Department of health and Human Services. While we hold a courtesy hearing on the nomination of the secretary, it finance committee receives his paperwork and will vote hon the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and governor of utah whom we welcome today. Mike, good to see you and have you back. And senator young, whos a member of this committee, will introduce him after mr. Azars testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. We already have a good turnout so i anticipate a good vigorous questioning period. Confirmed to leave the department of health and Human Services, youll be leading a 1. 11 trillion budget. That almost equals the totals of the Appropriations Bills that Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Defense to national laboratories. Medicare and medicaid. Our nations government run Insurance Programs for it poor and elderly. Mental hilth health and Substance Abuse. The National In
Secretary, it finance committee receives his paperwork and will vote hon the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and governor of utah whom we welcome today. Mike, good to see you and have you back. And senator young, whos a member of this committee, will introduce him after mr. Azars testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. We already have a good turnout so i anticipate a good vigorous questioning period. Confirmed to leave the department of health and Human Services, youll be leading a 1. 11 trillion budget. That almost equals the totals of the Appropriations Bills that Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Defense to national laboratories. Medicare and medicaid. Our nations government run Insurance Programs for it poor and elderly. Mental hilth health and Substance Abuse. The National Institutes of health, where, with francish collins excellent leadership, the leading efforts to disco
Spotlight after the Central Bank Holds the market steady. They grab investors attention after they post the biggest weekly gain since early june. The german car maker speeds away from a long running probe into the failed take over of volkswagen in 2008. Welcome to the show. French gdp disappointing earlier coming in flat for the quarter. German gdp in line, a little below expectations. Italian gdp has just come in as well and that has disappointed too. The expectation year on year was for plus 0. 5 and has come in for the year but the expectation quarter on quarter was for plus 0. 3 and we have 0. 2 gdp. So a little disappointing. Not as disappointing as the french number earlier which was flat for the quarter against expectations of a 0. 2 expansion. Joining us now is the senior european economist. Good morning to you. We await the broader euro zone number in about an hour but so far what weve got from the likes of italy, germany, france, disappointing. Slightly disappointing. I would
His son released. Meeting government officials as they try to quell growing government anger over emissions. Oh caroline welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. From here in the city of london, on anna edwards. With got commerzbank reporting a secondquarter net loss, 630 537ion euros, a loss of million. That lost a bit wider than what we expected. They are giving us guidance in 2017, saying they see it slightly positive net result. This is germanys secondlargest listed bank. That antly found out company disclosed owning 5 , making his business the second largest shareholder after the german government, which bailed out commerzbank. Byy plan to cut 6000 jobs 2020, to free up cash in other areas. Sticking with the banking theme, we have numbers out of Societe Generale. Profits down 28 . Litigation clouds lingering over this international dealings. The products business helping the trading to outperform some of their rivals. They are also grappling with litigation. That is, to some extent,
Tourism groups fullyear core Earnings Growth gives the shares a boost in early trade. The gamble doesnt pay off for uk betting firms as the stocks sell off on a report that mps will demand stricter controls over certain betting machines. Good morning, everybody. Welcome. Were being told today is the most important day of all time for the ecb. Its always the most important day. Exactly. European equity markets gearing up for the most important ecb meeting with a slightly higher attitude. Up by a quarter percentage point on stoxx 600. Asia gaining overnight. A wall street rally. Europe higher for the fourth straight day in a row. Looking at the main European Equity markets with the main europe europeans trading in positive territory. Somewhere in the region of a half percent or so. The sectors, just briefly showing you whats going on. Media, autos and telecoms trading higher. Oil and gas, insurance, healthcare all a bit lower. People are talking about theres some doubts about the outputs