Midwest. Will be b here to give us a consumer check as power lunch begins right now welcome to power lunch. Im contessa brewer. Check out where we stand after hitting record highs the dow mostly in the red thanks to boeings move lower the s p barely hanging on to the green. The nasdaq again, still in the green, but barely hanging on to the gains. Take a look at these tech heavy weights which have been b leading the rally. Facebook up half a percent dpo google up a half a percent the dow crossing 29,000 for the first time today though it is off that level right now. A handful of stocks responsible for this latest leg of the rally and bob pisani is taking a look at those names hard to believe it was only a couple of years ago we were at 20,000 so i want to show you whats responsible for moving the dow from 20 to 29,000. Concentrated, but not as much as you might think. Apple not surprisingly 15 of the gains is through the apple. Boeing, 13 . United health care, visa and microsoft. B abou
Youre watching our to International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 11 am welcome to the program we start the program with breaking news as iran has admitted that its military an intentionally shot down the ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday due to human error foreign minister zarif and it happened at a time of crisis caused by us and. Our correspondent on the corner joins us live in the studio with all the details what sort of International Reaction has there been to this admission well most recently we heard from the canadian Prime Minister who called this event a National Tragedy and he also said that he expected full cooperation from iran in the investigation we also heard from ukraines president vladimir is a lens ski who said that he expects he expects irans take full responsibility and for the investigation to continue without any obstruction earlier today we did hear from irans president who promised just that and called this a vent and on
Has warned that home where they are in strong remains could lead to catastrophic conditions this weekend will go to see the need for the likes of just. Very welcome to the program we begin with fresh fears of another war in the middle east after a fresh u. S. Strike a targeted den iran backed militia north of baghdad it comes less than 24 hours after a drone strike killed a top iranian general a short while ago u. S. President donald trump defended the attack at Baghdad Airport that killed general. Name he was the head of irans elite could force and will seen as the architect of tehrans military operations in the middle east the strike also killed the hondas and Iraqi Paramilitary group leader with close ties to iran. Meanwhile he runs u. N. Ambassador has told broadcast to c. N. N. That the response for a military action is a military action the u. S. Says or does it ordered its citizens to leave iraq and is sending thousands of extra troops to the region. The iranians took to the str
Good morning from moscow its friday the 27th of december. International with the world news were going to start with breaking news from kazakhstan in central asia 1st though a passenger plane has crashed shortly after taking off from port killing at least 15 people dozens more seriously injured including 9 children across this force is our correspondent. Welcome back. To you know if you i was on from when this crash happened. One called what a tragedy just a few days before new years eve but if there can be a case in which the words good news are appropriate after a plane crash well this is the one because its been confirmed by doctors that the majority of the passengers on that. Which apparently means that this cant have been. A High Altitude so what happened was at about 20 minutes past 7 local it was still dark and thats the biggest city in kazakstan this plane took off from the airport but then started quickly. Hit a concrete wall before crashing into a small boy. Only 2 floors in
10 here in moscow friday the 27th right altie international with some tragic news to stop to say a passenger planes crashed shortly after taking off from. Central asia its known that at least 15 people on board were killed dozens more seriously injured including 9 children. Do you. Know who did the incident took up to do you. Believe you did not prime movers would you cant begin to do any good were you do you. Know you. Should see. This. Was a good. Look at the risk just as risk. As the shows it was a border that. You would use as your perception that. Some of the distressing scenes that have been posted online correspond of the trenches across this force about 6 hours on from this now whats known about what happened well call and again we look at those pictures and we realise what a tragedy it is for kazakstan only a few days before new years eve but if there is a case in which the words good news could be appropriate after a plane crash this is the one because right now we already un