It was like five sessions between 25,000 and the zeseventh trading sessio. From january 4th to yesterday is when we saw the 1,000 point move in the dow oil breaking, which is a weird Reason Energy stocks came down as a result just the idea lets hold off for a second nevertheless, with all of that, the s p 500 still remains on pace for its biggest monthly gains since march of 2016. The nasdaq is still on its biggest monthly gain since july of 2016. Look at what happened overnight in asia, you will see the nikkei was down by a third of a percentage point back to this morning sorry, flipflop back to this morning, you are look at double digit gains or triple digit gains once again for the dow. This comes after last night the nikkei down by a third of a percentage point hang seng and shanghai stocks both ended higher bay quarter percentage point in europe, where you see the early trading this morning, you will see at this hour theres a bit of weakness. Dax is down by 0. 2 . Ftse down about
Intercept. Were going to tell you what happened during 24 harrowing minutes in the air. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following multiple breaking stories this hour, including another menacing advance in north koreas Weapons Program and its goal of striking the United States. The defense secretary confirming that a Ballistic Missile fired toward japan just hours ago flew higher than any previous launch by kim jonguns regime. Tonight, President Trump says hes taking the north korea situation very seriously, promising, and im quoting him now, we will take care of it. Also breaking, the president says hell blame democrats if theres a Government Shutdown after the senate and House Minority leaders bailed on a meeting with him. Chuck schumer and nancy pelosi pulled out of the talks after mr. Trump slammed them on twitter and declared that he didnt expect to reach a bipartisan deal. Also tonight, pe
It this is cnn breaking news. All right. Woll, thank you so much. Well take it from here. Im brooke baldwin. Well continue this coverage out of north korea where the reporting is north korea has fired a Ballistic Missile and it is still in the air. This is what we are getting from the south korea joint chiefs of staff. Lets work with what we know who is on the phone for us. I know its in the middle of the night for you in hong kong there. But ivan, tell me what exactly is south korea saying about this . Reporter we have a preliminary statement coming out of joint chiefs of staff confirming there is a unified Ballistic Missile fired from south pyongyang to the east. And we still dont know anything further about the nature of this missile, the range of it. What is striking of this is its coming after a pause of nearly two montshs where they havent fired anything. What has me scratching my head is the timing of it. If you go back they were firing these missiles for almost weekly basis but
broke is because they signed him up for obamacare while he was in the emergency room. that s the kind of thing the republicans are trying to stop letting happen for americans. if the tax bill does move forward, do you expect them to somehow soften or strip this out? or do you think it s what they want in there? i think it is what they want in. there they ve been wanting to take away coverage for people since the last year, well, cynic it passed but they ve been focused on it day in and day out. what is senator collins going to do? she has said that she needs alexander murray to pass. which stabilizes the margaret place and administration it even stronger. she has said that collins nelson needs to pass. this gives more money to make sure that people who are sick do not cause a big strain on the system. what we know is neither of these are really up for consideration.