Ashley, kick it off with you. Ashley why not, million listsa welcome back, connell. Hopes for a new come from mize stimulus bill and decent Economic Data has to be said helped push major markets higher in the session. We lost some steam in the final hour. What about the final minutes . More money came back in even though we know Congress Continues to wrangle over the relief bill. The dow, s p, nasdaq finishing the day as you can see on the upside. The dow up 328 points. S p up nearly 1 . The nasdaq gaining 3 4 of a percent right at the closing bell. Not bad. By the way we should mention apple, almost, i say almost reclaimed it is two trillion dollar market value gaining more than well, 1 1 2 in the end, about a buck 1 2 short of that landmark level. We should point out apple is up 27 for the Third Quarter. Not too shabby. As for the month of september, a historically weak month we know that for stocks. That kind of proved to be the case with all the Major Exchange losing ground. The do
And Andrew Ross Sorkin well start with the markets this morning as the nasdaq logged another record high nasdaq now on an eightday win streak the longest since december last year watching u. S. Equity futures today. There is a pull back the dow is indicated down 265 appointments s p off by 28 and nasdaq down by 50 the nasdaq has seen its best quarter since 1999 and the dow the best since 1987. Check out the s p, for this quarter, s p is up for its best returns it has seen since 1975 looking at the treasury yields this morning youll see the 10year note yielding 0. 7005. That is kind of our comfort zone pretty comfortable if you need to borrow money for sure. The u. S. Is weighing some new tariffs on experts in this case from france, germany, spain and uk related to the 15year old wto fight over aircraft subsidies. Saying the eu is guilty of unfair subsidies to airbus the u. S. Has been accused of unfair subsidies to boeing, negotiations have been at a stalemate. Andrew thank you, joe in
And minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Poe, for five minutes. Mr. Poe thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the president , quote, avoid the battle, complains, and misses opportunities. Those were the words of leon panetta president obamas former secretary of defense and c. I. A. Director in 2011. At the time panetta, along with military commanders and joint chiefs of staff, recommended that the United States leave 24,000 troops in iraq to prevent that country from falling apart and becoming chaos. According to panetta the administration was so eager to rid itself of iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve american influence in our interests. So the president ignored the advice of his own secretary of defense and top commanders and pooled troops out of iraq in 2011. The timing just before the 2012 president ial leaks to me appe