Becky is off today all breaking fivemonth win streaks with the dow the big loser. Still a good quarter i should say a very good quarter. The dow gaining 7. 5 take a look at u. S. Equity futures this morning lets show you where things stand as we speak. The dow up triple digits s p looking to open higher nasdaq about 140 points hire overnight, Tokyo Stock Exchange suspended trading after a glitch blaming a hard wear problem followed by a failure to switch over to a backup device. The first fullday closure of the tokyo markets since trading began in 1999. Too much partying like in 1999 also in 1999, the year after was the year 2000. That was the last time the nasdaq had two quarters as good as this. It has been 20 years the nasdaq was up 45 . So it has been pretty unbelievable yesterday, we had worries about coronavirus. Even in new york and elsewhere where there is high infection rates. We had sort of just the aftermath of the debate, which people said was unsettling just watching then
A. Factory walkouts of protests continue in belarus with growing calls for president Alexander Lukashenko to resign. We have got to do everything we can to elect my friend joe biden as the next president of the united states. Democrats rally us voters to support their presumptive president ial candidate joe biden at an online party convention. Its taken 50 years and cost close to a 1000000000. 00 now the investigation and trial and the assassination of former lebanese Prime Minister at a fico d. D. Is finally reaching its climax in the last few hours a un banks tribunal has been delivering its Closing Remarks ahead of the. Picked the 4 defendants sole members of hezbollah and course refused to hand them over and denies any involvement had 80 and 21 others died in the suicide bombing in 2005 deep in exact area and political divides and their ruling judges have already said theres no direct evidence that leaders of hezbollah and syria were involved they say the nature of the killing was
Employees who have been out of work now for months. The Second Quarter Gross Domestic Product plummeted 32. 9 between april and june. Thats almost a full third and its the sharpest decline we have seen in u. S. History. The drop in gdp is nearly 4 times worse than it was at the peak of the financial crisis in the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the previous record was 10 in the First Quarter of 1958. Turning over to the stock market and see how stocks are reacting to this dire news. The dow jones is down by almost 200 points, just a little bit more than that right now. S p is suffering a loss of not quite one half of 1 . The nasdaq is the only right spot if you count the addition of 52 points. Nasdaq is up by one half of 1 . You can see stocks mostly regained their footing after a very steep drop at the opening bell and after we got that labor news. Californias jobless claims were down last week despite a nationwide increase. Our state reported 249,000 workers filed firsttime claims during the
And scientific Academic Community. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by Financial Services firm raymond james. When it comes to wireless, Consumer Cellular gives its customers the choice. Our nocontract plans give you as much or as little talk, text and data as you want, and our u. S. Based Customer Service team is on hand to help. To learn more, go to consumercellular. Tv fidelity investments. Bnsf railway. The john s. And james l. Knight foundation. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the pace of covid19 deaths across the United States is slowing tonight, but the total is nearing a new threshold 100,000. At the same time, the nations reopening keeps moving ahead, led by a major Ame
Community. Woouff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by Financial Services firm raymond james. When it comes to wireless, Consumer Cellular gives its customers the choice. Our nocontract plans give you as much or as little talk, text and data as you want, and our u. S. Based Customer Service team is on hand to help. To learn more, go to consumercellular. Tv fidelity investments. Bnsf railway. The john s. And james l. Knight foundation. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by thcorporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the pace of covid19 deaths across the United States is slowing tonight, but the total is nearing a new threshold 100,000. At the same time, the nations reopening keeps moving ahead, led by a major American Financial institution.