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corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we re your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. senate republican leaders are working to get votes to pass their replacement for obamacare, as five of the 52 republican senators publicly oppose the bill in its current form. the senate bill, like the house bill that passed last month, phases out extra federal funds going to 31 states that expanded medicaid the insurance program for the poor under obamacare. both bills keep the obamacare rule preventing insurance companies from dropping anyone with a pre-existing condition, but allow states to make up the costs by droppin ....
the john and helen glessner family trust. supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we are your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. results are coming in from the five primaries and caucuses today in this year s presidential race. senator ted cruz has won the ate of texas.a and his homeas, cruz captured 48% of the vote, followed by new york businessman donald trump at 23% and florida senator marco rubio about 17%. cruz stands to win half of the 40 delegates kansas will send to the republican national convention. he spoke to supporte ....
rose: funding for charlie rose has been provided by: and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications rose: admiral mike rogers is here, ehe s the director of the national security agency, n.s.a. he also leads the u.s. cyber command. he assumed boast posts in 2014 as n.s.a. faced fallout from edward snowden s leaks. last month the agency announced it would consolidate offensive and defensive operations. ashe carter said last week cyber command would accelerate digital attacks on i.s.i.s. networks. i am pleased to have admiral mike rogers at this table. welcome. thank you very much. rose: good to see you. it s good to see you. rose: what did secretary carter mean when he said he was going to accelerate the digital effort against i.s.i.s.? the secretary publicly acknowledged u.s. cyber command is applying cyber capabilities in an offensive way against i.s.i.l in syria and iraq. ....
the blue chip index, dow index, increased more than 150% putting $16 trillion into the pockets of investors according to wilshire associates. dominic chu takes a look at the stocks and sectors driving this bull run. reporter: for some it seems like so long ago and for others the wounds from the financial crisis are still fresh. but the market has come a long way since bottoming out on march 9th, 2009, and that was the day, remember, stocks hit a closing low during the crisis. since that day, the dow jones industrial average is up close to 160%. the s&p 500 index has gained about 190%. and the nasdaq composite is up a staggering 265%. taking a closer look at the industries and sectors that have really been driving the gains, it s been consumer discretionary or retail-oriented stocks that have really led the way higher followed by financials then industrials. each of those sectors is characterized as cyclical means companying within them are closely tied to the up and d ....
equal. here are the numbers for thursday. the dow jones industrial average rose 217 points. it finished at 17,141. nasdaq notched an 87-point gain. and the s&p 500 was 29 points higher. as for that iffy economic data the labor department said its index of consumer prices fell a seasonally adjusted .2% in september. it s not much, but it s the biggest drop in eight months, and it leaves inflation well below the central bank s 2% target. now, the reason for the decline is primarily because of falling gasoline prices. and it is that drop in gasoline prices that caused millions of older americans to get some bad news. the federal government today made it official, that social security beneficiaries will not get an annual raise in benefits next year. prices aren t rising enough to justify one. and as social security benefits remain flat, nearly 1/3 of medicare recipients could be paying a lot more for their monthly premiums. hampton pearson has the story. reporter: there ....