With iocei new housing. We have been working with Local Government, business, and the third with Local Government, business, and the third sector to publish an action the third sector to publish an action plan for housing in rural and island action plan for housing in rural and island areas action plan for housing in rural and island areas later this year. We have island areas later this year. We have established £25 million of funding have established £25 million of funding to provide homes for key workers funding to provide homes for key workers in funding to provide homes for key workers in rural areas will stop across workers in rural areas will stop across scotland we will invest £160 million across scotland we will invest £160 million this year to acquire empty properties million this year to acquire empty properties for use as affordable Ironies Properties for use as affordable homes. Following consultation i can confirm homes. Following consultation i can confirm that we wi
In a moment. In the meantime take a look at u. S. Equity futures. Dow was down a couple of points yesterday. Looks like s p up and nasdaq up by 14. Lets take a look at stocks to watch today. Shares of rack space. Market valuation of 3 billion before the report of a possible sale. Fire yief announcing plans to layoff workers. Missed its own forecast of the company cut its full year outlook. Zynga releasing a weak outlook. Active users fell. And restaurant chain poe yolo co. Matched the estimates and what is that now, up 8 yesterday. Lets take a look at the broader markets this morning. We showed you the futures are in positive territory. If you take a look at the early markets in europe. There are gains there once again. Looks like the dax is up bailey. The cac is up half a percent and the ftse after the gains we saw in the market there yesterday as the bank of england voted not only to ease Interest Rates by 25 basis points, but also to add a lot of additional quantitative easing and o
Others are brandnew and needed to be exploited to the fullest. The pin action is everywhere. Some of this might be coming on the heels of good performance on the strength of a remarkable breakthrough treating the terrible disease of cystic fibrosis. Take gilead. Then there is celgene which soared today. This is the cheapest big cap drug company in the universe. Even after this remarkable run. You want to talk about buying on dips . People say, cramer, youre a big dip buyer. Thats stupid. Consider regeneron. What happens . Pharma giant sanofi took advantage of the decline to boost its stake to 22. 5 . Did you think the fourth horseman or the apocalypse i highlight getrichcarefully would be left behind . No. Huge gainer today on word one of its newer drugs is selling better than expected. Biotech is back. It doesnt just inch up. It roars second theme . Cars. We are seeing strong auto and truck sales in this country. Todays report, i was going to say outstanding, but its really breathtaki
The senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to s. 2199 postcloture. That all time during adjournment, recess or morning Business Count postcloture on the motion to proceed to s. 2199. And finally, that the filing deadline for firstdegree amendments to s. J. Res. 19 be at 12 00 noon tomorrow and seconddegree amendments be at 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid we hope to move forward on paycheck fairness and vote on cloture on the constitutional amendment early tomorrow afternoon, mr. President. So if theres no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it adjourn under the previous order, following the remarks of senator sessions, which will last for 30 minutes. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sessions mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from alabama. Mr. Sessions i would ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer we are not in the middle of a quorum call. Mr. Se
annita mcveigh or use the bbcyourquestions. Doctors leaders warn hospitals will be overwhelmed with Covid Patients unless tough new restrictions are imposed after lockdown ends in england amid reports of rules easing to allow families to get together over christmas. None of us want to see a situation over christmas where youve got the mixing of generations of people, grandparents mixing with grandchildren, and then finding that some of the most vulnerable in our society end up becoming infected. New figures suggest the week in which the clocks went back this autumn saw the highest levels of loneliness amidst the coronavirus pandemic. And coming up 1966 world cup hero sir geoff hurst says he supports a ban on children heading footballs, after a number of dementia diagnoses and deaths among his former teammates. Ive always felt this without any Scientific Data at all over the yea rs, Scientific Data at all over the years, that it seemed to me a High Percentage of footballers were getting