The trading day here in the United States today and the gains we got, theyre not exactly anything to write home about, but its a welcome reprieve from the run of triple digit losses that weve been suffering through. Its a cycle. So last night asia was still responding to what we did yesterday. Now were beginning a new cycle today. At least thats how it looks right now because take a look across markets. The Dow Jones Industrial average adding 85 points, about a half a percent. Interesting to see the s p up about 15 points to 1757, and the nasdaq back above 4,000 after closing below that level yesterday. Its now up 42 points, 4039, adding 1 today. And, you know, bill, you have to say, if you look at whats happening with, folk, the tenyear Interest Rate, some headwinds weve seen in currency, not a bad way to kick off this session. Lets talk about it as we go toward the close of trading on this tuesday. Is the worst over or are todays green arrows just a speed bump before we continue the
nuclear weapons. yet traders don t care. we ll find out why. also, are u.s. businesses kowtowing to communist china right now? apple ceo tim cook with that over-the-top apology to china and now movie studios are we working scripts to not offend the chinese government. we have a special report on this rather alarming trend, coming up. what gives with this story? check out where we are on the markets, as we approach this final hour on trading. the dow jones industrial average just shy of the highs of the day. up 73 points on the dow jones industrial average at 14,645. about half a percent higher, uncharted territory, obviously. and nasdaq at composite up 14 points, half a percent there. it has certainly come off the best levels of the afternoon, at 3253. check the s&p 500 with gain of nearly seven points. it too off of the best levels. we re still seeing a gain of a half a percent. so equities continue higher. we are keeping an eye on yet another market smimilestone. the