the structures are there basically to steal that money while you have united health subsidiary optum already embedded across the n.h.s. it is there in the administrative systems the financial systems they're also looking after patient data so they are embedded already very with they would say steal but what you mean is well you have these intermediaries at the heart of the contracting with all of the leaks away well potentially they have to put their fees there and we know that or at the moment there is a lawsuit in america which is looking to sue united health for defrauding the taxpayer to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars and that was done through a fraudulent algorithm that they managed to sell to medicare the state insurer so that is that is in the courts at the moment this is the potential for industrial scale fraud if we invite these american giant corporates into the n.h.s. but the other thing about the networks is g.p.'s are being food into this is additional funding for potential your existing work but the reality is there's also a parallel program to significantl

united states, then i'm sure dr. gaffney would be for giving them immediate health care. compliments of the united states taxpayer. then dr. gaffney, i have a little thought exercise for you. say you and i are identical twins and we are in the nursing home and we are 95 years old. how much should the government spend to keep us alive one more year? >> dr. gaffney, you start. >> the question of how we should be treated at end of life has nothing to do with the financing of the u.s. health care system. i work in the icu. we deal with these issues very commonly. it's not about money. it's about the best way to treat people and about giving them the care they want when they have advanced illness. i'm not in favor of rationing on the basis of age and i don't think we need to. i think there's enough money in the system. i think there are times when people are so sick, where certain kinds of health care is not in their benefit and they make that clear, and that makes sense. but that's what's happening now and it's very different than some sort of rationing system based on some metric from the government. i'm not in favor

or is it below his unit's health and measles specialist he's based in a blogger welcome to africa. in the cause nigeria was before me pulling in combat measles why was that. ok first of all and thank you so much dr laura is a very low health specialist and unicef ok niger was performing badly this fall first of all because of the quality of campaigns i reckon don't think in the past and also our new level of routine in manassas on conference now adults and innocent coverage from missiles and on around eighty two fell to eight percent but for now and as a region it and fell by the federal government of niger to andre's issue of routine immunization guts is one of the reasons why are caught in a very good progress towards missiles elimination i mean addition to that. company now was done in two thousand and seventeen and eighteen was very very high is on the type of strike that is now not engaged during the repression and implementation of the missiles. so that was also a very very good positive for the country right now we're noticing that in the developed world for example part of

united health is down nearly 4%.nsurance and health care, another major topic for the u.s. in the house and i suppose in the senate. mcdonald's falling after a downgrade. david: we will see how it develops. coming up, a former ceo joining bloomberg markets talk about legal issues surrounding blockchain technology. live from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: i'm mark crumpton will bloomberg first word news. the united states could end of lifting most or all tariffs as part of a tree do with china. the two sides are close to reaching an agreement. trump administration still needs china to follow through on a couple key promises. one is to increase the amount of american goods advise. another is to better protect intellectual property rights. the trump administration prior to tighten the six decade trade embargo on cuba. officials say the u.s. will allow some lawsuits to go forward that accuse foreign companies of using properties confiscated by the cuban government after the 1959 revolution. that could make investme

united health care group, this is the biggest drag on the dow 30. if that tells you anything. this after the justice department's move on the constitutionality of obamacare. the decision dragging down the rest of the sector as well. that includes anthem, cigna, humana and united health group with anthem taking the biggest hit, down 3.5% on the chin. >>> from d.c., let's take you to silicon valley. goldman sachs, i thought this was interesting. i wanted to point it out to you guys. goldman sachs is proving, this is a good thing, that a chinese wall, meaning impervious, is possible between its research department and investment banking and services business. yesterday, among other revelations, apple announced that in a partnership with goldman sachs, it will offer that thing on your screen. this fancy titanium new numberless credit card that will kick 1% to 2% combasash back to user. today, analysts led by a guy named rob hall blurted out a gigantic yawn. in a note, the team wrote even though apple pay is becoming more available, we would still expect a large percentage of trans

