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Heading outside the next few moments, again, no windchills to deal with this morning, we have clear skies, nice lights there shining from center city. Compared to yesterday, though, at this time, temperatures are colder. Anywhere from about five to 17 degrees colder, thats because we have clear skies this morning. So the heat we had yesterday, just easily escapes right back up into the atmosphere. There you go, 39, reading, allentown, 48, not bad around philadelphia at the airport, 40 willow gro...

Well as the isn services index. Market desk where julie hyman has all these. Julie we recently got disappointing news on the manufacturing, but disappointing on the nonmanufacturing front as well. Service industries expanding at the slowest pace in six months. We saw the biggest month over reading ofase, a 55. 9 for the month, that is worse than estimated in october. Again, thats isn noninfection composite, 55 point point 50 59, 58 is what economists had estimated. Factory orders, excluding tran...

Welcome, this is the pulse, live from london. Nameds yuan has been as the latest reserve currency to the imf basket. Economicsa correspondent is standing by in hong kong enda, what does it really mean . Importants a very shift forward this is something that has been a key priority for the reformers within china, who want to go and open up and modernize, especially the central bank governor. This has been a key target for them. They were turned down five years ago and now they have got it. They c...

Rising. We are not getting the volume yet. I am looking at the volumes, 4 below the 10day average. A surge at thee close with the expectations of futures contracts. The s p of one half of 1 . The dow is leading in percentage terms, up 6 10 of 1 helped by nike and United Health, the biggest contributors to the game after nike announced a 2for1 stock split and a buyback. Theyre bouncing back after yesterdays decline that it may pull back from its Affordable Care act coverage exposure. It was ae an...

Hello, im stephanie ruhle. Welcome to a special year in review edition of bloomberg best. We look back at the most important interviews, analysis from 2015. Year began with encouraging the signs of strength in the u. S. Economy and signals that six years after the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve was finally prepared to raise rates. Todays modification of our guidance should not be interpreted to mean that we had decided on the timing of that increase. In other words, just because we remove...

Time to move forward. So we are trying to assess the overall u. S. Economic outlook, and we need to factor in all the different elements that determine that. Our success in selling goods to the rest of the world thats an important determinant of the outlook. We have divergent monetary policies globally, and it often means that there will be Exchange Rate movements that accompany that, and we have seen that over the last year and a half. As i said, the combination of the weak growth abroad, plus ...

Airlining and travel stocks are taking a hit. Meanwhile, oil has been the one leading the pack today. A report this morning that the u. S. Attacked isis oil trucks for the first time. We have an analyst joining us from europe with her take on that, with oil un2. 7 after having been lower earlier in the session, challenging that big level. A big move. We begin in paris, where Michelle Carusocabrera has the latest details. Michelle . Reporter hay there, the secretary of state is in paris. 40 minut...

Next a program from the 20th annual baltimore book festival. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. How is everybody doing . Can you believe that . [inaudible conversations] first and foremost, we wantforemost, we want to thank everyone for coming out to our special session as we have another great conversation with the native baltimore in. One of the big things about baltimore book festival it isthat is always beautiful is the highlight of authors from baltimore. And so today is not any diff...

We are very, very happy to have congressman teeberry take over as vice chair. Welcome. I also want to welcome our distinguished chair of the Federal Reserve janet yellen and thank her for appearing before us this morning. This committee has a long tradition of receiving regular updates from the chair of the Federal Reserve and were pleased to be continuing that tradition today. U. S. Economy has struggled through a long season of at tted growth. Over that time, our economy has grown at a histori...

That we eventually want to operate with a much smaller Balance Sheet than we have at present. The, that we would reduce the size of the Balance Sheet to essentially, whatever size we needed to manage Monetary Policy effective in, in effective and efficient way. Now a lot has changed since prefinancial crisis in terms of the Financial System and, we are studying, were engaging in project at this time. To consider whether a longrun operating framework should look like. So, i cant tell you exactly ...