Italy a record for the s p 500, yes. The nasdaq has been far and away the best performer of the three average. If you follow our market live blogs online, there was Tech Leadership earlier in the day. Tech has been leading the rally we have seen. Not just tech stocks, but other types of stocks as well. The dow has been the laggard here. Kind of interesting action that we have seen here, after the nasdaq in the latest leg we have seen, i was curious a which stocks have seen the most to it. Im talking about the leg and april 16. Mov that looks that historical movers. Not surprising, apple, which is at a record, microsoft, amazon, at a record. Some of the familiar names, and then some other priceline, comcast, these are those that have seen the biggest increase, and not only have contributed game,st to the nasdaqs but broadly in the market, another manifestation of this technology is a lack of concern in other areas. We have talked so much about the drop in the vix. One thing we havent lo
Israel has built one of the worlds great civilizations, a strong resilient, determined and prosperous nation. It is also a nation forged in the commitment that we will never allow the horrors and atrocities of the last century to be repeated. Now, we must Work Together to build a future where the nations of the region are at peace. And all of our children can grow and grow up strong and grow up free from terrorism and violence. During my travels in recent days, i have found new reasons for hope. I have just concluded a visit to saudi arabia, where yesterday i met with king salman and with the leaders from across the muslim and arab world. And that visit we reached historic agreements to pursue greater and greater cooperation in the fight against terrorism and its evil ideology. My future travels will take me to visit pope francis at the vatican. And then our nato and european allies. We have before us a rare opportunity to bring security and stability and peace to this region. And to i
Company. Persimmon posts a 30 rise in the first half pretax profits, while saying the countrys Housing Market is confident despite brexit. U. S. President trump announces a a reverreversal in afghanistan, but declining to give troop levels in a prime time address we are bringing you some numbers coming in from the Norwegian Pension Fund annual report returning 202 norwegian billion norwegian kronena on investments in 2017 fixed Income Investment returned 1. 1 in 2017 Equity Investments returned 3. 4 in 2017. Obviously the fund there looking to reduce risk as it said recently after really putting in some sizable profits over the last year or so. Lets look at the European Markets. We have got across the sectors pretty significant amount of green on the board most of the European Market trading up, looking at the numbers specifically were up 0. 53 across europe. Ftse 100 up 0. 7 nearly three quarters. We have xetra dax up 0. 7 . Cac up a half percent. The ftse mib up 0. 6 in terms of some
Stability in washington and any hint i mean, any hint that the growth agenda could get done. And perhaps overshadowing, pun intended, all those headlines today, the Solar Eclipse. Many are wait what many millions are waiting what many are calling a once in a lifetime event. Varney Company Begins right now. Ashley we begin with sad news this morning, the search continuing for ten u. S. Sailors missing after an Early Morning collision between a Navy Destroyer and a tanker or near singapore. What on earth is going on. Whats the latest . Yeah, search and rescue underway. It happened east of singapore. It hit an oil and chemical tanker three times its size. So basically this is the second serious collision in about a month. The uss fitzgerald collided with a freighter off the coast of japan, seven sailors dead there. Sailors are being evacuatedded, and so the search is on right now for the ten missing, five injured as well. Ashley all right, thank you very much. Lets bring in colonel ralph
Its 6 00 in london. Lets talk about one of the big stories of the morning twitter. Lets bring you the share price. You can see it on the screen beside me. Dick costolo is out as ceo, back comes jack dossey. The man who sent the first ever tweet back in 2006 can he dragged more revenue out of the business . Lets put this in the longterm perspective and show you how the share prices are over a longer time. A longer time period. The expectation was built up around this since november, 2013. The stock closed at 35. 84. Lets move on to talk about Something Else that is greece. It seems that the diplomatic niceties have once of again evaporated in brussels. Greece has been told to stop fighting its creditors demands, and the imf is talking about major differences between them and the greek delegation. We have some great guests who will be able to add to the conversation about greece. We are also going to be talking about tennis, because it is friday. How can that sport fight against the thre