Ashley good morning, everyone. It is 10 00 eastern. Im Ashley Webster in for stuart varney. Lets get to your money. The major exchanges down today, the s p is down, the nasdaq down 0. 4 , nothing too dreadful but on the downside. 10 year treasury yield, briefly went past 5 , 7. 5 basis points, 4. 92 . Still extremely high. As for oil, it is heading higher up 1 , 90. 19 a barrel following the develop into the middle east, that will have a big impact on crude prices. Lets look at bitcoin. It is 1000, twenty nine thousand six hundred sixty five. Thats a quick look at the markets. Now this. President biden spoke about the war on israel and russias more on ukraine last night. Roll tape. President biden they share this in common. Both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy. You cannot like tyrants like Vladimir Putin win. Ashley it was 15 minutes long, tammy bruce joins us this morning. A lot of people say he was all over the place, very disjointed, what did you make of it . I
Stuart 10 00 eastern. We check the money for you. The nasdaq is down 77. Modest losses. The important numbers, the yield on the 10 year treasury going up 486, close to 5 . Price of oil, any expansion of the war in the middle east going up now. You are up a point and 1 2, 88 a barrel. Bitcoin, not much, cryptos, wednesday morning, how the markets are doing, now this. 4 00 eastern time President Biden steps out of air force one to begin his brief visit to israel, the trip being derailed by the explosion of a hospital in gaza. The leaders of jordan, egypt and the palestinian authority, he did meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The president s demeanor, he looked tired, was not forceful, was not robust, the two leaders heart leave made eye contact, netanyahu said hamas must be deleted, not the same as saying they must be crushed, lightening up a little there. President biden said israel does not appear to be behind the hospital explosion. Based on what i see, the other team, not
Israel and egypt agreeing to a cease fire in southern gaza. This allows anyone wanting to leave the war ravaged territory to do so now is happening as the Rafah Crossing Connecting Egypt and gaza reopens this all happening just moments ago. The crossing is the last remaining exit for palestinians wanting to leave gaza for the crossing. The crossings reopening will also allow much needed humanitarian aid into the territory through the Rafah Crossing was shut down while israel conducted airstrikes in the region earlier this week. Its military was responding to the brutal and deadly attack by hamas militants in israel just over a week ago. The closing of the border has stranded thousands of people trying to escape before israels potential major Ground Operation in gaza. That number includes 5 to 600 palestine americans as the reopening coming just hours after Secretary Of State Antony Blinken met with egypts president with regard to rafah. I had a very good conversation with president els
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Mark hello mark, i am mark levin, this is life, liberty and levin. Thank you for being here. I think it is an important program. Among others we have been shapiro on the show later. I know you are watching the news, it is very upsetting for most of us. I wrote something the other night, i want to read it to you i spik speak from my heart, yes, but i want to tell you what i wrote. I never imagined that i would be witness to the slaughter and atrocity of jews, with the history of the holocaust not that far away, i would have to spend 24 hours a day defending the right to selfdefense. Which requires the destruction of the modern day nazis, hamas. Not just against the them. But growing voices in the democrat party. The American Media. And college campuses. Who support terrorism, some do it in a soft way. Some do it in a blatant way. And some people just pretend what are you talking about . I never thought i would see the day when recent arab immigrants to our country, some illegal who have