Point is down by almost 2. 5 . The ftse is down by 1. 5 . If you look at the price of oil, which was under quite a bit of pressure yesterday, you can see this morning its down another 22 cents, sitting below 36. Lets tell you about some of the big stories were watching today. Perhaps the biggest right now is this one. Shares of allergan are plunging after the treasury and irs announced new rules to curb tax inversion. The two companies releasing a statement saying, quote, we are conducting a review of the actions. Prior to completing the review, we wont speculate on any potential impact. We should say that allergan is one of the Largest Holdings of some of the hedge fund community. Its considered a topten holding of about 80 hedge funds right now. So you might see a big impact in that stock this morning. The stock was down by about 21 . Im saying it may even be worse. Some of the people we know. Were checking the potential impact. Its down 60 points. Theres not a potential impact. Ther
She turned 70 in the peace corps. This was before my grandfather was governor. He went on to do the things you know about him and when he was done being in the white house, his mother was standing behind him, reminding him she turned 70 in the peace corps. To the extent he has gone on and done things since and i think a lot of that was due to this extent to which grandmother infected our family with this idea that not only is doing this kind of thing a good thing to do but its fun, its exciting, and its inspiring. The Carter Center has programs and 35 african countries, 18 in venezuela right now. Things andlly cool not only that, but its rewarding and exciting. College, ished looked around for things to do and figured out that if i was really going to walk that walk, having been privileged like all , the peace corps was the best way to do that because you get to go and live with people and experience their everyday lives everyday with them in their communities. You he went they eat. Ev
You. [ laughter ] [ applause ] saturday night at 8 30 eastern an indepth look at policing in minority communities. Speakers include former st. Louis Police Officer hudson, the Atlantic City coates and washington, d. C. Police chief kathy lanier. Most people get defensive if they feel youre being offensive. So being very respectful, you know, encounters and request, if its not a crisis, its not a dangerous situation request versus demands, those things change the dynamics a little bit. Sunday afternoon at 2 00, race and the criminal Justice System with white house Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and others. Then at 6 30 portions of this years washington ideas festival. Speakers include virginia senator mark warner, former Vice President al gore and author ann marie slaughter. We have to banish the word hes helping at home. Right. Helping is not actually taking the burden off you. You are still figures out what needs to be done. And you are asking him to help. Hes not the agent. Right. He
We need to determine what that means but undue influence and so the number of abi or sanctioned or approved brands on sale to abi theres a similar deal not exactly as i understand it paid advertisement but quote unquote a deal with large music and theyre almost 100 abi products and thats one that i view as being investigated out that way. Mr. Purser, do you have anything to respond to that . I think in terms of supply thats an important issue and i would like to bring to the attention of this committee supplies. First, this deal will have no impact in the u. S. Business and, therefore, no impact on the amount of supplies procured today. In hops we purchased 8 of the hops in the u. S. We manufactured some but in the open market we purchased 12 of the cans available in the marketplace. We placed 25 of the barley available in the marketplace and all those figures will remain the same pre and post transaction. Bottles, we purchased 27 of whats out there. So thats all those numbers will rem
First, this deal will have no impact in the u. S. Business and, therefore, no impact on the amount of supplies procured today. In hops we purchased 8 of the hops in the u. S. We manufactured some but in the open market we purchased 12 of the cans available in the marketplace. We placed 25 of the barley available in the marketplace and all those figures will remain the same pre and post transaction. Bottles, we purchased 27 of whats out there. So thats all those numbers will remain the same and no impact because this transaction is about the rest of the world. Thanks, mr. Chairman. Thank you and Ranking Member klobuchar for having this hearing on a very profoundly important topic. I want to thank our witnesses for being here today, all of you with diverse and different viewpoints. Mr. Brito, thank you for making the trip from connecticut today. We welcome you and thank you for your involvement in our community in connecticut. And i want to say that im a nondrinker, so i have to disclose