Signal a slowing economy. Something well be kicking around a lot. It is the talk of the town. The Dow Jones Industrial average meanwhile is off 168 points at the session low. We were off more than 200. A little bit of a comeback here clawing its way back anyway. Still negative. Meanwhile the nasdaq off. 6 . Or 25 points today. The s p 500 shedding almost 1 , 17. Right in line with the dow there. The russell 2000 has been the leader to the downside for much of this move lower. But today even though it was down 1. 4 or thereabouts at one time, that has come back this afternoon. Interestingly. The blue chips have not followed suit. Something well keep an eye on as we go into the final hour of trading here for this thursday. Lets kick things around in our Closing Bell Exchange today. Sharon stark is with us with d. A. Davidson. John kosar from asbury research. David molnar from high tower. Greg ipf from the economist. You think the bond market is way too bearish on the economy. Right . I t
Important that issue is for our nation and world. Hes given literally his life as an expert on human rights around the world and leading the Helsinki Commission and just talking with us about the importance of this and whats happening with the ukraine and in russia and in europe just recently. So you know, the issue of freedom and private enterprise and opportunity and education and energy selfsufficientry are goals that i mean, we pressure here. And it is possible for the rest of the world and our allies around the world. But what signal does it send if america is not willing to do its part when it comes to production right here in america and transporting oil and fall gas and other emerging fuels, alternative fuels, alternative sources of electricity, when were not doing our very best . So i know that its contentious but i wanted to come to the floor to talk, senator hoeven i think gave a excellent defense of why the Keystone Pipeline is important. But i would just want to underscore
Handing out cash in indonesia but this politician says he is not corrupt and not sorry. A senior olympic official has condemned brazils preparations for the 2016 summer Olympic Games. He says they are the worst he has ever seen. And some have not been started. Brazil other sporting event the football world cup begins in six weeks time and we will hear from the correspondent in a moment but we have this report from nicole johnston. Reporter this is the moment when brazils olympic comes through, five years ago it has the right to host the games in 2016. But its preparations are not going as planned and they have been slammed by the Vice President of the International Olympic committee. Speaking in sidney he said. Translator the ioc has a special task force to feed up preparations but the situation is critical on the ground. We have becomed concerned and they are not ready in many ways and we have to make it ap and that is the ioc approach and you cannot walk away from it. Reporter the pr
In your testimony that the state department was in the lead, as we just confirmed, for the effort to get back libya on its feet, one of the things that has been encountered in the investigation of the state Department Conduct in libya is the overwhelming normalization, whether it be the attempt to reduce security personnel at diplomatic facilities or socalled normal levels or attempt to view the government of libya as normal host nation partners capable of providing protection like my colleague from texas just talked about. Did you encounter this normalization philosophy during operation odyssey guard . Yes, sir, i did. Could you elaborate a little bit on that . Yes. Or instance, there was a desire to create a new normal within , which wasnment basically redefining of what i would consider suboptimal. Would you consider it hostile . Yes, sir. Ahead, continue. The hostile environment we were dealing with, our interaction certainly was not with our interagency counterparts, but the low p
The local militias the local security is provided in libya, a normal environment, that we would have one of the normal glitches. Would you trust their loyalty to provide security for your front door . As a matter of embassy protocol, i would make sure they are vetted. This is the nature of libya right now. These militias consider themselves the army did you vet this is the challenge we have in this country. There was the central army so we would try to normalize the security situation. The red cross has been run out. We reduce the number of gun toters and increased local militias that we could not vet . It is highly risky. Traveling to libya, you can feel relatively safe because these militias provide a Neighborhood Watch program. Many of them are filling the void of the security forces. We need to look at how we use the word militia carefully because these are the security forces. Two years ago it was not normal in a situation, it was more dramatic, no way to vet people, and we have r