service as and medical services are billed through insurance or paid out of polk humana, cigna, united health reach out to members over the phone or e-mail to suggest services to treat chronic conditions like diabetes or to send in help at home after a member is discharged from the hospital in some cases, they're working with walgreen's, becky, in order to have that pharmacy piece in there. >> bertha, this is a pretty big shift for cvs. thank you do you think it will take to get beyond a handful of stores >> it's one of the things where they can roll out some of the pieces, having more healthy food they opened a new store right in my neighborhood. it is much smaller they didn't have a lot of that stuff. but they will roll it out little by little. they will concentrate in areas particularly where they have medicare patients who are also on aetna plans where they can really work on that. and so they have three stores in houston and plan to roll out more as the year goes on. >> thanks so many. bertha coombs. >> as more parts of the health care market move into retail will the quality keep up wit

david: boeing, mcdonald's, united health, are at least three reasons why the dow is down. they're shaving 150 points off the dow. if you look at the overall dow, it is down 357 points. this is a very bad day for the market. a lot of people are throwing up their hands wondering why it reversed itself so dramatically. it was up premarket. it began trading up. came down from triple digits to double digits. it went negative t has not found a bottom yet. there are at least three elements of the dow, united health, mcdonald's, boeing helping to drive it down dramatically. stay with us, we'll be right back. she can stay with you to finish her senior year. things will be tight but, we can make this work. ♪ now... grandpa, what about your dream car? this is my dream now. principal we can help you plan for that . did you know that americans who bought gold - hello, i'm brad castillo. in the year 2005 quadrupled their money by 2012? even now, experts all across america predict the real gold rush is just beginning. don't wait another day. physical gold coins are easy to buy and sell a

you' seen a lot of great leadership like united health and optum that are leading t way. i think as you get to scale with some of these companies, we're only going to see those areas grow. >> clearly in issue is back on th agenda in washington, so we'll see what happens this year. hris meekins, again, thanks for joining us tonigh >> thanks so much. >>> on wall street, stocks fell as the yield on the 10-yearea ry hit its lowest level since 2017. concerns about the health of the global economy fueled the decline in yields and that d weighen stocks. the dow jones industrial average was down 32 points to 25,625. the nasdaq fell 48 and the s&p 0 was off 13. >>> meanwhile, our trade deficit with the rest of the world narrowed sha ly injanuary. the commerce department said this morning the deficit in trade a services shrank by 15% to $51 billion. that's smaller t than $57 billion that was forecast by economists. in fac the smaller deficit was driven by a decline in imports from china and other countries as well. >>> even as economists grow concerned about the health of the econo

if you remember united health terminated coverage of us. >> i know. >> and got approval a year and a half early we traditionally have a sales ramp like this we did this because the market was frozen they could market the data it was very compelling the user experience was not well known. so during the course of 2017 as that became known we got our integration with the g5 it was an industry first. we saw it and we saw our numbers rush bac return back. >> all of these dez c, we have t finance our way out of it. we had great fourth quarter results. we had great second and third quarter results. we did another offering, paid down our debt and we are a debt free company we created a market evaluation i would never predict. my prediction is we would be last des that was my prediction >> okay. you were certainly conservative. >> bold. >> i would love to see you merge with apple that's not up to you right >> no. it's not up to me. you have to say for the last two years we have been essentially dead it will be interesting to see how it will bring different ideas. >> you're a straight shooter

but the ceo of united health group made $83 million in compensation. e system that invests in disease prevention, that invests in doctors, in nurses, in den tisz, in rural clinics so that everybody in this country has access to a doctor or a den tropical storm. we do not need a health care system which allows insurance companies to make billions of dollars in profit and the ceos of those companies to make outlandish compensation packages. we say to the insurance companies, your day is coming. yes, we are going to pass a medicare for all single payer program. i want to say a word to senior citizens who are on medicare right now. trump and some of his friends are saying medicare for all is going to lower quality of health care for seniors. i know i shock you when i say this, donald trump is lying. i know, i have to say that. here is the truth. medicare is a very strong program, it is a very popular program for our seniors, but it has gaps. it does not cover dental care. it does not cover eyeglasses or hearing aids. our medicare for all will cover dental c

