Veterans day as we thank those who served us in the past and continue to serve us today im becky quick along with joe kernen along with Andrew Ross Sorkin things are in the green once again. Looks like the dow is indicated up by about 181 points and if we were to open at these levels and hold it through the session, you would be looking at the dow closing at a record high it has been up six out of the last seven sessions. Up another 626 points yesterday. Dow futures are up, s p futures up by about 26 and then the nasdaq, which has been the weaker part over the last several sessions, down more 1 , actually indicated higher today as well. Up by about 130. The bond market today the is closed in ob sservance of veters day. Well talk with David Petraeus later this morning andrew thanks. And an important day in the United States of course. But there is also a holiday going on in china, very different kind of holiday, made up of a shopping a made up shopping holiday i should say called single
600,000. Los angeles is facing a new lockdown while hong kong and tokyo have new record numbers. Australia set to deliver a new budget that may be the biggest since world war ii. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the market trading. After upside of. 1 , this another risk on week. The s p 500 ending higher on the friday session, seven out of 11 s p 500 sectors were led higher by utilities. We have the dow losing. 25 and the nasdaq was up. 3 . It was interesting it was the first week of 2018 with a nafta nasdaq was down and the others were up for the week. The thirddown week for the dollar, we will get another week of weakness for the dollar that will be the first time this year , a whole month of weakness in the greenback. Take a look at how oil is doing, Holding Steady at that 40 a barrel level. You have some weak ecodata. U. S. Consumer sentiment posting a decline in july that was factored into the oil markets. Now we are seeing it unchanged at the moment. This is a bus
Crosstalk in the Atlantic Alliance im joined by my guest mark allman in oxford hes the director of the Crisis Research institute in london we have Jonathan Steele hes an International Affairs commentator also in london we have a real because he is founder of a consulting and Foreign Affairs analyst all right gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you 1st here and let me just read you 2 quotes here number one foreign minister lavrov played in munich saying quote change course before its too late and we have the new head of the European Unions Foreign Policy arm he he also says europe must develop quote appetite for power in the trump era theyre both hinting at the same thing in Different Directions here what does that tell you Better Change course before its too late whats that mean to you. I think certainly the tensions between russia. And the west in general are really probably tensions in russia in the
Hello and welcome the cross for all things are considered im Peter Lavelle the Atlantic Alliance the bedrock of the post world war 2 Global Security order is slowly but surely unraveling more and more often washington and brussels diverged on important Foreign Policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. Crosstalk in the Atlantic Alliance im joined by my guest mark allman an ox. Hes the director of the Crisis Research institute in london we have Jonathan Steele hes an International Affairs commentator also in london we have a real because he is founder of a k. Consulting and a Foreign Affairs analyst or a gentleman crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you 1st here and let me just read you 2 quotes here number one foreign minister lavrov in munich saying quote change course speak for its too late and we have the new head of the European Unions Foreign Policy arm he he als
Crosstalk in the Atlantic Alliance im joined by my guest mark ullman in oxford hes the director of the Crisis Research institute in london we have Jonathan Steele hes an International Affairs commentator also in london we have a real because he is founder of a consulting and Foreign Affairs analyst all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you 1st here and let me just read you 2 quotes here from number one foreign minister lavrov played in munich saying quote change course speak for its too late and we have the new head of the European Unions Foreign Policy arm he he also says europe must develop quote appetite for power in the trump era theyre both hinting at the same thing in Different Directions here what does that tell you Better Change course before its too late whats that mean to you. I think. The tensions between russia and the west in general are really probably tensions in russia in the