Called and texted and tweeted their opposition to an abomination of a health plan, that plan is not going to be on the senate floor this week. Thanks to grassroots america, it is so appropriate at this hour. I also want to make clear that weve got a bottom line for the next two weeks. Weve got an incredible amount of heavy lifting that weve got to do to make sure that working families and seniors get a fair shake from the American Health care system. I say that because, as we speak, Senate Republicans are at the white house strategizing with the president. The horse trading has already begun, and the Senate Republicans have a slush fund paid for by working families that contains hundreds of billions of dollars that can be used for sweetheart deals that would get them the 51 votes needed to pass this horrendous health bill in the United States senate. Now ill turn to what we need to focus on in the next two weeks at town hall meetings, civic group lunches, discussions with Rural Health
Continue . Feeling good. Consumers feeling the best about the economy in more than a decade. And new years picks. Where our market monitor thinks you should put your money in 2017. All that and more for tuesday, december 27th. Good evening, everyone, im Contessa Brewer in for sue herera. Im tyler mathisen. Twas was the day after christmas. If only we could hit 20,000 it would be complete. Alas it did not happen. Many an investor was looking for a santa claus rally to come in and save the day. You get the idea, folks. Despite small gains, the dow could not claw its way above the 20,000 mark but the nasdaq did hit an alltime high. Heres how the dust settled. The dow climbed 11 points to 19,9 19,945. Nasdaq rose 24 and the s p 500 rose 5. Bob tazani, he wont rhyme but he will take a look at today in the market. We got close but not quite. The dow finished the day 50 points away from the 20,000 mark. Very light volume. Entering the final stretch trading in 2016. This is ten trading days wh
Continue . Feeling good. Consumers feeling the best about the economy in more than a decade. And new years picks. Where our market monitor thinks you should put your money in 2017. All that and more for tuesday, december 27th. Good evening, everyone, im Contessa Brewer in for sue herera. Im tyler mathisen. Twas was the day after christmas. If only we could hit 20,000 it would be complete. Alas it did not happen. Many an investor was looking for a santa claus rally to come in and save the day. You get the idea, folks. Despite small gains, the dow could not claw its way above the 20,000 mark but the nasdaq did hit an alltime high. Heres how the dust settled. The dow climbed 11 points to 19,9 19,945. Nasdaq rose 24 and the s p 500 rose 5. Bob tazani, he wont rhyme but he will take a look at today in the market. We got close but not quite. The dow finished the day 50 points away from the 20,000 mark. Very light volume. Entering the final stretch trading in 2016. This is ten trading days wh
Really need to adopt watch the rest of this event in the cspan Video Library at cspan. Org. Type center for American Progress in the search box. Going to leave and go live to remark some House Veterans Affairs Committee Chair ted poe, some john mccain, james mattis and the mr. Secretary David Shulkin. All living at the American Legion conference here in washington. In deuteronomy it is written, a strong and courageous do not fear or be in dread of them. For it is the lord our god who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you. And in romans, what then shall we say to these things . If god is for us, who can be against us . With those passages in mind let us go to the lord in prayer. Almighty god, for whom nothing is too difficult, we call upon you to call our spirit calm focus our attention and energy on the tasks at hand, knowing that what we do is a part of your divine plan. Grant us the courage and faith needed for the assignments we are about to undertake, centered upon wh
Morning. Where oil prices could be headed next, in a moment. Shares of hewlettpackard enterprises rallying on a report this afternoon that private equity firms may be targeting it for a buyout. Well hear from the reporter that broke that story in a few minutes. Lets start with earnings trouble in the oil patch. Bob pisani, big misses for chevron, as well. Yeah. Enormous write down. The stock prices right to the actual numbers here. Exxon and chevron both reported much bigger missing than anticipated. In the case of chevron, reported an enormous write down. 2. 8 billion for projects just not economically viable at the current price of oil an apparently they dont think viable for a listening time to come if ever here. You see price reactions fairly modest. Let me explain the pickle a lot of Big Oil Companies are. And use exxon as an example. Cash flow 4. 5 billion. Care enough. The Capital Spending 5. 2 billion and the Capital Spending is more than the cash flow theyre getting. They have