Welcome to barronsroundtabld lines member. For the week ahead and object other coming from fresh Economic Data markets and missing from georgia makeup from the fed investment strategist greg peters shares his expectations on the means for you as growth and then general was mask co2 governor in 2018 breaking of the business seems to be the key to the companys newfound success later think of any obesity drug market as their beauty of first we begin with our expert panel and three things investors ought to be thinking of, right now barrons roundtable invented meghan leonard, thats a bedroom of the most of the biggest kind of boring the stock market but then, the client think of the s p weaved up right now second is personal why, since 2021 spec and the s p 500s upper 60s for the last 18 weeks since 1971 when buddy delegate and it was an interesting way because god this inflation number from the pc report that was hot but it was not cool either in the market seem to brush that off gdp numb
Gentlemen. Welcome to barnes and noble tribeca appeared to not have the pleasure of introducing Heather Cabot and Sam Walravens as they join us to discuss their new book, geek girl rising inside the sisterhood shaping up tech. Heather cabot is a former abc news correspondent. Investor, adjunct professor and a woman at forbes contributed. Sam walravens is an editor, recognize speaker on women, contributed to women at the Huffington Post and disney interactive. Please join me in welcoming Heather Cabot and Sam Walravens. You so much thank you [applause] we really appreciate coming out on a rating i like this. This is a super exciting moment for us because first of all we are in the same city. Which we really are because i live in new york and pam lives in San Francisco. This really is the evening before geek girl rising inside the sisterhood shaping up tech comes out. It is really a special moment for us and to kick things off, to give you a taste of what the book is about, will shave a
Around the highs of the session, we are singing seeing bigger point swings returning to the markets over the past several weeks. The telecoms index is the best performing group, up by about 1 . Technology has also been gaining. When you look at the telecoms and the networking of equipment stocks, at t, verizon, cisco, all on the rise. A couple of events going on this week could be giving them a boost. First, you have the mobile World Congress going on in barcelona. Thats the meeting of various telecom and mobile phone companies. They have talked about the push for five g technology and how it could be beneficial. Media, the Morgan Stanley tech conference will be going on over the next four days or so. Looks like these companies are catching a bid, going into that. Then there is technology. Looking at technology ever since the broader stock market hit it flows of the year, it is the group that has done the best. Incidentally, it is the leading group for the year to date. Tech has contin
All with this plan. We are looking for the middle class and we are looking for jobs. All this coming ahead of the visit to florida will he were surveyed the damage from Hurricane Irma is a criminal investigation is launched into nursing homes. Breaking news overnight. In the threat from north korea wants to reduce the United States to actions in darkness. Market lower this morning after the major indices closed at a high yesterday. Major indices of the Dow Jones Industrial average up a fraction of two points. S p 500, nasdaq down fractionally. Investors waiting on the bank of england decision this morning happening in the next hour expected to keep Interest Rates unchanged. In asia overnight, markets lower to close concerns about chinas economy weighing on the market after industrial activity is the shanghai composite down a third of a percent. The other is mostly weaker. Martin said by breaking up behind bars. His bill has been revoked after offering money for a piece of Hillary Clint
52. 74. Creeping up to 53 here are the big stories were watching roku will make its public debut on the nasdaq. Roku priced shares at 14 each thats the top end of the expected range it has a market cap of 1. 3 billion. Rok lush roku wi tra under roku. Roku founder and Ceo Anthony Wood will be on squawk box this morning and rovio, the maker of angry birds video games will price later today. The Senate Intelligence committee calling on facebook, twitter and alphabet to testify at a hearing on russias role in the 2016 election. The hearing is november 1st. Alphabet and facebook have not said if they will attend Mark Zuckerberg hitting back at President Trump who claimed yesterday that the social Media Company was always antitrump. Zuckerberg posting on facebook, trump says facebook is against him. Well, liberals say we helped trump. Both sides are upset about the ideas and content they dont like thats what running a flat form for all ideas looks like zuckerberg said he regrets comments he