Cap 40 up. 5 . Lets have a look at your commodity space. This is where the route has really been. We see copper driving higher spending much of that fear about tiny slowdowns. Maybe just the time weve seen enough of a selloff now. Time to get back into commodities. Up we go in terms of copper. Oil continuing on its downward trajectory. This is of course, in a bear market. All are downward will that play into the u. S. s decision later today . You have china continuing to slow its show its slowdown. Shakes it off, and you look at total. It is the second biggest oil player in eour europe manages to keep pretty flat. Why . How is ths tock dr this stock at driving higher . That has gotten far more profitable. They are bringing more oil out of the ground. Therefore t they are weathering that storm. Copper has been on a downward straight. Off by. 25 . Firsthalf copper down, gold output down this is all about delayed commissioning. Meanwhile, i leave you with barclays. Still looking to make m
Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing, is how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the past two years that our country faces more serious complex security challenges now than we have faced before. The hearings and briefings we have held on the current state of our military have been disturbing. The administrations budget request of 603 billion for base requirements is 6 above the 17 enacted level and 3 above the last Obama Administration Budget Proposal. Its 37 billion below what this committee assessed last fall was needed and 58 bi
Terrific. He started over 50 years with admiral arley burk and to years we were at 18th and k, and less opulent surroundings to sale the least. Thats putting it mildly. We would have doing this book talk in basement with no windows and would never heat gotten here with pture an and to have the james James Kitfield here whos wherein another remarkable book. You know his bio. One of the best, best military reporters to ever work in this town. He is one of the best authors. He has the respect of the people that he interviews and writes about, and the respect of his readers and the respect of fellow journalists. Thank you for saying that. And certainly of the policy community, who consider him to be someone of just impeccable talent and character, and we have all learned quite a lot from James Kitfield over the years. The book is terrific, and i know that all of you, the holiday are coming up so dont buy one, buy two. For those of you at home who are watching on the webcast or cspan, theyr
Here. Ive been through it. Weve talked about it on the news. We want to focus on, obviously, pennsylvania, where Hillary Clinton, according to your poll, leads donald trump 49 to 38 . Not anymore. Yes, and we will get to that. Well get to that. You see the sampling error there. And well just throw out some more information. Here are some subgroups of where theres big support between the two candidates. Big lead with clinton with white women in pennsylvania, and, after that, we will also see that the unfavorability of both candidates is pretty high, but clinton is 52 . Trump is 62 , trump 10 points higher in that. Whats the Biggest Surprise that youve found in all of this . Well, i think the Biggest Surprise was that, for the clinton campaign, its all about the southeast. Its all about the four suburban counties and philadelphia. 1 3 of the vote comes out of 5 counties. Think about that for a minute. And she leads there. And she leads there. And the race has narrowed considerably. We ca