united health, united technologies, intel and american express are leading the blue chips higher >>> it's a scandal that has people talking from hollywood to harvard. more than 30 ceos, entrepreneurs, lawyers, celebrities charged with mail and wire fraud as part of a bribery scheme to get their kids into top colleges. let's bring in devlin barrett, the law enforcement reporter for "the washington post." along with eric. great to have you both eric, let me start with the attention today on the sports aspect of this admissions process where it seemed like people were using teams that were legitimate teams but no one was really paying attention to get their kids into these schools. >> you're not seeing these sports being basketball and football those sports, those recruits are widely publicized, everyone in the country knows the 350th ranked recruit for football or basketball in the country but not when it's the sailing team or fencing team or golf team or rugby team, the crew team. no one is really paying attention to that and not paying attention to who might be a preferred walk-on to

still going through this period of stress and uncertainty that we know is a part of our health care system in the united states, but we would like at zuckerberg san francisco general and at the health department, to do as much as we can to not be a part in that negative aspect of our health care system. so as we're kind of thinking about this and focused on it, you know, our approach in the health department is to acknowledge where we're not doing something at our best and is aligned with our values and embrace that and look for ways we can change and do better, so we're really coming to you kind of in that spirit to talk about areas that we think there is improvement and some of the activities that we're focused on to try to improve the experience for our patients at the hospital. again, the kind of area that we're focused on is this topic of balanced billing, and that's where a patient's insurance covers a portion of their hospital bill but leaves them in a situation where they are receiving a bill for the balance of the costs, thus the term balanced billing. so in a lot of situations, let's see, in a

united will extend the lease by five years. u.s. healthators are moving ahead with a plan to keep e-cigarettes out of the hands of teenagers by restricting sales to flavored products. the latest effort by the government to combat and up adamic -- combat an epidemic of underage vaping. figures show one in five high school students report using them. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on tic-toc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. david: thanks so much. president trump came to office promising to create jobs. most people hearing those words did not think it would immediately lead to constitutional lawyers seeing an uptick in jobs. of --facing a spate welcome now, samuel of nyu law school. he is a professional -- a professor of constitutional law. let's start with huawei. as i understand it, the president has authority given by congress to say, you should not be selling equipment to the military. >> there are two questions. this is putting much in the wheelhouse for what presidents d

equal opportunity disliker bristol-myers and united health. leave you too exposed to health care risk that could overwhelm the whole group. having an undiversified portfolio is not just an amateur mistake. many professionals don't like to be diversified because of the bizarre way that money management works in this country. if you concentrate all your bets in that one sector and the sector takes off, you beat everybody who is diversified that's the nature of the beast a hedge fund manager who does it and gets lucky can market himself as a huge success. get profiled by every magazine raise tons of capital from unsuspecting investor who is don't realize how much risk they're taking on. here's the bottom line whether you're an amateur or professional, you need to do your homework and keep your portfolio diversified. it may not be exciting or sexy this is the kind of of routine maintenance stuff that protects you from monster losses down the line mike in south carolina mike >> caller: hey, jim, mike from south carolina i was wondering from a new in

. >> thank you >> caller: i would like you to comment on the followed, united health care, unh i own a lot of shares, and the stock has been losing value. the metrics for the company are very good. but with all the confusion over the single payer and the president wanting to eliminate the affordable care act, should i hold or sell >> you've got to hold and maybe even buy we've been telling people to buy. why? because we think the confusion plays into unh's hands and therefore, you get a bargain price. i think the stock is terrific. i want to go to trudy in oregon, trudy. >> caller: hi, jim did you know that you have a fan club in sisters, oregon? >> i did not know that but makes me happy >> caller: four fabulous women i need your help with avav >> this is very controversial. thank you for the kind kudos, trudy. but this company delivered a good quarter, but people hate the stock so much that there's endless rumors about them not doing well so it's a battleground stock, even though i think it shouldn't be but i don't want you to go there. there's too much risk. jim in new york, jim >>

