This calendar year 2019, the nasdaq composite has gone up a shocking 27 , that reflects the money flowing into americas giant Technology Companies that dominate worldwide. The average gains of the s ps 500 companies this year, 23 , the 500 Biggest Companies with an average stock price gained 23 in less then 11 months. Look at how stocks open this tuesday morning. The dow will be up 40 points, it will be up much more than that if it were not for home depot which is a dow stock, down sharply. The s p up another 7 points. Look at the nasdaq up 27 for the year going up another 1 2 , 35 points higher. What a day, what i year. Make no mistake, we think the enrichment of america is more important than the charade called impeachment and todays show will reflect that. We are asking dow 30,000, lets get on with it. Varney and company is about to begin. Lets get to home depot. It will drag on the dow today. It is a dow stock, reported its earnings earlier and the stock freemarket down 8, 3 . Ashl
Of bothered protests. Police in france have fired tear gas to break up protests in paris the Yellow Vest Movement is marking its one Year Anniversary the demonstrations began on the member 17th last year of a rising fuel prices and cost of living they made it turned into antigovernment riots that spread across the country during its peak 300 years of protests but that number has gone down in recent months well lets go live to on the botha whos joining us from paris a lot of activity even seen a lot of protesters out and tear gassed me whats happening there. Thats right wont close states really which has become pretty much the epicenter of the days protests that is of course as you mentioned an anniversary. What were looking at a pitched battle is here on this square where on the lines of police you may have just missed out but starting with a coming in from demonstrators in the square. Until story but here you can see a water cannon that is being used quite liberally to disperse the cr
Police and protesters face off with hong kong again as china confirms it all that it cleared up by its army. A car bombing near a busy bus station in northeastern syria turkey blinds what p. G. But as for the attack that killed 19 people im happy to simply go to sports controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick prepares to showcase the skills in front of n. F. L. Teams 3 years since his last game better and more later this news hour. We begin the news hour with violence scenes in the french capital where police and demonstrators have clashed on the 1st anniversary of the yellow vests protest movement for the some paris fire tear gas and water cannon that hundreds of them astray has after they built barricades across the city and set fire to cars and rubbish bins more than 100 people have been a rough. They yell a Vest Movement began last november over rising fuel prices and the high cost of living the weekly demonstrations soon grew into a broader revolt against president obama and acr
Is going after what voters know. And as was said, the Supreme Court within the bounds of Citizens United said transparency and disclosure, fine. I have a few examples. This was a district 6 mailer, and the video at the bottom of an internet mailer ad, paid for by a committee, clean and sunset. Major funding by progress San Francisco. And the district 6 version said paid for by san franciscans for change, major funding by progress San Francisco. I think all of us in this room know who are behind that committee, but most regular people would have no reason to know. Two big things. Number one, it will require the dollar amount of the donors to be listed, so that voters get more than a name and an actual piece of data that they can use to say to ask if they wish, whos really behind this and whats their agenda. And more importantly, it pierces the shell of fake name committees like that by requiring that progress San Francisco in this example, the top two donors to that committee would also
Again, were trying to give voters information and ensuring they really know whos behind the Shell Committee and how much they gave. Only other thing ill say on that component and ill get to the last one is some may ask, well, arent the clever election lawyers going to find some other way to hide, and im sure they will. And to that i would say, were going to do that the same way you would eat an elephant, one bite at a time. And i think this will become the strongest in the country and a model for other cities. So at the end, i want to submit some materials, and supervisor mar has the same if you wish to share, is the paytoplay division, which prohibits not just the developer, which is already prohibited, but the top executives associated with that developer from giving to any city official running for the board of supervisors, mayor, or City Attorney or sitting in those offices for the entire time that the measure is pending or for 12 months its approved or after its done. We tried to