Roosters president. Also a british iranian woman named cigar iraq that faces new charges of spreading propaganda against iran. Not everybody living in the street everybody live in india. And growing frustration on the greek island of les paul says refugees remain homeless all of europes largest migrant camp in turn to the ground. Starting in russia this millions a casting their ballots in a series of local elections on sunday i have those in members of the public local parliaments im sorry municipalities governors as well in different regions sunday will be the 3rd and final day of voting thats been held over several days due to the pandemic. So these elections held in a year ahead of parliamentary polls which means this will be seen as something of a referendum on president putins popularity the poisoning of russias main Opposition Leader alexina volleys also cause to shadow his supporters have been campaigning for candidates who will challenge the government in the elections 2nd time
Speaker pelosi says its absolutely absurdly unconstitutional. What will they do . Go to court to stop people getting the money . Right before an election . Good luck with that. The president s playing political hardball. 84 days to the election and again, the money will flow. Investors like it, by the way. Looking at the futures, the dow industrials will open this morning with a gain of about 100 points. The s ps going to be up about four. The nasdaq, up about 13 as we speak. The president s playing political hardball with china as well and beijing is responding. Jimmy li, a leader of hong kongs democracy movement, has been arrested under the new security law and china has imposed sanctions on u. S. Senators, including marco rubio and ted cruz. Now, that is escalation. Dramatic change may be coming to a mall near you. Amazons in talks with americas largest mall operator, Simon Properties simon group properties, to use some Department Stores as fulfillment centers. Amazon gets cheap spa
That was so controversial they forced a secret vote on whether to keep her in power, a vote cheney ultimately won by a lot. Meanwhile congresswoman greene who built her public reputation as a supporter of anti semitic Conspiracy Theories and straight up Political Violence she got the opposite treatment. Republicans publicly rallying around her after she reportedly apologized for some of her past statements. Democrats are not so forgiving. They are going to force a vote on the House Floor Today that could strip greene of her committee assignments. I want to start with Garrett Haake on capitol hill. What are we going to see with this vote today . Reporter some of that will depend on how congresswoman greene chooses to handle herself going forward. Ill be curious to see if the apology she made Behind Closed Doors to republicans is the kind of thing she might repeat on the house floor in public. We do expect this vote to go forward this afternoon stripping her of committee assignments. Dem
This is. Semisurge, theyre leading us to new highs. Yeah, and its been pretty interesting, scott, because this has been a much broader rally than i think a lot of the folks have talked about over the last couple of weeks, and part of it is its the semiconductors, thats one of the areas everybody looks at the big 5 theyre not looking at some of these other names. When you look at the smh, and you see where its trading now and near all time highs, it gives you a little bit of a sense of how much activity there is there, and continues to be there. We have seen so much in the unusual options side of things its been incredible across just about every name that you can imagine. So it certainly does stand out to me that thats been performing, along with biotech to the upside, and both of those, oftentimes youre going to see most of those names in the nasdaq, and thats part of the reason youre seeing some of this outperformance from the nasdaq is this the week that growth took the market back,
Versus value. We had the nasdaq earlier this week trading at record highs. We have not really seen the other indexes get back to those record highs. Wayrussell 2000 is a mild is a mile away from its record highs. Are you comfortable with this idea that we only have a relatively small cohort of companies and sectors pushing this market higher, or do you want to see broader participation . I think it helps make sense of the market action. Thinking through, where would you want to put capital to work . What is driving this vshaped recovery . I think it would be quite irrational given what is going on with the pandemic and the broader economy. Investorson here for is where do you put capital to work from here on out. These positions within technology, there are some unstoppable trends like digitization, cybersecurity, which are really interesting given the work from home environment. Some of that, we do believe would continue to move higher. An area that you like. That not just the fact th