Ferro, alongside david westin. Joining us for the hour is megan greene, the chief economist. Coming up, we will break new highlights of that conversation vladimirian president putin and get to the commodity market as well. We want to get you up to speed on what is happening in Financial Markets worldwide. Byures are softer, negative 1 10 of 1 on the s p 500, down two points after a sixday winning streak on the benchmark in the United States, and in other record high close or tuesday. 25 ,ollar up more than and we are down to 2. 3 one on the 10 year, david. David lets get a look at what is happening outside the business world. Emma the girlfriend of the shooter in the Las Vegas Massacre has returned to the u. S. She arrived in los angeles last night and was met by federal agents. She had been in the philippines. Authorities have called her a person of interest. There are pictures showing the inside of stephen Paddocks Hotel room, rifles clearly visible. He meticulously planned the attac
Was announced he pled guilty to lying to the fbi. Well speak with marcy wheeler, who says George Papadopouloss indictment is very, very bad news for attorney general jeff sessions. Then democracy now goes to puerto rico where the app is investigating the 300 Million Contract between puerto ricos Electrical Power Company in the tiny montanabased company whitefish named for the hometown of interior secretary ryan zinke. It truly is unnerving that anple can just swindle entire population when they are at its most vulnerable. Amy as puerto rico moves to cancel its contract with whitefish, wheels big with san juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz about the response to trumps attack and her vision for the islands recovery. Power is in just about the power grid. It is also about the ability that the puerto rican people may have in the years to come to ensure there is appropriate economic developing an equally divided amongst all this 78 municipalities. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to demo
The broadbased losses. The dax is getting pushed punished, down 2 . Eurozone stocks down 1. 7 . Really broadbased losses and parts could be due to the stronger euro because we saw following the ecb Mario Draghis press conference, it hit an alltime high. We are up 0. 2 above the 1600 handle. We are seeing broadbased dollar weakness in the session playing through into other currencies in europe. The fixed income space, yield come down in at the core and periphery keeping a close eye on the peripheral spreads which i will get on in a moment. Look at the euro. A guest of the dollar, about 0. 2 higher. Sterling, ever so slightly higher, almost as he will. 1 almost a super. 1 after four day of losses. You are seeing Euro Weakness against the yen. We are down against the yen. Broadbased strength of the yen. Some divergence begs the question if the euro is due to the dollar weakness. If we look at what is happening with the germany spread, we saw it hit its lowest since 2015 after Mario Draghi
Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. Well begin with the major policy announcement. President trump Just Announced he could be increasing the number of u. S. Troops in afghanistan, possibly sending thousands more into americas longestrunning war. Abc News Reporter lana zak is in washington. Reporter President Trump now says hes on board with a plan than could send additional u. S. Troops to afghanistan. I i concluded that the security threats we face in afghanistan and the broader region are immense. Reporter Afghan Forces say they need more help to fight a resurgent taliban. These new american troops will join more than 8,000 troops already on the ground, parts of 13,000 coalition forces. The men and women who serve our nation in xwaut deserve a plan for victory. Reporter the president did not say how many more americans would be sent, but the pentagons proposal originally unveiled in may would add 3,000 to 4,000 troops and increase the amount of foorn aid being sent
Slammed into a parked unit at the platform. They received the call that a high speed train came into the terminal and hit a station car in the terminal. This morning investigators from the National Transportation safety board were on the scene. This is the second probe for a collision at this terminal. Last february a train hit a parked train and went into the path of another train. The operator was critically injured and that investigation is still on going. As for the collision overnight there are reports that the train failed to make proper station stops at bryn mawr and had to back up. And there seemed to be a problem with the brakes another person told action news he noticed the speed to the approach of the permanent nal early this morning seemed wrong. I heard the train was going real fast, super fast and im looking up and we have 69th street and why are we going so fast . And we just hit the train. Well, if history is any guide the ntsb will start a slow methodical issue, lookin