Man opened fire and a Movie Theater last night. He killed two people and wounded nine others before killing himself. The shooter tried to escape and then turned back when he saw police entered the theater. Governor jindal when these acts of violence happen in a Movie Theater, when there is no real good reason why this kind of evil should intrude on the lives or families were out for a night of entertainment, a lot of us were horrified and shocked. The great thing about america is when any of us suffer, we all suffer. This is a time for us to come together. Vonnie and we have breaking news. Anthem will buy signet cigna. This had been telegraphed. Were waiting for this to become official. Anthem is buying cigna. That would work out to 48 billion, creating the Largest Health insurer in the United States. A year of talks. Tom and a moment in our financial history. I wish chris halen with you chris whalen was here. Ive never seen a headline that says anthem combined company sees accretion a
Their losses. The shenzhen composite fell more than 2 . Earlier this month, china plus government took unprecedented steps to bolster its stock. In greece, the latest talks on a bailout have begun this morning with the disagreement. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras says lawmakers have approved austerity measures, the creditors disagree. They say more reforms are necessary before greece can get any of the 95 billion worth of aid. Donald trump is worth 2. 9 billion. The celebrity president ial candidate has said he is worth more than 10 billion. The bloomberg billionaires index shows that the majority of his fortune comes from real estate holdings. Bp has reported his slowest quarterly profit in at least 10 years. The British Energy company has been hurt by the end of the boom in trading. The conflict in libya forced bp to write down almost as hundred billion dollars. Brent oil is 20 below its peak in may. The newest book from dr. Seuss has hit stores today. What cap should i get . Is the f
Countdown. Lets start with twitter and the roller coaster that was the share price. The initial reaction to the number bound bounce was positive, jack dorsey started to speak candidly about the shortcomings of the business that is when investors started to rethink and the stock fell. Fascinating roller coaster ride. Lets talk about what has happened in the u. S. More broadly u. S. Stocks calling time on the longest losing streak since january in yesterdays session. Stock was up, better than estimated reports. Ups, pfizer ford, coming in better. It paints a positive picture so far. Mma in europe talks yesterday help as well. Lets move to the question the morning on twitter, whats could threaten the m a wave . You could find me on twitter. Lets talk about what is happening in the asian session. Over to china now, as the countrys equity index swings. Our market reporter from hong kong joins us for the latest. Juliet it has been a fluctuating market. Asian markets followed in general, that
Hear what the Federal Reserve says about Interest Rates after wrapping up its today policy meeting. Its twoday policy meeting. A survey by bloomberg put the odds of a september increase at about 50 . In china, a late rally in stocks. The composite the shanghai composite index rose 3. 4 halting a fallen a fallen one at 11 . The government reports Oil Inventory figures a few hours from now. The congressional review of the Iran Nuclear Deal is entering a new phase today. Managers will hear from defense secretary ash carter and joint chief martin dempsey. House panel quiz secretary of state john kerry yesterday. The more jack dorsey kept talking, the more twitter stocks fell. Down as much as 14 premarket the stock went up yesterday when twitter posted secondquarter revenue that beat estimates. Jack dorsey have not yet had meaningful impact on growing our audience or participation. This is unacceptable and we are not happy about it. Over the past few weeks i have had a deeper understanding
For the s p and the dow. The s p is up about half a percent. The best equity gain yesterday in two weeks. We are building upon that as we gains across the board. We are near the intraday highs for the s p and thehead to the. There is Technology Shares that are tumbling, twitter and yelp. Twitter came out with disappointing numbers today. M easily 2 million a measly 2 million active users. Yelp down a record 28 . Part of that has to do with their cutting their Sales Forecast but also cutting back on their National Branding campaign. Lots of analyst cutting their forecast on the stock, rating on the stock. A different story in commodities, inventories in the u. S. Dropped by over 4 million barrels. Were actually a gain which is why youre seeing nymex crude higher than 2 . Giving a dropon in oil prices has gone down. Also looking at industrial stocks and commodity stocks. Ohs are higher today. Lets take a check on those are higher today. We can see selling in the 10 year. 3 for the 30 yea