The markets. Ashley, first to you. Ashley well, guys as we say good riddance to september where all the major indexes posted a loss we embrace a new month but we havent come exactly flying out of the gates although green across the screen. The dow finishing slightly higher as you can see, about 1 10 of a percent after being down more than 100 points. S p up half a percent. But it was nasdaq showed the best performance of the new month up 1 1 2 . Like Charlie Brown with a rain cloud over his head investors are frustrated by congresss inability to agree on a new stimulus bill. With the markets going up and down with each competing headline from nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary and everybody else. As a result we saw stocks move for the most part today sideways in somewhat flat trading but as i mentioned the big tech stocks did manage to give the Broader Market some impetus. Amazon, microsoft, facebook, Alphabet Google all managed to make nice gains today which you can see gave the
They know nothing theyre hanging on every word from Speaker Pelosi or secretary mnuchin, watching Mitch Mcconnells body language. We need to know if cash strapped states and Small Businesses will get the help they need but the stock markets already made up its mind it doesnt matter. Thats how we can some solid action today nasdaq soaring, 1. 42 hall hey lielujah were starting to hear about huge layoffs, okay disney, smaller ones at goldman sachs. Possible avalanche of firings at the airlines these people are losing their jobses through no fault of their own, and i hope the government can get its act together to help them, because its the right thing to do. The broader economy needs a stimulus package, America Needs a stimulus package but the market, oh, man, the market doesnt see a recession it seems a secular boom in Certain Industries i know this because were starting to get earnings from defensive companies that would normally give shareholders huge windfalls. But theyre greeted wit
Big issues this issue in the United States its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on aljazeera. Hello and welcome again to rewind im Kemal Santa Maria when we launched aljazeera english more than 10 years ago our goal was to bring you the sorts of documentaries of a channel simply one doing here on rewind we revisit some of the best of them and find out how the stories of moved on and today were returning to a film which had a major impact on young lives and changed the way a Global Business was developing. Tourism it is one of the biggest drivers of the Global Economy in 2018 it was worth nearly 9 trillion dollars making up more than 10 percent of the worlds Gross Domestic Product after emerging from more than 2 decades of war in the 1990 s. Cambodia has relied heavily on tourism to rebuild its economy its one of the Top Destinations for young travelers many of whom sign up with global volunteering companies but theres a dark side t
Blake burman at the white house. We have Lauren Simonetti watching the market action. Edward lawrence reporting from washington at the but on this up and down day, lauren, we start with you. Lauren lauren its with up and down day. I had to look over to see if stocks finished the green. It is changing constantly. This is the new normal. Investors are totally unsure how to price in politics. Not just the expected turbulence around the election, but the future of stimulus. Stocks got a major stimulus from comments on treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin he and House Speaker nancy pelosi theyre going to keep talking about a new relief bill as House Democrats reportedly are ready to scale down a package of their own. Doesnt mean it is going to happen up investors like they are talking. We call it the mnuchin maybe, maybe. The s p 500 avoiding falling into correction territory, up, after the closing bell by just nine points. Yes, it is positive on the year by a whole 16 points, guys. Take a look
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