Today we are talking about 1968, a year when a heck of a lot happened, including a president ial election. A year where there were a lot of social, economic, political parallels that are in some ways familiar to us now because, in part, some of the changes the early 21st Century America has experience particularly in politics were set in motion in this late 1960s period. Lets get started. I want to start with an unlikely as official News Conference or address to the American People. March 31, 1968. President Lyndon Johnson gave a televised address to the nation. His subject but was the vietnam war. By this point the vietnam had escalated into a bloody conflict involving over half a million american soldiers. A war that had gradually started as a small engagement against communist, put potential Prime Minister aggression in Southeast Asia in the 1950s had escalated into a major conflict that was tearing america apart. Johnson gives a speech about the war. He looks tired. He looks old. T
Biggest number was online sales, addly, up 22 . Im seeing what youre doing here. Interesting there. Gaining after the bell moved higher as a result. Energy, big laggard, ironically, after the oil prices dropped, oil stocks went with it after opec extended Production Cuts another nine months, look where there may be opportunities in this particular market. Could this be opposite . Getting worse throughout the session, it feels like, with energy today. Yep. The stock that wont quit, amazon closing in at 1,000 mark per share, its at 996. A fund manager, why hes trimming positions. Fun fact, jeff bezos will be the richest in the world when amazon hits 1,000. Exceeding bill gatings at that point. Wow. Diesel pickups rigged to pass emissions tests, but shares hit, down roughly 2 on that story. We have the full story coming up in a little here. Tax reform seems to take a backseat to health care for the moment. House ways and means chair kevin brady joining us and whether he and the white hous
Good morning. Very warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc. Im wilfred frost along with seema mody in for sara today. Good morning. Good morning. Great to be here. Lets check in on the market action. Record highs once again across the board yesterday. About 0. 5 to 0. 6 of gains and unlike last week it was a broad rally. Every sector in positive territory, real estate and energy the leaders of the pack. The worst performer, materials, that was up 0. 4 . So only a tenth shy of the overall market return. Highlighting the broad nature of yesterdays gains and optimism. Lets look as well. Futures call for another set of record highs today, only slightly. Essentially the futures market is flat, even though the color is green. If we look at tenyear note, 2. 425 . Of course this time last week, we did see yields spike significantly off the back of Janet Yellens comments in congress, slightly more hawkish than expected tone. Its amazing how quickly we came back down once though comments
Unreasonable eu is demanding of us, and this time the key number is 8 billion, but we have had numbers in the millions and billions, this is not a particularly new story. What is new is that there are now reports that this is being considered as pa rt that this is being considered as part of the negotiation on the british side to help us get the transitional deal which i think will probably make some Hard Brexiteers very upset, that we will continue paying the eu bill until 2020. There isa paying the eu bill until 2020. There is a case that this is money we committed. The eu Budget Frameworks are seven years so committed. The eu Budget Frameworks are seven years so this is money that was allocated to these projects. It is definitely showing that one of our key Negotiating Chips is going to be our contributions. We have the money, they need the money. So i think you can put a fairly positive spin on this. So it will be about the bill versus the trade deal we get as a result . It will be
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