Futures up by 253 points this comes after the dow was up yesterday by 230 points. The s p up by 27 points and then the nasdaq up by 92. The gains we saw yesterday were happening even though you continued to see pressure on yields in the treasury market. See how your Energy Prices and that did move stocks in the Energy Sector higher yesterday but again the idea that china is now basically confirming what President Trump was saying, things seem to sound better than they did last week for sure. Hearing both sides come out and make the arguments have been helping the futures this morning. They kind of said were not going to immediately match the new additional tariffs that he was right. So actually we would like existing tariffs to be going down. But both sides are willing to compromise and negotiate and thats a pretty significant deal. But it was their initial matching of the ones that he did. Yeah. Even though they really cant unless they raise the number they cant really match it anymor
If you oppose it, 202 7488001. You can weigh in on social media. You can also post a comment on facebook. Post has aington special section, 12 pages, where they get personal. They talk about the lives lost, many pictures of victims of Mass Shootings. Of deadly Mass Shootings in the u. S. Has accelerated. People represented here died between the sandy hook massacre in which 20 children and six adults were killed in 2012 and last weeks attack in dayton. They account for one third of those killed in Mass Shootings since 1966. Thatare making the point this is just between sandy hook and this past week. If you look further into this section, they break it down yearbyyear. They begin in 1966 with the university of texas tower shooting. They also put names to the pictures. They list the names of the People Killed since 1966. 54 years, 165 Mass Shootings, 1,196 victims. This is about 12 pages long. Congress iswhat going to be doing, support for gun control is rising, but there is a chance they
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are journalist and author, Yasmin Alibhai brown and former conservative advisor, mo hussein. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. The i leads on a story weve covered today borisjohnsons promise to expand stop and search powers. Drug lords are luring children as young as seven into crime, by offering them free food thats according to the metro. Bankerjob cuts make the front page of the financial times. It says almost 30,000 job losses globally have been announced since april. The telegraph reports on a government crackdown on social media which, the paper says, will see tech giants heavily fined for showing harmful videos. And the guardian reveals that hundreds of people deported from the uk were restrained by methods including shackles and belts. That information was provided to the newspaper after a freedom of information request. So, a varied set of front pages lets see what our
Merger deal with pfizers generics unit. And disney domination. The studio breaking an alltime record for annual box office earnings, and of course, it is only july. So, theres a lot for investors to digest this week with stocks at record highs. Jim, coming off of those on friday, you were out, but a lot happened good to have you back. Thank you the starbucks calls kind of the emblematic of what happened this quarter. Starbucks had run big. So you had to figure, no matter what, how could it really move then it goes up big dollars because its better than expected, better than feared what were seeing are companies that we were worried about because stocks have run, and then the stocks do okay. So, this is a short sellers dilemma. Lets say youve been betting against companies because you truly believe theres been an earnings deceleration. If earnings just stay in line, the stock flies. If earnings are a little bit below, the stock doesnt do anything. Right. So, theres just this kind of bid
maybe none of the above. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. we have eight months to go before the first presidential ballot of 2024 is cast. the conventional wisdom is we re headed for a rematch of 2020, this despite concerns that one candidate is too old and the other is morally unfit. which might explain why recent polls have revealed that americans don t want this rematch and there s dissatisfaction with both candidates. last month an nbc poll found that 70% of respondents said biden shouldn t run and 60% said trump shouldn t run. what are the odds that when all is said and done, the democrats nominate someone other than joe biden and republicans select a candidate different than donald trump? back on april 16th i put a polling question to my radio audience asking them if they agreed with this statement, neither biden nor trump will be the nominee. more than 25% of 20,000 plus who voted agree with that statement. maybe my listeners are on to something. this week emmy