In the works on the back of surging copper demand. Later, the white house announces another multibillion dollar award to another giant. Its thursday, april 25th, 2024 and are you watching Worldwide Exchange. Good morning thank you to much for being with us before we get start ed, a quick news alert the Biden Administration announcing a 6. 1 billion Funding Agreement with micron under the chips and sciences act. The deal will be in support of the construction of the facilities in new york and idaho. Micron investing 125 billion into the projects. President biden will be in syracuse, new york today we will have more this later in the hour look at micron shares down over. 13 . Turning back to the trading day ahead and the check of the futures after a mixed session for stocks dow snapped the foursession win streak and you can see all three are in the red this morning nasdaq is down 1 . The s p down. 50 . You see the dow looking like it would open over 100 points lower. Of course, the big s
Lauvens the first ltro are expected to disappoint. Results out in over an hour. Moving camps and demonstrators out of the financial district after more than two months of occupation. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. We are just getting news out of norway. Theyve cut the deposit rate by 25 basis points to 1. 25 . We were expecting a slightly easing meeting announcement. We werent expecting an outright rate cut until early next year. Low Oil Prices Hit a fiveyear low against the euro, which given the eurozone weakness is quite astonishing. The economy has been weakening. T inflation, the most recent number declining slightly more than expected, but only fractionally. That has led the central bank to cut the deposit rate to 1. 25 . The norwegian krona has strengthened against the dollar today by 1. 2 . And we should point out the norwegian krona has been depreciating against the euro over the past couple of weeks because of the
John A. Giampolo, founder of both Healthcare Group Purchasing (HGP) and Independent Pharmacy Alliance (IPA), died last week at 84 in Princeton Junction, N.J. Over the course of his career John also served as senior vice President of the New Jersey Hospital Association Group Purchasing Program along with his work with HGP and IPA. John was a passionate supporter of independent pharmacy and an NCPA member for decades, and NCPA sends its condolences to his family.
Assemblyman Herb Conaway said on top of crisis levels of addiction, the state is seeing the terrible consequence of HIV and hepatitis C as a result of unclean needles.
Independent pharmacists, along with the New Jersey Pharmacists Association, Independent Pharmacy Alliance, Garden State Pharmacy Owners, and other community pharmacy advocates, testified before the New Jersey Assembly Health Committee in support of a package of pro-pharmacy, pro-patient bills.