Danger. Partners. Equally surely that would be the ideal form of community but when it comes to gender equality most societies around the world are lacking hierarchy power and property define the role of women they are often treated as objects especially in armed conflict. And as baby machines traditions like bride prices turn women into goods and often leave them economically dependent on their husbands. Such structures are breeding grounds for Domestic Violence and femicide 11000 women murdered in asia 11000 in africa and 6000 in north and south america those are just the official numbers of women killed by their intimate partners in 2017. Countries in latin america have adopted special femicide last call. Tough sentences for the gender related killing of women and 2015 so to brazil. A maximum security prison in a remote region of the state of go as in north east brazil the director has given us permission to interview men who have killed their wives or girlfriends. Its a crime thats
China, which has chinese stocks bouncing today weve also got another big announcement as well dont miss the debut of a new segment here on closing bell today. The market zone is coming up into and after the close well bring you the stocks and stories every investor needs to know and it will look a little different as well. Joining us for the hour is mark tepper from Strategic Wealth partners mark, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Looking at the dow today, were up 154 points. The s p is also hovering right around 2980, it looks like a decent last day for the month of september as we head into these final three months of the year, what are you watching the most closely . I think the biggest catalyst right now is a potential trade deal all eyes are looking on this meeting next week between the u. S. And china, because if you think about it, its really, really difficult for ceos of publicly traded companies to execute on their growth plans if they have no visibility as to what
Ahead of the open. Cloud sales growth accelerates the company also aims for spending more on a. I shares of starbucks under pressure theyre down after a decline in samestore sales it also slashed its forecast were going to be joined exclusive by starbucks ceo just a few minutes from now lets begin this new month for markets after ending a rough april with that selloff. Worst day since january 31st worst month since september 23. Some of it was because theres a belief that really, this happened in the last few hours yesterday that if the fed chief is asked the question, do you think that the next move should be increasing rates or decreasing rates, it puts him in a horrible bind . H what is he going to say . This was literally the narrative i heard yesterday as Interest Rates ticked up. You know that people are going to try to trap the chairman, but hes not easily trapped. No, hes not. Although youre not necessarily in favor of the press conferences, as i recall no, because these people
When the Bottle Market is in charge he wont make much money in the stock market because bond owners are pessimist, real glass halfempty guys and the bond market is certainly in charge right now. Today we saw exactly how pessimistic they really are when they overlooked very Weak Consumer Confidence data and averted eyes from a chicago report 17 month low. Both signs that we are making progress in the fight against inflation. Instead, they focus on a slightly higher than expected employee wage figure. The results, bond yields moved up slightly and the stock market got annihilated. The dow tumbling 570 points. The s p punching 1. 57 and the nasdaq plummeting. April 2024 will go down as the worst month for the dow since september of 2022. Good riddance. Now, on the verge of a fed meeting tomorrow that will no doubt show that j powell wants to keep Interest Rates up higher for longer because the popular perception is the economy is weakening. Notice i put it that way. Popular perception bec
And after yesterdays selloff where we saw bond market selloff and the yields higher and the pressure on the tech stocks, we have a reverse. Some of the big tech heavyweight on doing a lefty doing the lifting on the day. The adp number showing that there is softening in the labor market and maybe the Federal Reserve and maybe the Federal Reserve isnt going to have to go so hard so fast. We are seeing big going flat on the day as the dollar comes down from what has been a rapid run up. Lets look at the individual players. We have seen tesla, the outperformer of the toys on the day. We are seeing palantir higher. It is getting close to clinching that important deal with the u. K. With the nhs. Zoom on the downside, one of the worst performers. It has been announced, some new products and analysts were critically overwhelmed when they try to compete with the microsoft. Lets go back to the crypto story. A jury has been selected, opening arguments are said to start today for sam brickman fre