It is tuesday, august 6th. Fbn a. M. Starts right now. Nothing else compares. Cheryl welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning im cheryl casone. Deirdre im deirdre bolton, in for lauren simonetti. Cheryl lets take a look at how your money is moving this morning after yesterdays 767 point plunge on the dow, the s p losing 3 . We have green arrows. Were looking at buying this morning, dow is up 189, s p up 23, nasdaq is up 80, looks a little better. Deirdre this is a after yesterdays huge losses. In asia, you actually still have pressure on the markets, this is selloff day two. Youll see on your screen, the nikkei, hang seng and kospi all lower. Cheryl you have that pressure on europe. You also have the eu responding, looking tha that a crash may bee likely. The ftse is down. Cac and dax are now up. Deirdre yesterday was all about safe havens. Gold is off highs from yesterday. If you look at bitcoin and weve been seeing this more and more over the past six months, when u. S. Equity markets sell
Weaker, but the shanghai composite was up by about 0. 2 . In europe in the early trading, at least right now youll see there are green arrows across the board, being led by the dax in germany, which is up by 0. 7 . Also, take a look at crude oil prices. Right now it looks like wti is up by about 2 , but youre still looking at it just above 37. Story of the morning, story of the day, story of the year. Big wins for donald trump and Hillary Clinton in yesterdays primaries. John kasich winning ohio. Marco rubio dropping it out of the race. Joining us now for the hour, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. , currently with Morgan Stanley. And republican strategist joe watkins. Before we get to them, lets get to john harwood, who has not slept, i bet, with a recap of last nights results. John . Andrew, very big night for Hillary Clinton. She went a long way toward snuffing out the challenge from Bernie Sanders a week after that surprise defeat in michigan. She won four out of five c
of whether americans do or don t want the symbol of their country to be the type of destructive capitalism where people end up out of the work even though it is necessary so profits are made. this is the issue. victoria is bane and other companies destructive to america? there is even steve ratener who said bane capital is not and hasn t been a gordon geico-like fire breathing corporate raider that slashed and burned companies. they create more than destroy according to steve ratener. it is amazing. private equity is a huge field and sure, it has its hands full of gordon geicos employees they are trying to make a profit in risk capital and broke yen bankrupt companis and trying to salvage