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You are dealt a lasting defeat. Dagen the president bring unity to the republican party, garnering support from Lindsey Graham and john mccain. The rebound after genes across the board of 34 points after a 29point gain to start this week. England, france and germany, and on the market are faring. Gave up about half of 1 to seven tenths of 1 in england. Asia overnight market mostly higher as well. Ever so slightly with the nikkei in japan. Four suspects in the barcelona terror attacks in court today after police shot dead the driver of the van believed to be the last nonmember responsible for that attack. Johnson johnson facing another massive payout in its baby powder scandal. The company ordered to pay half a billion dollars. Move over apple pie. Mcdonalds launching a new dessert item and it will have everybody cheering. Democratic strategists jessica tarr laws, and kevin kelly in for the first time on a panel, chaired u. S. Army officer, new York Police Department lieutenant, darren
Vets. Lieutenant general tom and defense democracy founder will analyze the president s shifting afghanistan strategy. And, yes, it has been a year now since we first broke open the epipen pricegouging scandal. Remember that . The woman known as Food Allergies. Robin obrien, shell be here to tell us whats changed and if kids with severe Food Allergies are still paying through the nose for their lifesaving medication. On wall street, tech a market rally with the dow, s p 500, and nasdaq all seeing significant moves to the upside. Check that out. We are less than an hour now to the closing bell. Im Ashley Webster in for liz claman. Lets start the countdown. Ashley let me adjust the bulk on my seat because stocks are heading higher for all three major embassies on track for the percentage gains in more than a week. Stocks, that is, surging to session highs as soon as press secretary Rex Tillerson began taking or talking a little after 2 00 p. M. Eastern during the state Department Briefin
Us oh wait. Covers the Banking Industry well was here. That works too. Well get to that in a little bit. We begin in washington with the rhetoric about a Government Shutdown how much time do we have at this point . Well Government Shutdown by the end of the september if they dont pass spending bills. We got a slightly different take between last night and today between the president of the United States and the speaker of the house. Listen to the president last night at a rally in phoenix talking about the possibility of a Government Shutdown if he doesnt get funding for a border wall build that wall now the obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it, but believe me, we have to close down our government, were building that wall little bit of a different take well see where the rest of the Republican Party falls on the issue of the Government Shutdown over boarding spending there are a lot of republicans on capitol hill who would like to see something done on the issue of the b
As much as they used to. Well bring you the comments first, a classic trump trade. That fell sharply today. Transports now on pace for their second negative month in a row. And the airlines in the group hit the hardest. Delta, jetblue, southwest, united airlines, all near or at bear market territory, which means 20 off their recent highs. Which were just last month is this sending a warning sign to the rest of the market . Is it a sign there is more selling to come . Sara, great to have you with us thanks for filling in. Its a long day. 2015 transports had a miserable year at the beginning of 2016 it was off to the races i think tim was early on that one and correct. I have to tell you something it is not just the airlines, as you mentioned. Railroads have been under pressure for the last few weeks. Federal express was quietly sold off a few percent. A name like priceline, impervious to any bad news seemingly has sold off one thing i have said for quite some time now, the iyt transport