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To ask questions. Without objective, thats so ordered. Can would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. Its going to focus obviously on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And the committee is holding a host of hearings to gather ideas on what congress can do to achieve this goal. And today, were going to hear ideas from our highways and transit stakeholders. Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. That we use to again surface transportation poli...

Up huge in the morning only to nose dive in the afternoon and recover as we approach the close. After what i regard as a crazy session. What do you do in the market goes haywire well i will tell you what i have been doing, you fall back on longterm themes many so you can use these gyrations to your advantage. Like two of them we are going to feature later on in the show many of you are scared of buying on the way down. I understand that. You fear something is happening. Something bigger and badd...

The 10year treasury yield hitting fouryear high on the news. Now a 2. 80 , yeah, things are getting interested. This is ahead of jobs report due in two and a half hours, economists are looking for 180,000 jobs added to the economy in the month of january with Unemployment Rate holding steady. It was Technology Trifecta on wall street last night. Apple topped expectations, iphone sales were down, short of expectations, a different story for amazon, the Company Posted the largest profit in history...

Big premarket moves on mixed results from cat, gm and mcdonalds. Global volatility, a common theme. Apple cut its spending forecast by about 1 billion. Well explain why. Qualcomm looking for 1 billion in cost cuts by trimming workforce by 15 . First up caterpillar shares taking a hit on a quarterly miss hurt in part by weakness in mining and construction in brazil and china. Cats lowering their full guidance. Doug oberhelman did talk about it. At some point, the economy will stabilize and busine...

Inconvenience. British Prime Minister theresa may says the uk will build the closest, freest trading relationship possible with japan as she continues her postbrexit trade building mission. Difficult to stomach carrefour shares sink to the bottom of the stoxx 600 bringing rival casino down after issuing a profit warning on declining margins. Battle stations. President trump hits the road to campaign for a tax overhaul, but theres a lack of specifics and plenty of opposition in Congress Good morn...

Well call the Sub Committee to order and like to ask that members who are not on the Sub Committee be permed to sit with Sub Committee of todays hearings to ask questions. With that objection that is still ordered i would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. It is going to focus , obviously, on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And a committee that is holding a host of hearings toth gaer idea on what congress can do to achieve this goal and today were going to hear ide...

Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. It was vital to pass the first longterm highway bill and a continue to we will need your assistance with teacher legislation. Even with the Additional Resources we provided, the nations Transportation System still needs additional investments. And acting a longterm solution for the Highway Trust Fund is a critical component to ensure address those needs into the future. Act, hasn the fast been a central priority of the committee....

Future. Now becky quick. We begin with distracted driving. The number of deaths from Car Accidents in the United States has hit its highest level since 2007, and the reasons range from higher speed limits to drunk driving. But there may be one other big factor. Phil lebow has more. Driving in america has become deadlier. The National Safety council estimates more than 40,000 people died in car a accidents last year, the most since 2007. It caps the steepest twoyear rise in auto fatalities since ...

Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody in for sara eisen today. Welcome back from paris. Thank you very much. Great to be back. Great to have you alongside. Amazing to see how that French Election is still impacting marketing. Lets get straight to the market action. U. S. Futures, yesterday a big rally on wall street. Gains of 1 or more across the board for the s p 500. Dow jones aup 1. 2 . A relatively positive session in trade. Dow jones up about 40 points, nasdaq and s p also up. F...

Dose of stimulus since 1990. Amazon aims to capitalize on chinas fascination with all things japanese. Coming to you live from our u. S. And asia headquarters. Betty i am betty liu in new york. It is sunday evening. We begin with breaking news just crossing the bloomberg from south korea. Current account surplus for june coming in wider than the prior month at 12. 17 billion. This is after it widened to more than 10 billion in may. We will watch for trade data for july coming out in an hour. Pmi...