Record high. Obvious question is the selling, the intense up and down swings. Is it over . Watch this show, you will find out, looking good in early going today but i have no clue how we close this friday afternoon. I have news for you on taxes, the news is watch out. Under consideration online sales taxes and that 25cent per gallon increase in the gas tax, they would pay for some of the infrastructure building but the significance here is the switch. We have cut taxes and now we are taxing what we buy. Oprah says she is not running in 2020. Yes, its friday and Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart not a great night for team usa at the olympics. Missed out on medal in womens, big event, she won gold in that event four years ago. She missed the medal this time. Figure skating, nathan falls during short program. There you have it. Now, he was one of the pregames favorites, got it. The germans won another gold. Ashley thats a surprise. Stuart they dominate this event. I think they have
Plus. The saudis are dealing dealing h rocket that flew over capital ryadh and they believe it was iran. Act of war, saudis and iranians are on the brink. Price of oil has gone straight up to twoyear high. We are now at 57 a barrel. Yes, there is trouble in the oil patch. Look at this too, stocks Still Holding onto record levels, theres a story in the wall street journal, tax overhaul faces major hurdles despite that the market rally has not stopped, going up a little more today. The dow has set 57 records this calendar year and Varney Company is about to begin. You know we sent three of the largest aircraft carriers in the world and they are right now positioned. We have a Nuclear Submarine also positioned, we have many things happening that we hope, we hope, in fact, i will go a step further, we hope to god we never have to use. With that being said, i really believe that it makes sense for north korea to come to the table and to make a deal thats good for the people of north korea a
Weakness at the french retail unit hits Third Quarter profit. And game on for unisoft after it blows past Second Quarter sales forecasts. We are roughly one hour into the trading session. Lets see how things are opening up a bit of a soggy day in line with what we saw in u. S. Equities yesterday having a bit of a down day the picture is mixed behind me a bit more red than green on the heat map which points to an overall performance of the stoxx 600 which is underwhelming lets look at how individual sectors are doing. Ftse 100, treading around that 0 mark. Slightly in the green. Xetra dax also really treading around the flat line we did have earnings earlier on. Well get into that in more detail shortly i want to point out ftse mib is down 0. 5 . We did have some weaker results out of one of the banks there. Banco bpm is down 5 or so in early trading. Lets look at asian markets. Clearly a lot of focus on this trump is in the region meeting with various leaders nikk nikkei, a bit of a we
Reporter the atf says they want to give 110,000 for anyone who can provide them information to catch whoever did this, if somebody did indeed do it. This is what you are looking at. A multistory apartment and retail unit that went up in flames. Federal agents with the atf returned to the site to help with this investigation. They brought in their mobile command units in the parking lot across the street. Atf investigators have been meeting with firefighters and police all day, this morning as well. I had a chance to speak briefly with one of the agents off camera. He said their National Response team always comes to help investigate whenever theres a fire like this. They have not yet had a chance to enter the building because theyre in the sure whether its safe enough to do. So earlier they set up a drone. Yesterday afternoon more than a dozen glass panels began shattering and falling off onto the ground below. Firefighters say that radiant heat from the fire singed the windows. Two da
Shanghai up. Early trading in europe, modest advances across the board. Cac is up. If you look at crude oil, last week was big for oil up 4 for the week, in spitting distance of 50. Up to 49. 78 a barrel. Corporate news the big one, Charter Communications announced it is not interested, i repeat, not interested in buying wireless carrier sprint follows news friday that sprint was interested in merging with charter to create a media outlet controlled we understand why a deal is attractive for softbank. Could kill any chance of deal between the companies. The wall street journal saying the ceo could make a formal offer anyway take a look at shares of sprint. Put context around whats going on sprint up close to 6 . Charter up marginally as well. Surprising sprint is where it is sprint had been talking back and forth to t mobile. Thats been the natural partner. T mobile effectively spurned sprint and sprint has gone on this sort of merger talk spree with anybody who will listen surprising