Claims and 21 million continuing claims better than the week before. But still incredibly bad on an absolute basis same thing with the stock market we get crushed today sell, sell, sell. Obliterated wrong. Once again, the averages spent most of the day well into the black despite still more hideous macro data either we sold off the end of the session, dow 148 points, s p falling 1. 2 nasdaq easing 4. 6 , again, the market was up most of the day. The climb were about the incredibly weak labor market what happened when we heard the claims numbers right from the oechg . There is fear actions the president might take against tech because of his anger about social media and the president s plans for punishing china over hong kong, punishment that could reverberate to our own companies that do business there so then why did the stock market open up big when those hideous figures at this point its become a cliche to insist that wall streets tote lit disconnected from main street. After all, h
But president made no mention of that last month when he met with the qatari emir, instead, offering to sell him weapons. Lots of beautiful military equipment. Reporter during that trip, the president vowed to unify the muslim world against terrorism and iran. But tensions spiked in the past 24 hours, with countries in the region closing their air space to qatari planes, blocking trade, and cutting diplomatic ties, sparking qataris to stockpile food. The u. S. Launches air strikes against isis and syria in iraq from a base in qatar. The tiny gulf emirate hosts around 10,000 u. S. Troops. Thats one reason secretary of state Rex Tillerson has tried to deescalate the crisis. We certainly would encourage the parties to sit down together and address these differences. Reporter and yesterday, u. S. Ambassador dana smith praised qatars Great Partnership in countering terrorist financing. Smith has broken with the president before, lamenting last month on twitter that it is increasingly diffic
Cut it out. Reporter Law Enforcement source say voter databases nationwide were targeted by Russian Hackers over a sixmonth period ahead of the election. So you think the worstcase scenario was that they were actually trying to affect the vote total . I think that was their hope. Reporter jim lewis advises the u. S. Government on cybersecurity i think that they were expecting to be able to manipulate votes in some way, maybe discredit the electoral system, which they came closer to doing. Reporter u. S. Officials still believe the vote total was not affected. There is nothing more fundamental to our democracy than voting. Reporter today, Homeland Security secretary john kelly said his department wants to help states secure their Voting Systems, but that some are wary of federal intrusion. Do you see us as partners and helpers in this, to help make sure that your systems are protected . Reporter today, the kremlin again denied interfering in the election. Scott, late last year, an Obama
Energy came out with its inventory report supporting what we heard from the api last night. If not even a little bit more drastic. A draw down in cruel Oil Inventories 14. 5 million barrels. The api number of 12. 1 was the highest draw down in more than 30 years. This is very significant. Theres some speculation in the marketplace that hermine caused supply reductions and this could be a one off this week but theres another side to this story that could be that were starting to work through some of the inventoriful some of that that everybody has been worried about so a clear reason to see the prices move higher. Closer to 47 barrel. Back to you. Thank you. Good thursday morning. Kayla already made her way back but well start with politics this morning. Hillary Clinton Holding a News Conference after both candidates spoke on nbc. John is live with the latest. Hey, carl. We had both candidates last night at the nbc msnbc commander in chief forum to talk about issues. Hillary clinton had
The idea was to similar late a cyber attack at the National Security council or cabinet level and see how the United States would react. Stuart baker who was always selling his book skating on stilts, which is a great book if you havent read it, who was playing the white house cyber czar started pounding on the table saying if the attorney general doesn have the authorities, should go and find the authorities four yearings late later, im not sure that weve gone and found the securities. But something has finally changed. The president pushing new proposals seems that maybe we turned the corner and were going to see changes when it comes to Cyber Security. I know in trying to move it it took a cyber attack on a show to get things to start changing. Youve surely read and learned from hr art kal. She knows more on cyber issues than 95 of the policymakers in washington. Its probably 96 . With that, let moe turn it over to ellen. Thank you very much, blaze. And thanks to the Bipartisan Poli