Minutes or so. Lets get to the markets desk. Session highs hit in the last 15 minutes or so. Coming off that a bit. This is where we stand now. The nasdaq is the biggest gainer. The s p up by 1. 5 percent. I did some calculations right before this. We recouped about 360 billion dollars or so after the losses we saw from brexit. Those total about 1. 7 trillion dollars. We are still about 1 5 of the way back from where we started prebrexit. Lets take a look at my bloomberg. I will show you the imf function with the 10 sectors in the last hour. Seven were in the green. Right now, firmly in the green sectors. L telecommunications just barely above the flat line. But energy has been the biggest leader all day, up 2. 5 right now. This is in large part because of oil. ,atural gas also hitting highs up about 7. 5 percent. Financials recouping some losses here, and Information Technology up. Lets take a look at some of the biggest equity concerns right now. Facebook, exxon mobil, microsoft are
In the cards after all. After defaults following the brexit, we are coming off of that and hovering near session highs. The nasdaq is the biggest gainer, up by nearly 1. 5 . The s p 500 up by nearly 1 . The ecb coming out and saying will takerexit markets down by about. 5 , not having much of an impact on markets right now. This is the imf function. It looks like right now seven of our tens vectors are in the green. That had been higher, eight or nine out of 10 in the green. Losing a little bit of air right there. Staples and utilities flipping into the red. Were negative most of the day. Energy and financials were the biggest leaders, with energy up 1. 7 percent. Lets go ahead and take a look at the bloomberg commodity index. It is higher on the day. 80. 15 is the number we are at. Off a fourweek low led by energy, specifically natural , as well as industrial metals. Lets take a look at what happening on the energy board. Both rising. Nymex crude up 2. 5 . You will remember it did los
I also want to address my concerns about the administrations 3 billion pledge to the Green Climate fund. The American Public does not support paying their hardearned taxpayer dollars into a slush fund that spends billions of International Climate change programs in developing nations to address the impacts of extreme weather. The need for spending our natural disasters is down historically while other International Priorities have increased. According to the 2014 annual Global Climate and catastrophe report released, Global Natural disasters in 2014 combined to cause economic losses of 132 billion. 37 below the tenyear average of 211 billion. With immediate global priorities such as the upheaval in the middle east and syria and iraq to a resurgent russia in Eastern Europe and abroad we should be focusing our resources on countering global terrorist threats with humanitarian assistance, democracy promotion and Embassy Security measures. The only reason i can see the administration wants
For austria as well as the osce mission that you and i had a chance to talk about all are housed in vienna. So youre part of a Diplomatic Team that we have in a critically important place where major decisions are being made. Obviously the focus today is very much on the responsibilities and the implementation of the iran agreement by the iaea and as we talked privately and ill repeat now and as i pointed out to ambassador shannon, your openness with us is critically important and appreciate the commitments that youve made in that regard. Mr. Chairman, im also pleased to note that a former member of this body who worked closely with Laura Holgate during the eight years she worked at the Nuclear Threat initiative has written a letter on her behalf touting mrs. Holgate superb only in and skills and passion for reducing global dangers. I would request that be part of our record. Without objection. Thank you, senator cardin. I will turn to our second nominee. Thats Laura Holgate who is nom
Information officer at the pentagon on cybersecurity. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this week had a confirmation hearing. Tennessee senator bob corker chaired the hearing. Its an hour and a half. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Senate Foreign Relations committee is meeting this morning for a confirmation hearing on nominations, including state Department Counselor Thomas Shannon, to be undersecretary of state for Political Affairs. If confirmed by the senate, he would replace Wendy Sherman who helped to lead the u. S. Negotiations for iran. And as i said to him when he came into our office and im sure, ben, you said the same thing, all of us are gratified when people who commit their life in this way end up ascending to these positions. You oversee africa, east area and the pacific, europe. The nearest, south and central asia, the western hemisphere and International Organizations just to note to staff, we could see the world. It would be easier. Thank