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To that vote. They have turn into small losses for the industrials. Down ten points. Nasdaq holding ton a very slim gain of about 4 at 4847 and the nasdaq is higher by 1. 6 . Lets kick it off with the first of those bs and that is the brexit vote countdown. We are just 12 hours, 59 minutes, 11 seconds away from the vote opening up in the uk. The polls do seem to show rather even split for stay or go. Perhaps the market and the wisdom of crowds is selling more of a stay story. The uk stock market having a great run lately. We pointed it out yesterday. Were up again today. Four days in a row of gains for the uk. The banks doing especially well. Barclays, for example, up 10 over the past week. Some of the other ones, lloyd banking group, prudential have also done very well. Lets look at the british pound. Its been on fire lately. In fact, a few days ago the pound had one of the best days in a decade. As you might imagine, were going to have lots more coverage of this brexit vote you might ....
Bipartisan inhofemikulski amendment to the National Defense authorization act. What does our amendment do . It stops the privatization of commissaries which are an earned, earned benefit for our military and their families. Every year when the Senate Debates this bill, we talk about how we love our troops and how we always want to support our military families, but if we really love our troops, we need to make sure that our troops have the support that they need. One of the earned benefits that does that is the commissaries, and if we love our troops, why would we want to proceed in the direction that we are . Our troops dont view commissaries as a subsidy. They view it as do i as an earned benefit. Im fighting here to preserve this piece of the earned benefit compensation package. Now, what are the commissaries . Since 1826, military families have been able to shop at a ne ....
Now. The dow the s p and the nasdaq very little change, maybe a. 1 or two down. Also on our radar, walmart, reportedly cutting 7,000 back office jobs nationwide that stock is ticking up a bit. Tropical storm hermine bearing down on the gulf coast. Could make land fall by toonnig. Welcome everybody, guy adami is joining us for the two hours of power today. Were following a story out of Cape Canaveral florida. Lets go live to the cape with the latest. Reporter hey, brian, take a look behind me, its overcast because of that Tropical Storm thats making its way to florida. You can still see the smoke billowing out from the space x falcon 9 rocket that exploded earlier today on Cape Canaveral air force space station launch pad 40. The falcon 9 was scheduled to take the satellite launch to take it into orbit this saturday at 3 ....
Death. Puerto rico has 683 confirmed cases of the zika virus including 65 pregnant women with symptoms of the virus and that one death. Five patients with suspected syndrome of paralysis. The cdc also says one patient with a confirmed zika infection died from severe an normally low blood platelet levels. And the cdc is saying deaths from zika, all though theyre rare highlights the possibility of severe cases as well as the need for continued outreach to raise Health Care Providers awareness of possible complications that might lead to severe disease or death. So as we start to find out more about zika and how it works its way through the system, the cdc is now saying you need to watch for some of the other issues that occur when someone is infected with zika such as the low platelets and the paralysis syndrome. Coming closer to name. Meanwhile one Health Care Stock ....
Its got a Publishers Weekly starred review, and im so proud of her, cristin okeefe aptowicz, everyone. [cheers and applause] thanks, everybody. I think i just have a mic. So, welcome to the dr. Mutters marvels event at book people. I moved here to finish writing this book because i got an nea grant, and i lived in new york city, and 25,000 does not pay anything in new york city, but it does in austin, yea [applause] thank you for your cheap breakfast tacos. [laughter] your affordable public transportation. So, today, im going to do something a little unusual, im going to give you a talk about what i love about Thomas Denton mutter, and im going to have local poets here read excerpts from the book so you get a taste of what its like. Im an obsessive nerd, and im very excited about the subject matter, so i can take a long time. P. S. , theres some gory images, so i apologize ....