The two are to talk about business ties and latest threats posed by north korea and, yes, china. You can see hes pulling up right now. The Prime Minister of vietnam about to get out of the car. President trump waiting r that moment. But as we do wait for that Prime Minister to come out, here is the statement the white house is saying it will refer all questions about russias probe to trumps outside attorney. That is the news at the moment. Now, why . Because we have the news too that we do have james comey, the former fbi chief who was fired by President Trump saying he will testify publicly, specifically before the Senate Intelligence committee. He says President Trump asked him to back off of the flynn probe. These will be comeys first comments since the fbi director. On top of it, we do have the Federal Reserve making news too that it sees signs of a tightening job market, even more so in many parts of the country. And the beige book, which leads to more speculation that a june rate
White house is responding now and beefing up our dissents the pentagon making major moves to combat the threat of north korea among our guests this hour charlie hurt of the Washington Times naval analyst chris marler and chief assistant u. S. Attorney Andrew Mccarthy howard kurtz and pete hegseth. Ed the dow ending down for the day but up for the month. Not too bad. Winners. We came off the low of the day almost 90 points coming up in consecutive monthly gains for the dow and s p. The nasdaq seven months in a row and we havent seen that in some time. Thats the good news ultimately. We see the dow came this month just about 131 and the nasdaq up 2. 4 the s p 5001. 1 . We look at the percentage gainers on the dow. Here are some of the other names mcdonalds up to 8 cocacola apple walmart were some of the other big names that really help the dow a long and then wed talk about Technology Hey amazon cross the 1000dollar mark yesterday. Everybody has been waiting for that since 1997. Ipo open
Where politicians are one week away from a budget deadline. Even lawmakers are skeptical any deal could be reached. Are you as skeptical . Its good to alix steel for insight lets get to alix steel for insight on how the markets will trade. Over the last two years, on average, the s p was pretty much flat, averaging a gain of almost. 2 . When the jobs number was stronger than estimated, it was up. 7 . When it was weaker, it was down. 4 . That is what you can expect with the s p. Usually, action is priced in at the open. Performings wind up well on a positive surprise day . This is a day where you want to bet on the financials, which typically has a rally of 1. 2 . Next up is consumer discretionary, also pretty strong, up one percent. 1 . , industrials up you have a riskon trade when the number is better. On a disappointing day, what you need to run away from . 6 . Text, typically down following, down with four following down. 4 . Following, if the number comes in ahead of expectations,
/PRNewswire/ Greenwich Economic Forum (GEF) today announced the preliminary speaker lineup for its sixth Annual Conference, taking place at the Delamar.