The debate took place in chicago. The television and radio stations of the United States and their affiliated stations are proud to provide facilities for the discussion of issues in the current Political Campaign by the two major candidates for presidency. The candidates need no introduction. The republican candidate, Vice President richard m. Nixon, and the democratic candidate, senator john f. Kennedy. According to rules set by the candidates themselves, each man shall make an Opening Statement of approximately eight minutes duration and a closing statement of approximately three minutes duration. In between the candidates will answer, or comment upon answers to questions put by a panel of correspondents. In this, the first discussion in a series of four uh joint appearances, the subjectmatter has been agreed, will be restricted to internal or domestic american matters. And now for the first Opening Statement by senator john f. Kennedy. Mr. Smith, mr. nixon. In the election of 1860,
Premarket. The company forming a special committee to review allegations about its business relationships. Analysts call going on now. Mixed review for yahoo first ever live stream of an nfl game. And trump speaking out in a town hall today on the today show. First up, the dow, s p, nasdaq each aiming for a fifth consecutive week of games. The s p up more than 8 this month, vaulting back into positive territory for the year. As we said, a busy week ahead. A lot of earnings including results from apple, pfizer, merck, exxon, dupont, starbucks, twitter. The twoday fed meeting, on wednesday, right here on cnbc, the republican president ial debate. Coverage at 5 00 p. M. Eastern time. As far as stocks go, jim, october remains the best month since 2011 for all the major indices. We have seen an incredible rotation out of health care, out of retail after the vf corp numbers last week. Into industrials. Into technology. The financials have held up fairly well. Not great. Not bad. Insurers hav
Administration as it relates to establishing diplomatic relations. One who someone who has visited cuba, who has the respect of the cuban people, but also has the respect of our own administration, and someone who continues to plug away each and every day for normal relations with cuba and ending the embargo. Congressman sam farr. Mr. Farr thank you very much, my Dear Colleague from california, and our distinguished member of congress, barbara lee. I dont think any other member who has made more trips of anden more people and influenced and taken more people and influenced this change in policy in the United States congress than barbara lee. I had the pleasure of traveling to exaw about a on six different cuba on six different Mission Trips and each one of them has been very interesting. One with my constituents in santa cruz, california, who have a sister relationship, sister city relationship with an area in cuba. It looks much like the california coast line, very interesting area, t
Pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, for five minutes. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to strongly oppose the december 17 announcement by president obama on policy changes toward the cuban communist regime. The cuban regime from day one was planning on using alan gross as a pawn to receive concessions from the Obama Administration and their strategy worked. In april, 2013 when asked about a possible swap for mr. Gross secretary kerry testified before congress that, quote, we have refused to do that because the
We begin tonight with records on wall street. Lots of them. And the woman who made them happen. Blue chip dow index, the s p 500, the small cap russell 2000 make new highs today. The nasdaq has its third highest close ever and it was all because of one person. The Federal Reserve chair janet yellin. In testimony today on capitol hill yellin didnt say too much about future rate hikes but didnt say too little. The markets interpreted as what she did say just enough to keep the door open for a later than mid Year Interest Rate ride. She made it clear the central bank will consider rate hikes on a meeting by meeting basis but she made no promises. With that the Dow Jones Industrial average closed in record territory with a gain of 92 points and 18,209. Nasdaq rose 7 points tenth straight gain there. Its strongest win streak since july 2009 and s p 500 up nearly 6. Yellins comments sent the yield on the tenyear bond back below 2 . Steve liesman with more on todays testimony. Reporter in tes