Julie you just abide buy today between the individual retailers in the retail Sales Numbers. They are showing different pictures of whats going on within the retail industry. Individual retail showing sales letter disappointing even as the overall number does beat estimates. Women mixed picture at the moment the major averages is the nasdaq is down thing but the dow imap is the the best technology group. Telecom and Consumer Staples shares are lower, however today. Retail, when youre looking at different times of retailers today, its an interesting story. Walmart and amazon, for example, we of walmart which is rising falling by 2 . But amazon is also down after her recent winning streak it had. Walmart reports its warnings next thursday its earnings next thursday to be head of that. First quarter comes could come in in line or below what analyst are estimating. Declining,se stocks investments and owners are falling in the session as well. Got disappointing numbers, not just today but o
Results of lackluster volume. We will look at that in a minute. The dow is down 171 points, down nearly 1 as we head towards the close. It looks like we will have a down week for the Third Straight week. Lets take a look at the volume on the terminal. This looks at volume by industry. All are down. Telecoms seeing a drop, energy also seeing a substantial drop. Upticky group seeing an of 18 is construing or discretionary is consumer discretionary. Outside from that, not much activity. If you look at the s p 500 over the course of the day, you can see the interior rating prices. This downward decline accelerating after midday, as the s p is down 9 10 of 1 . Asant to look at oil prices well, because we see a lot of correlation between oil and stocks, but that has not been the case today. It has been down steadily throughout the course of the session. It has not seen that downward slide. We cant bring cant blame oil today. Carol talk about whats going on with the banks. Reporter there we c
Establish process. And was a plan to make enough to the be no loss of federal funds for north go on at this time in conjunction with the announcements from the department of education, justice for this guidance for transgender students . As alleged North Carolina inconsiderate page hb2, a policy decision that was made hb2, even as agency was considering whether or not the implantation of hb2 would put a range of federally funded programs at risk in the state of North Carolina. A decision that was made was to not withhold any funding until the enforcement action that was announced by the department of justice had made its way through the courts. So that was a very specific thing and that was a response to developments that occurred this week with regard to the situation in North Carolina. This guidance is guidance that has been in the works for years. And, but it is guidance that is broadly consistent with the kinds of principles that this president and this administration have long fou
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Michael obviously there is a lot of political intrigue in the Supreme Court. A lot of powerful people are interested in the decisions that you come to any effects that they have on Public Policy and commerce. My question is, what if any effect is that political interests have on the court decisionmaking process, and what steps do you take to maybe isolate yourself from that political interest . Is it just something that you and the other justices get used to overtime . Justice sotomayor you do not get on the court unless you are a concerned citizen. Every single justice has had a career in which they have devoted their lives, in some form or a the other or the other to the public view. Even any private practice they have been involved in activities that do public service. We are, by nature, citizen lawyers. You do not work as hard as we work, reach where we have reached, unless we have shown that to the powers that be. We get selected because we are the very best at some aspect of the