Frost. Im Contessa Brewer in today for sara eisen. Straight to the Global Market picture. Futures at this hour coming off the day which was a winning day, a fight back day for the bulls out there. The dow was fraction tally negative, but the s p higher. Nasdaq was higher by a half percent. Bottom line there r this was a back from tuesdays trade. This morning essentially flat. The s p slightly higher, the dow and nasdaq slightly lower. Despite the fact equities were resilient yesterday, we saw yields slipping which had been part of the catalyst and spark for the declines the day earlier. We went down to 2. 4 on the tenyear, hit 2. 35 yesterday. The lowest since the 28th of february. Just back a that 2. 4 level again this morning. That slight slippage of yields yesterday didnt do much to derail stocks. Asian markets are ending higher today as well. Thats a definite improvement for the nikkei, which lost 2 yesterday. As you can see across the board, the nikkei is up 0. 2 . Hang seng flatt
U. S. Dollar versus the Canadian Dollar. Again, all of the things that have been happening with that potential trade war. Tariffs being slapped on canadian lumber. We will talk more about that in a moment. Take a look at what happened in the asian markets. The nikkei ended up by 1 . The hang seng market was up, too, up by a third of a percent. There are green arrows for most of the major markets. The cac in france is indicated up 0. 25 . The dak x is is slightly lower. If you look at crude oil prices, wti is trading below 50 a barrel. Its up 13 cents, but wti for the june contract at 49. 36. Among the other top stories, tensions with north korea on the rise. Today the country reportedly conducting a big livefire exercise. All to mark the foundation of its military. Top Trump Officials will hold a military briefing tomorrow at the white house, which will include the entire United States senate. The Trump Administration plans to impose a new tariff on canada. Wilbur ross announcing the p
He calls now if you sneeze he calls up and announces, isnt that a terrible thing. I dont want his support. I wouldnt want to be in a fox hole with a lot of these men. Including ryan, especially ryan. Martha today heres whats happening. Hes going to be in florida. His running mate, mike pence will be in virginia and North Carolina. Hillary clinton will be in colorado and nevada. Tim kaine is in North Carolina today. John rob earth is live in florida where the Trump Campaign is. Good morning to you, john. Reporter we are in ocala, Marion County which mitt romney won in 2012. Donald trump is trying to turn around some of the polls that show him trailing. Hes losing support from prominent members of the Republican Party. Kellyanne conway says typically the nominee gets the support of the full party. You heard what he said about House Speaker paul ryan who has not withdrawn his endorsement. Senator john mccain who asked for his endorsement says he is not going to support donald trump. Liste
Formally because it is being filmed for cspan as well. Could turn off their phones we are going to have an incredible panel. We will start with them. Then we will get questions from some of you. We have an overflow room. It will be going until 2 00. We have plenty of time. We have seats for people just coming in. Ok. Welcome the people in the room and the tens of thousands to the through cspan institute for policy studies for the session on what we have theed election debrief next step support of the progressive movement. I am john cabana, the director for the institute of policy studies i will be moderating todays session with five wonderful scholar activists from ips and allied groups. I just want to read you the that ips wrote when they wrote up the session three weeks ago, because it is still what we are doing. Let me read this. Says, these are these two smart people. They said the election is over. Racism, xenophobia, Climate Change, inequities, inequality are still with us. We ma
To handle some housekeeping, you will see two mics on either side of me in the center aisles. There will be a questionandanswer portion of todays event. When it comes to that moment, we do welcome anybody that has a question to lineup behind the mics. When you are preparing to ask a question, we ask that you first state your name and organization. Now, getting to introduce charlie. Charlie is the founder, editor, as well as publisher of the Cook Political Report. He is also a political and election analysis analyst for nbc news. Charlie founded the Cook Political Report in 1984, and it has been what i would call the bible for election and political Trend Analysis in washington. One other housekeeping matter, we have a hashtag today. It is njdayafter. We certainly welcome you tweeting on social media about the event. Without further ado, i would like to introduce charlie cook. [applause] mr. Cook gee, im sorry we have nothing to talk about. [laughter] mr. Cook i first want to ask your i