Because we have a historic moment with the introduction and the nomination of Kamala Harris to the Vice President ial nominee, and we have a lot of big democratic stars who will be speaking, including nancy pelosi, hillary clinton, elizabeth warren, and barack obama. This will be an important night for the party to get an audience and introduce, harris. Introduce Kamala Harris. I am hoping we hear less attacks on the president and more about their governance strategy. David one thing we have not heard about is the issue of law and order. President trump will hit it hard. What is going on in some of our cities. We see it in new york, in chicago, in seattle. Kamala harris is in a particular position to address that, how we can police our streets and still not abuse some of the less fortunate. Jeanne this is what i have heard from moderates and more conservative friends who say this is a glaring absence so far in these last couple days. We know this is going on in the country around us, a
Russian energy giant gazprom will carry natural gas from russia to germany now in recent weeks 3 u. S. Senators have threatened crushing legal and economic sanctions a threat the German Foreign minister rejected last week. This transatlantic relationship with the United States goes deeper than Just Development we must make it very clear the tensions between partners are definitely the wrong way and ultimately it remains our sovereign decision where we get our energy from no state has the right to dictate europes Energy Policy would. Also will not work right now german lawmakers are considering bringing the United Nations in over these sanctions saying the u. S. Pressure runs contrary to International Law arties peter oliver has the details from berlin. The chairman of the German Bundestag Committee for Economic Affairs an energy has told me that it will fight us attempts to stop the north stream to gas pipeline at every turn. We should let the americans understand that if they continue
Tiktok bid jim, we will start with the retail numbers lowes is a good one to start with, its been called depots quarter on steroids today. Look, i think that Martin Ellison has taken a Company Making it anything but an also ran. 35 camp is terrific hes really got finally hes got the e com down Marvin Ellison is a turn around man par excellence and this is an amazing quarter we dont want target to overshadow it too much because i like the stock and i love the fact it wasnt up big early on its a buy yeah. In store traffic or in store comps, jim, up 11, which is different than what we saw out of others. I mean, i guess when you dont have as fierce a web challenge in Home Improvement and you have the stay at Home Rebuilding boom, thats going to add to a couple huge dynamics. Yes, it will. Remember, there was a period where lowes was not digitized enough also didnt really have very Strong Customer service. All of thats changed under marvin he is the last person to ever want to champion hims
You are probably the busiest person on the planet. I just wanted to say what an honor it is for us. Secretary esper has been secretary of defense for the past year. He was previously secretary of the army and a very distinguished record of Public Service having served active duty after graduation from west point 10 years and then the reserve for 11 years. We are looking forward to a good conversation. I think you have met the moderator before. He is a mutual friend, dave mccormick, the ceo of bridgewater associates. He also has a distinguished career as undersecretary secretary of the treasury and undersecretary of commerce. Dave and i worked together in the george w. Bush administration in those roles. Dave is also a graduate of west point. Nothing euro secretary esper, but they were at west point at the same point. Dave, i will turn this over to you. Thank you, nick. Secretary esper, thank you for joining us today. It is great to see you. Nick forgot to mention you were born and grew
Bloomberg television, starting at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Along the gulf of mexico, the texaslouisiana border is reeling after hurricane laura unleashed a wide swath of destruction, with winds reaching 150 miles an hour after coming ashore. It is now churning over louisiana. It could lead to more than 15 billion in insured losses. One of the top talkers on wall street, meantime, news of wall street joining microsoft to make a joint bid for the social media sensation tiktok. Now aligned with oracle. For more, i want to get to scarlet fu in new york. A lot tied to these remarks from the fed. There was a lot of gyration in jay powells remarks. In the case of equities, the fed moved it higher. The dollar moving higher. Bonds falling. In no rush bank is to raise interest rates. It will let the job market run hotter and inflation run higher, potentially overshooting the 2 target, before taking any kind of action. In the end, we saw financials get a boost. They benefit from a higher yield and a s