grilled by us lawmakers and legal peril for donald trump. soon a federal grand jury will hear testimony from the former president s own lawyer. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun hoover. and we begin with tip for tap air strikes in syria after a deadly attack on u. s personnel deployed to fight isis. the pentagon says it launched a retaliatory strike targeting a group affiliated with iran s revolutionary guard in the eastern part of the country that followed a drone attack on u. s forces in syria, killing a u. s contractor and wounding six other americans. let s bring in cnn s international diplomatic editor nic robertson live in london, nick what more are we learning? well this retaliatory strike on groups affiliated with the iranian revolutionary guard corps who are believed to be responsible for that drone strike that killed one contractor wounded five u. s servicemen and another u. s service contract to their this retaliatory strike is being called
200mileanhour winds and its heading right toward mexico. Were tracking this very dangerous situation. We begin with the rally on wall street with another big rally. This time its thanks to a rate cut by china and also some very good earnings right here at home. For the technicians out there, the dow, the s p, and the nasdaq have crossed above their 200 day moving averages with the s p now going positive for 2015 joining the nasdaq in that camp. The dow is still negative yeartodate. Were on watch for that as its up by 106 points right now. The s p is gaining by 0. 8 and the nasdaq is the clear winner, tech is leading the way up by nearly 2 for that index. Lets get more trading action this hour. Mary thompson from the nyse floor, but first Morgan Brennan, you have the big star at the nasdaq. I know. Its really the nasdaq has been soaring today, up almost 2 , 1. 9 , 94, almost 95 points to 5,014. This is First Time Since august 19th weve seen the nasdaq trading above 5,000. Thats when we
Postponed because of the economic shutdown. The jobs report is now due on tuesday. And investors are going gaga over google. The internet giant posts First Quarter earnings that easily beat forecast. So welcome to the first hour of worldwide exchange. Here we are, just an hour into the european session and around about 7 to 2. The ftse yesterday was just up 4 points. We close at 6,576. We saw the dow fairly flat. Thats giving us a bit more of a boost on the ftse. Up 0. 25 . The xetra dax up 0. 1r5 . Cac 40 up 0. 3 and the ftse mib is down 0. 1 . Google is posting its best Profit Growth in more than a year reporting earnings. But a full in the prices paid for each click. Google stock in frankfurt, up 7 . Angela merkel down 2 today. Its talking about Third Quarter copper production, which jumped 32 year on year. But the british based Multi National reported a full in iron ore output. Loreal is up nearly 2 . Its followed confirmation that the business is in talks to buy two of japans Fren