Welcome to matter of fact. How separate are church and state . Thats the question the new political docuseries the family tries to answer. The family is a conservative Christian Group that for decades used its proximity to power to influence policy. It hosts small bipartisan prayer groups and has put on the National Prayer breakfast since 1953. The family also is known as the fello fellowship and remains secretive by design. Journalist jeff sharlet author of two books about the organization, the family and c street, served as one of the series executive producers. He also lived with the group at its headquarters in arlington, virginia, just outside of d. C. In my 20s i stumbled my way in and what i found was a secretive Christian Organization called the family that had been hiding in plain sight for 80 years. There were congressmen, senators, World Leaders soledad jeff sharlet, its so nice to have you, thanks for joining us. Jeff hi, soledad, thanks for having me. Soledad you bet. Give
Evacuate power lunch starts right now for everybody in Southern California, its been a tough couple of days thinking of you guys the jobs data getting a bump to the bottom line. The nasdaq the bigger winner crude oil had been up 2 before it pulled back the rig counts, by the way, are out any minute now health care related. Alexon and celgene and mylan up as well. Another hot stock today, Sage Therapeutics this is on top of yesterdays 70 gain and the ceo will join us in just a couple of moments and steve, no shortage of stuff to talk about today. No. Very excited, brian. Especially with the jobs report. Lets get to it. Its getting to be routine economists say it should slow because of the population growth, theyre right about that part but the job market keeps surprising to the upside nonfarm payrolls up against an estimate of 195,000. October, september revisions not up much. Hourly average wages up just 0. 2 . And the Participation Rate also at 62. 7 Goldman Sachs saying despite the s
Cut off hundreds of millions in aid. After months of protests if you will demand says it will free all Political Prisoners and close in the tourist close encounter. And a trusted aide not enemy number one doesnt trump slams his former chief strategist steve bannon saying hes lost is by. Far a small help all the days sport including one of the most prestigious football awards in the world will be handed out on thursday well tell you who is favored to take home african player of the year. A very warm welcome to the news hour palestinian leaders say they wont be blackmailed after u. S. President donald trump threatened to costs aid worth more than three hundred Million Dollars a year made the statement on twitter the latest sign his frustration is now im seeing over the lack of progress in the middle east Peace Process if he does follow through on this threat it would affect the lives of millions of palestinians who rely on aid from ramallah in the occupied west bank with reports. For. A
Party. And bitcoin. Well show you charts that will cheer those betting on a cryptocurrency crash. Betty it was quite chilly here today with that bomb cyclones blanketing the northeast. The natural Gas Producers quite warm and happy. A quick chart to show you where we are. Prices skyrocketing. Polar blast we have had today, and aiding in a winter storm. In a wintering storm. Youve really see the stress on the market. Some market paring back to the polar vortex back in 2014. How are you getting home tonight. Betty we will have to figure that out after the program. This winter blast did not keep investors away from equities. S p hitting records again. The dow adding on 150 point and nasdaq also higher as well. Tech stocks continue to rise. Onel stock down based growing concern over the security flaws in their chips. That is one we continue to watch. Yvonne stocks here on because of their best week in 6 months. New zealand kicking off flat and the kiwi at 71. 53. Australia just came under
This is bloomberg surveillance. Im mark barton in london. Thatme to have a sip of because we have an acceleration to the fastest pace this year, adding to evidence that growth is becoming more resilient. The pmi index, the composition index, rising to 53. 7 in october, from the 52. 6 in september. This is the fastest pace since the beginning of 2016. The recovery continuing at a steady if not spectacular pace in the face of headwinds from brexit, slowing trade, political uncertainty. Ecb supporting the economy with unprecedented stimulus that will come under review in december. Just want to show you whats happening to the markets today. The stoxx 600 trading higher. Last weekend it rose for the second consecutive week. Best run since september. Last weeks rise was the strongest in a month. Byres the euro stoxx 600 up 0. 75 . The euro is a little bit up now. Track force march, on the worst fourth weekly drop. It is all about divergence because the u. S. As many think is set to hike rate