Afternoon towards t close. That will be your best guide to what is happening. We are approaching the point in europe and we are up by 1. 73 . The pound is actually catching a little bit as well. Earlier on it was turning around a little bit. Now abide. 2 . Now up by. 2 . Normality has resumed. Yields are a little higher and prices a little lower as we start to maybe get a little bit of a better news when it comes to the story. We are watching what is coming out of the u. K. We are now getting news from astrazeneca saying the covid19 trials, the vaccine trial may resume next week. This has been reported by the financial times. Alix we are watching that as well. Blackrock,from marilyn watson. It has been quite a week for investors in any asset class. You had a tech selloff in the u. S. , rising cases in europe. Looking to the ecb on thursday. Our bond markets pricing in the correct things . Markets aret bond pricing in our the fact you have supportibly ands weolicy from the ecb and need
Indiana. Also the cato institutes ian vasquez looks at the future of u. S. cuban relations in a trump administration. Postfidel castro. And Boston University assistant professor linda spraug martinez looks at a new report looking at the safety of young people of color and what impact the lack of access to overall support and opportunity has on them. Cspans washington journal. Live beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At a pentagon briefing today, Afghanistan Military Operations Commander general John Nicholson wrapped up 2016s military operations and counterterror efforts in the country. This is about an hour. Folks, weve got about 45 minutes and ten minutes of opening comments. Ill be calling questions for general nicholson. Sir, all yours. Thanks, jeff. Good morning, everyone. Great to be back with you all again. Want to thank you for covering our mission in afghanistan. What id like to do this time since my last update in september is review 2016 an
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The specific reasons for these trends will be explained in slides to follow. Regarding the Affordable Care act, all provisions that have become effective since enactment in 2010 are included in our Health Spending estimates because they are reflected in our data that measure total revenues. While our Historical Data cannot parse out the spending that wpj directly the result of the a. C. A. , the projections model show there was minimal impact from the Affordable Care act on aggravate National Health through 2012. Within specific services and payers, we can identify some of the provisions that affected spending for those sectors. However, even within the specific sectors, the impacts were very small and in some sectors, the impacts were offsetting. For example, for private Health Insurance, programs that expanded coverage added to spending while the minimum medical loss ratio had a slight reducing effect. For medicare, a notable fact on spending was from reductions to medicare Payment U
It could go quite a bad direction. Theould be a shame if resulting exposure of the u. S. Abusing its allowing other states to start abusing newfound powers of the internet. I think that is the opposite direction we want, but it isnt a given yet. A large degree of what happens next depends on the u. S. Response. I think we are out of time. Lets give a hand to our panelists. [applause] they will be signing books in the next room over here, and thanks, everybody, for coming. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] coming up tonight, remembering former first Lady Rosalynn carter. It begins at nine eastern. We focus on the issues you expect in the tech industry. We want to make sure that innovation is a National Strategy. E dominate in so many areas it is a Global Global phenomenon. The u. S. Is the world leader, and we want to keep it that way which requires great immigration policies. It requires additional spectrum.