Subside but mexicos nominee for the World Trade Organization leader tells cnbc a key kpo component has been lost. The basis of cooperation and trust. This trust has been lost completely the second night of the Republican Convention defies tradition with secretary of state mike pompeo from overseas. Delivering on this. This president has led bold initiatives in nearly every corner of the world. A warm welcome to street signs, everybody. Lets get in to the latest weather developments in the United States. The National Hurricane center has upgraded laura to a category 2 with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles an hour and is likely to produce a storm surge and should be a category 3 before landing on shore tonight. Producers prepare for the biggest threat to the Energy Industry in 15 years lets look at how oil is trading. No massive moves we have seen a jump higher in oil price. Wti and brent have been trailing higher lets turn to jay gray who filed this report from lake charles, louisia
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Pointing upward the wall street journal is calling the last four months a melt up and thats what it looks like. Dow up by 83 points. S p 500 looking to open 12 points higher. Treasury yields as well. Were at. 572. Theres a mix of what theyre thinking and what the equity markets think, right melissa okay we have a we will work on the audio and hopefully get that a busy week ahead. A twoday fed meeting with a policy announcement. No major change is expected. That will tell you that but investors will watch for clues about what the central bank might do next and then on the corporate front earnings season kicks into overdrive 167 of the s p 500 companies will report. Well hear from 12 dow components and among the names likely to get a lot of attention, apple, amazon, boeing, mcdonalds, 3m, exxon and many others. This is if you like earnings, if youre excited by earnings this is going to be a big week. So far this season we heard from 128 of the s p 500 companies so well more than double t