Big tech which could mean tariffs on french goods and services. And the u. S. Has just weeks to the task is proven near impossible. Impossible. Ear shery equity markets near record highs with the s p 500 at one point top and 3000 for the first time ever. Industrialsnd weighing on the index. The focus was entirely on chairman powells testimony in congress which suggested a july rate cut was on the table. Not to mention we got the minutes from the june meeting. That also showed a dovish turn. Followed that was factored into the markets in this session. Of course we are not done yet. Chair powell testifying again in Congress Tomorrow at the Senate Banking committee this time on thursday. And we also have the ecb minutes out not to mention u. S. Inflation numbers. For the time being, asia futures s p Futures Holding study. Lets get a check of how markets in asia are shaping up. Sophie this thursday asian stocks are eyeing modest gains after a move higher for u. S. Stocks. Broadly Holding G
These were footage from a Security Council meeting chaired by vladimir putin. In uganda, rospotrebnadzor specialists conducted a demonstration exercise for african colleagues on the operation of mobile antiepidemic laboratories. The event was held as part of the first russianafrican International Conference on the control of infectious diseases. Anna nemirovskaya has all the details. For 2 months , a russian mobile laboratory traveled by land from st. Petersburg to the capital of uganda, kampala, by sea. Two modules for testing dangerous infections, such as ebola, cholera, and yellow fever, are based on kamaz vehicles, which means they can travel long distances offroad. This is especially important. Because, for example, the last Ebola Outbreak in uganda was just in a remote area on the border with democratic republic of the congo. They have proven themselves to be excellent, in fact, in guinea. And this august will mark 10 years since the first delivery of such a laboratory to guinea.
Everyone here had their own skills, for example, fedya and kirill write code very well, in in principle, they will come up with a lot of ideas, i acted in the team as a mathematician, the guys are part of the National Sports programming team, they recently won the games of the future in kazan, as well as at the russian championship last year, all three of them became interested in it disciplines back in school reach heights despite the fact that they did not grow up in the capitals, krasnoyarsk, ivanovo and novoaltaisk. It exists in russia. A place like sirius, where you can come from any region, in Computer Science i was at sirius on the december shift, well, on shifts, which were in march, for the allrussian olympiad for schoolchildren, secondly, there is the internet, after all, all sources are open there, according to the coach , a unique system helped to beat beijing university in the finals, as well as students of the world famous Massachusetts Institute of technology and cambrid
Ceo will join us with a first on cnbc interview. It was really good. Breaking news from the white house. President trump about to discuss the Senate Health care bill. Kayla tausche has a detail and maybe some breaking news as well kayla . Reporter bill, we are expecting the president to make remarks from the blue room here at the white house in just about 15 minutes time but it comes as the white house and its cabinet agencies are trying to coalesce and put together a unified policy and a unified front in exactly what its stance is when it comes to health care. Of course, this as the senate is expected to vote this week on a procedural motion to proceed on the houses Health Care Bill its that sort of slate from which they can build, they can amend, they can potentially edit that as they see fit, but it is that motion to proceed that is going to come up this week im told by senior gop aides theres no date set for that just yet, but in terms of white house policy, a Senior Administration
Was a record day on wall street. Look at yesterdays close, 18,613, all three major averages, the dow, the s p and nasdaq hitting new highs, First Time Since december 1999. Futures searching for direction but we are headed off of the record performance yesterday. We are getting an important report, an important move for the consumer. We will bring you numbers. We are seeing mixed performance, the s p is better on the session. And weak data out of china, not a big statement on the average in japan, better than 1 , the shanghai in china up one and two thirds . A sneak peek at star wars rogue one. The infamous character set to rule the galaxy once again. All that series coming up on friday morning. Morgan ortega, barrons online editor, and harlan hill. Happy friday, we will see what the retail sales says. The Department Store rally is exciting, they have gotten destroyed 4 years. Maria peter king is with us, and doctor ben carson will join us, 32 advisers, from president obama to take us t