Prove it. Got an insanely addictive gain for econ nerds everywhere. Power lunch starts right now. Welcome to power lunch. Econ nerd Brian Sullivan with three hours left in the trading session. Stocks, as you can see, at session lows, mildly in the green. But if this recent trend continues, it may not be for long. Trying to lead the dow higher at this hour, you got merck and other names out there. As you can see, the dow is up just 19 points. Goldman sachs doing okay. And were pleased to have seema mody riding shotgun with us today. Hi, everyone. Im seema mody. Heres what else is up on power lunch at this hour. Housing starts falling more than expected last month after two straight months of gains. U. S. Attorney general Loretta Lynch says this weekends explosions in new york and new jersey are being investigated as an act of terror. And the National Hurricane center says Tropical Storm lisa has formed in the atlantic. It is not expected to make landfall in the u. S. Lots to get to this
Ahead with strengthening the e. U. s external borders to back the new mission to disrupt the criminal gangs working between greece and turkey who are putting so many peoples lives at risk. Britain will continue to contribute and step up our contribution in all of these areas. Turning to britains place in europe, mr. Speaker, ive spent the last nine months setting out the four areas where we need reform and meeting with all other 27e. U. Heads of state and government to reach an agreement that delivers concrete reforms in all four areas. Let me take each in turn. First, british jobs and business depend on being able to trade with europe on a level playing field, so we wanted new protections for our economy to safeguard the pound, to promote our Industries Including our Financial Services industries, to protect british taxpayers from the costs of problems in the eurozone and to insure that we have a full say over the rules of the Single Market while remaining outside the eurozone, and we
Access more sources of finance for their businesses and in energy, allowing new suppliers into our Energy Market meaning Lower Energy Bills for families across the country. We have secured commitments to complete trade and investment agreements with the fastestgrowing and most dynamic economies around the world including the usa, japan and china as well as our commonwealth allies, india, new zealand and australia. These deals could add billions of pounds and thousands of jobs to our economy every year. And, of course, they build on the deals we already have with 53 countries around the world through which britain has benefited from the negotiating muscle that comes from being part of the Worlds Largest trading bloc. Mr. Speaker, of course, country after country has said to me that, of course, they could sign trade deals with britain, but they have also said that their priority would be trade deals with the e. U. By their nature, these e. U. Deals would be bigger and better, and a deal
Reporter a big couple of days, as far as politics go, especially over here in nevada. Saturday. People turning out to support Hillary Clinton or bernie sanders. Hillary clinton did come out on top with the win, but talking about the republicans, they had their primary over in South Carolina also on saturday, and there. This is his second win. He did take the win in New Hampshire with ted cruz taking the win in the caucus happening in iowa just earlier this month. So we want to talk about, cues me talking about the gop caucus happening in nevada tomorrow, several president ial hopeful else they wear way to the silver state. Lets start with ben carson. He was here yesterday. S a going to be here today. He is speaking up in virginia city. Marco rubio also coming to northern nevada. Hell be making several stops throughout the day. Starting in elko, making his way to reno, hitting tom cruise in town, holding a rally at the elko, at the r,no boys and girls club tonight. Hes going to be hitti
The former black panther spent more time in solitary confinement than any man in u. S. History. He was reased in louiana on friday. In h firstroadcastg to ew, albe woodfox joinss fromewrleans ang with another former black panther who was imprisoned with him in angola prison, robert king. We wanted to wait until we see him walk out of prison. That is what he did. We were convinced he would eventually walk out the door, but we wanted to make sure that he would be walking out the door before we begin to celebrate within ourselves too much because we have been let down too many times. Amy robert king and Albert Woodfox, our are two of the angola 3. Herman wallace died of cancer a few days after he was released from prison in 2013. We will also speak with billy sothern, one of our woodfoxs lawyers about his path to freedom. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Our woodfox from who spent more than 43 years in