as far as who's taking us down, united health shaving 66 points off the major average.onald's, goldman sachs, walgreens also not doing too well caterpillar staying strong and industrials exposed to a deal to china and would benefit from that are at least doing better than the rest of the market. >> the impact on the wider market baited throughout the session. >>> after a rough stretch in 2018 the emerging markets etf seen a rebound up nearly 10% this year and outperforming today but can the rally continue seema mody has more from hq. >> hi, wilfred it's all about china that's the key driver, up 21% this year thanks to the pros suspect of a trade deal and beijing's commitment to stabilizing growth with accommodative policies this is ahead of the national congress that takes place over the course of the next two weeks where investors are expecting an update to china's growth forecast, foreign investment rules and potentially new stimulative measures and betting on further tax cuts to aids the manufacturing and infrastructure sectors but if they come up short experts say s

united health, walgreens boots and intel among them more "squawk alley" ahead. go anywhere. >>> welcome back, everyone i am sue herera. here's what's happening at this hour white house press secretary sarah sanders says the mueller report findings amount to complete and total exoneration of president trump she says trump will let the attorney general decide whether the report should be released publicly >> the attorney general followed the legal process, he worked with the deputy attorney general who has been involved since the very beginning of this two year absurdity, and they made a decision there was no obstruction, so that makes it a complete and total exoneration. >>> an early morning rocket from the gaza strip entered straisral injuring 7 people. netanyahu cutting short a trip to the u.s. to return to israel. >>> chinese president arriving in paris for a six day european tour aimed at bolstering trade with europe. she will sign energy and other contracts with french president macron later today he will meet tuesday with angela merkel "squawk alley" is bac

so instead of having a blue cross/blue shield card, instead of having a united health insurance cardave a medicare card. >> i believe it will totally eliminate private insurance for people who like their insurance they don't get to keep it. >> the idea is everyone gets access to medical care care and you don't have to go through the process of going through an insurance company. >> it's not just healthcare companies, they want to take out of existence, they also want to ban any vehicle that relies on oil or gasoline for fuel so that would include cars, trucks and even airplanes. so it would even be -- would that even be constitutional for the government to outlaw every gas powered vehicle? joining us now with answers are former florida attorney general pam, who i believe is in tampa bay, florida, along with attorney and fox news contributor, right here by my side, in new york city, contributor emily. thank you for joining us. what would happen to this country and what are the ramifications if they passed this and signed with it some radical socialist and said, all those millions of c

love this idea, people don't like private health insurance very much they don't ticly like cigna, united healthey could careless if they no longer have those companies covering them but what they care about is who they can go to as a doctor, where they can go to in terms of hospitals. they care about their doctors and hospitals and drugs they need. they don't care about the private insurance company that happens to be their coverage. >> if the hospitals and the doctors all, if the hospitals go out of business and doctors all just no longer work because they're not getting paid below market-rates it says will cut their pay by over 40%, i mean, then where are you going for care if that happens? >> many nations have done this, none of them have had their hospitals close or their doctors flee. david: that's not quite true, doctor. it's not quite true in the united kingdom where there have been hospitals closed down. i would just add specifically one thing about the united kingdom, a country i know very well because my wife was there for a month after a stroke that she had and supposedly the best br

united health care, anthem is a name we own, that's been hit pretty hard.ig into medicare for all, you will start to realize that even though it polls well now on the other side of the aisle, when people start to learn about it and realize what they lose, it doesn't poll so well. $32 trillion is what it will cost. you will lose your health care coverage at your company and you will likely have to wait for a specialist, maybe as much as nine weeks. these companies are very, very cheap. if you think medicare for all will be here with us and you think it will -- charles: they are doing very well versus zero. >> they could go to zero. if that wins out, i don't think that will happen. i don't think the polls will be what they are today six months from now. charles: historically, that's a group that can be extraordinarily volatile from time to time. when they miss, they take a big shellacking. >> but they are trading at less than a market multiple. you don't often find that. charles: jason, let me broaden this out. overall with our markets, where we are right now

