Lets take a look at the numbers there for you. The dow is currently off by 266 points. The s p is down by 41 and the nasdaq, look at that, a 2. 6 drop, 125 points being shed off the nasdaq. All three are now in correction territory. Lets get more on the trading action on the floor of the stock exchange. Its a pretty ugly day, it really feels like the market is having a lot of difficulty finding its footing. A number of different factors at work. You had the weaker close over in europe. You also had the disappointing Industrial Production or industrial profit numbers out of china today. Add to that the weakness, the continued weakness in the commodity space. Oil is down. Hasnt broken through that 44 level but youre also seeing weakness in zinc and copper, et cetera, and gold today. All of that is keeping pressure on the markets. The s p also breaking below that 1900 level. People were watching that. Right now were watching the russell as well below that 1100 number as well. One of the r
Vieira, returns to the anchor chair in studio 1a, as we kick off our special homecoming week today, monday, september 8th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Its been a while since ive said this. Im matt lauer alongside Meredith Vieira, and al roker and natalie morales. Yeah. How does it feel to wake up . It feels really good to wake up, no. This is so much fun. Its great. Great for us, too. Meredith was already in, in my room, on my table with this wonderful little note that said, hey, censored, your Worst Nightmare is back. Im here you needed to put that little censored on there. Normally i draw it on your mirror in lipstick. Security told me i couldnt do that anymore. I know they did. Meanwhile, how about this breaking news . Its great. Natalie the royal family is set to expand as william and kate revealed that she is expecting. Nbcs Kelly
Issue. Finally, the United States and europe need to get serious on alternatives. Practical projects that reinforce cooperation can help u. S. And eu approaches to climate change. I Hope Congress will find a way to allow the government to issue lng export licenses in a sufficient number for u. S. Lng to make a difference under an allied Energy Security act ian while not have an Immediate Impact it will not solve europes problems on the Energy Security it will be a very, very important political message. It would send the political message it would send is incall clabl especially to Vladimir Putin. By the way, i hope senator johnson in the course of the debate you will ask me what i think is ahead of Vladimir Putin when hes stopped short of invading the whole of the ukraine but maybe at another time. What really is at stake here in conclusion i would say is the cohesion and resilience of democratic and free societies. This is really an enormous task. And i do feel the United States must
Century gps technology. We think it will make the airspace more efficient and create more capacity and make the airspace cleaner that way. So whats interesting is that over the next year hopefully, once we get over this issue with the highway trust fund, the next big issue in transportation is going to be an faa reauthorization bill. And i think there are some issues in aviation that are on the table now about how we structure and how we finance and how we set the aviation sector up to compete in the 21st century economy that well have a chance to work with industry and work with other stakeholders to help resolve. But i think thats going to that period of time is going to allow all these issues to be laid bare in a much different dynamic and just in the budget season and im looking forward to having those conversations. But i will say welcome i think that conversation has to be more complicated if were still trying to deal with highways and transit next year. We need to get this done
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