Forecast for the year. The company is spending more on employee raises here in the u. S. We will have more on this in just a few minutes. Matt wildfires are threatening a resort town in washington state. Several large fires burning near chelan, washington have already destroyed about 75 homes and businesses. 200 activeduty military troops have been called in to help. Cory i was up in Northern California weeks ago. It is unbelievable what is going on there. Matt a suspect in the deadly explosion in bangkok was seen on security footage. A man in a yellow shirt was seen taking off a backpack and walking away. The bomb exploded in a bangkok Shopping Center popular with foreigners. Searching through Hillary Clintons emails. 305 emails were flagged. Clinton said she did nothing wrong by using a private server while in office. She joked about the messages yesterday while campaigning in iowa. You may have seen that i recently launched a snapchat account. [applause] i love it. I love it. Those
Day after briefly touching that level. And it did so with confidence, surging triple digits. This is the blue chip indexs 4,000point milestone this year. Ibm played a big role in todays advance. Shares of big blue soared nearly 9 , its best day since 2009. On the back of its Quarterly Results that we told you about last night. Solid earnings and improving Global Growth have also contributed to the markets seemingly uninterrupted rally. When all was said and done the Dow Jones Industrial a gained 160 points to 23,157. Nasdaq rose just fractionally. The s p 500 was up nearly two. Bob pisani takes a look at why nothing seems to s reporter stocks seemed to be racking up record highs. The dow grew 5,000 points in 18 months. That means the dow has advanced 1,000 points on average every 3. 6 months. At this rate well hit 24,000 at the end of january and well be celebrating 25,000 in the middle of may. The markets keep rallying because everyone has come to believe that all the problems of the
Decemb december k putting together two companies that in terms of programming are similar. Its not like were going from one network that does reality or that type of programming to sports or lots of scripted work or whatnot this is putting those two things together the question is are you better off putting those two together or in this new age of media trying to go into scripted gore into a premium thing scripted. Scripted. But this has been bandied about. For a long time they were two sort of theyre not like outliers that deserve to get together. If it was going to happen, would put these together for scale thats where the synergistic value is some analysts would question this how much more power does a discovery scripps together have in terms of carriage agreement Going Forward . How much value proposition, if you want this channel you have to take this channel that was more scripps problem than a discovery problem zaslav yesterday admitted we are managing through the new times, dau
Real threat to peace. Glass container filled with thousands of weapon used by farc was removed today from a rebel camp. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos personally oversaw the closing as a left of the camp. It is the final stage of the disarmament that began in july and was overseen by the united nations. It was one of the provisions of the Peace Agreement signed with the colombian government. The richest person in the world has made his largest donation since the year 2000. Bill gates donated microsoft billion ed at 4. 6 about 5 of his fortune. No word on who received the gift. Gates has made most of the donations to the bill and Melinda Gates foundation, which he and his wife use for their philanthropic efforts. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Abigail live from World Records in york, im abigail doolittle. Scarlet im scarlet fu. Joe im joe weisenthal. Julia is off today. A
You will have the opportunity to go down in the books as an american hero. Charles 50 members of the Electoral College signed a letter asking for a briefing on the russian hacking. Spearheading this is the daughter of nancy pelosi. The initial demand, reviewing the initial 10, was he wouldnt vote until this russian briefing you guys had a chance to look at it. Is that still your position . Yes, now that 67 signatures and many more supporting us, republican and democratic electors saying we are alarmed by what we read in the news and what we continue to read in the news as more revelations are coming forward, that the intelligence reports are putin himself direct the dissemination of stolen information from democratic emails. So we are deeply concerned about the role as Alexander Hamilton said years ago, about the role of undue influence in our elections. We appreciate the calls for investigation on capitol hill. But among the electors, we would like that information. We hope to hear fr