End of the first quarter. This is why people are boarding up stores. Hes b planted the seed that the election has been stolen from him. Its in the place to declare who won this election. Thats the decision of the American People. But im optimistic about this outcome. A close race for the control of senate. It seemed so promising. Tz senator rowed. Its not vanished, but it has narrowed. In arizona, montana, new jersey and south dakota. All that and becoming the first openly transgender person to be elected to that position. This is me on drugs. That seems like a good time. By drugs i mean water. In all honesty, it doesnt look like were going to know anything for sure this evening. Thats the cbs news promise. We wont know anything. Stick around. Please enjoy this brief montage of things that feel as satisfying as you want this to be. This mornings eye opener brought to you by progressive. Thank you, Stephen Colbert for that. I love the puppy getting his tummy rubbed. A great dad point of
In the last 45 days, we are back in the green, at least for two, if not three of our major indices. The s p 500, in the green. We will call that flat. The nasdaq has not been able to get out of the hole it dug itself into. Some earnings weighing on some of these indices. , microsoft, cat missing estimates. I want to show you the General Health of the s ps 10 sectors. One of the big reasons for the rise in equities is because of energy. Part, hasr the most been up for the entire day up 1. 2 here the biggest leader in the s p in terms of sectors. Financials are up a little bit more than 1 . On the flipside, Information Technology has been and continues to be the biggest laggards, down 1. 8 , in part, of course, because we have been talking about earlier, apple is in a bear market. We stay with technology. Microsoft down 7 . It did miss estimates coming out after the bell yesterday. Gartner, for example, saying there is a contraction in the market. 9. 6 in terms of pc sales. Alphabet also
Do you get a welcome like that when you floif london . Tom no. I sort of sneak through heathrow in search of my luggage. Its aal little bit more of a drive for me than the president. Francine first lets get straight to the bloomberg first reviews. Heres aaron page. The landmark agreement is aimed at reducing pollution and slower rising temptures. And s have agreed to fuel their cars. President obama is weighing in the debate over whether the u. K. Should with Prime Minister David Cameron in an article mr. Obama wrote the European Union doesnt moderate the they said the United States would never contemplate anything like that. Ministers ea finance feet in decide whether or not some of the creditors want greece to increase austerity measures if it doesnt comply. And donald trump told top insiders its all just an act. They have set to easy tensions with republican elders. They tried to convince them that his bombastic demeanor is merely a ploy to get votes. And authorities in minnesota is
Sort of like having to use not at can imagine that . If such an enormous Nuclear Program and have had for years. Then not taking part of such an important summit seems to be a myth. We would welcome russias constructive participation in all this but it has not affected our ability to advance the goals of our two countries. Let me give you come a couple other examples. The United States does work effectively with russia to secure some Nuclear Material that is in you pakistan. Obviously, uzbekistan. Is this iran by chance because i dont know much about that nuclear richard but i do know that the russians have worked effectively with the United States to safeguard that major you. I dont know its current status but its another example of how the United States and russia to Work Together even if its not in the context of the security summit. The other thing i would observe is russias agreement early in president obamas tenure to sign onto the update of the star trek the that has a positive
Up the project and run with it. Great. Please, yes. Give her the mike. Please stand up so they can see you to give you the mike. Im the executive director of the u. S. Afghans council at georgetown university. We are so grateful you are here and id like to publicly thank you for staying up in the middle of the night. Very quietly, i dont think people know this. And you have been sending us support and at times when you dont have the staff to do it. Were so grateful for reaching out to us here in washington, d. C. Id like to ask specifically if you could talk further about one of the myths that you brought up. The myth of the afghan male, the afghan man as being uncivilized. Part of why i the about that, in my work, what i found is with all of these successful, beautiful, talented afghan women that you talk about, there is always usually a strong and supportive and feminist and wonderful father, husband, brother, cousin, uncle. That i think we dont always hear about. So if you could tal