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and everything mark zuckerberg wants, he will get when it comes to facebook. they re holding a shareholder right now passing to give the ceo more control of the company. more details coming up. the heat wave in the west has caused devastating wild fires. we ll take you there for the impacts on business. let s start with today s rally. bob pisani tracking the action. bob. the important thing is we ve held most of the gains. let s call it steady as she goes here. broad rally more to 1%. 5/1 advancing. that s an impressive number. volatility, vix, has been dropping here. eight of ten sectors up more than 1%. industrials, bank stks, technology, all have been strong. financials i would note particularly strong. so all the money banks were up as well as the regional banks like comerica and regions financial. how confused are they over the brexit thing? the answer is very confused. last week the markets were positioning for an exit. people thought brexit was going to happe ....
bead beat. europe in the green as draghi continues to talk down the euro. a shareholder friendly quarter for apple. a beat on the top and bottom line. increased buyback, stock split calling it the i-split. two-faced quarter for facebook. profits blew away the estimates but company warning there might be a new normal of slower revenue growth. another beat and victory for cost cuts, caterpillar raising its outlook. sees improvements in the building industry. tis the season to make a health care deal. zimmer buys rival more than $13 billion is the purchase price. the industry ripe for more consolidation? apple coming off the company s best nonholedy quarter ever. results did beat expectations as almost 44 million iphones were sold in the period. apple announcing the seven for one stock split, 8% different hike and increase in the share buyback program. ceo tim cook on last night s conference call. take a listen. we decided to continue to allocate the vast majori ....
responded carrying out bombing raids against isis targets. italy warned that isis is at the door now of europe. maria with the american state department. this is getting close. and i think the italians, you know, who had some land in northern africa over the years before, are beginning to feel them at their curb side now. what do we do as americans when we look at 21 christians beheaded for the purposes of humiliating us, the christian world, the western world? it s aimed at us, those pictures. i think it underscores to people that it isn t just a fight in iraq and syria and it s not just a fight about dropping bombs on terrorists. it s how we stop the causes that lead to extremism in a place like libya, where there s no governance, letting isis grow and flourish there, which is what we saw with this awful situation. but it s a longer fight, fighting them on social media. they re using social media to get converts to their cause and to spread their hatred all over the ....
it shows the christians led along the mediterranean shoreline. they re forced to kneel by the water and are beheaded. today the egyptian air force responded carrying out bombing raids against isis targets. italy warned that isis is at the door now of europe. maria with the american state department. this is getting close. and i think the italians you know, who had some land in northern africa over the years before, are beginning to feel them at their curb side now. what do we do as americans when we look at 21 christians beheaded for the purposes of humiliating us the christian world, the western world? it s aimed at us, those pictures. i think it underscores to people that it isn t just a fight in iraq and syria and it s not just a fight about dropping bombs on terrorists. it s how we stop the causes that lead to extremism in a place like libya where there s no governance letting isis grow and flourish there which is what we saw with this awful situation. but it s a ....