Year not beating estimates. David it looks like their stock is down in the premarket about 2. 5 . Home depot before you so rudely interrupted me alix david is funny today. David not very funny. Per depot beat earnings share, a little light on revenue. They basically blamed a lot on lumber disinflation, basically. They are warning a lot about china. One is how they want to eat up the lumber costs, a 21 drop in the cost of lumber. At the same time, you have continued slowing homebuilding, but theres a lag for that. Home depot not necessarily feeling the full effect of that could weakness. Because of the price of lumber, overall sales are down. They took it down for the year. There estimates went down. Ls, theykoh reaffirmed their adjusted Earnings Guidance on that comp sales mess. We will dig into retail more over the next couple of hours. The equity markets looking a little bit soggy here, with s p Futures Party much flat. Dow jones off by about five. It doesnt feel like theres a lot of
Floor and in the middle of it a colloquy concerning our schedule. At this time i recognize myself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Good afternoon and a warm welcome to all of our witnesses. We are here and white house turned out to be an absolute gorgeous day in washington, d. C. , but we are here to talk about a very ugly subject, and that is online sex trafficking, or as the name of ms. Smiths organization describes it more bluntly, slavery. As the stings and the headlines continue to proliferate, those who thought that slavery was something that could never happen in 2017 america, have had to confront the terrifying reality that not only is it happening, it is on the rise. And it is on the rise in large part because the internet, the technological masterpiece of our time, has made it much, much easier to do. In both the house and the senate this year, we are facing up to the challenge with a long overdue conversation driving toward effective action. With this hearing, it i
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