that story as also is included miss lerner s failure to willingly testify before this committee. i m going to put all that aside for a second. miss o connor, you re white house counsel. i m a lawyer, you re a lawyer. i want to step away from the irs problem and investigation for a minute and just have a comparative discussion because i think in the responses there may be some misunderstanding with respect to the independent the treasury inspector general for tax administration and i d like to talk to you a minute about their powers. not with the irs, but just in general. i d like to compare the powers of the treasury inspector general for tax administration with the fbi because one of the things we heard from the commissioner yesterday is, we re going to do the inspector general is going to do an investigation, and that is probably a good thing. there are many who don t believe it s enough, but you and i having a discussion on a comparative just of authority and powers pe
reform in tea party nation all agree with us. while radio touts a nonbinding resolution, congressional leaders from both parties are working on real legislation to resolve this issue. any copyright performed simply must include a radio performance right. to resolve this and other issues, we support several thoughtful bills. this would insist if broadcasters value the content they must value the content of others. this w0u8d remove the loophole. now i had time for a unified holistic approach to music licensing and time for a music omnibus bill or music bus for short. where kwoip write review under way, we need our industry in congress to be visionary and created a unified approach for the future of our business and the music bus idea is really simple. fair market pay for all music creators across all platforms. and a music only hi bus bill need not wait for the entire copyright act to be advised. congress registers maria polenti noted these issues are ripe for resolution. mr.
rates and bond purchases. timothy geithner has drawn a line in the sand. he says the white house is prepared to go over the fiscal cliff if republicans don t give in on higher taxes on the wealthy. you can see we re weighted to the up side by a ratio of 8:1 at the moment. finland is not trading today, so you may see some quotes not doing very well. we saw apple stock having the biggest loss in four years. the ftse yesterday slim gains really. up 0.4%, the dax up a quarter of a percent. is this a this is where we stand as we wait for the announcements from the ecb. we re up at a 52 week high for the xetra dax. cac 40 up half a percent and ibex up half a percent, as well. take a look at bond yields. we looked at that auction yesterday from spain. they raised 4.3 billion. years went lower. nevertheless spanish yields today 5.4%, slightly lower from where we closed, but they did move up substantially after a handle of 5.2. we ll keep our eye on gilts, as well. we ll look ahead to
and as the company continues to spend heavily on expansion and product development and items like it new kindle line, revenue rose 27% also short of forecasts. am that son s further quarter sales outlook is now shy of analyst estimates and amazon shares did fall in late trading yesterday. you can see that on the board there. $221. and computers featuring microsoft windows 8 hitting store shelves today. the company is opening 32 pop up stores just for the holidays. it s designed to run on a variety of devices. pcs, lab tops and tablets. we heard from steve ballmer about it yesterday. joe. fiscal cliff still about two months away, but the combination of scheduled tax hikes and spending cuts may already be impacting the economy. the washington post citing a report by the national association of manufacturer s says companies are bracing for the fallout by cutting jobs and delaying big purchases. government data shows business investment stalled in september. the report goes o
A Berkeley County Grand Jury indicted a former Summerville Police officer on two charges in connection with a shooting outside a Summerville restaurant that left a North Carolina man dead.