Syria. The move comes days after washington effectively okayed the operation. The u. K. Government pushes ahead with brexit, although the current eu president says there is no chance of a deal this week. Shery later in Bloomberg Technology global link, we will outline the possible rescue plans for wework and what softbank can do to save the struggling unicorn. Lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. U. S. Futures at the moment unchanged after stocks fluctuated between gains and losses throughout the session. The s p 500 was led lower by utilities and materials. The Energy Sector down as wti lost the most rampant about two weeks, 53 a barrel. Investors still trying to figure out what a partial u. S. China trade deal actually means. Acrosslots of anxiety markets. Pretty light trading. We saw about 30 below average volumes when it comes to the 30 day average. We had u. S. Debt markets close away on holiday, so pretty thin trading. The focus this week now switching to earni
Thats likely to be down about. 33 . Lets see how they close. Lets get to hong kong because today, we see chinas clout. The general manager for the Houston Rockets, basketball team, tweeted support for hong kong. Beijing immediately objected very strongly. The tweet was immediately withdrawn. Lots of criticism for the nba this morning. They caved to the communists, to preserve basketballs appeal in china. Hong kong itself, im going to say its virtually shut down as violent protests returned over the weekend. Next case, what have we got for you . Joe biden. He says he will beat the president like a drum, end quote. The General Motors strike takes a rather ominous turn. And amid very visible security, joker hits the theaters and wins big. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart you know, this could be the stock of the day, maybe the week, maybe the month. General motors, down 1 . Its back to 34 a share. When the strike started, it was 37. Now, talks with United Auto Workers union broke d
Today then rebounded in the afternoon. House of pleasure. Closing down 80 points. The s p losing. 42 . Nasdaq falling. 85 . I think what were seeing here is nothing more than a wholesale repricing of stocks. As investors try to bake in all sorts of contradictory possibilities. The repricing ebbs and flows and you see intraday rallies as people realize the businesses are actually pretty good and the stock market remains the best place to put your money. Thats what happens when stocks fall if only because every other asset class is so unattractive does this occur. Its not because this one is that beautiful still, i think we have to have more pain like we experienced this morning, which is why you need to understand what striving when the pain happens, youre not paralyzed, because were going to see it again and again. First, there is a whole camp of people who believes that our economy is headed into a recession. Probably sooner rather than later. How do i know this because at the worst m
And chuck and all of these people focusing on the witch hunt, because they cant beat us at the ballot. They cant beat us at the ballot and theyre not going to win the president ial were having great polls, internal, ohio, iowa, pennsylvania is looking good North Carolina he we just won two race that is a lot of people we thought were going to lose both races one was down 17 points three weeks before the race and ended you said winning by a substantial margin and dan bishop and then we had a second race as you know, and he was up one or two points and ended up winning by what was it 25 points or many so incredible ill ask you because i dont want to be inaccurate otherwise have a front page story breaking nuts trump exaggerated. But he won by many, many points and he was leading by maybe two or three but won which which in the tents 20s. Were looking great in North Carolina, looking great in florida. And you had one or two congressman democrats saying we cant beat them at the elections.
A man, almost always a man, and how he vanquished an enemy or conquered a new land that turned out not to be uninhabited, and monuments, that is their goal, that is their purpose. By contrast, murals like this provide a narrative, a much more complete story that often contains the good and the bad of a particular period to remind and critically inform us of this period, or in this case, the imperfect life of our first president. So while i can understand how aspects of murals are really offensive to some people, on a whole, they provide context to the people and times shown, and serve as a reminder of our greatly flawed history in a different way than a celebratory monument does. I also want to quickly address the federal art project and the administration aspect of this discussion. Both were phenomenally successful programs in our history, and it boosted the nations economy when we needed it, and it provided employment for many builders and artisans across the country. We have bridges