Percent. Shanghai stocks down by close to 1 a decline of more than nine tenths in europe there have been some green arrows the dax is up by. 2 the cac is up by a quarter percentage points. Stocks up in italy, spain and london crude oil prices which ended last week just shy of 59 a barrel, check this out right now, down by about 44 cents. Still, wti trading above 58 at 58. 51 a barrel. Now this morning the big news of the day. Publisher meredith buying time, inc. , for2. 8 billion thats the price meredith will pay 18. 50 for time, inc. It publishes wellknown magazines such as time, peopl people. Meredith received 650 million a lot of people raising questions about what this means. Raising 650 million in backing from the billionaire Koch Brothers, charles and david koch are widely known for supporting conservative causes. They say the magazine business is a good investment in the press release koch industry says it will not have any seat on merediths board and will have no influence or e
To every Single Person here, please do not take your eye off the ball, the importance of our legislative seats, whether you are talking about Voting Rights or a womans right to Reproductive Health care, the right to form a union and collectively bargain, it starts at the state level. [applause] for those of you who as we move into 2018 and look at how you can make a difference, if there arent enough people running for the statehouse or the state senate, sign up and run, you need you. And it is also, the importance of state service and what we do that makes me so glad amelia won her award, thank you, thank you, thank you. And i also just want to congratulate and say a special word about my friend joe foster. Somewhere almost 15 years ago i was knocking on doors in New Hampshire the night before the 2002 election and my phone rang and it was joe on the other end of the phone and joe was wishing me well and hoping for my success. A call he didnt need to make at a busy time for all of us.
The Judiciary Committee will coom to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the federal bureau of investigation. Ill recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Thank you, director wray, for appearing for the first time in front of this committee and thank you for your service to our country in your new position. There is much to discuss today, and we look forward to your answers. The president recently tweeted that the fbi is in tatters. While some will take umbrage with President Trumps assertion, it does appear to me that at the very least the fbis reputation as an impartial, nonpolitical agency has been called into question recently. We cannot afford for the fbi, which has traditionally been dubbed the premier Law Enforcement agency in the world, to become tainted by politicization or the perception of a lack of evenhandedness. Questions regarding the fbis imparti
Today, number two, 60 million worth of bitcoins were stole from a Bitcoin Wallet. Bitcoin is not immune to hackers and once they are gone, you cant get them back, think about that. Politics, senator franken will make a statement on the senate floor today, lost support of most fellow democrats, will he resign, dont know. Will he respond to Sexual Harassment charges against him, we dont know that either. When he speaks, you will see and hear it. Veterany company is about to Varney Company is about to begin. Note stuart lets get right to it. Story of the day, Southern California wild fires, ashley, what do we have . Brutal santa ana winds which would fan the flames from fires, now the National Weather say not quite as bad, gusty but not 80 miles an hour. They had to shut down with 101 freeway. Thats the ventura freeway, they cut it down, essentially cutting off northbound traffic from heading to santa. Barbara a from ventura. You can see northwest of downtown los angeles, four major fires
Incredible slide for these shares which are down 50 this year. Thats going to take a very long time, a lot longer than people thought this is a broken growth story for sure they do 80 of their business in north america. Thats where the challenges are. Thats not actually surprising nike has had problems with north america. Everybody is having problems with north america, but youve got to the find companies that can have offsets nike does, so under armour, not only do they have north america exposure but they have product issues, right, all the performance stuff. They dont have lifestyle, thats going to take some time its still expensive because numbers keep coming down even though the stock prices come down, numbers are coming down pretty big time what plank said, we look to close out 2017 do not expect these conditions to improve, he said. Visibility is poor. Right, and youre hoping that kevin has thrown in the kitchen sink here. Do you go and buy this stock here absolutely not because