It looks like record territory today. Abigail we are. No cigar yesterday, but some strengths today. As for the dow, s p 500, small gains after slipping between gains and losses earlier. It appearse investors are on hold, amazon, alphabet among others, transfers about the same as nasdaq, up. 3 . Many stocks helping to doubt transfers today, a u. S. Nafta exit is ruled out, that could help Union Pacific, but in addition, Union Pacific did report earnings, their first sales beam since 2014, so investors need to be cautious on that pure ups beat as well. Strength for some of the dow transport stocks. As for the s p 500, not too long ago, we had been on an earnings recession. Lets take a look at g btv8029. The earnings recession five quarters in a row. Three quarters in a row, we are looking at growth, and for the quarter, 12. 9 , not to backyard as for some of the stocks that did report most recently the s p 500 today, we are looking at under armour, comcast, dominos. Under armour posted a
Good afternoon, well get started while ruth is getting taped. Im elliott gurstein and delighted to see you all today. You know we dont usually start quite this promptly but were not always being taped live by cspan. Were delighted to have them here today. And this is a particularly exciting entry in our longstanding Public Health rounds sponsored by our Health Society and medicine program. The focus today is the inaugural report of the aspen Health Strategy group. The name Health Strategy group is taken from the aspen Strategy Group for those who are familiar with American Foreign policy. Probably know about the group, its undoubtedly the leading Bipartisan Group of its kind looking at Critical Issues of Foreign Policy and we established the group with that in mind, to bring together remarkable people from across different sectors in the American Health and medical landscape to look at the most pressing problems and come together with different perspectives to make recommendations for
Facebook and twitter. We want to hear your reaction. Two banner headlines, first the washington times. Trump fires comey, citing judgment doubts. Another banner headline, trump fires comey amid russia inquiry. The New York Times printing the letter that President Trump penned for james comey yesterday informing him that he was terminated from Office Effective immediately. Youaid, while i appreciate informing me on three separate occasions that im not under investigation i nevertheless concur with the judgment of the this that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. Firing we turn to katie bo williams, staff writer for the hill newspaper. Talk to us more about the reasoning and timing. Guest the administration is saying that this is over comeys handling of Hillary Clinton, the investigation into her private email server. They are saying his decision to publicly announced so much detail about that probe in july, the bombshell letter in our over to Congress Announcing desk in oct
Plus one of trumps staunchest critics during the campaign, republican senator ben sasse. As the president takes the world stage, can he outrun the chaos here at home . Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning. As we come on the air this week, President Trump in saudi arabia, about to give a major speech to the muslim world. Billed as a message of hope and tolerance, its likely to signal a major break from the harsh rhetoric of the president s campaign. When he railed against radical islamic terrorists and said flatly, islam hates us. The white house is hoping this whole trip will bring a Welcome Break from the most battering week of the trump presidency. A daily cascade of damaging headlines this week. Monday, the Washington Post reports that the president revealed highly classified information about isis to the russians in the oval office, compromising a key source and complicating our relationship with israel. Tuesday, the New York Times reports trump tried to priva
Staunchest critics during the campaign, republican senator ben sasse. As the president takes the world stage, can he outrun the chaos here at home . Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning. As we come on the air this week, President Trump in saudi arabia, about to give a major speech to the muslim world. Billed as a message of hope and tolerance, its likely to signal a major break from the harsh rhetoric of the president s campaign. When he railed against radical islamic terrorists and said flatly, islam hates us. The white house is hoping this whole trip will bring a Welcome Break from the most battering week of the trump presidency. A daily cascade of damaging headlines this week. Monday, the Washington Post reports that the president revealed highly classified information about isis to the russians in the oval office, compromising a key source and complicating our relationship with israel. Tuesday, the New York Times reports trump tried to privately get james come