Shopping day in u. S. History. Consumers bargain hunting on their computers, their phones, whatever. That brightened the outlook for the long suffering Retail Sector thats been beaten, bruised, battered all year long. The biggest player in online retail, of course, is amazon. And today its shares briefly rose above 1200 apiece. They close slightly below as you see right there. Human workers at its Fulfillment Centers toiled like caffeine crazed elves. Reporter it was a record breaking weekend for online sales and shoppers arent done yet. Cyber monday is forecast to be the Biggest Online sales day in the u. S. Hitting more than 6. 5 billion by some estimates. Above last year, though still just a fraction of alibabas singles day in china which tops 25 billion. And when asking consumers where they were shopping online today, one site is king. Yes, amazon. Amazon. Ive already bought something. Amazons online dominance is likely to swell on key shopping days. Some say amazon may have gotten
Majority leader walk into a bar. Okay, clearly thats an inappropriate joke, because there is no bar. There is just the white house. But those are just some of the reported names being thrown around for the folks meeting there this morning. Sometimes by those very folks about each other. And whether or not they get along this morning could determine the success or failure of the president s first year in office. President trump lunches with the Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, a man he criticized for months, ask a man against whom his former chief strategist just essentially declared political war. So theyll have a lot to talk about this morning. In addition to tax cuts. Also this morning, the president sits down with his cabinet, including his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, fresh off his precedentsetting interview with jake tapper, where he refused to deny calling the president a moron. But he did confirm he still has his, well authority. Cnns joe johns is at the white hous
What we read, were probably now, i think, at least as far as im concerned, closer than ever before. And the relationship is very good. Were fighting for the same thing. Well, that was today. Again, this is the same Mitch Mcconnell hes been slamming who leads the very same gop makers he was criticizing just two hours earlier today. And im not going to blame myself, ill be honest. They are not getting the job done. Weve had health care approved, and then you had a surprise vote by john mccain. Weve had other things happen, and theyre not getting the job done. That criticism came in reaction to his former chief strategist and his pledge to primary republican incumbents next year. Yeah, mitch, the donors are not happy. Theyve all left you. Weve cut your oxygen off, mitch. Even as the president echoed bannon credit seek, he also seemed to be looking ahead to his lunch with the establishment majority leader. He seems to be trying to have it both ways. There are some republicans, frankly, tha
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