Dozens of people. And sleepless ific ocean corals that have adapted to warmer seas offering hope for reefs dying elsewhere in the world. Prodemocracy candidates in hong kong have won an unprecedented and symbolic victory in District Council elections voters turned out in record numbers after almost 6 months of protests of course the territories worst political crisis in decades beijing says hong kong is part of china no matter what happens in elections will be live with sarah clarke in hong kong shortly straight after this report from scott heiler. In a sweeping victory prodemocracy candidates made huge gains in hong kongs District Council elections gaining control from pro beijing parties. The voters sending a clear message of the 1st polling since the protest movement began. Even before the polls closed it was clear that this was an extraordinary election and a record breaking day for hong kong elections the highest voter turnout ever over 70 percent of registered voters cast their b
Tenyear. But get you up to speed on top stories. Is taylor riggs. Federal reserve policymakers signaling there will likely be an increase next month. Their most recent meeting shows that officials are looking for stronger science of their rights. Want people want to see inflation on an upward path before another rate hike. Tomorrow, zimbabwe gets the first their first new president for a few decades. The the new could country as a democracy. He had fled after being president bite fired fired by president robert who got a, who will not face prosecution. In the u. K. , conservative party makers are delighted with a by hammond, who targeted Younger Voters with tax biggestand promised the Homebuilding Program in almost five decades. Conservatives lost over brexit. In germany, chancellor Angela Merkel make it a partial lifeline from democrats. Social democrat leader Martin Schultz is prepared to offer a limited support for a fourth term. According to people familiar with this plan, schultz
This morning. It is some pressure, its the first kind of measure tech company to really disappoint this earning season, people are willing to kind of look through it as the Company Expands into a number of markets and interesting acquisitions more recently. Cheryl all right, riva, thank you, wall street journal, breaking news overnight, repeal obamacare plan from Mitch Mcconnell, Senate Republicans it failed and Maria Bartiromo is going to be picking that up right now. Big lose for the republicans this morning. Maria yes, indeed. Thank you so much ladies, hi, everybody, thank you so much for being with us. Im Maria Bartiromo, happy friday, it is friday july 28th, top stories right now 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Senate to repeal obamacare failed, three senators including john mccain few the no vote. Mitch mcconnell lamenting the vote on the floor. This is a disappointing moment from skyrocketing costs and collapsing markets, our constituents have suffered through on awful lot under o
Lufthansa cuts profits, unilever breaks. We hear from the ceo in just a few minutes. Is not in the office in berlin. Shes outside the ecb in frankfurt. What are going to be the highlights today . The highlights are going to be the questioning, the barrage of questioning. Its damp in frankfurt and in terms of policy changes; its expected that the ecb will hold fire, wait until september, wait until it can read the tea leaves of the way the economy has been potentially hit by brexit. There will be questions about the impact of brexit, the slow down on the eurozone, the questions on the 80 billion euros of bond buying. Yields far below the deposit rate. What can they actually get their hands on at the moment . And of course, there will be questions about his hometown, italy, and the banking crisis there. The light of brexit shining on the italian banking concerns. Guy yeah. Another tough press conference for mario draghi. If he thought he would get a nice, relaxing one, turns out brexit a
Bloombergs ramy looking at the Michigan Consumer index. Is the number coming out right now 89. 7. This is the lowest since the month of october. The median forecast was higher for this. The prior for march was 91. This the lowest since october. The highest point in the last year was 96. 1, setback in june. Let us see how this is impacting the market specifically with the s p right now. Right now, we can see it is pretty much flat. Just a little bit lower in the past few minutes. We are seeing an extension of that loss to 0. 12 . The s p 500 there and the dow is down. The nasdaq paring losses from 1 . Er by 2 10 of a with that said, let us also go ahead and dive into my bloomberg and i want to bring up the which is a check of the s ps 10 sectors. We can see that three out of the 10 sectors are in positive territory. We are seeing an increase in negative space here with energy the most down by 1. 1 . Did have to say that financials were the biggest leader, but we can see right now that t