Moment earlier he toured the coastal 11. 4 . 15 percentage point swing. Areas. Well bring you the live and meantime a news alert on pictures from austin as soon as another retailer, this time its the president lands. But we begin today with an target event that shook the market ari levy has that scoop for us. Cnbc has learned that target overnight. North korea launching a missile is making a major move off over japan amazon web services. While stocks have made up early our sources are telling us that logs eds, more details about whether there will be an this is a longtime coming. Targets been hitting Amazon Official full u. S. Response. Has been hitting target at every hans nichols out at the pentagon with all of that have. Corner imaginable and most reporter we do have a response coming from the office of the secretary of defense, and they are saying, this is an recently in whole foods. Target is taking their money intermediate Ballistic Missile missile, irbm. It gives you an indicati
Conversation stay tuned. Which will continue for the next 59 minutes. I want you to be more vocal on fast money, certain people are saying whatever they want. When good men are silent, thats when bad things can fester thats like a history lesson. Thats when things can fester hes saying youre a good guy. Ill take that. Thank you, joe a look at u. S. Equity futures it looks like we would have been on track for a positive month of august well see what happens this morning. Dow futures up by 57 points. S p futures up by 7. Nasdaq up by 20 this comes after an up day for the markets yesterday as well. Overnight in asia, you will see the nikkei closed up by 0. 75 . Hang seng down by a percentage point. Shanghai was almost flat if you look at whats happening in early trading this morning, you can see across the board there is strength. It looks like the ftse is up by 0. 6 similar gains for the dax in germany. The cac is up by 0. 7 . Check out the dollar, too. Dollar weve been watching so close
White House Legislative Affairs director marc short spoke with journalists about the Trump Administrations legislative agenda, which includes tax reform and immigration. This hourlong event was hosted by the Christian Science monitor. My friend, good morning, and dave cook from the Christian Science monitor. Thanks for coming. I guess todays mark shortterm assistance to the president in office of legislative affairs feared this is his first visit with our breakfast club, home to what tbn and calls the mainstream media. Thanks for making time for us in your busy schedule, sir. The virginia native graduated from washington and lee university. He got his start in politics serving as finance their poor Oliver North Senate campaign and went on to become executive director of Young America foundation what his role including stewardship of Ronald Reagans ranch after running the ranch he earned in an ea at the university of virginia, worked in the Homeland Security department and security depa
Reports on the state of the Russian Investigation and timing of james comey getting fired. As the president himself is speaking out with new details in defense of comeys firing. What we know about that now. Obamacare in freefall. One of the nations Largest Health insurers quitting entirely, all the health exchanges, all over the country by next year. I was one of those states and iowa senator chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley among our guests this hour, will respond democrats claims that republicans are now to blame. Melissa dow lower for Third Straight day. It is negative or the week to snap a threeweek winning streak. Ashley webster on the floor of the new york stock exchange, watching a sector get hit especially hard today. Ashley . Ashley melissa, the retail ice age we talk about it all the time, the Big Retail Stores struggling against the online juggernaut that is amazon. Check out macys, down 17 on news samestore sales for macys down 5. 2 yearoveryear. So on an
Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We have a number of distinguished nominees here today and we welcome them. We also have a number of very distinguished introducers. We welcome you and thank you for coming to our committee. In order for you to be able to go ahead and do other Business Today we will defer relative to making Opening Statements and let you go ahead and do what you need to do. We look forward to those comments and we realize youll like to go elsewhere. I know senator mcconnel is coming today. Why dont we start in the order of seniority. We appreciate so much you being here. We welcome you all. Thank you for being here today. If you will, begin. Thank you mr. Chairman and Ranking Member of the committee. It is a pleasure to be back here. Sit the second time in less than a couple of weeks. Its not often i darken the door but as long as a president keeps nominating texans i promise to keep coming back often. She is truly someone that needs no introduction but i