Being. Whats needed to help protect the animals. We begin with a potential blow for the taliban in afghanistan. Afghan Officials Say that the groups reclusive leader, omar, is dead, and he has been for two years. The white house said that the reports are credible. News comes as talks between the taliban and the Afghan Government are set to resume. He was the spiritual leader of the taliban. Famously reclusive, only a few photographs of him exist. Fbi offered millions of dollars for his whereabouts that remained a mystery in the last years of his life. It was never clear if they were his wordsful as a young man, he was a fighter battling the soviets. How mullah omar game the self ro claimed emir of afghanistan. The need to have a leader, because he hadim and weapons to use, and the second reason, he was famous. His 30 fighters became thousands. The taliban took over afghanistan in 1996. Under mullah omars command, they established order in a company ravaged by instability and violence.
Hear what the Federal Reserve says about Interest Rates after wrapping up its today policy meeting. Its twoday policy meeting. A survey by bloomberg put the odds of a september increase at about 50 . In china, a late rally in stocks. The composite the shanghai composite index rose 3. 4 halting a fallen a fallen one at 11 . The government reports Oil Inventory figures a few hours from now. The congressional review of the Iran Nuclear Deal is entering a new phase today. Managers will hear from defense secretary ash carter and joint chief martin dempsey. House panel quiz secretary of state john kerry yesterday. The more jack dorsey kept talking, the more twitter stocks fell. Down as much as 14 premarket the stock went up yesterday when twitter posted secondquarter revenue that beat estimates. Jack dorsey have not yet had meaningful impact on growing our audience or participation. This is unacceptable and we are not happy about it. Over the past few weeks i have had a deeper understanding
Al qaeda leaders as they plotted the 9 11 attacks. An afghan official says omar died two to three years ago across the border in pakistan. The taliban says the group will release a statement shortly. Congress will question pentagon officials today about that iran nuclear deal. A Senate Committee want to know how the agreement could affect the military balance in the middle east. Yesterday, secretary of state john kerry test of ride before a house committee. All makers from both parties sounded skeptical about irans promise not to build atomic weapons. Matt microsofts new operating system windows 10 was released at midnight. It sparked a surge of computer buying but that is unlikely this time. Still, microsoft Vice President told bloomberg that this launch is very important. This is a pretty significant launch for anybody who uses pcs and wants to get things done with technology. We have had big window launches that have brought in things like enabling the internet to happen. I think wi
For the s p and the dow. The s p is up about half a percent. The best equity gain yesterday in two weeks. We are building upon that as we gains across the board. We are near the intraday highs for the s p and thehead to the. There is Technology Shares that are tumbling, twitter and yelp. Twitter came out with disappointing numbers today. M easily 2 million a measly 2 million active users. Yelp down a record 28 . Part of that has to do with their cutting their Sales Forecast but also cutting back on their National Branding campaign. Lots of analyst cutting their forecast on the stock, rating on the stock. A different story in commodities, inventories in the u. S. Dropped by over 4 million barrels. Were actually a gain which is why youre seeing nymex crude higher than 2 . Giving a dropon in oil prices has gone down. Also looking at industrial stocks and commodity stocks. Ohs are higher today. Lets take a check on those are higher today. We can see selling in the 10 year. 3 for the 30 yea
Chattanooga, and charleston. We want to get your check thoughts on background checks. Should they be strengthened . If you support the idea, 202 7488000, oppose it, 202 7488001, and a third line for gun owners, 202 7488002. You can also check in on twitter and facebook. Senator joe manchin, a democrat from West Virginia who has worked on this issue of background checks, with pennsylvanias senator pat toomey. The hill newspaper reports that under federal law, licensed gun dealers are required to conduct a background check either online or by phone using the National Instant criminal background check system. In every state, the system searches for criminal convictions. But the system only scanned Mental Health records in 30 states because it is not required under federal law. Take a look a listen. [video clip] is there any federal solution to what we are talking about here . I need my friends on the republican side of the aisle to help with the most reasonable, sensible path forward. Bas