Julie a flip of yesterday where the doubt was the winner and the nasdaq the loser. Dow losing steam. Nasdaq points as the gains a half of 1 . Not recuperating all of the losses we saw yesterday. Making progress in that direction. In addition to the tax plan jockeying for position, we have ended your positioning and rotation we have been talking about. Lets look at the bloomberg to see what is up in what is down. Technology is the best performing group in the s p 500. Health care and financials also getting but not by nearly as much as with utilities and telecom the two worst performing groups over the course of the session. To emphasize the move in technology a little more, large cap, we are seeing some significant winners. Amazon, nvidia, alphabet trading higher. Amazon potentially getting a boost from stories out today. The wall street journal reporting big advertising firms plan to boost advertising spending on amazon between 40 and 100 next year. Amazon declined to comment for the
Changes, but mostly about his decision making. He has some huge weapons in his game. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Well get figures after half 9 which will give us an idea of the number of rough sleepers across england. If youve been homeless at some point in your life do let me know about your own experience, how it happened, what effect it had on you . And how you got back on your feet. And ill share your insight with the nation. You can email, message me on fb, use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The Education Minister Nadhim Zahawi has been reprimanded by number 10 for attending the men only charity dinner. Is mr zahawi attended the president s clubs function at the dorchester hotel, where women employed as hostesses say they were groped. The minister said he felt uncomfortable and left the event early. Alexandra mackenzie reports. The annual president s club dinner
Before we get started i want to take a moment to speak about the evil terror attack that occurred last night in the united kingdom, our deepest condolences go out to the victims, families and their loved ones. Know youre in our prayers. Today, were continuing our work on pro growth tax reform that will improve the lives of all americans. This mornings hearing is focused on strengthen americas competitiveness and preventing jobs from moving overseas. For years americans watched our our manufacturing plants, and longstanding u. S. Companies have moved overseas, devastating communities and the families that depend upon them. Hundreds of thousands of good paying american jobs have left, and continued to leave to china, mexico, ireland, and other foreign countries. Some of our communities have never recovered. Because when these plants and Companies Move overseas, local businesses housing value and local tax revenue disappear with them. Ive watched as 17 key Texas Companies have relocated t
Worldwide exchange on cnbc. Im with Courtney Reagan in for sarah today. Good morning. Good morning. Happy monday. Great to have you with us. Lets go straight to Global Market action. Take a look at futures after friday stocks ended only just marginally higher. Were poised to open slightly lower, we have 4 1 2 hours to go before the opening sounds in the United States. The Dow Jones Industrial is called lower by 35 points. S p 500 down about 7 points for the futures and nasdaq off about 13. If we take a look at the action on the tenyear treasury, we did hit a high on friday of over 2. 52 , the highest since mid february. Now you see weve pulled back just a bit here, 2. 464. Theres so much that happened over the weekend in politics both in the United States as well as globally. Indeed. Very slight gains, of course, we saw on friday. For the week as a whole, four straight weeks of gains for dow. The dow up just shy of 1 last week. Led the pack of indexes up 0. 7, financials best performin
It could have been one for the record books. Stocks dived from the getgo. Within minutes the dow was down nearly 200 points. There were fresh worries about slowing growth in china, to be sure, but that wasnt the half of it. What really spooked investors was this the stunning sight of tens of thousands of prodemocracy demonstrators flooding the streets of hong ko kong. Police cracked down hard. Banks and other hong kong businesses shut down for the day. Stocks sold off in asia, then in europe. The demonstrations continued well into the Early Morning Hours Tuesday and may well continue for another day. After that early tumble, though, u. S. Stocks fought back. Heres how things looked at the closing bell. The dow down just 42 points. The nasdaq lower by 6 and the s p 500 lost 5. In hong kong, the hang seng index had a terrible monday with stocks falling nearly 2 . Susan lee is on the ground in hong kong with more on what the protesters are demanding and why investors are paying such close