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river basin, close to the sea. the author and illustrator raymond briggs, best known for the 1978 classic, the snowman, has died, aged 88. debts owed by consumers to energy suppliers have tripled since last september, according to the comparison service u switch. almost a quarter of households owe an average of more than 200 pounds to their provider. households are thought to owe £1.3 billion to their energy suppliers an all time high. it comes as eon the energy supplier for six million uk households announced their global profits in the last six months reached nearly 5.5 billion the debt to energy suppliers has been built up despite accounts normally being in credit during the summer months. eight million households have no credit so no cushion to fall back on when winter arrives. the estimate comes a couple of months before bills are set to soar again. the price cap the maximum amount energy companies can charge currently stands atjust under £2000 per year, bu ....
the eu wants to fast-track asylum decisions in greece and the wants of turkey. they are throwing another $3.4 billion, but it has watered down earlier assurances for turkey to join the eu. dilmaters are angry that rousseff has added luiz inacio da dilva to her cabinet. turning to the ncaa tournament, how many haveder entered in our bloomberg brackets. has comes the ivy league. yale upset baylor. it is their first appearance in the tournament since 1962. we saw a mixed session. the shanghai capping off its best week in june. month, the 10 year , stocks bouncing around a little bit. oil prices had been putting pressure on energy producers in europe. taking a u.s. feet taking a it means.s. futures, that we are now year today positive. this is the fastest recovery we have seen at the beginning of a year according to bloomberg data. there is a lot of debate over whether it is justified. pound weakness as well. not much change in the dollar versus the yen. we have been ....
the sessionk at highs. s&p 500 of by nearly 1%. dow up by .8%. nasdaq by .7%. we are digesting the news on better-than-expected u.s. consumer sentiment. as well as the expected surprise drawdown in the u.s. oil inventories on the order of about 5.9 million barrels last week. with all of this, let s look at the s&p year to date. take a look at this. s&puld like to have the year to date, if you can possibly get that up. up 1% on the intraday. i want to bring the year to date because we are .1% away from flipping into the green. it will be four years in a row of gains. 1% away from the positive december. if we do see that maybe we will see this rally. dox: so much of that had to with the surprise drawdown in u.s. oil inventories. we have seen oil and stocks someone moved together, energy stocks taking off. ramy: definitely in tandem. let s look at the nymex crude. the biggest jump in the past two days. 30 day of gains in a row. up by 3.7%. we saw the highest spike earlier ....
the mass shooting at an oregon community college in october that the president decided he had to take executive action on guns. he made the announcement today in his weekly address, posted on the white house web site. a few months ago i directed my team at the white house to look into any new actions i can take to help reduce gun violence, and on monday, i ll meet with our attorney general, loretta lynch, to discuss our options. reporter: sources tell cbs news those options include expanding the definition of who is in the business of selling guns so that more gun sales trigger background checks and requiring enhanced reporting and tracking of lost and stolen guns. today, the president blamed the republican congress for giving him no choice but to take unilateral action. we know we can t stop every act of violence, but what if we tried to stop even one? what if congress did something, anything, to protect our kids from gun violence? reporter: last month, senate ....
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