Beating. And it stood. It cant keep doing this. Somebodys going to take advantage, and i think theres a lot of people that want to take advantage of this time, and if we dont heal ourselves we will fall. Lincoln was right. It wont come from the outside. It will have to be national suicide, and i think the outside hitting us, when were so divided, national suicide. Host it is about islam. The name of glenn becks latest book. This is booktv on cspan2. Now on booktv, michael oren talks about his year at israels ambassador to the United States and shares his reflections on the arab spring and the israelipalestinian Peace Process. [inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Good afternoon. Thank you for your patience. Im suzanne call, the director of events and program at the store, and on behalf of our owners and staff id like to welcome you to politic and prose. Please turn off or sigh veins your cell phones and after the event we ask you leave your chair, and youre welcome to stay. We have
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The decline for the month of july state in place, down 6. 8 , durable goods for the month of july. Not much of an influence on major averages. Small the clouds for the now, s p 500 and nasdaq. We are looking at declined. The s p 500 is on pace for its first down day in seven as there are increased tensions between north korea in particular. The last times we saw as tensions with north korea in the month of august stocks initially sold off and recovered. Not necessarily on the day, but shortly thereafter. Turning to one boost for major averages, energy. The s p 500 index, up about 6 10 of 1 , getting a tailwind from oil, up nearly 3 . This is taking some of the movers come a Companies Trading higher including baker hughes, je ge along with halliburton. The worst sector is financials. Yields,eing dragged by down six basis points. Bonds ares that rallying. In addition to having modest declines for stocks, we have investors going toward some of the Asset Classes including bonds along with
Can you even imagine . Well, it was pretty dramatic back then. Back then, i was anchoring for the old Financial News network, and on that day is that ron burgundy no look who that is that is a very young paul tutor jones. Oh, my goodness. This is back when paul used to take my phone calls call me again, paul. Wed love to talk again. Anyway, he was on the floor i love that stache. Talked about what happened, what was going on, what he was thinking. Did you lose the stache after the lets see, that was in 87. I lost the stache around 88 or 89 yeah wasnt long after that. Not too late to bring it back. I think it is by the way, paul tutor jones is lauded for having kind of foreseen that drop was happening. Let me tell you, i mean, we were friends back then he was a very still is very, very smart trader. He came up out of memphis trading cotton futures. Wow and hes very savvy trader. Very, very savvy trader. I mean, no surprise that hes had the kind of success he has had. Anyway, were going
Technology investors with these kinds of gains after stellar earnings last night . It was unbelievable. Weve got a story on that coming up in just a moment here. You guys had your hands full. It was a rollicking hour, i hear it was. Meantime, a rollicking deal through the health care space. Cvs is pursuing a major deal to buy aetna and former aetna ceo john rowe will join us in a cnbc exclusive to discuss what that bid could mean. What a fascinating story that is cant wait to talk to john about is. Also look at oil today, trading higher, brent is back to 60 a barrel and wti is at an eightmonth high however, chevron is falling. Whats behind the move and whether this is a buying opportunity or not well talk about that coming up in a little bit later. Is pretty sharp moves in oil today. Lets go back to the big rally in tech stocks, thanks to strong earnings from a trio of tech giants. Deirdre bosa is all over amazons results for us. Josh lipton covering alphabet. Jon fortt is covering mic