But still red for each of the major indices. Joining us for the full first hour of the show Courtney Gibson from loop capital markets. Courtney, thanks for joining us. Whats your take on today . Investors in a sort of holding pattern, are they, until we get to the fed unbelievable holding pattern. I mean, volumes are down precipitously today. At least they were before i came on the show today. I talked to our equity desk at loop capital and in the u. S. Alone volumes were down somewhere near 30 and even in europe spain was down i think somewhere near 40 on volumes our desk flow today was down substantially as well. It looks and feels as though investors right now are really kind of sitting on their hands markets as you can see, dow down just slightly but recovering back to the highs of the session. Russell is lagging down 0. 7 utilities, real estate the bestperforming sectors. Energy and tech towards the bottom we have got apple down about 0. 7 , albeit higher for the week broadcom wei
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The real question will be whether they want to date him or marry him as a president . That fork in the road is coming. That is the big question here too. The party wrestles with his this every four years and ends up coming back to the establishment candidate. It may not be the case this year. Tim it is only august and a lot can happen in 60 days, much less six months. This could look very different by thanksgiving. There will be 15 other developments in this race that we currently dont know that would change the dynamics. It could favor trump, a good it could disfavor trump. What is true now wont be true here. Host that is all the time we have. Thank you for being a guest this week. Tim happy to do it. Host newsmakers is back after our conversation with governor tim pawlenty, the ceo of the Financial Services roundtable and himself a president ial hopeful in the 2012 race. Michael, i want to start with politics. You talked with the governor about the influence of his industry on the ca
President trump as mentally deranged. From next year banks and Building Societies will have to carry out checks on all current account holders to establish if they are in the uk illegally. A hive of information, scientists place trackers on bees to help more about their life cycle and their illnesses. A very good morning from florence. So often on this long Journey Towards brexit we talk about important announcements and perhaps use the term to loosely in the media, but there is the filling in florence today judging media, but there is the filling in florence todayjudging by the cameras around me that this is actually an important occasion. Of course, though brexit negotiations have pretty much stalled over the last six months, we are on the eve of the fourth round of negotiation and still stuck on those difficult first phase issues. What are we going to hearfrom first phase issues. What are we going to hear from theresa may today . Probably detail on two important numbers. The first n
Universal declaration that eu citizens in the uk can have their rights protected after exit day. No ifs, no buts, do it today. I urge the Prime Minister to listen to the voices of the devolved administration. We will not accept this legislation as it stands. A complete violation of the scotland act and biggest power grab since the devolution. Indeed. Just last week, mark kerr said that westminster was trying to break the founding principles of the devolution settlement. The snp set up devolution settlement. The snp set up three key tests of brexit for this government. One, as an absolute minimum we want continued membership for the Single Market and Customs Union. Declarer now without delay that eu Citizens Rights are guaranteed and three, the government must accept that, as it stands, they cannot proceed in their current form. Will be Prime Minister live up to this or eu Citizens Rights now . Im sure, as the honourable gentleman knows, theres a meeting next week of the jnc which bring