Good afternoon welcome to our seminar book talk and conversation it is a great pleasure to welcome back authors Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan the talks about russias exile to be to distinguish investigative journalist and authors of the red web of the governance of the internet and also of the new nobility with Russian Security services. So this is the third part of the trilogy and we are so excited that you are here with us today. We are filming this so go to the audience will ask you to identify your self and it is on the record in terms of a discussion. In terms of format we will start with general questions i will ask of our core authors and one coauthors and there are copies of the book that they will happily sign for you after the event. Welcome back, welcome to york but tell us about what motivated you to write this book at this particular point in time spin i thank you very much. Have to say you contributed a lot. But not with russian exile. So with the research in new york
And we got better than expected manufacturing data here in the u. S. , but the imf did lower its Global Growth forecast joining us for the hour is steve grasso from Stuart Frankel you know, we hit these highs earlier in the session didnt hold on to it for very long what do you make of todays action we didnt hear about impeachment. We didnt hear about china trade, really. We havent heard much about a lot of things, but we did hear mostly about were earnings so the market wants to get back to something that they can look at and say, its binary. Either services it was a win, it was a beat, they got it higher or lower and were going to run with the market there. Not enough to make new highs, but were on our way there with earnings, i would guess. It is interesting to look at companies fundamentals, actually push the trade headlines aside just a bit still hopeful, perhaps but let the day be run by earnings its true everybody has been run by macro lately so twothirds of all stocks trade with
House speaker blocked his bid for a monday vote. Its election day in canada. Prime minister Justin Trudeau looks to retain power but loses his parliamentary majority. Kathleen later on, Bloomberg Technology global link. We will discuss the bailout plan for wework as softbank is said to be taking control. We are taking a look at how u. S. Stocks ended today. A big day for the s p 500. A gain seven times of 1 . It gained to 7 10 of 1 . Over 3000. Importantly, it is getting close to its alltime high in july at 3025. 3006 on the s p 500. Nasdaq gaining 9 10 of 1 . Apple hit a new record. Pharmaceutical surging as they reach opioid settlements for thousands of complaint ands. The Dow Jones Industrial average lagging the other gains. 2 10 of 1 . 26,827. You. Can blame boeing. The second day you can blame boeing. The second day. When you stand back, and a lot of positive impetus today as more signs emerge that a trade war, even if it is a phase one deal which can be a sign between President T
Kangaroo court and star chamber, schiffs secret hearings conducted in secret. And white house internal politics not helping the president either. In fact undercutting the president and his agenda. Former National Security advisor john bolton encouraged fiona hill to go behind the president s back and contact instead a white house attorney rather than speak with the president himself over her concerns about the ukrainian investigations. For the latest on this store question we turn to catherine herridge. Catherine a source familiar with the matter tells Fox News Former White House russia advisor told white host house investigators that she and others became so alarmed by Rudy Giulianis efforts that they werent toize to eisen berks rg. Giuliani said of bolton, im disappointed in john. I received this evidence as part of my representation of the president. It is the origin of some of the false information against the president. House democrats scheduled a full week of impeachment depositi
Its back to 32 a share. Down 6. 58. Overall, the markets holding pretty steady as the profit reports roll in. In fact, id say stock prices are real solid and some of the profit reports, thats keeping the market at very high levels. No big pullback at this point. The dow industrials will open up about 40 this morning, s p up 6. By the way, the s p is only 22 points away from the alltime high. Whats that, just one big rally . The nasdaq, look at it go, up a half percentage point premarket. Big deal. Now let me lay out what we have for you. An important speech from Vice President pence on china. He may take a hard line. That could affect the market. And here comes amazon, perhaps the most important Earnings Report of them all. How strong is Consumer Online buying . Very important and we are going to find out today. Of course, we are going to watch apple hit new highs and unless something dramatic happens, we are hardly even going to mention impeachment. Here we go. Varney company is about