S p up 4. 5. Chinese Manufacturing Sector posted its strongest performance in two years and that helps us to be japans nikkei index up one 10th of 1 in shanghai composite higher as well. Watching oil prices again today. Well nearly 3 yesterday. Now hovering 47 a 47 a barrel. A continuation of last week selling pressure. Cheryl 4700 transit workers shutting down bus trolleys, subway transportation. The stripe prompting fears it will carry over to election day in effect voting there. Cheryl gas prices with the explosion. The Chicago Bears with the minnesota yankees and chicago cubs and the Cleveland Indians back in cleveland for game six of the world series. It is 5 01 a. M. In new york. Choose it, november 1st. Welcome to transcend their first look at the bankamerica 10 todays news. Nicole donald trump wasting no time launching a new attack on Hillary Clinton. Emails once again being investigated by the fbi. Trumps economic rally in michigan said the u. S. Will suffer if clinton is elec
Between her views and donald trump. Lets head to the markets desk with julie hyman. Fore we have one record the moment today. That is the nasdaq, trading at least on the record on a closing basis at the moment. It did not touch the intraday record, but the number to beat actually, not quite at the level, but the numbers 55220 5. 48. Thes p 500 also touched record on the closing business and came back down and the dow jones a little ways away, but coming back, fairly broadbased rally, Consumer Discretionary and Energy Shares leading the way after turnaround in oil prices. Also watching a lot of individual stocks. This has been the story over the past month. Not a lot of Movement Overall on major averages but Dick Stockton moves. Lets talk about alibaba. The company has been diversifying, so on one hand, in thef 40 47 boost ecommerce business but that only accounted for 72 of revenue. It has been building their cloud business, just like amazon in the u. S. , and also building their enter
The economy overall. Now veterans groups are moving number are a signal of a new upward trend in veterans unemployment. Were turningind, our first 45 minutes today over to the issue of veterans unemployment. We want to hear your stories about military veterans a job. Ng for or finding well put up our phone lines a little differently today. Veterans fghanistan the number is 2027488000. Other veterans 2027488001. And military families 2027488002. And a special line for employers. 2027488003. On can all catch up with us social media. You. Wednesday morning to we begin today talking about this issue of veterans unemployment. From military times reporter leo shane after those umbers came out earlier this month. Talking about the 4. 7 Unemployment Rate for veterans overall. That represents nearly 500,000 veterans looking for work in the United States. Second highest monthly rate in the last year. Was 4. 4 . At number for he number higher even iraq and afghanistan veterans as military. Com po
Constitution. You cant pass qualifications that are unconstitutional or voting late peoples rights under federal protection such as the Voting Rights act. And thats the lawsuits were now is when states have crossed the line and really gone too far in restricting who has ability to vote. Host Jennifer Clark is a ounsel at the Brennan Center for justice. You can find them on twitter brennancenter. Thank you so much for your time this morning. Guest thank you. You to r we invite watch all the oral arguments and programs on this issue spotlight, 2016 election and Voting Rights in their entirety, at our Video Library at cspan. Org. Q a. Uncer sunday night on theres an average, imagine, of one racial lynching a week in it was a and brilliant psychological device if old down a race, because you were black, you were afraid that this could happen to you. Announcer also, Lawrence Leamer talks about his literary career, including his latest the lynching, the epic courtroom battle about the klan,
Umbrella however we could see a slight chance was isolated showers tempters with the team to fall. This to the inland areas across the bay and coast and in three hours to the judge will be in the mid fifties. Reporter an amtrak train. Filled with passengers is stuck on the the tracks in albany right now. After an accident involving a pedestrian. Reporter four people are dead and four others injured after a headon collision in aptos. Reporter it started rolling and just a few minutes ago on the phone with us now isjust as one of the passengers where are you now . yes i finally got off the train and ran the bus to San Francisco a 2 1 2 hours later. Reporter youre just sitting there were we being told . nothing was that not one to tell us much they said they did not want us to get stuck in the story to tell us it did not pan out. All theyre telling us is that they had someone that had we for the coroner. Reporter that is all your been told to get another summit had been hit after some inv