Diplomats say portugals Prime Minister tops the second secret poll to be the next secretarygeneral. Unlike the first round, Antonio Gutierrez got too discouraged votes leaving the contest in play. U. S. Intelligence has assigned more than 1,000 spies to help with olympic security in rio. Nbc news reports its part of an intense effort to protect the games and american athletes. Naval and Marine Commandos from the special ops are in brazil. Larger military units on stand by. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2,600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im mark crumpton. This is bloomberg, bloomberg west is next. Emily im emily chang, this is bloomberg west. Coming up the nasdaq and s p 500 end the week with a flourish, both ending at an alltime high. Well break down the numbers and the historic day. Last year shattered all of the records for deals in the tech sector. How does 2016 stack up . And tesla putting a dollar figure saying the cost may exceed expectat
February. Some good news, america, median Household Incomes rising for the first time in eight years. Now stand at 56,500 per home. Unfortunately, as melissa noted, median investments are likely down a bit today. Stocks are getting whacked as we head deeper into the trading day. The dow is down 1. 5 . That would be pretty big slide for the dow. And volatility has really ramped up in the last couple of days, your story, though, once again, maybe oil. Crude could be a cause. Crude oil is down nearly 3 . Lets get more now on this market. Bob pisani on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Starting to get a couple of calls from friends and family and random strangers. What is going on with the market. Is it oil . Is it trump . Is it the fed or, is it, d, all of the above . A little bit all of the above but largely on the fed and what the fed is going to do next week, even though the chance is 25 , thats what the market says, people down here dont believe that. Take a look at where we a
Out of time. Out of time. Thats all of his donors and special interests out there. While on the democratic side, Bernie Sanders tries his hand at comedy on saturday night live. We need to unite and Work Together if were all going to get through this. Sounds like socialism to me. Testing the waters, backlash this morning after north korea announces it launched a long range rocket in direct defiance of United Nations sanctions. The u. S. Condemning the launch as the u. N. Security Council Prepares to meet today. Out of control. A terrifying scene in baltimore caught on camera when a driver gets into his car, rams another vehicle, and then hits a woman who is standing on the street. How police say this all started. And everything super. All eyes on the San Francisco just about ten hours away. It is the broncos versus the panthers. Could Peyton Manning end his hall of fame career with a win . Will nfl mvp cam newton steal the spotlight . And kicking it all off overnight, beyonce dropping a
Out of time. Thats all of his donors and special interests out there. While on the democratic side, Bernie Sanders tries his hand at comedy on saturday night live. We need to unite and Work Together if were all going to get through this. Sounds like socialism to me. Testing the waters, backlash this morning after north korea announces it launched a long range rocket in direct defiance of United Nations sanctions. The u. S. Condemning the launch as the u. N. Security Council Prepares to meet today. Out of control. A terrifying scene in baltimore caught on camera when a driver gets into his car, rams another vehicle, and then hits a woman who is standing on the street. How police say this all started. And everything super. All eyes on the San Francisco just about ten hours away. It is the broncos versus the panthers. Could Peyton Manning end his hall of fame career with a win . Will nfl mvp cam newton steal the spotlight . And kicking it all off overnight, beyonce dropping a hours before
Pandemic and it could kill millions and at the least reorder the Global Economy and change our politics. Could the disease help determine the outcome of the president ial election eight months from now . Of course it could. It will. The leaders cant stop that. Like all matters of life, its beyond the human power to a fact. But they can respond to a threat in a way that makes the country stronger. Not weaker. How . Here is how. The first accept is take the virus seriously and convince the public you are. In 1918, woo Woodrow Wilson downplayed the spanish influenza and refused to take obvious caution to slow the spread. He had a war in europe to fight and the generals couldnt distracted from the goal so the government continued to ship men to the overcrowded army camps across the country and pack them on ships to france. The virus spread exponentially. In the end, 53,000 american soldiers were killed in combat in the war. At least 675,000 americans died of the flu. Could wilson have prev