Those stories and more tonight for nightly Business Report, on wednesday, august 17th. Good evening, everyone, and welcome. A house divided. That is the unmistakable conclusion to be drawn from todays release of the minutes of the latest meeting of Federal Reserve policy makers last month. Several members of the Interest Rate setting open Market Committee felt an urgent need to raise rates soon. Others said, not so fast. Lets wait for more data, especially on inflation, which remains below the feds target. But investors, of course, dont have the luxury of waiting. Hampton pearson reports tonight from washington on the fed and the mixed reporter when Monetary Policy makers met in late june, job growth had rebounded and market tuberculos, following the june 23rd vote by Great Britain to leave the european union, had subsided. So janet yellin and her fellow Monetary Policy makers concluded, quote, another interest in the fed funds rate was or would soon be warranted. But there was no cons
Those stories and more tonight for nightly Business Report, on wednesday, august 17th. Good evening, everyone, and welcome. A house divided. That is the unmistakable conclusion to be drawn from todays release of the minutes of the latest meeting of Federal Reserve policy makers last month. Several members of the Interest Rate setting open Market Committee felt an urgent need to raise rates soon. Others said, not so fast. Lets wait for more data, especially on inflation, which remains below the feds target. But investors, of course, dont have the luxury of waiting. Hampton pearson reports tonight from washington on the fed and the mixed reporter when Monetary Policy makers met in late june, job growth had rebounded and market tuberculos, following the june 23rd vote by Great Britain to leave the european union, had subsided. So janet yellin and her fellow Monetary Policy makers concluded, quote, another interest in the fed funds rate was or would soon be warranted. But there was no cons
For nightly Business Report, on wednesday, august 17th. Good evening, everyone, and welcome. A house divided. That is the unmistakable conclusion to be drawn from todays release of the minutes of the latest meeting of Federal Reserve policy makers last month. Several members of the Interest Rate setting open Market Committee felt an urgent need to raise rates soon. Others said, not so fast. Lets wait for more data, especially on inflation, which remains below the feds target. But investors, of course, dont have the luxury of waiting. Hampton pearson reports tonight from washington on the fed and the mixed reporter when Monetary Policy makers met in late june, job growth had rebounded and market tuberculos, following the june 23rd vote by Great Britain to leave the european union, had subsided. So janet yellin and her fellow Monetary Policy makers concluded, quote, another interest in the fed funds rate was or would soon be warranted. But there was no consensus on timing. And a split on
So if we can come to order. Thank you for being here. On april 27 of this year our subcommittee held a hearing on south sudans prospects for peace. An accord that finally ended the civil war that broke out in december of 2013 was reluctantly signed by both the government of south sudan and the Peoples Liberation movement in opposition in august of 2015. We were cautioned by ambassador booth at the time. And i remember your testimony on april 27th, mr. Ambassador, when you said these are the most significant advancements yet in implementing the Peace Agreement, but you also cautioned and said it is only a First Step Towards lasting peace, the most difficult work still lies ahead. Those words were prophetic and certainly very, very true, especially given what happened in july. Peace was never fully established in south sudan as a result of the august agreement. In fact, as we all know, fighting spread to areas that had not previously seen armed conflict. An estimated 50,000 south sudanes