Trouble tonight at eight eastern on cspan q a. You can listen to q a and all of our podcasts on our free cspan. Now app. Daniel ellsberg has passed away at the age of 92. He is best known for leaking sensitive documents on the vietnam war, known as the pentagon papers, which many believe helped to end the longest u. S. Conflict of the 20th century. The disclosures would also lead to a Landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press. In 2019, the university of massachusetts amherst acquired the papers of Daniel Ellsberg and next from the school he talks about his career and his fight against the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This is just over 2 hours. All right. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good evening. Were going to get started. So greetings and welcome to the 21st annual friends of the umass librarys fall reception. Im simon nehme, dean of libraries here at Umass Amherst. And today i have the honor of welcoming you to a very, very special program planned to celebrate the
Secondquarter revenue, 74. 1 billion. That is the number that we were looking for for revenue. Once again, secondquarter earnings per share one dollar. 74. 1 billion, secondquarter revenue. Scarlet thank you so much for that first read on exxon mobil results. We have alix steel. This is our moment. She is busy looking through all the numbers. This earnings pershare number. Matt versus almost three dollars last year. It is an amazing drop. Alix we do want to hear where the miss actually happened. The common theme for earnings has been production and job cuts. What they do with production is mattering a little less. Can they keep their dividends . Do they have cash flow to cover it . That is the focus. Every quarter, it is usually production, production production. That came in bang in line. Those metrics matter a little more. We are getting a reading on capex comeing in at 8. 3 billion. Scarlet we were talking about production. Why is it significant to meet Production Target . Alix big
Mia is watching equities and on the holiday shortened trading week. Peter cook has the latest etails on newest government rules coming for unmanned aerial drones. Known as and julie highman tells us about sectors, n the retail stocks, that is. Get to those stories and more. Top stories the were following at this hour. Fewer americans bought homes a the slowest pace in six months. The National Association of existing aid sales of homes fell 6. 1 . Over the last 12 month, sales risen 2. 1 . A recent decline in mortgage buyerss yet to lure more into the market. He latest from the equities markets on this monday. The s p 500 is up fractionally. The dow is up over half a 17,903. At and the nasdaq composite index a quarter of aup percent at 4777. Saudi arabia and the united arab emrates are pledging not to cut to prop up on prices. They blame nonopec producers for them toly glut and urge cut back. The Saudi Oil Ministry says hes onfident prices will rebound along with Global Economic growth.
Seismic action . And get this, two anchors under the same roof, sue. I know, who knew, who knew. Its great to be with you up here at headquarters. Lets focus on the dow. We had a very strong morning. The dow up triple digits earlier today. Right now, up 82 points, 16,330. The s p also had a firmer opening. Right now, the s p up almost 11 point, better of that. 5 . The nasdaq is the winner on a percentage basis. It is up almost a full percent on the trading session. As for Interest Rates, weve begun of course the twoday fed meeting. Right now, the tenyear yield is at 1. 674 . One of my favorite things to watch, the transports, up at 50 points to the upside. And comex gold with the market rallying, well, some steam coming out of gold, down about 11 bucks on the day. Big question for inest hafst ve and traders alike today is a plan to change the rules on highspeed trading. Would it make the markets more fair or would it make it worse . Now, some of the details on that. New York State Atto
Unexpectedly weak reading on Consumer Confidence. Melissa the new push to turn a tiny island off detroit into a free market utopia. I love this story. Lori lets go to pack your bags, folks. Lou dobbs here with us. An agreement that lays down a path to citizenship for 11 million Illegal Immigrants in this country. Lets head to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The dow pushing session highs right now. Nicole it certainly is. We are back touching them once again. The nasdaq composite has been one of the three industries that we have followed so closely and it has been in the red. It is down, not even two points. The s p 500 also setting new highs here. Going back to these levels that we have not seen since 2007. Lets begin with ford motors. It is down about 5. 5 . He talked about europe. That is something that is still plaguing them. They did say that europe still remains a problem. The outlook in the nearterm is troublesome. They did see that they had and and a deep to climb in p