First. Based on numerous polls and august the data we have from on the ground. One solidly g. O. P. State has been leaning g. O. P. Column right there in the center of the column indiana. Home state of the Vice President ial republican nominee and Current Governor mike pence there are also two, that move from the leaning g. O. P. Column into tossup territory. Iowa, which actually has moved back and forth quite a bit this cycle and maines second congressional district. Remember, maine is one of the states that breaks up this electoral votes rather than awarding them all to a single candidate. So, where does that leave the map overall . Well, 270 remember is the number one of these candidates needs. The dark red states, those considered solidly g. O. P. They account for 98 votes. Lighter pink states leaning republican and this time that includes texas. They total 76 votes. Adding those together, we put 174 votes in the trump column. The tossups, those are the yellows that are scattered a
First. Based on numerous polls and august the data we have from on the ground. One solidly g. O. P. State has been leaning g. O. P. Column right there in the center of the column indiana. Home state of the Vice President ial republican nominee and Current Governor mike pence there are also two, that move from the leaning g. O. P. Column into tossup territory. Iowa, which actually has moved back and forth quite a bit this cycle and maines second congressional district. Remember, maine is one of the states that breaks up this electoral votes rather than awarding them all to a single candidate. So, where does that leave the map overall . Well, 270 remember is the number one of these candidates needs. The dark red states, those considered solidly g. O. P. They account for 98 votes. Lighter pink states leaning republican and this time that includes texas. They total 76 votes. Adding those together, we put 174 votes in the trump column. The tossups, those are the yellows that are scattered a
Also some tech m a. Oracle buying netsuite for 9. 3 billion in cash. That makes it the second biggest acquisition ever. Thats behind the 10 plus billion dollar acquisition just over ten years ago. Just had a conversation with people familiar with oracle speaking on this and i was wondering right now because larry and his Family Organization connected to him own about 40 of netsuite. This deal looks more expensive than oracle has been paying for cloud acquisition. So why do this now . It turns out if you look at what oracle has been up to over the past couple of years, they have been building out cloud infrastructure. Paying a lot of money for the Data Center Resources needed to become the Cloud Company that they want to be. They needed to get there before they could do this netsuite deal and make it flow and work and create the company and similar to if youre building out hotels you need to build the hotels before you can have the tenants actually make money. Thats something behind thi
Welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. All three major averages in the red. Nasdaq lower for the first time in four sessions. Among the biggest losers on the nasdaq 100, activision. Ty. Welcome everybody. Im tyler mathisen. Shares of hain celestial, an accounting probe. Much more on this story straight ahead. Were seeing a big move in oil once again. Crude touching its highest level in a month or so, back above 46 a barrel. And a Trump Campaign shooting down reports that former fox news chief roger ailes is advising the Trump Campaign specifically on debate preparation. The New York Times reported earlier today that the two were working together ahead of the president ial debates. Michelle. Tyler, i am michelle carusocabrera, and we begin power lunch with another big blow to obamacare. One of the nations Largest Health insurers is pulling out in all but four states. Cnbcs Bertha Coombs is working that story for us. She joins us with the details. Bertha. Michelle, its a sharp reversal
The docket. Releasing weekly report on mortgage applications. Thats coming at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. Then at 10 00 a. M. Look for july existing home sales which are forecast to drop nearly 1 after rising more than 1 back in june. Form suit Pharmaceutical Company agreed to sell part to pfizer. That deal involves three already approved antiboy yachtics. You may remember has rejected 118 billion dollar off back in 2014. Check on the market this is morning. Mostly flat. Europe was a bit higher. Started out as a positive session yesterday after europe did pretty well. Moderated gains. Up a little yesterday, the dow. Futures were up. The ftse is the only one down now. Germany, france, italy and spain all trading higher. Not much happening in asia. Shanghai staying above 3,000. For a while we were worried about what was going to happen in the shanghai market. Then oil, which, in my mind if it stays between 40 and 50, i dont see how that gets correlated to Everything Else in the world. It wa