Record high. Obvious question is the selling, the intense up and down swings. Is it over . Watch this show, you will find out, looking good in early going today but i have no clue how we close this friday afternoon. I have news for you on taxes, the news is watch out. Under consideration online sales taxes and that 25cent per gallon increase in the gas tax, they would pay for some of the infrastructure building but the significance here is the switch. We have cut taxes and now we are taxing what we buy. Oprah says she is not running in 2020. Yes, its friday and Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart not a great night for team usa at the olympics. Missed out on medal in womens, big event, she won gold in that event four years ago. She missed the medal this time. Figure skating, nathan falls during short program. There you have it. Now, he was one of the pregames favorites, got it. The germans won another gold. Ashley thats a surprise. Stuart they dominate this event. I think they have
2. 25. And oil, as you see, still below 50. A move made this week as we watched the commodity complex come down across the board. The road map starts with amazon overtaking walmart in market cap after reporting a surprise Second Quarter profit. The shares up 20 in the premarket. Star bucks shares also higher ahead of the open. The coo told jim last night. And anthem agrees to buy cigna. The price and the release is 188 a share. In reality, its a bit less than that. Well get to that deal. We begin with amazon reporting a Second Quarter profit of 0. 19 a share while wall street was expecting a 0. 14 a share loss. Sales up 20 . That was up by strength in web services. Shares of amazon surging in the premarket putting the market cap above that of walmart and making founder and the ceo about 7 billion richer. Thats right. 7 billion more just from the move up. Thats a side show. The main show is the numbers themselves. This Company Getting rewarded perhaps like no other for Revenue Growth. M
Categogory 5 and when he hit cu, the govevernment reports just 10 people have died. We will look at why many nations study cubas hurricane preparedness. According to one study, a person is 15 times as likely to be killed by hurricane in the United States as in cuba. And even though they were hard doctorsa spent over 750 and Health Professionals throughout the caribbean during the storm. Then to a storm of silencece. Catastrophicc flooding. The monumental floodingng a humanitarian disaster cocontinu. Houstonians are still under siege in the city still under water. Publicgot a new study by citizen looks at how much of the Corporate Media failed to mention Climate Change during its coverage of Hurricane Harvey. Then we go to houston to look at mutual aid and rescue efforts after harvey. We have to distribute the goods, but we also have to go and distribute the care. Eople are still being ignored because they have handed them something, theyve decided all of their problems are fixed. Under
Catetegory 5 and when he hit cu, the gogovernment reports just 10 people have died. We will look at why many nations study cubas hurricane preparedness. According to one study, a person is 15 times as likely to be killed by hurricane in the United States as in cuba. And even though they were hard doctorsa spent over 750 and Health Professionals throughout the caribbean during the storm. Then to a storm of silenence. Catastrophihic flooding. G. The monumental floodidingnd humanitarian disaster r continu. Houstonians are still under siege in the city still under water. Publicgot a new study by citizen looks at how much of the Corporate Media failed to mention Climate Change during its coverage of Hurricane Harvey. Then we go to houston to look at mutual aid and rescue efforts after harvey. We have to distribute the goods, but we also have to go and distribute the care. Eople are still being ignored because they have handed them something, theyve decided all of their problems are fixed. U
We will carry that live for you as well. Im Brian Sullivan power lunch kicking off right now. And welcome to power lunch. Im kayla tausche. At this hour stocks are mixed Holding Steady off the lows of the session. The nasdaq and s p 500 both on pace for their second straight losing week. The s p 500 hovering just about at that break even level retail names taking a hit following the amazon deal news and the dow turning positive up by about eight points. It would be high fer it werent for walmarts drag of 25 points, down 4. 5 . Energy the best performing sector chevron, all leading the way today. Michelle carusocabrera is down in miami with the president s big announcement hey there, kayla, yes im in Little Havana where a large concentration of cuban exiles trump and that is why President Trump is coming here to announce his new cuba policy trying to make positive on a campaign process he made he believes cubanamericans in miami were crucial to delivering florida to him we are waiting t