Financier and the head of Colony Capital that he is also known as being one of President Trumps most prominent advisors. He was consistently during the campaign one of his most public circuit in making when i would call the economic case for what was and the a great opportunity last night was it was the first opportunity to take his temperature of what he thinks he does best of what he thinks he has done as president. He views of the Trump Presidency at the disruptive in the way that uber or amazon is to a corporate world. That was the first time i heard that phrase. He was referring to how he conducted social media strategy as well. We talked about this use of tweets. There are many of us who cover the campaign who expected him to stop that. Weve seen exactly the opposite. In the last few weeks we have had tweets about the terror attacks in london and we seen his tweets about saudi arabia and diplomatic tensions in the middle east and i think i really wanted to hear what top have to s
This hour. Microsoft rolling out 3d capabilities in the latest windows update. Home sales unexpectedly climbing in september, up 3. 1 . Stocks roll off their session lows at this hour, the dow was down triple digits at the open. Nasdaq still in the red, the other two averages have gone green. Melissa . Thanks, michelle. Welcome, im melissa lee. Power lunch coming to you coast to coast today. Brian sullivan is live for us in sunny san diego. Whats on tap . Thank you very much. We got a big two hours for you from one of the biggest investment conferences in the united states. Jeff kline coming up, he says there is one big potential positive for the stock market that nobody is talking about. Well find out what that is. What is the overall mood here. Are people nervous . Bernie clark will join us. Big thinker, novelist, generally smart guy, Malcolm Gladwell, your guest coming up as well. Well talk about the markets, talk about the economy, and well talk about why college is actually so exp
But were holding down the fort. Japans nikkei reopening after yesterdays Public Holiday and it plunged. 4. 8 . It closed at its lowest level since october 2014. The index is down in seven of the last eight sessions. That is coming as the yen has been rising against the dollar and it comes after yesterdays big selloff in the u. S. This years lowses have erased nearly 1. 8 trillion in value for investors just on that index. The s p is down 10. 5 since the first trading day of 2016. But u. S. Equity futures are rebounding this morning. Part of that is because of firmer oil market. Take a look at what crude is doing. It is bouncing back today following Late Afternoon comments by an opec Energy Minister from the United Arab Emirates that sparked hopes of a coordinated production cut. And though weve heard this story before and havent gotten anything out of it, the markets are interpreting that as a positive. Wti he crude currently up nearly 4 . 27. 21. Brent is sitting above 31 a barrel, up
In terms of favorable and unfavorable opinions same thing well see here in terms of the opinions of most hispanics tend to favor the democratic party, and you would think well game over. We dont need to discuss this any further. Well, not exactly. Because weve seen how different candidates have done very well in different races, and i have given just three, three hispanic republicans that have done well in their respective states. Actually Governor Martinez and sandoval are extremely popular in their respective states, and they were both reelected in resounding victories. In terms of issues, gop is seen antiimmigrant and thats clear and certainly recent Public Discourse doesnt help in that front. And weve seen, for example, how some hispanic groups specifically Puerto Ricans in the i4 corridor in Central Florida even though they voted in 2004 for george w. Bush reelection they voted overwhelmingly for president obama in his reelection just a few years later. And thats a reflection on t
Do the job. I would ask you a question, but i know youre going to have the right answers. Im going to excuse myself. Thank you, senator. Thank you, thank you so much. Thanks for your major contributions. Were glad we violated the rules to allow you both to be on the committee, two senators from georgia. Want to ask about latin america, particular interest of mine. Senator mendez is focused on this. The president announced a new investment in the budget he proposed to take to a second chapter, peace colombia. Talk a little bit about, from the state departments view, from a resource view, the kind of return on investment that we had on the first 15 years of this investment over three administrations and how we would propose to assist colombia in this new chapter god willing, post ceasefire. I had the chance to travel and meet with gulf of mexico officials to talk about the future, and understand how our resources can best be directed, assuming theres a peace deal, and we hope soon, one t