I do want to interrupt your lunch, so feel free to keep eating, but as promised we are going to have a really good, important discussion that will help to draw on what we heard this morning and build by thinking a little bit about how to reset a strategic frame to support Good Governance. Think about all the things we heard this morning about some of the problems, some of the challenges that need to be addressed in fragile states. Governing institutions need to become more accountable. We have to work on ways to build inclusiveness, tackle the problem of marginalization and exclusion, figure out how to empower youth to take leadership roles. The importance of enabling Civil Society to be an important part of cementing a stronger Space Society relationship. These are all dimensions of governance in one way or another, and this is one of the central challenges of transforming fragile states to be more resilient. So how do we do that from the perspective of the United States . How do rese
Before but investors remain bullish. We are on record close watch for the three major averages, as we stand, the nasdaq and s p pretty comfortable. The dow just higher, though, by only 0. 1 . Industrials the only sector in the red. Consumer discretion. Joining us, josh brown from Wealth Management. Well done. What did i say . Im not sure. It was cute. I got close enough. Lets stay on track nasdaq, dow, s p. With almost nothing in the red at all. Its bigger than that 52week highs for the slf. Bank sector. Very, very key incredibly bullish Consumer Sector spydr. Look at the usual suspects, xlk. Off the radar things that are happening thats really interesting. This might be because enough tax law selling has already occurred or traders are anticipating the end of that. Some of those highprofile ipos that blew up this summer and fall are starting to make meaningful moves off their lows, looking like they could be putting in a sustainable bottom. Peloton, after a very disappointing debut. S
Morgan brennan, jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange record highs all around the board. Dow, s p 500, nasdaq, but well begin with news regarding ford forward looks to do apples to apples with tesla. Elon musk tweeting a response, quote, bring it on and calling into question the physics behind musks video of the tesla towing the ford f 150. Is this really where we are . My mom might be watching, i am going to keep it clean, this is a classic measuring contest if ever there was one. Morgan, do you know of any woman watching this tug of war with any kind of great interest mary barra is probably not even watching this. This is classic like testosterone driven man versus man type thing. The nerd truck narrative lives. The truck will be sold to nerds, right . Thats the niche product theyre aiming for i wont call it nerds, but if you look at the numbers, the number two, two top states for electric vehicle registrations, use that as a proxy for tesla, california and new york.
Where people have been voting for a new president the top Issue National security. It started as a protest against rising fuel prices in france a year on people who are part of whats known as the Yellow Vest Movement are still showing their anger there have been demonstrations to mark the Anniversary Police of gas to try to break them up the movement turned into protests against the cost of living with antigovernment violence across the country at its peak 300000. 00 people took part in those protests that number has dwindled in recent months theyve baka has more from paris to the plaster italy in the center of paris its very much become the epicenter of clashes between demonstrators from the yellow press movement lines of police many a good couple of 1000. Straight as a mast here earlier on they have permission to do that but the scenes quickly became violent you can see probably a tremendous amount of damage around us whats left of some wooden buildings over here smoldering the fire
Europe is steady powell makes some remarks later on tonight road map begins with megadeal monday lvmh announcing a deal to acquire tiffany. Charles schwab buying ameritrade, 26 about the all stock deal it will combine the companies the two biggest publicly discounted brokers will have more than 5 trillion in client assets ebay set to sell off stub hub for 4 billion david has details on that. Lets start with this Historic Deal in luxury goods lvmh will acquire tiffany. The deal is worth 135 a share, two Companies Expect to complete that deal by mid2020. I assume you can fill us in on what is going to happen to the brand, synergies and all of that. Listen, i mean, it is an important transaction for lvmh, which tried twice before as my understanding and not been able to get there had done it privately. From a m a Strategic Point of view, this went about as well as sort of it had been could have been hoped for from both sides. Seasoned advisers on both sides, who i think i thought they wou