price targets on the stock because they acquired shares of the financial services company and united healthng its discount program for customers. on the flipside, this is not a surprise to anybody, i suspect, boeing of course, the biggest drag this week on the 737 max issues, with the second crash in five months. j & j, the cancer lawsuits, expected to weigh on that stock. liz? liz: for the whole week, boeing shaved 300 points off the dow jones industrials. it may be up today but you have to take it all into consideration. susan, thank you. >>> let me take this time to wish all of you a happy st. patrick's day. of course, it's sunday but today's "countdown" closer is all about a leprechaun's favorite thing, that pot of gold. joining us now, fan boy of all things gold, frank holmes. the winkelvos brothers are big on bitcoin but they took it a step further. they are so bullish, they are saying they believe bitcoin will eventually be the ultimate haven, safe haven, taking gold's place. you say what to that? >> well, i don't agree with that. you can't wear bitcoin. you can wear gold. 60% of all

they include goldman sachs, united health,alee wgrns boots, nike, johnson & johnson.ot more "squawk alley" still ahead. don't go anywhere. rebekkah: opioids has taken everything and everyone i've ever loved away from me. everything. i blew my ankle out and i got prescribed pain pills by my doctor. if making my detox public is gonna help somebody i'm all for it. i just wish i would've had a warning. >>> welcome back, everyone here's what's happening at this hour united nations appeals judges have upheld the convictions for former bosnian serb leader karadzic for genocide and war crimes they also increased his sentence from 70 years to life in prison. he will now spend the rest of his life behind bars new zealand police say they believe officers stopped the gunman who killed 50 people at two mosques on his way to another attack but they wouldn't say more, because it is an active investigation. >> we're not going to go into those details. you know, i don't wish to traumatize others. so that will form part of the court case but we absolutely believe we know where he was g

this that would apply to tech giants, amazon, google, facebook, could also hit companies like united health and target based in your home state. >> well, what you're pointing out is something that is really important which is that you have to be aware of the law of unintended consequences. i think about this in terms of the impact on the giant companies like amazon. it is only recently that what has been happening is that main street businesses trying to compete have been faced with a different playing field when it comes to taxation. that is starting to change some. i want to make sure that those main street businesses have a chance to compete and win. when you have a company like amazon that has so much market power, that makes it a lot more difficult. >> on its face, though, you like the idea of what elizabeth warren is putting out there? >> on its face, i barely heard what elizabeth has done yet. i think it is great that ideas are being brought forward. >> you are endorsing amy klobuchar for president. she has continued to have to answer questions about her management style because of c

the surgeon general of the united states public health dr.uther terry, has this to say. >> over the past several years, measles vaccines have been successfully tested both in this country and abroad. this painstaking evaluation was made possible that the -- made possible by the cooperative efforts of scientists both in and out of government, by physicians, by the drug industry, and whether thousands of unselfish and courageous parents who have permitted their children to participate in the field trials. the secretary of health education and welfare has now licensed the vaccines for general use. as increasing numbers of children are vaccinated, he will be well on the way to eradicating the disease that down through the centuries has killed millions of children and left others impaired mentally and physically. all of those who have contributed in any way to this cause for better health can be proud of a great achievement. narrator: within 48 hours of official government licensing, supplies of the vaccine are ready for shipment to doctors throug

three day losing streak for the moment accounting for more than half of today's dow drop, boeing, united health, and also walgreens. walgreens has had a struggle over the past couple days you guys know that we've been talking about it but let me get over to the crude pits oil taking a hit at this hour after crude stockpiles rose much more than expected last week. a massive 7.1 million-barrel build versus expectations of 1.2 million-barrels, so right now, what we do have crude down three-quarters of a percent in the after market it's shares of oil companies that are really sinking on the report. everybody on the screen is down from schlumberger to halliburton and exxon-mobile for the dow components and you can see halliburton getting hammered so down 4% not a good day for those names. general electric falling again after wednesday's sell-off, the biggest two-day percentage drop in nearly four months, jpmorgan an a test steven tusa is saying his $6 price target on the company looks generous, after ceo larry culp forecasts yesterday negative cash flow from its industrial businesses this year, so r

