You know what its like. You have twins. Werent they born on the same day . They happened to be born on the same day. I think you mentioned that. You have to gear up for that stuff. You can see right now, a mixed picture for the futures. It looks like the dow futures are up by 26. The dow was up yesterday by 236 points yesterday. The s p was up by more than 1 . It closed at its 17th recordhigh of 2024. Again, it ooh is only march 13 ft. So thats pretty rapid success for all of those new highs. The nasdaq was up by 1. 5 . It reversed two days of declines. This came after the cpi number was a little hotter than anticipated. All in all people looked at it saying housing inflation was coming down to some extent and it with was good news. If you took out treasury yields, they were higher. They jumped on the cpi. The 2 yeee2years at 2. 6 . Alaskan airlines is confirming the plane that lost the door plug was actually scheduled to under go maintenance later that night. I roy. To get straight to
Appropriations committee will please come to order. We are here today to discuss the u. S. China relationship and the investments that we need to keep our nations secure, competitive, strong, and maintain our leadership on the world stage. Let me make clear, from the outset, when we talk about competing against china, and countering chinese influence, we are talking about competing against its government, not the Chinese People or the millions of Chinese Americans who helped make our country great. I am great secretary austin, blinken, and raimondo here to discuss the all of government approach that we need to meet this challenge. This is our first full committee hearing, i do want to thank a vice chair collins, as well as our chairs and Ranking Members testers, coons, shaheen, tester, and moran. For working on us with this topic and others that every member cares about. I want to thank all of my colleagues with their work in the recent weeks to jumpstart the appropriation process. And
Today the dow lost 109 point thes. Nasdaq only dipped 0. 08 . Bond yields short and long are headed the wrong way, meaning higher. Different stocks always march to the beat of higher rates, march down that is. The markets over bought, we got some new supply coming. Including a gigantic one that was supposed to be red hot, siz sizzling. It seems to be cooling rather rapidly. It doesnt thaep help that we h looming strike against one or all of the big three automakers. Oil prices continue to climb higher. All bad. No wonder people want to sell. It actually makes sense. I made all these worries kcrystl clear to the cnbc investing club. We know Interest Rates always marrie matter and we fear the ipo market unleashing the dogs of excess supply. The thing about this market is it does have a selfcorrecting nature to it. As soon as you point out something negative it immediately does get hammered. For example, when i mulled over the ipo sale this weekend by the once legendary softbank i had a v
The hearing of the permanent subcommittee on the investigation will come to order. Welcome everyone, particularly to the witnesses, some of you have come along way. And we greatly appreciate it. Just three days ago i sat across from president zelenskyy in ukraine along with me colleague senator hassan and three other members of the United States senate. As i sat across from him, what i saw was a steely determination to continue to fight, and that determination is shared by the ukraine people, overwhelmingly. Their courage and strength, again on this fifth visit inspired me a new. President zelenskyy handed me a folder that i took from him then. It was the result of a conversation i had with him a week earlier in munich. It was asking for evidence, if he had any, of american manufactured parts and components in weapons used by russia on the battlefield in ukraine. The folder that he handed me was a powerful indictment of our export control and sanction system. A really searing piece of
Comcast supports cspan as a public service, along with these television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Americanmade semiconductors have been found in equipment used by Russian Forces in ukraine, including insurance, missiles, armored vehicles, and Community Agents systems. A Senate Homeland security met to examine which companies are producers of the technology and how rusher has evaded controls to get the parts. The hearing of the permanent subcommittee on the investigation will come to order. Welcome everyone, particularly to the witness the hearing of methe subcommittee on investigational come to order. Welcome. Some of you have come a long way, and we greatly appreciate it. Just three days ago, i sat across from president zelensky in ukraine. Along with my colleague, senator hassan, and three other members of the United States senate. As i sat across from him, what i saw was a steely determination to continue to fight, and that determination is shared by the u