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Lawsuit on a repealed new york handgun regulation. Speakers voiced their opposition to the nra, called for tougher gun laws and shared stories about the impact of gun violence. No more silence End Gun Violence no more silence End Gun Violence good morning, everybody. Hey. All right. Everybody get this party started. First thing, put your right hand up. Put your left hand up. Round of applause. All right. Were going to be loud all day long because, one, were in front of the Supreme Court, two, we got some haters here. So give we that one more time. Let me hear you. I love it. I love it. I love it. All right. My name is greg jackson. Im going to be your emcee for the day. First of all, big shoutout to march for our lives for picking us up. Give it up for march for our lives. I see moms demand action. Give it up for moms demand action. I see every town here. Give it up for every town. I see brady here. Where brady at . Were hearing numbers, were so proud. Im so proud of being here, having
The dow has been up seven sessions in a row. S p is up six out of the last seven sessions you are talking the highest closes since late july overnight in asia, the sang high deposit was closed for a public holiday. The hang seng up almost 1 in europe, it looks like now most of those markets are in the green, one exception is the ftse down by about. 1 . If you check out treasury yields in the united states, another big story is what happens to the yields some of that movement started after treasury secretary told us that Treasury Department is looking seriously at the idea of a 50year bond for some time next year. Right now, the 30 year is yielding 2. 28 i saw him later in washington and he started talking about 100year bond for the next consideration. Did you prepare for seeing him by watching the interview we conducted . I did thats why i decided to take the 50 and up theante and ask him about 100. To beat the record, he would have to serve 13 years see, i knew it were you talking abo
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. With Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at the New York Stock Exchange we watch the markets being whipped by some of the trade headlines. We also have two big ipos in focus today as well. We await the first trade of smile direct club. Lets bring in bob pisani to talk about that and overall iep landscape. We heard valuation is not there, does this mean the ipo market is overrated. Slack, first earnings report, growth wasnt as strong as people thought, not a good idea, growth is not as strong. Some software companies, now theres jitteriness. This week we had three big names, all being upsized waiting for smile direct to open 19 to 22 pricing at 23 looks like and ten x genomics. Upped it to 38 it opened at 54 talking little more than a week ago, 31 to 35. We open at 55 a gene sequencing company, biotech is a hot space overall we wait tomorrow for cloud fair. Another software company, out there, Website Security and other things, was 10 to 12, 35 m
Point gain in the dow jones industrials, which puts that not too far away from record territory. We can do that like this in this kind of market. Blake burman at the white house to sort out rumors, everything here. Bottom line, markets propelled own the belief, were closer to something, setting a framework for something. I give it to you. Reporter neil, this is one of those days where you have to separate, put in one bin, what weigh know. You have to separate, put in the other bin, what is out there being reported in the trade spaces, maybe potentially a possibility. Lets start with what we know, which is the act of goodwill, as it has been seen by china and what the u. S. Is describing it as, delaying tariffs increase from october 1st, to october 15th and apparently an ag buy from china, will come with it as well. This is what a spokesperson for the Commerce Ministry said today. Quote we welcome the goodwill by the u. S. So far as i know Chinese Companies have begun to make inquiries