The seats. It has given the conservatives of break. Not in many seats, which are and by the labour party some liberal democrats in brexit voting areas. David we have over a month to go until the election. The poles of indicated the tories are ahead, but to those nationwide polls count for much in england . Therese they count for something. It is a substantial lead. The polls are not constituency by constituency. This is a winner take all system. What we can say is it is looking increasingly like a two party race rather than back in may when we saw four parties all within touching distance of each other. I think the conservatives will feel comfortable. They will not feel confident. A lot of this election depends on what happens to some of those lead voting areas the conservatives need to win if theyre going to have the kind of comfortable majority Boris Johnson wants to get this deal through and govern and legislate without substantial opposition. David thank you so much to therese rafa
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Of u. S. British relations for decades to come. Major averages climbing into the close. Nasdaq ending at another new record. Apparently this is not that much worry out there. Im melissa francis. David im david asman. So glad you can join us. This is after the bell. We have a show for you. From wall street to washington to london we have you covered on all the big stories this hour. The dow ending off its highs after hitting a brand new record during the comey testimony. Go straight to Nicole Petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. Some wild swings. What happened . They were taking in testimony. No doubt every trader was watching and list eing. In the end they saw it was favorable for President Trump. They had nothing to worry about at this time. They went right back to trading. Markets moved to highest point, 12 30, just before hearings wrapped up. Traders said there was no smoking gun. Everything is fine. Took banks higher. We saw nasdaq move to a high. It is closing at 32nd r
Nasdaq up by close to 20. Overnight in asia, the nikkei up by 0. 6 . The shanghai deposit was flat. In europe, some of the early trading, youre seeing those positive gains are continuing here the dax is the biggest gainer of the major averages up by 1. 7 . The ftse is up 0. 6 . They finally decided if the economy is is not going to get better, at least we got glory. You almost heard both messages from yellen. The economy is doing okay. She wants something to confirm in one number, i dont think one month would confirm. July, like 20 now. I think its still on the table. We also want to see what happens with brexit. For eight years its been look. The economy hasnt really been getting any better but we got the free money. Weve got the low rates. Lets buy stocks. That still works. There no alternative to move, right . Yeah. There is some corporate news. Some corporate news, not so great news for yahoo this morning. Verizon going to submit a bit of only around 3 billion. The wall street jour
These are the people that distant bureaucrats here in washington should be forced to meet before they draft their rules. This guy just wants to put food on the table, to keep the lights on and to give his kids a better life. But the war on cool jobs is taking the war on coal jobs is taking away more than his livelihood and that of many others. It is taking away his dignity as well. Maybe thats why the administration doesnt want to meet kentuckians like him. Maybe that is why they dont want to look at my constituents, look them in the eye. Its a big problem, and thats why im so proud of the people who stood up to this latest ominous regulation. Yesterday the e. P. A. Confirmed that it wont hold a single hearing within hours of my state as it works to finalize National Energy tax regulations that could devastate the lives of tens of thousands of kentuckians. They dont care, and theyre not listening. Well, i care. I see these folks when i go home. I hear their stories. My heart breaks for