raise successful people. that s ahead on power lunch today. all right, let s get a check on the markets this hour the averages, giving up their gains. the dow was up more than 130 points at one point. its high of the day, right now, having the longest daily day by day losing streak in eight years. so there you see the dow down 14 nasdaq is higher, but the s&p is lower. kelly? tyler, thanks let s go to seema mody with more on the trading action this hour at the new york stock exchange reporter: a choppy day of trade. we were up triple digits in early trade and just around the european close, gains faded and right now, we re trading basically flat with the dow down and s&p 500 lower by 3 when you take a look at certain sectors, you see the lower yields didn t play a big role in helping utilities and real estate move higher today tech is higher by half a percent and if you dig deeper, a number of subsectors within tech are posting gains, specifically, the chip makers led
impeachment to get to the bottom of this, they would be dead on arrival in the united states senate. president commented, nothing changes from the mueller report. tweeting there was insufficient evidence, therefore in our country a person is innocent, the case is closed. thank you. but apparently that is not the end of it. wall street as he like to say abhores uncertainty. 28 of the dow 30 stocks are feeling very uncertain about the prospect for not only individual companies could be a disruptive summer between hearings, no progress on the trade front. signs china is playing hardball with us. throughout all of this, we ve been watching interest rates slip slide away right now, we have inverted yield curve. we have three months paper, overnight paper, that is yielding more than paper you commit to for 10 years. that almost always brings on a slowdown, or at very least a recession. add it all up with the ten year at 2.21%. you have growing fears something bigger could be afoot.
operation coming across the border. the attorney general released a new rule, detainees asking for asylum, wait in detention on a judge s court date. that is a change. that ruling will be delayed 90 days to build more beds. homeland security advisory council report says they should establish thee to four processing centers on the border to house family units trying to cause. calls on congress to act, passing a bill that requiring that families see a judge within 30 days crossing the border for families there. that requires more money and more judges. acting homeland security secretary says quote, the unprecedented surge in unaccompanied family unit migration is overwhelming the ability to provide humanitarian aid in our immigration system. the reasonable changes proposed by the non-partisan panel would dramatically reduce immigration of family units from central america. what is happening a 600% increase last year of family units crossing the border. 53,000 detained alone las
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independent women s forum patrice lee. what is driving this. i have to wonder midterm elections some of the key races are still a factor. the market is wondering what will happen. we generally know the louse will be flipped into democratic control and senate kept in republican grips but whether, you know, that balance of power will be stronger for republicans in the senate and whether the president s agenda, particularly those pro-growth strategies that really helped the market, helped businesses, help small business optimism rise, whether that will be overturned or stopped in the future the next two years. neil: on technology, scott, whatever the political back and forth, i don t doubt potentially that could be in play here i am wondering what is going on with technology? apple fell into correction territory and now steams towards bear market territory when amazon, alphabet, some of these others are feeling the same chill. what is happening? nothing really changed for th