Indonesia rattles the nickel market. We will bring you Investor Insights from the top analyst in sydney. Markets gaining ground for the past six sessions. Lets turn to sophie. Green shoots for aussie shares after the best winning streak since may. This after Growth Stocks led gains on monday. We are seeing the backup and aussie yields, with the rise across the curve. The rba governor will give a speech today ahead of the policy decision. Ahead of fed and boj decisions,. He yen on the back foot flat, seeing futures waiting for signals from governor kuroda. A sense of overheating for japanese stocks, earnings making that trickier. We just got word on earnings, from thoseumbers reporting. , a fifth of firms will deliver the report cards ahead of the deadline by the end of the month. Lets head to new york for first word news. Thanks. Boris johnson will try tuesday to give parliament to allow an early election, after failing on monday to get the majority needed to push it through. He says h
Tonight on the reidout this is a dark time in america. We have a lot of problems. And were really, really hopeful and prayerful. Prayer is appropriate in a time like this. That the evil can end and the senseless violence can stop. Prayers but no actual plan from the new house speaker. Following yet another mass slaughter of human beings. This time, in lewiston, maine. Tonight, were learning more about the far right extreme views of speaker mike johnson, among other things hes an Election Denier and wants to ban abortion nationwide. And thats really bad for republicans heading into the next election. Plus, special counsel jack smith has had enough of trumps big mouth. But will a judge agree to smiths request to reimpose a Gag Order On Criminal Defendant Trump . But we begin tonight with yet another devastating mass killing in america. At 6 56 last night, just before we went on the air, Police Responded to a report of an active shooter at the sparetime recreation Bowling Alley in lewisto
We are dealing with an emerging infection. One of many emerging infections. I wrote a commentary a few years and thatmy colleague entitled it a perpetual challenge. The reason i did is because this is not ever going to go away. We will be continually challenged with emerging and reemerging infections. It is up to us as a society to build what we need to build to be prepared for this so we can respond. I will stop there and happy to answer questions. Thank you. [applause] [indiscernible] on tellingcomment congress what they should do with regard to their session. I can do is reiterate what i ,aid many times in briefings but members and staff over a period of a couple months say that we really do need the money. Activities we initiated early on, months ago, this vaccine put into Clinical Trials , did not all of a sudden start yesterday. The cdc has a working for months on thanks. Will we both did is we took money from other accounts that we would normally be spending on of the important
S p 500 above 2100. Above a level that some traders have been talking about. 18,000 for the dow. All three major averages moving to the highs of the session. The highest that we have seen. Jones industrial average , last may is when the dow hit its record. 1. 1 . Nly off about the s p, around the same so we are getting closer to reachieving that record for both of those averages. The nasdaq, little further away. Todays session, energy has turned around and is the best performing group in the s p 500. Up about three quarters of 1 . Health care is gaining. We have Consumer Staples being pulled lower in part by earnings from coke. I wanted to look at other earnings movers that are not quite the biggest names but still important ones to mention. Textron coming out with earnings that Beat Estimates. The company saying bell little changed in terms of sales but its growth in industrial Aviation Industrial and aviation that did better than estimated. The chipmaker coming up with earnings that
Are descendents of one of the people im going to be talking about today. Kentucky has been extremely well served with ben as executive director of the kentucky humanities council, and i want to thank him for sharing some of the anecdotes im going to use today. Finally, i want to thank chris and thend fred karam professors who have contributed in one way or another not only to my remarks today but to a series of speeches ive been doing on prominent kentucky senators over the past couple years. Are here to discuss the lives and intersecting careers of three men. Two of these three men helped define kentucky politics for much of the 20th century. Both serving as governor and as senator. Both were intensely and ambitious men both rose from modest origins. Both were democrats born in western kentucky. Both were accomplished athletes in their youth and fine coaches thereafter. Both had a gift for remembering names and faces. Intro kentucky style, these two men carried on a feud that literall