Again, stocks marching higher despite any noise that is out there in the political world. Overnight, youll see what happened. The nikkei was up by half a percentage point. Hang seng was slightly weaker. Shanghai composite up by a quarter of a percentage point. In europe, the biggest surprise, even though the conservative party was not able to win back a majority, and even though there are all kinds of questions about theresa may and her government, you can see right now the ftse is trading higher. It is up by about three quarters of a percentage point. Stocks in france up as well. Germany, the dakotx is up. And the current sy market, youve seen more of a reaction. The pound is under pressure, the dollar pound is at 12736. Dollar up against the yen and up against the euro as well. Check out the ten year, the yield, at this point, looks like it is trading at 2. 199 . Just below 2. 2 . And if you look at crude oil prices this morning, crude oil is down yesterday. This morning, up by 15 ce
Nuanced. Im not real happy with the Freedom Caucus. But i have empathy for their position. Did you see theres one guy who already resigned . I have empathy for their position. I think it would have been better to i think the perfect i think they cut off their nose to spite their face. I dont know if they thought about it, the trillion dollars now that they have. 24 Million People will have health care. There you go. Whatever you think. Whatever youre reading. Whatever youre reading, probably continue with happy to get maybe 1 growth for the next eight years but now, the president is supposedly saying, if they wont work with us, well have to find ways to work with democrats. Yeah. They seem very amenable to that. Well hear some comments from him saying theyll be willing to schumer, i saw the compromises. We can go single payer. We can do drug cap price. Nothing was compromise, just solely democratic position. President trump is the closer. He will be able to work with democrats to make
Slowed. Nat dak off by 1. 5 . Last week, a pretty good week for the markets, dow was up by 66 points for the week. Nasdaq was up by 1. 4 . If you look overnight in asia, nikkei, 0. 4 . And kospi up 0. 34 . Markets in Mainland China were closed. The european equities, the dax is off. Off by 0. 4 . Market is flat in france and london as well. A couple other big stories were watching today. Weve got a lot. On the economic calendar, the ism. Auto sales. Tomorrow, factory orders and the paychecks Small Business jobs index comes out. Wednesday, the adp employment record, ism Services Reports and fed minutes. Thursday, weekly jobless claims, friday, wholesale trade numbers and march jobs report. There are a few names of earnings this week, monsanto, walgreens, boots alliance, young china, beth, bath and beyond and constellation. And on the wall street journal, trio of fed officials speaking today. Bill dudley holds a press briefly at 10 30. Philly president Patrick Harker speaking about finte
Its a beautiful facility hed re. This was built back just about five years ago. But its still possible that they could have lead in the water here. I mean, its the pipes, the joints that you have to worry about now. And that have been causing problems for them. You can imagine a lot of tfirsty athletes would be using and Drinking Water from this facility. So it also has to be tested along with the sc shools. In all some 70 schools and buildings here ing newark. Beringer High School Just a few blocks away, it is one of them. It recorded levels in excess of the epa guidelines. And so some oinf its fountains were also shut down in recent years. Or in just recent weeks. Since the state runs this school system, however, a pledge of sorts came from governor christie yesterday to fix whats wrong. Were going to do whatever we need to do for remediation thats necessary, appropriate, to redo the lines of a property, it takes a lot of demolition work to go thrdygh the walls and get down to the ar
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