Of a bullish streak. Seems the trump trade rally continues. As for his behind what strengthened the dow, visa, ibm and nike. Please has been upgraded visa has been upgraded, saying they have an attractive Business Model and nike is up its most in more than one week, so nice strength for these names. Finally, not concerned with the risk on picture, when we take a look at the global commodity function, this is called loco. Lots of bread. To the great, we would like to see confirmation of the commodity complex with derisk on in growth to the strength we see in stocks but not quite seen it come interesting that we see the dollar is down mark. Abigail, we will take it from here. A look at european markets in the moment, but we want to look at the dow passing 20,003 joining us on the phone from new york is wall street veteran laszlo, founder and president , thank you. What is the significance to you, this barrio is preached on the dow jones . Laszlo they will sell a lot more newspapers. Hist
Get the allusion of flexibility. They will get Higher Energy costs. Businesses are going to have to find ways to pay for their own higher bills, because it will not just be families when they turn on the light switch that will get a higher electric bill. Electricity rate will necessarily skyrocket. Businesses will have to find ways to pay for their higher layingcosts, which means people off, passing on the cost to others. Chamber of the u. S. Commerce says that an aggressive policy targeting coalfired power plants will be to less disposable income for families and thousands of jobs lost. Families have less disposable income, thousands of jobs lost, we just learned last week that the economy shrank by 1 in the last quarter. The United States economy shrank. It is the first time in years that the economy shrank by 1 . The first time it happened since since it happened in 2011. Our labor force is the same as when jimmy carter was president. The Obama Administration wants to put more ameri
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For the discussion. Everyone was positive in general about the progress made at nato. And some of the challenges we face externally. But, of course, some of the challenges internal to the alliance were not discussed as much. And i thought, perhaps, bob can put you on the spot a bit and talk about one of those which is in turkey, was a surprise that the turkish government decided to open negotiations with a chinese firm to provide missile capabilities. Could you comment on where you see that going, whats the latest status is and the u. S. Government perspective is on that. Well, the u. S. Government perspective is quite clear and that is our good allies, the turks, should acquire a system thats nato and operable. If that were true before ukraine, i think its true in space given the ukraine. So heres a case where the turkish government had a set of metrics to influence a cooperation, a competition. And somehow nato operatability wasnt on that list. And i have a feeling that even the capa