Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by xq institute. Bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the battle over Affordable Care act, or obamacare is now joined, in earnest. House republicans pressed forward today, in the face of resistance from democrats, and from inside their own party. Lisa desjardins reports from capitol hill. Reporter it was day one of republicans push to sell their longawaited replacement plan for the Affordable Care act, obamacare. Greg walden chairs the energy and Commerce Committee and helped author the bill. Introduction of this bill is just the first step in helping American Families across the country obtain Truly Affordable Health Care and were eager to get started. Reporter named the American Health care act,
Options. In london, we have a packed show for you. And through the week. A lot of focus on brexit. First things first. Checking in on the markets. A selloff. The selloff of the riskier assets has eased some much. Best has eased has eased somewhat. The one i want to show you is rand. The president of south africa plans to fire his finance minister. We will keep an eye on the emerging markets and we will talk commodities as well. Rand the South African has slumped this morning after the president was set to tell the Senior Leaders of the communist party that he plans to remove the finance minister. That was according to three people who were at the meeting. A spokesman said the people were misinformed. The u. K. Brexit secretary david davis says the u. K. Will not cough up the sums of money that eu officials are saying it will need to to leave the block. Jeanclaude juncker says the to forecast set around 50 million pounds. The bill is set to be an early source of disagreement. Scottish f
Coming to an end, partial deal with abu dhabi could be announced later. Rishaad reaching for the stars preciousraces on for resources in space. Lets get to the here and now. Its all about that French Election. Having a look at the reaction to this, 10year treasury yields screaming higher, 2. 3 , the euro moving above a 200 Day Moving Average against the yen. Asdo have more clarity perhaps not a populist leader coming through in france. That could allow mario draghi to do something with his tapering program. ,urther momentum for the euro bullish gaps from a technical standpoint that need to be filled at some stage. Also looking better when it comes to the boj as they head into their policy meeting alongside the ecb this week, governor kuroda getting rest fight respite with pressure , driving asian equities higher in terms of price action in japan. A sigh of relief for the markets that we have this progrowth, proglobalist options going into the election in france. The pboc governor has s
Im Francine Lacqua. It is an extremely busy day. Lets get straight to the markets. We have the fomc meeting yesterday. The fallout from that and the fact that investors had to read price their expectations of a possible fed increase in june. A lot of the immersion marking currencies emergingmarket currencies are down. 0. 6 . Down travelf the focus is on stocks. A lot of the airlines the stocks are going down. News,we had that terrible egypt deploying naval ships to search for this egypt airbus. They went missing overnight. We have news that it may have crashed near one of the islands in greece. This has not been confirmed. Highlymeantime, i suggest if you are a bloomberg. Go to live gordha this is our uptotheminute blog. There is a press coverage an hour and a half from now. We keeping uptodate with the and the crisis meeting that france is having. Nejra the missing egypt air flight from paris to cairo reportedly crashed in egyptian airspace. A320 came down there a greek island. Commun
A beat for sap. The Software Maker tops analyst estimates. We speak to ceo bill mcdermott. We are less than a half an hour until the european open. Lets have a check on how futures are performing. It looks like a day of green, a day of gains. Click on the futures button on weei. The ftse 100, slightly underperforming. This could be related to the minors, bhp billiton showing less production than expected. The minors. R we are getting some big beats when it comes to the earnings season. Goldman sachs, microsoft among them. The s p 500 has been in terms of profit. Guy guy looking forward to carrying on the conversation surrounding the earnings story. We will have more on that with bill mcdermott. 0. 3 on unchanged, the german 10year. Dollaryen, keep an eye on that one. An interesting survey talking about the fact that we could see a fall of 5 . His will be interesting to see as we work our way forward on that one. Lets get you up on what you need to know. Heres our first word news with j