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Average of a gallon of gasoline at 2. 84, the lowest in two years. And healthcare. Gov is open going live with the new Enrollment Period beginning last saturday after being plagued with problems last year. The new site will make it easier to shop for coverage and have enough computing capacity supposedly to handle open rollment. Michelle, over to you. Global news this morning, chinas news is Holding Steady with Consumer Prices rising 1. 6 from a year earlier. Producer prices falling 2. 2 , however. In europe, catalonia voting for independence from spain in a straw poll. Spain ordered the vote to be suspended and it went on anyways. And Russias Central Bank is allowing the rouble to float freely in the market. Starting today, it will scrap daily controls wi ....
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Kinds of things. It occurs to me that we didnt know how good we had it. Our rates were kept low by a weakness in the european economy but we were having this great year in 2015. We had the best of both worlds. Rates will stay low. Yet the economy was growing. We were doing great. Now we get a. 2 read and europe is doing better so their rates are going up based on what theyre doing. So do ours. Ours go up so we go from 17onthe ten year to a 2. 3 and all these numbers are so low. They cracked me up with germany. 75 basis points. Oh my god its 75 basis points. But they have been negative. Are you changing your bet on when ms. Yellen is going to i dont think so. Does it matter . To her i dont think it does. As it became less likely they were going to raise in june or september our ten year yield went up almost 30 or 40 . Anyway. It doesnt matter. Thats what people worry about when the market starts setting Interest Rates and the fed l ....
The only way to top it off essendon meaningful. Ukraine is in the midst of a political crisis and the president Viktor Yanukovich has gone on sick leave. No one knows when hell be back on some opposition to his seat as an excuse to avoid further discussion of which have so far failed to put a stop to two months of sometimes violent and deadly protests yanukovich has offered freedom from prosecution to peaceful protest is but only if they beat the official buildings there okay fine and that doesnt look like its going to happen and in the meantime the pressure on ukraines government is calling for above the waist and from russia the headquarters of the revolution. Dance with demonstrators had painted on the walls of kiev city home its one of the key buildings is occupied and which the government insists they must give up. This building is strategically very important to us as many people come here to stay warm and sunny. And it i ....
President obama set to host the nations governors today at the white house, this morning state leaders from both parties will meet with he and the Vice President , the president expected to address bipartisan issues from guns to marijuana to the Affordable Care act. Mic vicmike viqueira is at the e house. There is a lot going on here, a lot of sub plots, undercurrents, both policy and political wise. The National Governors association, this is an annual thing, they come to washington for weekend meetings culminating in this morning meeting at the white house in the state dining room. Theres plenty to talk about in terms of policy. Minimum wage, the president wants to push the federal minimum wage to 10. 10 from the 7. 25 now. A lot of states have beaten him to the punch, but the president wants to raise it. The repu ....