Junk bonds too. Well discuss whether this aversion to ris sk a red flag now or perhaps a sign of capitulation. A minor bounce this morning even with the big selloff in asia last night. Up 162 for the peak for the dow now up 135 points. All the other averages higher as well. The nasdaqs up 30 right now, trading at 4,365. And the s p has come back quite a wit bit from lows of last night, now up 16 points at 1,926. Rich peterson from s p capital iq. Monica meda. Bill willis from princeton securities. And Rick Santelli as well. Ben willis, lets start with you on this crazy market day. Is there any doubt now that this market is influenced greatly by geopolitics . I hate to start off this way, but i dont believe its geopolitics. I think geopolitics is part of the fuel thats triggering the currency markets, which is really whats been driving the Technical Levels of this market. We hit 1,890 on the s p futures this morning, a critical line that happened to be 4 00 a. M. Before most of us were
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Rebuild gaza. Milking the sun for everything its got the mirrors that could revolutionize the business of power. In yemen strikes object multiple targets in the south of the country by the saudiled coalition. Planes have been hitting targets in shabwa, heavy fighting on the ground, tribesmen getting involved in that. Theres concern about the houthi advance into the south because of a proximity to the red sea and gulf of aden key shipping routes for oil. A journalists explained the situation on the ground. The tribes are sending forces and ground offensive but we havent seen action on the ground against the houthis and salehs forces to have been in control for four days. Airstrikes alone wont achieve the coalitions aims according to this journalist. Its a confused situation on the ground. Some people are fighting for survival fighting for their own ground because this i guess not a two horse race here, houthis versus the rest. There are extremists, there are isis forces, alqaeda forces
Are they really mexicos best bet for law and order . The government is syria is accused of deliberately demolishing thousands of homes in the city of damascus and hama. They are carrying out a Systematic Campaign of destruction. Dominic kane reports. This is the suburbs of damascus, fought over by the government and rebels repeatedly in the last few years. Like much of syria it presents a picture of bombed out buildings and rubble strewn roads. But now new evidence suggests the destruction of property here is not an accident of war. Human rights watch compiled a report claiming the government has been demolishing thousands of houses here, other parts of damascus, and the city of hama. The report uses satellite images to show how extensive the damage is. This is one district in hama seen in september 2012. This is the same place one month later. This is part of the capital close to the military airport seen in february last year. Move forward to july, the contrast is clear. Human rights
And its such relief for me as well and lots of other mothers that were like me. Reporter her story of great personal loss was documented in an awardwinning movie and the woman who was forced to give up her son shares her story with the pope. All eyes are on russia as the sochi olympics are officially underway. The most expensive Olympic Games in history began smoothly on thursday and qualifying events took place and the olympians arrived and the Opening Ceremony is coming soon and they talked about gay rights and security and promising a safe olympics and rolling out 37,000 police and Security Officers and good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America and im stephanie sy and we are in sochi and good morning and a pretty routine start to the games despite the weeks of anxiety leading up to it. Yeah, well stephanie i suppose as routine as any large Opening Ceremony can be in the most expensive Winter Olympics there has ever been. But, yeah, the Olympic Games always start with a huge gre