Missouri. What about when stories are too sensitive . Of theas been removed beheading of a journalist by militants. Twitter said this is the latest example of social Media Companies policing from open internet policy many have embraced for years. I spoke with courtney radish, david kirkpatrick, and a law professor. Was iis, hadar asked if there were any legal issues for social Media Companies policing user posts. Is the firstpoint amendment which guarantees free speech as a fundamental right. Over the years where it has been litigation, mostly focused on video for children and the like and not so much on what happens in a real news. The freedom of speech is kurt held mostly on sex curtailed mostly on sex but theres a lot less litigation on a violence and in recent weeks, web and flooded with images from around the world. Does the last series of images and we have seen from gaza and the ukraine and all of these raise issues that have not been extensively litigated. Not necessarily illeg
U. S. Equities and we are at this point at this moment the dows down about 3. 3 from its most recent peak. The nasdaq the russell, the s p all down a like amount right now. Lots of key levels to watch today. The fact below 50 in wti crude, some of whats happening in the rate space and waiting to talk about that but again were starting off the year in a trading session that people love to extrapolate for moves from here on a weak note. It goes without saying this final hour will be very instructive. Do they start to buy on the dips . They havent yet. Or do we get even more selling come into the picture in this final hour . As mentioned, as we get into this final hour underway here the dow off 340. Nasdaq off 1. 7 . The s p off almost 2 and biggest decliners in the dow are energy names and also the financials. Theyre also a Big Industrial name like caterpillar and a lot of other companies with international exposure. Last we checked two components of the dow are positive. Merck and cocac
Bill theres plenty of attention on what a poorer start this trading year is off to and not just any day or two days to see this kind of pressure but the two days to kick off the year traditionally not a great sign. Two other markets very quickly. Oil, yes, we continued lower again. Big time. Down another almost 4 on wti. We are now at 48. It did touch the 47 range and brent is threatening to go below 50 at this point. Lets show you if we can the 10year yield. It touched 1. 88. At its lowest point today taking us back the lows of last october. Yes. On your screen there, you are seeing the 10year u. S. Treasury note below 2 . The 30year well below 2. 5 . I mean, we are talking about levels we havent seen since the financial crisis and there is a big element perhaps of whats happening overseas but lets talk about it in the exchange. Markets see the dow off 92. Nasdaq off 39 and s p off 11. Joining us in that said exchange today, margie patel, david kudlow jeff reeves Samuel Stovall and Ri
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