region. one day after a deadly bomb blast at a hotel in neighboring somalia. the president also speaking out against republican presidential candidates who attacked his policies over the weekend. we have the latest in this war of words. hey, china s markets are set to open in less than 6 1/2 hours. so let s start the countdown. . liz: breaking news. china chewing up wall street after demonstrating a week of stabilization thanks to massive government intervention. last night a freefall so severe, it is affecting our markets negatively right now. spin it forward, 6 1/2 hours away from the hang seng in hong kong and the shanghai and shen gin indexes opening again. what can u.s. inspectors expect the day after the huge fall. how will it impact your money. we take it to the traders watching and waiting at trading floors around the nation and gerri willis. scott, to you first. what do you think happens when china opens for business? three hours ago, they said they re going to p
nasdaq up by almost 10 points. s&p down by a point. this comes after the markets closed at record highs again the longest streak of record closes for the s&p 500 in years, going back to 97 or something and it s six in a row, but remember two weeks ago and three weeks ago and four weeks ago, we were saying how many records there were back then this one didn t start until last thursday so the one that takes us back to 1997 it was 130 points yesterday on the dow or 113 after all these moves. 22,775, almost 23,000 on the dow. the s&p 2552 and since the election, it s 24%. 25% since the election 25% after yesterday widely predicted by so many if you want to see what happened overnight in asia, let s look the nikkei was up by 0.3%, similar gain for the hang seng the kospi was up by 0.9% in the early trading we re already seeing taking place in europe, you can see things are mixed. the dax is slightly positive the cac is weaker. the ftse is up by a quarter percentage poin
bureau. thank you for coming on c-span poock tv. wanted c-span booktv. i was interested in all of this book, and i wanted to start off with the beginning. so, you dedicate your book to the most important working woman in your police in life, you re grandmother. tell me about her story. guest: well, annie was my father s mother. she emigrateed whet wall call the old country, eastern europe. she was 16. she lived with an onaunt in new york. she worked in a sweat shop making clothes and earned enough now doing that to bring her parents over, and to me that was always very inspirational and i thought i couldn t imagine any working woman in my own history who head made bearing improgress on me than grandma annie. host: the first part of you introduction struck me and you a: ambitious women today feel little connection with female business executive s over came obama stack d-0 on stack tells to psychosis. do you think week health evident easy no they have it easier than wom
since the aca was not repealed. let s get to the road map and now it starts with tackling taxes, the president is looking to rally republicans on a tax reform strategy. and plus the global markets are down on signs of a stalled trump agenda. it is on track for the lowest losing streak since 2011. and premarket, after five top analysts issued bullish ratings on snapchat s parent. global markets are moving lower on the pulling of the health reform bill and how it can impa impact president trump s pro growth agenda. yesterday on nbc s meet the press the president s budget director mulvaney described why there was a rush to pass health reform legislation. here s the hurry. there s a lot to be done. we needed to get rid of obamacare. we needed to fix the system so we could help folks back home and then move on to tax reform so that we could help people get back to work. the president wants to do a lot of things and is not willing to do what other politicians would do. and
nasdaq advanced .2%. good enough is the theme for the day. why not start with the ultimate good enough? let s start with apple. they reported a number that showed a 15% revenue decline yet the stock is flying in after hours. how in the heck can it decline like that be bullish? simple. because there were many, many worries going into the quarter. even among the bulls that it would be worse, maybe far worse than that. nope, it was good enough. better than we thought three months ago. and frankly could have been more than good enough. tim cook told us. if apple hadn t been supply constrained on its iphone selling almost only 40 .4 million when it could have been many more than that. plus that service revenue stream that i talk about all the time just keeps growing. cook said it will be the size of a fortune 100 company by this time next year. when we asked him if that meant $28 billion, the value of the smallest company on the austere list, he told us, no, it would be more than