united health, united technologies, nike, visa, and intel.e've got a lot more "squawk alley" straight ahead. don't go anywhere. so servicenow put your workflows in the cloud, huh? mm-hm. your employees must love you. thank you. ah, you could say that. so how are things with you guys? great. thank you. thank you, sir. lunch next week? terrific. say hi to the team. will do. call my office, i will. -sounds good. alrighty. servicenow. works for you. >>> there is about an hour left of trading left in european markets ahead of another important brexit vote this afternoo afternoon. wi willem marx is in london with the latest on brexit >> theresa may has not opened this afternoon's debate ahead of a vote tonight because she's lost her voice her chancellor did issue some spring forecasts, some spending priorities earlier today and those were very much predicated on the idea that three would be a deal between the uk and the european union however, he had some words of warning in case the uk does depart without an agreement. >> leaving with no deal woul

united health and visa rounding out the top four. a bull market is defined as a sustained period of gains over 20% without a drop of 20%. we are very close to reaching those levels at the end of 2018. close. thank goodness we didn't get there. but today's jobs number given that we saw a big miss. only 20,000 jobs in the month of february. 180,000 expected. this has investors concerned because bull markets usually don't last 10 years. we are here in the final stages, according to a lot of investors and these global growth concerns whether it's slowing in china, europe, people are concerned that it will come here to the u.s. at some point and end this bull market run that we're still in the middle of. charles? >> thank you very, very much. the question now is who gets credit for this 10 year bull run? president trump or former president obama? let's ask our market analyst gary with us, rebecca wallser and scott martin. gary, who gets the credit? >> under obama, i give the credit. under trump, i give trump and the tax cuts and the regul

enough money, he might then have margin calls and have to sell the stock >> news just out for united health it is changing how it hangdss rebates. the drugmakers give to insurers. the company will require new employer clients to pass those rebates on to the patients who take the medications this policy will apply to kbrsz that sign new contracts after january 1st, 2010. although existing clients will be able to keep their current setups you mean after 2020? it's already past -- >> i believe 2020. >> yeah, 2020. anybody who signs one after 2020 on this, and obviously, this is going after what the administration has been trying to crack down on who is getting all of those rebates? if you don't pay list price. maybe it's a way to try and derail the administration or congress from taking stricter steps to say that you can no longer pass those rebates on it has to be a list price that goes to everybody. >> and mark your calendars this is going to be interesting. apple announcing a press event on march 25th. we will see. a lot of people waiting to see different programming and production on a num

united health, part of the health care sector that continues to take a lot of hits.mont mining reportedly saying no to a takeover offer. that was up a little bit as well. haidi: you mentioned salesforce falling because of the revenue forecast. su: both profit and sales came in just weaker than expected. let's go into the way it is trading after-hours. initially, there were some positive moves in the stock. we have seen it down almost 4%. of its low after-hours, but really a hit. if you look at the big picture, one year charts, year to date, you can see the climb has been astronomical. this stock was at a record, many of its rivals at a record. he really saw the boom in cloud. shery: su keenan, thank you. joining us now is agon asset management chief micro strategist frank. great to have you with us. su was telling us how u.s. stocks failed to stay above the 200 day moving average when it comes to the s&p 500, despite the fact we have a continuously dovish fed and potentially more problems in the u.s.-trade talks -- why did we see this plunged today? was this another

number of unique mental health clients in treatment, the percentage of new mental health clients that are homeless, total unitsof mental health services provided, mental health services patients under 19, the number of unique substance abuse clients in treatment, the percentage of homelessness clients among substance abuse treatment admissions, and the total units of substance abuse treatment services provided, and we'll also be looking at program measures, measures that are specific to programs, including crisis residential services, long-term care residential services and out patient services, and under substance abuse measures, we'll be looking at narcotic replacement treatment, residential services and outpatient services. and finally, in our reports, you'll be seeing iif impact opportunities, and the way that we're going to be going about this is we're going to be looking at high impact budget impact opportunities by soliciting ideas from department staff, reviewing recent audit recommendations that address these issues, and reviewing last year's budget priority reports for previously recommends enhanceme

