Travis kalanick is out as investors try to move past scanda scandals jack ma on why globalization is good david will sit down with him Martha Stewart shares her take on the state of retail the media mogul is going to join us live. First up, Travis Kalanick is out as ceo of uber bill gurley this morning, big investor in uber said books will be written about kalanicks entrepreneurship and few have changed industries the way he has. Yeah. Adam lashinski wrote a fantastic book fortune writer that came out four weeks ago about kalanick had he to break billions of eggs to make a couple of really fabulous omelets its almost as if i dont want to say his job was done, but i would say that you got in there and it wouldnt be so bad to have a more a lesser addict story. Personal tragedy you have to weigh this i think obviously the people got an image of what the company was like inside that was a little bit distressing. Listen, this guy did it. And i dont think theres enough good being said. I kno
Soldier in the u. S. Army about theident trumps words and resistance rolls on. We will look at how disability activist are staging a stork protest in washington and around the world to fight the republican effort to restrict health care from tens of millions of people. [chanting] amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a surprise announcement, President Trump tweeted wednesday he will than transgender people from serving in the u. S. Military. Trump made the declaration on twitter after consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u. S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you. Trumps decision came despi
10 00 we get the isn manufacturing data for july and later this morning u. S. Automakers will report july Light Vehicle sales. Good indicator for the market and Consumer Spending. From shakeups to the white house to the senate remaining in session, every day brings new twist and turns. The man who follows it all is kevin cirilli. I guess we have to start with the white house. What happened . He barely lasted 10 days. Yesterday i spoke with several sky Bridge Capital announced scaramucci was fired by kelly hours into his first full day as chief of staff at the white house. Essentially they are saying this was general kelly trying to himself on day one to give himself a clean slate. The statement from the white house announcing the firing. Himself on day one to give himself a clean slate. They say that Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications director. He felt it was best to give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own tea
We have seen the ratio of the dow to the nasdaq. The dow has been gaining disproportionately and add a record, approaching 22,000. Movement has to do with earnings sales and if you look at the tally on the bloomberg, we have 315 of the 500 components have now reported and 70 companies have beat analyst sales estimates. About 5. 5 ing at earningswth and 10 growth, so continuing to see gains that are better than estimated. As for some of the highlights to the upside and downside, we have sprint as one of the best performers after the Telecom Company came out with a surprise profit after subscribers dropped. We got the story in the loss bash in the last hour that softbank might be interested in looking at dish network. That could be a potential murder potential merger target. On the flipside, we have under slashinghat company its forecast for the second half of the year. That was broadly expect it. Also protest also projecting weaker gross margins. Mosaic is forecasting a tighter margin,
We have seen the ratio of the dow to the nasdaq. The dow has been gaining disproportionately and add a record, approaching 22,000. Movement has to do with earnings sales and if you look at the tally on the bloomberg, we have 315 of the 500 components have now reported and 70 companies have beat analyst sales estimates. About 5. 5 ing at earningswth and 10 growth, so continuing to see gains that are better than estimated. As for some of the highlights to the upside and downside, we have sprint as one of the best performers after the Telecom Company came out with a surprise profit after subscribers dropped. We got the story in the loss bash in the last hour that softbank might be interested in looking at dish network. That could be a potential murder potential merger target. On the flipside, we have under slashinghat company its forecast for the second half of the year. That was broadly expect it. Also protest also projecting weaker gross margins. Mosaic is forecasting a tighter margin,