifying on capitol hill about the investigations underway of russias influence in the u. S. Elections. Eamon javers has been following along. He has more details on what was said today. Eamon . Reporter bill, thats right. Going into the hearing there was some question about whether fbi director james comey would, in fact, confirm that there is a federal Law Enforcement investigation into russian influence in the 2016 elections. James comey did exactly that today to the surprise of some. Heres what he said. The fbi as part of our Counter Intelligence mission is investigating the russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 president ial ele