Obviously. Waiting for yankees, the first pitch is in two hours. Welcome to the closing bell everybody, we have exactly two hours to get through this whole show before that im kelly evans, im a big rally day here all right, all you folks in houston too by the way the dow on track for its first close above 23,000 now ibm, interestingly is helping drive this nice rally today after those stronger than expected earnings that came out that you guys have last night. We will get more on that move coming up in a little bit here its kind of astonishing to see ibm up 10 today clearly after the dell, more dow components American Express is going to report along with ebay, well tell you what to expect as well. And so the breaking news today, microsoft and amazon are now embroiled in a new patent lawsuit. And i guarantee the plaintiff ll surprise you when you hear who it is. Thats coming up but lets get straight to the one stock giving the dow its biggest boost today that would be shares of ibm jum
Violence in london a crime thats rising sharply. A 14 year old being killed in a playground in the middle of the day. Eriksen, 3 0. And in tonights football, Tottenham Hotspur have beaten the european champions, real madrid, at wembley. Coming up on sportsday on bbc news. A look at the new tennis world rankings, and andy murray falls out of the top 10 for the first time in three years. Good evening. The defence secretary, sir Michael Fallon, has resigned in the light of allegations about his past conduct. Hes admitted that his behaviour in the past may have fallen short of the high standards required. Sir michael had already apologised for putting his hand on the knee of a female journalist, in an incident more than a decade ago. Sir michael whos been one of the Prime Ministers strongest supporters in cabinet told the bbc he believed it was right that the issue of Sexual Harassment was now being taken very seriously. Live to our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg with the latest. In thi
Yes. Did you expect them to act quickly . Yes. There was urgency to the information. Yes. Mark he did not want to fire him until 18 days later. Another round of protests in venezuela has left at least three more people dead and many others injured. Buildings were set on fire, tear gas was unleashed during the unrest, occurring on a daily basis for seven weeks. The president shows no intention of conceding to his opponents demands. The violent demonstrations have left more than three dozen people dead. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I am mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Julia live in new york, i am julia chatterley. Scarlet i have scarlet fu. Joe i am joe weisenthal. We are 30 minutes from the close of trading. Julia oil easing from alltime highs. Joe what did you miss . Scarlet working to contain a report that donald trump shared intelligence with russian officials. In washington, meeting with the. Urkish pres
Over, today, saturday, august 26, 2017. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on saturday morning. Glad to have you with us. Down in texas covering Hurricane Harvey with team of nbc news correspondence. We will get to them in a moment. First, a look at the latest information. This is a look now, satellite imagines rolls over texas. This is the scene from up in space. The astronauts aboard the International Space station capturing this image of the enormity of Hurricane Harvey. Heres a like live at galveston. This is the latest on the storm itself right now. Hurricane harvey made land fall around 10 00 last night central time. It came ashore as a category four storm. It has since been downgraded to a cat one. Harvey brought with it winds of 130 miles an hour. Now top winds have diminished to 80 miles an hour. Daylight breaks, residents getting first look at all of the damage it caused. One of the hard et cetera hit towns overnight is rock port texas. O
The stoxx 600 is up 2 10 of 1 . 1 ,ftse 100 is up 4 10 of the dax in germany down about 1 10 of 1 . Banksalian and german dragging things lower a little bit in the continental european countries. 1. 2228,pound is at weaker by one third of 1 . We will ignore the europound for a moment, but we will have a look at eurojapan, 143, and ever weaker japanese yen when it comes to the u. S. Dollar but not the british pound. At u. K. 10 year yield is 130, germanys 10 year yield at 21 basis points and unchanged. The spread between the german bunds and the u. S. Yield is widening. The italian 10 year yield added on about another 50 basis points. 90 minutes into the u. S. Trading day so lets get the latest from Abigail Doolittle. Abigail after gains and records yesterday from u. S. Stocks, we have the major u. S. Averages all trading lower. Seems like a firm directional cue to the downside. The dow is down the least but doubt 20,000 has the much happened. The s p and 5000 the s p and nasdaq down. P