Brokered. Weekrude about 13 on the but we cant go without pointing out we are down about 50 on the year. The dow, the nasdaq, the s p down roughly 1. 5 on the day. The big decline or is really the russell 2000. A lot of concerns about what the smaller and Midcap Companies are going to fair. We also saw a selloff in the financial space. The bank index down about 4. 8 on the week. We should also point out, on the weekly gains and losses, the only three sectors that managed to close with gains this week was energy, consumer staples, and health care. Also up about 2 , scarlet. Scarlet it is interesting how weve seen the gains that initially came at the open disappear pretty quickly. For all the talk that the data is backwards looking, the fact that it is friday and we have so much uncertainty i had of us with worsening numbers presumably means that investors dont want to be long heading into a weekend. Now all eyes are looking towards the opec Conference Call on monday. Certainly there a l
The raidsers are leaving us. Here we go. But we have sunshine over the golden state. It will be cool. A gorgeous looking view of the sunrise there. The sunrise is about 7 10, 7 15 depending on where you live. We have mostly clear skies. We are drying out for the rest of the day and the next couple of days. With all the clear sky out there we are off to a colder start this morning. We will be partly cloudy for the afternoon and then getting into the second part of the day we are talking about low to mid 50s. A little bit of a breeze to go along with that. We have showers in the extended forecast, around the tuesday evening, wednesday morning time frame. When i come back i will have details on what you can expect today coming up. As mentioned, it is the final, final scheduled game at the Oakland Coliseum for the raiders. That is right. The team is set to move to las vegas before the start of next season. Live near the coliseum this morning fans are showing up for what could be the final
Social media. On twitter, cspanwj. On facebook, it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling it now. Having this conversation after a historic week when it comes to opioid litigation. On monday. T happened the drugmaker Johnson Johnson was found to be was on support for contributing to oklahomas Opioid Crisis and ordered by a Court District judge to pay 572 million in fines. On tuesday, Purdue Pharma was reported to be in talks to pay between 10 billion and 12 billion to settle some 2000 opioidrelated lawsuits brought by states, cities, and counties. This was the scene in that oklahoma courtroom when the judge announced his decision in that Johnson Johnson case. [video clip] the Opioid Crisis is an eminent danger, and my judgment includes findings of fact and the law of the state mets its burden that the defendant, misleading inson, includingection one, the finding that those actions compromised the health and safety of thousands of oklahomans,
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Ethis committee will come t order. To help us understand what china is doing. We spend a lot of time on this committee debating whether xi jinping will make a move. This is a question that people continue to debate. I wonder if such an invasion or the preparation for such an invasion which would be incredibly costly as the Ranking Member very eloquently brought up yesterday has already begun. Put differently, the ccb has been attacking us. Government, our defense contractors, our Development Firms in cyber. And they had been robbing us on tech. And they used that to their military modernization. And they have been gathering information on people and companies. Our military records have been compromised. Mine is framed in my office, in my basement. According to the fbi, chinas vast Hacking Program is the Worlds Largest and theyve stolen more americans personal and business data than any other nation combined. But that wasnt enough for the ccv. In the past few years, our intelligence and