Controlled, the space for Civil Society restricted. Were told that such retrenchment is required to beat back disorder, that its the only way to stamp out terrorism, or prevent foreign meddling. In accordance with this logic, we should support tyrants like bashar alassad, who drops barrel bombs to massacre innocent children, because the alternative is surely worse. The increasing skepticism of our International Order can also be found in the most advanced democracies. We see greater polarization, more frequent gridlock, movements on the far right, and sometimes the left, that insist on stopping the trade that binds our fates to other nations, calling for the building of walls to keep out immigrants. Most ominously, we see the fears of ordinary people being exploited through appeals to sectarianism, or tribalism, or racism, or antisemitism, appeals to a glorious past before the body politic was infected by those who look different, or worship god differently, a politics of us versus the
Effectively, they argue for a return to the rules that applied for most of Human History and that predate this institution, the belief that power is a zerosum game, that might makes right, that strong states must impose their will on weaker ones, that the rights of individuals dont matter, and that in a time of rapid change, order must be imposed by force. On this basis, we see some major powers assert themselves in ways that contravene International Law. We see an erosion of the democratic principles and human rights that are fundamental to this institutions mission, information is strictly controlled, the space for Civil Society restricted. Were told that such retrenchment is required to beat back disorder, that its the only way to stamp out terrorism, or prevent foreign meddling. In accordance with this logic, we should support tyrants like bashar alassad, who drops barrel bombs to massacre innocent children, because the alternative is surely worse. The increasing skepticism of our
Stocks, 25 of the 30 are positive so far today and were keeping an eye on energy again, as well. Exactly. Down here, one of the indexes that will often list up here on the boards is energy index. Look at that one off 122 points. Again, just reiterating the pressure seen, renewed on crude oil today and down another 3 settling around 55 bucks and change. Natural gas by the way. Its had a 10 move lower in 2 sessions. I was going to say. See how nimble they are in the booth . We know they are but lets see if they can show us natural gas because it is down sharply and for good reasons if you like warm weather. Yes. Correct. The socalled i95 corridor on the east coast expected warmer than expected temperatures over next ten days or so and thats taken the wind out of the sails, plus that inventory report of last week. Right. Flip side, not so good stuff with the Energy Complex is a move on the rating side you heard on the European Oil Majors and again some talk of whether we are seeing a bott
Gold scaled back 15 dollars and oil. 1. 63. Caterpillars ceo says he is guardedly optimistic about the global economy. Which added into the buying blitz on wall street. And the power of the plug. Yesterday we told you about the fuel cell stock plug power that surged 24 monday well on tuesdays it rallied 15 more. Trader daniel stecich of athena Advisor Services joins us now. There was a collective sigh of relief in the market yesterday but will that continue . I think it will. You have to put what happened in russia behind us and if you look at what happened over the course of the last week, the market had a decent gain. If you could take mondays loss out of itwe closed friday around 18. 56 with a high of 18. 59. You take all that out of it and we gained a few points no doubt and i think thats because of economic data. Thats what we need to look at right now. Exactly. We have a lot of it coming in today as well as the jobs number on friday. Yeah, the big one today is going to be the ins
Doctors without borders. Heres new york governor andrew cuomo. We had a fortunate circumstance here that the affected person was a doctor, a person who worked with doctors without borders. He was familiar with the etc. , andy, symptoms, he handles himself accordingly. Yet close contact with three other people including his girlfriend, who is now quarantined. Is exiting thee duracell battery unit. They want to spin off to resell into a standalone company. Spin off duracell to a standalone company. Png posted quarterly profit that matched estimates. Thirdquarter earnings at fort fell by less than expected. In china for to now outsells toyota. Last month ford said it would not achieve profit goals for this year. Pickup hasing f150 been suspended while it prepares to roll out an aluminum body version. Amazon forecast sales and profits for the fourth order that missed wall street estimates. The online retailer is on track to post is worst annual loss in 11 years. , spending more on same day