Focused on the television so political advertising became focused there. Technology has changed so that now when you walk into a room of not just 20yearolds, but of 60yearolds, what are they looking at . Their phones. For folks in the political world who want to reach into the future, understand what the future of political advertising will look like, things like candy crush or the latest game theres always something new popping up. Finding ways to get your message in front of people where they are paying attention is important. For a lot of folks who have been doing this for a while, they are used to advertisements on tv which is fine. Lots of folks still watch tv. Understanding the future of politics is understanding where attention is being paid. Brian why did you write this book . Kristen as someone who is young and republican, i came to discover in 2008 that no longer was it weird that i was a young person interested in politics, it was weird that i was a young republican. I wante
What impact would this have on the president s ability to fill vacancies under that kind of situation . Hard to know up front except it obviously suggests that the nominees will be more to the center rather than to the right or left depending on who win it is white house. But i think that part of that will depend on the mandate the new president has, if theres sort of a first nature to the next appointment. All sorts of questions like that. Any additional questions . Thanks very much. Could i take you up on your offer when you said you might look ahead to some of the cases to come and some of the thoughts of what the block busters might be . There are three of them a pretty good term. This last term will be hard to beat. I remember a couple years ago we had the First Health Care case. We said thats the term of the century. Then a first go at marriage. The court ended up not answering but we thought that was the term of the century then when you add health care and marriage together we
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
Same story taking place in the broader market. The s p 500 is up nearly half a percent now at 21. 02. Twitter and yelp have been tumbling on this wednesday. Tech stocks taking a beating. Twitter down 14 . Twitter shares falling the stock is down just over 9 . Twitters Top Executive saying growth will take some time. Yelp is slumping this afternoon. Shares down nearly 29 after it reduced its revenue forecast and is cutting National Brand advertising. Lets move on to oil and gold. Oil is on the rise today after u. S. Crude stockpiles unexpectedly decreased and production declined. 4923 crude is up 2. 6 at 49. 23. Gold futures are slumping, now at 1094. 80. Betty a check on the bottom markets right now people you had housing data you are seen yields rise. Waiting on the timing and pays for a rate hike. Causing a gap between the two year yield and 30 year yield to narrow. Finally, on the currency markets , Commodity Markets dominating for Exchange Trades foreign Exchange Trades. The top st
Early this year. No qualifiers. Economic activity has been expanded moderately in recent months. Dropping a reference to Slower Growth earlier in the year. Inflation is still below the 2 target, which they blame on transitory declines. Energy prices and decreasing prices of nonenergy imports. They still see inflation rising toward the target over the mediumterm. The committee anticipates that it will be appropriate to raise the target rate for the federal some rate when it has seen further improvement in the labor market and is reasonably confident that inflation will move act back to the 2 target over the mediumterm. Feel they arethey almost there. There were no dissents, no press conference today, they did not upgraded or Economic Forecast and there is no new. Plot dot t we will have to wait for august for any further clues. This is definitely a statement towards the hawkish side. Mark Michael Mckee joining us from a very windy washington. Thank you. Scarlet lets get straight to juli