Yeah. Dow still negative by 55 points. It was a sleepy summer session until the headlines began to cross. Look for confirmation of exactly what happened. As we head into the final hour of trade with the dow off 55 points this hour, take a look at the nasdaq as well trading higher to the tune of seven points. The s p 500, roughly unchanged, off by just under two points. Joining our closing bell exchange, Gerard Fitzpatrick from russell investments. Ken, chris from Jk Investment Group and rick from cnbc along with michelle who has been leading our coverage on the situation at the Ukraine Russia border today. Michelle, any sort of subsequent headlines after these early claims today by the ukrainians they had tracked and destroyed Russian Military vehicles moving into their territory . Yeah. For sure. Russia is denying they had any vehicles there. After 10 00 big dive in the markets. This gentleman came out, hes a military spokesman and he said what youre talking about, they had destroyed
Stock exchange to look at the stocks. Hey, lauren. Huge news, a big impact on u. S. Airways stock, down substantially on heavy volume right now, down 8 , 17 3 p is the level so this entire sector is getting hit. Now, american trades on the pink sheets, those down 27 right now, so this is a huge story. The doj said that you just reduce competition in the space which for consumers means higher air fares; right . The overall market, dow down 56 points, nasdaq down 12, s ps down four points right now. The best performer on the dow is hp. Its up about two and a half percent so, again, we have techs leading the way today, and other strong sectors are materials and industrials right now, but it is a down market, and, in fact, declining stocks are taking out advancing ones by a margin of 2to1. Back to you connell thank you. More on that coming up. The Justice Department is holding a Conference Call on the situation, lawsuit, breaking news. Thats coming up at the bottom of this very hour. Well
Taxpayers. They attack and try to label me. The problems only get worse. Whereare going to kansas the Senate Debate between pat roberts and greg orman was. He has not said which party he will caucus with. They rate the senate race as a tossup. This will begin momentarily. Live from the studios in wichita, the decision. Good evening. Welcome to the Kansas Senate debate. I will be the moderator tonight between pat roberts and greg orman. We get started and here are the rules. Each candidate will have 1. 5 minutes for opening remarks. Be a minute to answer questions from the panel and a rebuttal. We will and with closing remarks. Consists of our Media Partners for tonight. Tim carpenter from the journal and greg. The candidates were not given the topic before the debate. This. Watching we are going to be picking some of the questions tonight to ask the candidates. Lets get started with the opening remarks. Getorman will go first and the first question from the panel. Thank you and thank y
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