Others insist its not guns, its about treating mental illness. One thing is clear, the number of innocent young people being gunned down inside their schools is growing, with no end in sight. New data shows School Shootings are becoming more and more common. According to the group every town for gun safety, last weeks shooting at a high school in florida was the 18th School Shooting in the us so far this year, and its only february. Thats more than double the number this time last year. Every town counts 291 School Shootings since 2013. That averages out to about one per week. And when it comes to younger americans and gun control, a recent survey finds nearly 80 of millennials surveyed say its too easy to buy a gun. Nearly 60 of those surveyed say gun violence would decrease if gun regulations were strengthened. Joining me now is shira goodman. Shira is the executive director of ceasefire pa. Ceasefire pas mission is to reduce gun violence and to keep guns out of the hands of people w
Roundup for the month of may. The s p 500 climbing 1. 5 . Surprising and to the day, the dow a significant laggard. Utilities leading the way, kind of a strange and unpredictable start to the week. Exactly. Oliver i want to start off talking about another weird stocks move. Look at the shanghai stock futures this morning before we came in. Speaking of starting off on a weird foot, a bit of a flash crash that happened in china attributed to selling on a hedging account. Obviously a big deal because of the dirt in the liquidity in the market. I think that investors are worried about the regulations the government is having on daily trading but here you see whats happening. Very little liquidity in the market, you have the kind of tips. Moving into the u. S. An interesting kind of move in the later half a day. Particularly semiconductors ending up. A big reversal, down 50 basis points at one point during the day. The only sector with above average volume, two other stocks least threees of
Before i say a prayer, i just want to say that i have seen an shot wounds in the hospital. Ive had to been be with family members, and it is such a dramatic thing. Any kind of hate is dramatic. Ask for everyone to bow their heads. God, you come to us in many forms and many voices. We know that you are sophia, wisdom. We know that you are a rock, our rock in times of desperate needs. I pray for all the people here today that serve a common purpose. I pray for all those that have lost family members to gun violence. That arer all those subjected to any kind of violence to any kind of hatred. Scripture and in other faiths and religions that span the world, the one thing that we know you are is love. We know that you accept all of us, no matter who we are. That you love each of us so dearly. You guide a speech day in our lives. , pray today for everyone here for families, for the world. , pray for our Nations Capital and the hatred we are experiencing right now as a result of this presiden
It was ok. Thank you for watching the video of all of our snow. The poor guy in his car. It had a happy ending. That is not on the morning brief. Overnight, stocks are down. That is led by emerging markets. The chinese reported a Service Report that disappointed. Concern there about slowing Economic Growth. Here at 10 00, on the economic front, we have ism and factory orders. We have the jobs report on friday. And janet yellen is set to be confirmed by the u. S. Senate. I know that you love burgers after the bell, we will have sonic earnings. Get started on a busy week. Lets do a data check. Futures are flat. Tenyear year yield, we are where we were three percent. Lets go to the chart. Here is the great bull market. The s p 500 has been correction free. What kind of volatility will we see into the new year . The backdrop of that, chairman yellen will greet us tomorrow morning. That would be the idea of the balance sheet. It is a template over all of this mess. All of economics. We are