united. >> get big money out of health care. and lobbyists out of washington. we need big money out of washington. rep. o'rourke: i agree with you. not only do we not take any pac money, or any lobbyist money, but if we are going to be successful on all the things we are talking about, we will have to get out of our governments altogether. our government has been corrupted by the special interests who buy the election. anything, confronting climate change, universal health care. partnering with rural america. it will take people, not corporations. >> how do we preserve jobs? iowa has 10% of people that feel like we do good work. there is a lot of fraud and other issues. people are very ill. how do we balance the private sector and the jobs with health insurance and so forth? rep. o'rourke: one of the things we just talked about is the bill introduced by two congress people. it allows those who have employer-based insurance to keep employer-based insurance. it ensures that americans who have insurance and those who do not can immediately enroll in medicare and s

let's take a look at today's winners and losers united health up 1.25% apple a big winner home depot,d visa all driving some of the growth today. on the dow on the other hand, the laggards as you might expect, boeing is the leader on this front or the loser as the case may be, down 6.45% united tech, 3m, jp more began chase and caterpillar with the laggards for the day wilf >> thank you very much and the fact that boeing is weighing down the performance of the dow clear to see here. of the four, the s&p up .2%. the dow down about 0.4%. all the indices with selling in the last half an hour or so. the high on the day of the s&p just higher than half a percentage of gains. now the nasdaq leads the challenge and plays out looking at the sectors and the boeing impact industrials are worst performing sector consumer staples also in the red but only just. communication services and technology up. hence the outperformance of the nasdaq health care leads the pack up 0.6% just going to show you the british pound intraday, as well. lower and recovered off the lows the main reason for that not so

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coca-cola, 3m and united health all up each more than 2.5% the white house, meantime, unveiling the budgety. eamon javers has the details eamon? >> reporter: hi, morgan. here are the top line numbers. $4.75 trillion overall this year the defense spending would increase nearly 5% under the budget proposal. nondefense discretionary, everything else that the government chooses to spend money on each year, cut by nearly 5%. there is border wall funding in there. 8.6 billion for border wall construction 1.9 trillion in savings overall from programs including some of the social safety net programs of medicare and medicaid over 15 years. over 15 years. white house says that the budget would balance. now, it was expected that this budget would be dead on arrival on capitol hill and speaker of the house nancy pelosi confirmed that in a statement just a short time ago she said, the cruel and shortsighted cuts in president trump's budget request are a road map to a sicker, weaker america. guys, i can tell you that we had the acting director of omb out in the white house press briefing room saying tha

stock over the past 10 years, apple, followed up by something a little surprising, boeing also united health and visa all up 1,000% and more, during that period. now this bull market has taken place under two presidencies and the gains under obama as you see with the green line, extended by president trump, with his business-friendly tax cuts and also deregulation. president trump: the economy is very very strong, if you look at the stock market over the last few months its been great, and certainly since my election its up getting close to 50% the stock market so we're obviously very happy with that. >> but you see bull markets don't usually lack 10 years and the sharp drop in december shows there are investor concerns questioning when the good times will end. february's disappointing jobs report really didn't help as a slowdown in the rest of the world might be starting to weigh on the u.s. , so two important things to watch for this year, for the markets at least, interest rates which affects pretty much every aspect of the u.s. economy and trade talks between the world tosses two largest

woke up to news that the trump justice department is once again launching an assault on health care in the united states of america. the republicans want to take away health care from tens of millions of americans again. the republicans want to impose what would be effectively an age tax on americans between 50 and 64, forcing a dramatic increase in premiums, co-pays and deductibles. once again, the republicans want to strip away protection for americans with pre-existing conditions. they simply cannot help themselves. this was the defining issue of the 2018 mid-term elections. we embrace this fight. because house democrats were given the majority in order to defend health care on behalf of evidence americans and that is what we are doing. later on this afternoon, chairman frank pallone, chairman bobby scott as well as other members of the house democratic caucus, including chairman richard neal will be introducing legislation to strengthen the affordable care act. that legislation will protect americans with pre-existing conditions. our legislation will expand access to health care coverage. whi