With a new show on cnbc, highlighting Small Businesses and the people behind them across the country power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Im john fortt take a look at whats driving the Market Health care stocks the biggest laggards while industrials and financials lead the way. Check out the bank names all higher tesla, the big winner. At the highs of the session, helping to turn the nasdaq almost positive, close to break even midday. Morgan stanley final upgrading the stock to a buy after a 500 gain this year lets get to bob pisani for more on these markets bob, you got me . Maybe not. Kelly, do you see what is happening with these markets i mean, were showing the sector snapshot here. Weve got s p retail is higher ahead of a Holiday Season we expect to be really strong for ecommerce and weve seen strong results this week from walmart and target yes, we do. By the way, i want to point out well, i want to point out that the dow turned negative only in the past hour or s
The session. High intraday high russell 2000 continues its high but it, too, has faded during the session. The russell flat, the other indices negative coming up in todays show, well ask allianz chief economic adviser Mohamed El Erian about todays highs plus, the president of shopify about the companys new partnership with alipay mike santoli, tracking the market action. Meg tirrell has more news on pfi zechlt rs vaccine data and phil lebeau, covering the boeing 747 max. Mike, start us off here. Weve been dealing with a couple of issues, the market being a little stretched on the upside after that strong rally month to date. Over bullish sentiment has had a hard time getting traction, but no damage done at this point on the year to date chart were slightly above that september high by half a percent nothing damaging really happening here i wanted to zoom into the last ten days of trading or basically really more like eight days of trading, back to last monday, week ago monday. Pfizer n
the women and girls of afghanistan cannot be abandoned. amena mohammed has just returned from a high level meeting with the taliban. she says her delegation made some progress on women s rights but much remains to be done. ringback some exemptions are being made to the edicts that have covered the health sector. and i think that s because the international community and particularly the partners who are funding this, we re able to show the implications and the impact of your woman to women s services, particularly childbirth or getting food across and very harsh when to conditions. not enough. that s just the very beginning. we ve opened up a crack and we hope that through the reversals, we can eventually get to a stage where you neutralize those edicts than women are back in school. and girls and, and, of course are in the workplace. the u. s. is designating rushes. wagner group has an international criminal organization. it is about $50000.00 of its mercenaries of fighting
this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. the sour, the u. s. is designating russia s wagner group as an international criminal organization. it says about $50000.00 of its mercenaries of fighting a new crime. the classification will allow the us to apply why the sanctions through the group. we continue to assess that wagner currently has approximately 50000 personnel deployed to ukraine, including 10000 contractors and 40000 convicts. our information indicates the russian defense ministry has reservations about wagner recruitment methods. despite this, we assess that it is likely that wagner will continue to recruit, write out a russian prisons due to recent events. we assessed that it is likely there are mounting tensions between russian officials and mister promotion with germany has not yet decided whether to send lippard to battle tanks to ukraine, despite pressure from its nicer partners. defense ministers for more than 50 countries made in germany on friday to