Stability in washington and any hint i mean, any hint that the growth agenda could get done. And perhaps overshadowing, pun intended, all those headlines today, the Solar Eclipse. Many are wait what many millions are waiting what many are calling a once in a lifetime event. Varney Company Begins right now. Ashley we begin with sad news this morning, the search continuing for ten u. S. Sailors missing after an Early Morning collision between a Navy Destroyer and a tanker or near singapore. What on earth is going on. Whats the latest . Yeah, search and rescue underway. It happened east of singapore. It hit an oil and chemical tanker three times its size. So basically this is the second serious collision in about a month. The uss fitzgerald collided with a freighter off the coast of japan, seven sailors dead there. Sailors are being evacuatedded, and so the search is on right now for the ten missing, five injured as well. Ashley all right, thank you very much. Lets bring in colonel ralph
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And a quick look at crude now, wti 47. 64. Ecb president mario draghi just wrapping up a speech in germany. He says all kinds point to a strengthening and broadening recovery in the euro area. You can see 1. 178 euro dollar. Not quite the havent high weve seen lately but getting there. Well hear more from mario draghi on friday when he speaks at jackson hole. Fed chair janet yellen will also speak on friday. Steve liesman will be there with full coverage and interviews walmart is teaming up with google to take on amazon the retailer is getting into the voice shopping market. Google is offering hundreds of thousands of walmart items on its Google Assistant platform starting next month. Court court wi lowes is reporting. Weve been waiting for it for a little while its still early looks like 1. 68 versus estimates of 1. 61 that would be up above where the street was by 6 cents, 7 cents 19 billion in sales, right in line total sales for the fiscal year are seen up 5 up 3. 5 samestore sales
Good thursday morning. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt, sara eisner and with us is henry blodgett. Amazon officially closing its acquisition of whole foods google and walmart are teaming up on a voice shopping nasdaq slightly up this morning looking to avoid its fifth negative session in six. A retail analyst on yesterday who called the day of that announcement amazon whole foods a day that will live in retail infamy now getting one step closer to theyre going to close this thing in the second half. Yeah, which is great. A lot of us amazon and whole food shoppers are exited another bold step from amazon. Well be excited how they do it. How your characterizing the responses companies have you take your hat off to walmart. Theyre being very aggressive. They made a huge bet acquiring jet. They are being superaggressive its a smart idea with google. Does it immediately counter amazon no but the whole idea of ordering stuff through your home voice device, walmarts are Something Like an a