We begin tonight in syria where the u. S. Led effort to create a reliable military force against i. S. I. L. Suffered another setback. The pentagon confirming that al qaedas wing in syria carried out a surprise attack on forces trained by americans. The attack is the latest attempt by the al nusra front to undermine Syrian Rebels who have backing from the west. Zeina khodr is in Southern Turkey with the latest. Across the border in syria, opposition groups have taken up arms against each other. Theres more infighting threatening the u. S. Programme to train and equip the force to take on the Islamic State of iraq and levant. This is thought to be an air strike carried out by the u. S. To support allies in syria, targetting positions of the Al Qaedalinked al nusra front in northern aleppo. It came too late. Nusra fighters were at the base of a u. S. Backed group called division 30, and abducted its commander and several men, it was a message to the u. S. And syrians who cooperate with i
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Desk. Markets still in negative territory as they head into the day. The nasdaq is the biggest down 10 there. I want to show you what is happening with the s p sector. That energy is the biggest laggard the whole day, down 2 here. Crude. Because of information technology, not as bad as industrials and energy in part because of what is happening with micron over the course of the day. You can see it has been up most of the day 6. 3 . It is the biggest gainer not 500 in tech but the s p terms of percentage. It announced a poison pill plan, a strategy to make it unattractive to some bidders that it wants to avoid in order to avoid ownership change. Also bullish ratings. Retail is also winning. Up 4. 5 , 3. 57 there. This is after it was they agreed to Sell International to a group for about 600 50 million. Companies in the radar. Up by about 3. 5 here. Wells fargo saying the gap had seen several developments to create more favorable situations for the company. Urban outfitters, also 3 . Q
Afternoon, the outgoing chair now of the Democratic National committee will not gavel in the convention, which is expected to begin an hour from now. This amid the fallout from wikileaks release of thousands of Democratic National committee emails showing officials favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. Prosanders protesters are already out in full force in philadelphia. Well take you there live for the latest developments. Meantime, weve had strategists come on this program and say that the tech sector looks inexpensive right now. But looks can be deceiving. And were going to tell you which single stock is making the entire sector look cheap. Well give you three guesses. Youll probably get it on the second one. Weve also got earnings coming up, from gilead, Las Vegas Sands, express scripts, and Texas Instruments. Well tell you what to expect from those reports after the bell. Yeah, we have just an absolute deluge of earnings coming out this week. Its going to be a very, very bu