A coup against the ailing leader Robert Mugabe as a power struggle over his succession. And australians have backed gay marriage in a postal poll you organized by the government more than sixty percent said they were in favor of allowing same sex couples to marry and the government says it will introduce legislation to make it possible before the end of the year. One leaders have arrived at the Global Climate summit in the german city of bonn the a bid to add a final push to negotiations aimed at implementing the Paris Climate Accord delegates and politicians from more than one hundred ninety countries have been meeting to move ahead with the implementation the balance accord commits countries to curb Greenhouse Gas emissions from fossil fuel burning environmental campaigners have called in german chancellor Angela Merkel to freeze the use of coal by two thousand and thirty. Let me now join up Political Correspondent charlotte is tracking that story for us shot of the chancellor merkel
Aaas. Im charles dunlap, interim director for the is center of science policy and society programs. Our lecture this afternoon on the Opioid Epidemic is the second in the 2017 aaas Dana Foundation lecture series on neuroscience and society. Our first lecture this year on the brain and videogames was held in march and our third lecture in september will be on meditation. So please keep an eye out for the announcement date. The Dana Foundation is a private Philanthropic Organization that supports programs like this one. For the last five years, aaas has partnered with the Dana Foundation to present an annual lecture series. By my count, this is the 20th letter in the series. Were grateful for the Dana Foundations support of this series and for deborah runkles leadership of the series in our scientific responsibility, human rights, and law program. With that, deborah . Thank you, charlie, and welcome. It seems to me there 7 a day goes by that i dont see a story in the news about the opioi
Im wilfred frost. The longest winning streak for the dow and s p since february. The dow up about 0. 2 as is the nasdaq, the s p just behind that. Materials and utilities leading the gains while telecomes and financials the worst performers. Intuit, mattel and nrg Energy Better than expected earnings. Dupont is leading the dow on news there are changes to the dow dupont post merger plan. And ge around session lows following the presentation by the ceo jeff immelt, worried about the neglect it tiative im an accounting change. Here is what else is happening this hour. Five House Democrats are asking Deutsche Bank for information on president trumps alleged russian tries. Maxine waters and four others on the House Financial Services Committee Want to see any information the german bank may have on dealings the Trump Administration had with it. The nba says it will play the 2019 allstar game in charlotte, north carolina. This comes after the league moved this years game away to protest. An
Tight range for the moment. I would note that volume is down over the last average of the 20 days. Not a lot going on. Snp down. Nasdaq is down the most, 1 10 of 1 . It look at the nasdaq performance relative to the snp and dow. 17. Tv 82 massive runup here into the early months of june. A little bit of a drop off. Little gains here. Look at august. A lot of clustering. Not a whole lot going on. Put some could put some of his money back to work. Some of the drivers being mastec lower today. I will focus on amazon, down quite a bit. Almost down to 1 today. Julia chatterley in the last five minutes looked at it cutting prices. Approved the merger, amazon buying whole foods for 13. 7 billion. Quickly you see where they and the shares fall target rises. Down quite almost a bit. Earners, this company up 18 . Top and bottom line. Theyre forecasting fullyear sales ahead for the rest of the year that beat analyst estimates. Good news here from guest. Lia investors remain on at as donald trump
Tight range for the moment. I would note that volume is down over the last average of the 20 days. Not a lot going on. Snp down. Nasdaq is down the most, 1 10 of 1 . It look at the nasdaq performance relative to the snp and dow. 17. Tv 82 massive runup here into the early months of june. A little bit of a drop off. Little gains here. Look at august. A lot of clustering. Not a whole lot going on. Put some could put some of his money back to work. Some of the drivers being mastec lower today. I will focus on amazon, down quite a bit. Almost down to 1 today. Julia chatterley in the last five minutes looked at it cutting prices. Approved the merger, amazon buying whole foods for 13. 7 billion. Quickly you see where they and the shares fall target rises. Down quite almost a bit. Earners, this company up 18 . Top and bottom line. Theyre forecasting fullyear sales ahead for the rest of the year that beat analyst estimates. Good news here from guest. Lia investors remain on at as donald trump