| The KUIK Market Update for Wednesday, December 11: | |||||||
| Markets are down. | |||||||
| Index | Direction | Change | Units | Last | Time | Change | |
| Dow | Down | (65) | points | 15,908 | 8:06 AM | ||
| S&P500 | Down | -0.46% | percent | 1,794 | (8.33) | ||
| Nasdaq Composite | Down | -0.46% | percent | 4,042 | (18.74) | ||
| 30 Year Treasury | Up | 2 | Basis Points | 3.85 | Annual Yield | ||
| House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray reached a deal to set spending levels for the next two years and replace some automatic budget cuts. The agreement heads off the threat of a government shutdown next month. The House and Senate will still need to approve the deal, which sets federal agency spending levels at $1.012 trillion for the current fiscal year. | |||||||
| Figures released by the Department of Health and Human Services show that HealthCare.gov enrolled approximately 110,000 new consumers in health plans last month, more than four times that of the almost 27,000 signed up during October, as the troubled website started to work out the troubles it had from its launch Oct. 1. However activity slowed on both the federal and state marketplaces. Nearly 27 million unique users accessed HealthCare.gov and the state websites in October, but slowed to roughly 12.2 million in November, a drop of 54%. Calls to the various service centers dropped to 2.1 million from 3.2 million, falling by a third. | |||||||
| Serving the West Side first, I am Bill Roller of BR Capital for AM 1360 KUIK. | |||||||
| http://www.marketwatch.com/story/murray-ryan-reach-two-year-us-budget-deal-2013-12-10 | |||||||
| http://blogs.marketwatch.com/health-exchange/2013/12/11/behind-obamacare-figures-sign-ups-quadruple-but-web-traffic-drops/ | |||||||
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