Reuters reporting he was a member of the u. S. Army reserve. Authorities say there was no connection to international terrorism. Dallas police chief david brown says it appeared the shooters plan to injure and kill as many officers as they could. The bloodshed unfolded blocks from where president john f. Kennedy was slain in 1963. We will have more as the situation unfolds. Again, were waiting for the attorney general to take the podium. Now lets send it over to scott wapner for the Halftime Report. Thanks so much. Sue herera. Welcome to the Halftime Report. I am scott wapner. 2 top trade this hour, saving stocks . At the highs of the day. With us for the hour today, jim lebenthal, jim brown, sarat sethi, and Steve Liesman here onset as well. We do begin with the markets. I said, session highs today, a strong rally following that blockbuster jobs number. 287,000 jobs added last month. Way better than expected. A number of class asset, not only stocks. Bonds selling off today. Gold as w
Composite up even more 1. 35 . Materials and financials leading the charge as you see right there. And this rally could keep going, thats the question, will it . As we close out this quarter. Were very close. Bob pisani on the nyse floor here to explain. Hi, bob. And the important thing is weve stopped having an influence from brexit and seem to be looking at people picking up bargains right now. Lets take a look at the markets midday. Weve got an end of the quarter rally going on 8to1 advancing declining stocks, thats better than yesterday. It was 6to1. Volume again on the heavy side. Buying interest with heavy volume, stocks up good indicator overall. And volatility, the vix is back to prebrexit levels, back to levels it was last week prior to that vote here. Number of beaten up sectors are rallying. Weve had quite a rally in commodities and commodity stocks. Look at this south africa, this is an etf, brazil is up, steel stocks are up 3 , oil and Gas Exploration and production stocks
Welcome to the big tl, im michelle carusocabrera, three hours left in the trading session. Stocks are head ed lore, right now dow, s p 500 and nasdaq theyre all in the red. Energy is the big loser as oil hits a fresh twoweek low. Brian. Heres what else is happening at this hour. Breaking developments out of brazil. The senate there voting to remove president rumsef from office. More on this developing story straight ahead. Also, elon musk suggesting that major improvements may be coming to teslas autopilot software. More details are expected later on today. And florida declaring a state of emergency as a hurricane watch goes into effect for parts of the gulf. This as hawaii braces for a hit from two hurricanes. The very latest on all three weather patterns coming up. As you can tell weve got another big two hours ahead for you, but lets begin with this. Janus capital bill gross taking aim at janet yellen and the Federal Reserve itself and latest outlook gross says yellen and the fed ha
Has been building on gains. Au see a mostly upward trend, little choppiness, but a mostly upward trend. If you look at the rally bisect rally by sector, ased rally. Ty broadb industrials,es, tech coming back all of the cyclical groups that have been late comingf back. Pretty vonnie a pretty good range in oil prices. Julie earlier, oil surged before falling below the lows of the day. Of course, we learned earlier that russia and saudi arabia had come to an agreement to freeze oil production, but the fact that it is only a freeze is causing consternation in the market. Something else i want to watch, oil volatility. Sharply. E falling we have seen other types of assets down today. School vacation week. That is one of the things causing a little bit more quiet in the market. Not quiet for oil this year, if you look at the year to date decline in oil prices, still a 22 pullback, despite a little bit of a bounce last week. Thanks, another couple prices anyway. Lets head to the first were de
Undermine the basic security and privacy interest of hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Laws an argument citing all the way back to the 1780s and more specific and more recent cases that the government cannot compel at to do this. It is a powerful response. Off the record briefing even as we speak over this case. The rhetoric is eating up here as apple response to the governments request to show them how to break into an iphone with the fear that this would be the ability to break into all kinds of iphones. Apple is also citing the history of hacking and the u. S. Government saying by opening this phone up to the previously unknown ability to hack it, it would open up all kinds of phones to all kinds of risks to foreign governments and beyond, even citing the case when the office of personnel and the u. S. Thernment was hacked into private records of Government Employees opened up. A powerful response. On the not moving particular move as we anticipated. What is the next