And the nasdaq. The dow is up about 100 points. The nasdaq 100 hitting a new record high. Your midcap names, jan bradys of the investing world, big standouts. Energy stocks a big part of that, led higher by names like denver, resources, sm energy and energen. Im michelle carusocabrera. Cleanup efforts from North Carolina to florida following hurricane matthew. 19 deaths have been reported here in the United States due to that storm. Samsung suspending production of its galaxy note 7 phones following reports that they catch fire. Oil prices are moving higher after Vladimir Putin said russia is ready to join opecs efforts to cap oil output. Begin with politics and new polls showing that donald trump is in deepening trouble. John harwood live in washington with the numbers. This one is, what, nbc news and wall street journal, john . Yes, this is a wall street journal nbc News National live interview telephone poll that was it is important for me to point this out, this is not reflecting a
You can find more information at www. Cspan. Org. A new survey shows that in most or partners tend to support the same candidate as their significant other. What about you . Spouse or partner agree or do you differ in your opinions . Tell us about it. If you agree on a candidate, 2027488000. If you disagree, 2027488001. You can post on our twitter page and post on facebook. Pew Research Center put out a new poll taking a look at spouses and partners, how their significant other feels as well. Here is their initial findings. , 78 of registered voters who support donald trump for president said their spouse or partner also intends to vote for trump. Just 3 say that partners planning to vote for hillary 77 saying their partner also backs the secretary of state compared to just 3 who say their partner is supporting trump. Among all registered voters, 85 say they have not argued about the election with their spouse or partner that while just 15 have. You might want to double check that you
Staff, thank you. Thanks for your service. Welcome back. What you do is important. It matters. So with crisis momentarily averted, the president outlined three areas of focus. Passing a budget, Immigration Reform, farm bill. Those are three specific things that would make a huge difference in our economy right now. At the top of that list, those charged with the task paul ryan and patty murray have begun talking and are hoping for the best. I want to have a bunl agreement that gets this debt and deficit under control, that does right by future generations and helps us grow the economy. Were going to try to find out if we can have an agreement that does that. Chairman ryan knows im not going to vote for his budget. I know hes not going to vote for mine. Were going to find the Common Ground between the two budgets we can vote on and thats our goal. In the next 90 days optimism will be critical. Discretionary spending in the budgets is 91 billion apart. No one understands better than the
Wait. He said he would wait. If you were on the Federal Reserve its a very close call. If you were on the Federal Reserve financial policy committee, would you be concerned there are beginning of signs that this very easy money, lots of low rates is causing excess . Yes. I think i would point to the leverage lending market, for example, where the terms on a lot of loans have become socalled covenant lights so a lot of the terms have gotten much easier. Banks putting fewer and fewer strings. Right. Its not just the banks. Those loans tend to be securitized. The banks originate them and some are in the market. Junk bond market. And there are other signs. I do think i would be somewhat concerned. I think the Federal Reserve has reacted in an entirely appropriate and proportionate way. Among the things theyve done is they have put out guidance on leveraged loans and said we are worried about whats happening here to the banks. You guys need to be more careful with what you put on your Balan
I would like to welcome you to the university of minnesota. We have a terrific program here today talking about the significance of the budget deal reached in washington in terms implicationscal for both the democratic and republican parties as well as the origins of some of what we have been seeing in washington. We have a terrific panel. I would like to introduce the panel. , he served gutknecht in 12 for 12 years in the minnesota house and 12 years in the United States house of representatives. , who servedin sabo for a long time in the minnesota house of representatives, including a speaker from 1973 1978. He went on to washington, where he served for 13 terms, i believe, in very important positions. It passed a budget act that played a major role in the reduction of the deficits during the 1990s. Mine and colleague of teaches courses as well as working with us in some of our other programming. He was a representative in the minnesota house from 19792000 seven. He was also speaker