pat ryan who was not expected to win by many standards really used abortion as a centerpiece of his campaign. and cruised to victory in a very surprise win. and then we ve also been seeing a lot of candidates lean into abortion as well. and the wins in kansas speak a big way for them to make some gains. so, i think a lot of these candidates are getting nervous. we see this often, a lot of people tend to go to the right of primaries and walk their rhetoric back ahead of general elections but the gymnastics that we re almost seeing right now with these republican candidates is really interesting and i think different. i think a lot of democrats as we spoke with the democratic central committee and the dccc, walking back the sharpest rhetoric ahead of november. and polling suggests that the worst issue for democrats and republicans at the moment. pennsylvania has become the
each lost about 1.1%. the dow jones not far behind losing about 1%. we also saw plunge in the oil price yesterday, brent and wti both dropped about 5.5%. and it looks as though today is going to be another down day for the price of oil. a lot of recession concerns swirling around. in terms of the day ahead, the data wise, we have the u.s. adp rofrt of private payrolls for august coming out. of course that s ahead of the all-important nonfarm payrolls on friday. we also have chicago manufacturing survey to look out for the month of august as well as fresh fed commentary. and worrisome eurozone inflation numbers as well. we ve got also a wave of layoffs sweeping across american businesses in the past year. what s the latest you can tell us on that? well, the latest big headline around this is from snap. news came yesterday report from
verg snap will lay off 20% of staff, 1,000 employees. at the same time, two senior executives from the company are heading for the exit and they re making their way to netflix. now, it s been a difficult year for snap. you ll remember back when the company delivered q2 results shares dropped more than 25% in a single day. the company missed on both the profit and revenue lines. and those disappointing results kick started a wave of selling and a wave of disappointing earnings from a number of companies in the social media space due in large part to weak online advertising revenues. year to date, snap shares are down nearly 80%. and then as summer winds down and fall approaches, there s been a lot of discussion among businesses about trying to get workers back to offices. and goldman sachs yesterday raised eyebrows with this. set to scrap remaining covid-19 restrictions for employees at their u.s. offices saying
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but even so, it s looking like these investigations aren t doing a lot for him. and it s an interesting split screen we re seeing in pennsylvania right now. in recent years august has been traditionally troublesome for presidents, biden, trump, and this august. thanks for all of you for getting up way too early on this wednesday morning. a jam-packed morning joe starts right now. let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress, don t tell me to support law enforcement if you won t condemn what happened on the 6th. don t tell me. can t do it. for god s sake, whose side are you on? whose side are you on?