With breakingt news that cost the terminal, President Trump spoke via telephone with the Vladimir Putin, what is the latest . Oliver Vladimir Putin just met with the president of syria, so that is what he has on his mind when he wanted to talk about. They wanted to talk about how to get a diplomatic solution to the ongoing war in syria with mass casualties. Obviously, president putin is in line with the president of syria. President trump fired missiles into syria as he does not like what theyre doing, but they are hoping their relationship can read to some kind of diplomatic option. They also talked about ukraine, iran and afghanistan, according to the white house, but that is the top topic they were focused on. Andry president putin President Trump in the sidelines of that summit in vienna. Lets turn to that at t and time warner deal. It is pretty rare when it does not involve direct competitors, why are we seeing this now . If you ask critics, they will tell you they believe that in
Also, also trading at a record. Small caps lagging recently as investors try to flush out with the prospects are for tax reform, because this is seen as a group that is particularly receptive to any kind of tax cut. Everything since last years elections, you saw outperformance initially and through the long fade. Particularlynce, in the last week or so, this is i should imagine the russell 2000s performance relative to the s p 500 so we are still positive post the election, near breaking even or even with the s p 500s performance in august. One proxy we are watching for tax reform. As for what is leading large caps, technology is the big winner, up over 1 . They are performing well in the session. The only group down on the day is telecom. Health care bouncing back, i will talk about that today. Bounceig cyclically led we are watching in todays session. Take a look at one stock that is a standout, whirlpool. You can see the lake up leg up. That appears to be connected to the Internatio
That she is a woman who has responsibility and is ready to continue taking responsibility. She added that her preelection commitment to serve another four years stance. U. S. Secretary general u. S. Secretarygeneral Antonio Guterres says that terrorist groups and criminals are capitalizing on conflict to exploit innocent civilians in ways which may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. Speaking at a Security Council meeting today, the u. N. Chief called for urgent action to combat Human Trafficking and highlighted the recent video aired on cnn of african migrants being sold as slaves in libya. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Julia live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, i am julia chatterley. Scarlet im scarlet fu. Joe and im Joe Weisenthal in washington today. Julia we have 30 minutes from the close of trading in the United States. The s p 500 hitting th
Halfway into the day. The dow is the underperformer of the day. I am looking, johnson johnson, dupont, mac and expressed, Procter Gamble the underperformers. Andalls a quarter of 1 overall little changed after major averages closed at record yesterday and he nasdaq is still trading at a record today with any gain for major averages would be another closing high. There is a lot going on and one of the things we are watching in the last hour is sterner, shares surging after a report that the ceo of Amazon Cloud Services plans to announce a deal with cerner to help Health Care Providers better use data to use predictions about data population. Citing unidentified people with the matter and cerner is not commenting. Amazon web services has a lot of clients. It is unclear what the significance of this particular deal would be. Cerner is reacting and its rivals are down today. Holidays,ers into the some strength across the retailers. Goldman sachs out with an interesting note talking about t
, but overall stocks are indeed mixed. A little change after closing at record highs yesterday. A bit of a cause. Not unusual in this current market environment that we have record after record after record and little bits of causes in the in the middle. S we are not seeing those in the various industrial stocks. A lot of different news flow in this industry. Lets start with john deere, the tractor maker. Farm incomes are still languishing, but the cycle has now gone on so long that peoples equipment is wearing out, so they have to replace it anyway. That is driving sales there. Axalta coding, after a bit cell apart, those shares are rising about or percent. Rockwell automation on the flipside, spurning a third takeover proposal from emerson electric, saying it is still undervaluing the company, 29 billion is the current bid. Emerson electric shares up by about 2. 5 . Pricesg it out with oil this morning, a significant upward move in oil trading close to 58 a barrel for wti. That is af