Is doing today. The good news its not down much. The bad news is its not up much either. A narrow range for stocks. Still, as melissa noted, amazon as well as apple keeps surging ahead. They are both trading at record levels. Believe it or not consumer stocks are your best sector today. If you own marriott, under armor mour or wynn resorts. Tyler . Brian, thankful. Welcome. Im Tyler Mathisen. Volatility not so much. All but dried up this year. Lets get straight to bob pisani at the new york stock exchange. The fear gauge hasnt been this low in a quarter century, bob. Reporter lets take a look at it, tyler. Why is it this low . Its not that surprising. Theres a couple of things happening with the vix. Tamm p tampening down volatility. We have advances that are making markets, more hedging methodologies, more ways to buy protection out there that is tamping down the volatility. Keeping rates low and essentially encouraging people to buy equities. And we have the fact that risk is lower,
The first is kind of National Security and sovereignty and that is your intelligence, Defense Department, homeland security. The second line of work is economic nationalism. The third, broadly, what is deconstruction of the administrative state. Amy steve bannon may have been ousted from the white house, but he has not left quietly. We will speak with Robert Kuttner. Bannon spoke to him last week and remarkable interview days before his ouster. Then we look at billionaire carl icahn, who resigned last week as a realtor adviser to President Trump just before the new yorker published headline carl icahns failed raid on washington. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump has announced plans to escalate the u. S. War in afghanistan, already the longest war in u. S. History. While trump offered few specifics during his prime time address monday night, he has reportedly already signed off on a plan
Senator jay walden to be recognized by President Trump to be the head of the securities and Exchange Commission. This is two hours and 25 minutes. The meeting will come to order. This morning we will hear testimony of jay clayton be the head of the securities and Exchange Commission. He has extensive experience in the markets as a highly decorated securities trader. He has helped to inkrecrease th ability of those to invest in the united states. One area na mr. Clayton has said that he will focus on is market formation. The access is the lifeblood of the economy. The jobs act helped to revitalize the primary markets in congress and the s. E. C. Should continue to find ways to help companies to go public to allow the investors the share in their success. Recently, this committee marked up several bipartisan securities bills, and we encourage you, mr. Clayton, if confirmed to help others identify securities area, which could use legislative improvement. The s. E. C. Has a important three
Senator jay walden to be recognized by President Trump to be the head of the securities and Exchange Commission. This is two hours and 25 minutes. The meeting will come to order. This morning we will hear testimony of jay clayton be the head of the securities and Exchange Commission. He has extensive experience in the markets as a highly decorated securities trader. He has helped to inkrecrease th ability of those to invest in the united states. One area na mr. Clayton has said that he will focus on is market formation. The access is the lifeblood of the economy. The jobs act helped to revitalize the primary markets in congress and the s. E. C. Should continue to find ways to help companies to go public to allow the investors the share in their success. Recently, this committee marked up several bipartisan securities bills, and we encourage you, mr. Clayton, if confirmed to help others identify securities area, which could use legislative improvement. The s. E. C. Has a important three
Senator jay walden to be recognized by President Trump to be the head of the securities and Exchange Commission. This is two hours and 25 minutes. The meeting will come to order. This morning we will hear testimony of jay clayton be the head of the securities and Exchange Commission. He has extensive experience in the markets as a highly decorated securities trader. He has helped to inkrecrease th ability of those to invest in the united states. One area na mr. Clayton has said that he will focus on is market formation. The access is the lifeblood of the economy. The jobs act helped to revitalize the primary markets in congress and the s. E. C. Should continue to find ways to help companies to go public to allow the investors the share in their success. Recently, this committee marked up several bipartisan securities bills, and we encourage you, mr. Clayton, if confirmed to help others identify securities area, which could use legislative improvement. The s. E. C. Has a important three