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at what stake a look going on in to those brexit talks. the pound is up by .2%. stronger dollar story throughout the day and dollar-yen is up to .6%. 58 basis points. that s really steep. time for the morning brief. ahead.a look at the week today theresa may is scheduled to meet with jean-claude juncker. then social democrats hold their convention. congress has to act to avoid a government shutdown and we are also going to get on friday u.s. jobs numbers. big week ahead. topics tax, u.k., cvs buying aetna. the talk on the talk shows was all about taxes. had towhat the senators say. when you heard the president say we are very close to the finish line you know he has wanted a 15% right from the beginning. is parted to a 20% rate of the discussion. the house as a 20% right now. we are happy with both of those numbers. if something small happens in conference that gets us across the finish line we will look at it on a case-by-case basis. business tax all the way down f ....
you have had two triple digit down days. i am curious to see if we are going to see twitter trump or teleprompter trump. david: all of the reporting down here is going to be teleprompter. by words are being written stephan miller who tend to be a little bit of a hothead. inx: here s what we stack up the markets. the s&p coming off its worst selloff since august and continuing today s&p futures down by another 12 points. it is now a story of broader dollar weakness. strong gdp out of europe. yields taking a break pretty much unchanged. there was some buying in the market. hit downtinuing to get 5.8%. i want to highlight some movers as well. a lot of action happening in the market. metlife hasn t set aside enough money to pay annuity holders. stock continuing to get hit premarket. there is going to be a buyout for this company. that is no longer true. that stock getting hammered. that stock now unchanged. take. time for first those equityry is markets fairly shaken by the ....
love sling frisbie with my sons. i love to see my grandkids smile. we could be denying the moments that make our life worth living. why? because we would be dead. super dead. like totally fried by a major nuclear bomb did dead. the frisbee will be melted. the agreement currently on the table is the best way to ensure iran does not build a bomb. john: meanwhile in a new poll, 50% of americans disagree with the people in that ad and say congress should reject the deal. today, secretary of state john kerry told the house foreign affairs committee that the idea of reaching a better deal is a unicorn fantasy. mark, who is at this moment, winning the political battle over the approval of the iran deal? mark: the cnn poll notwithstanding, the president side is winning. they had sandy levin today, he came out. we have chuck schumer, eventually come out for. the ad wars are underway. but in the end, the people who want to stop the deal don t have votes. john: ....
highs on the s&p 500. we do not want to count that out just yet. made one 25-75 level we friday. the nasdaq up more than 2%, the nasdaq 100 up almost 3%. amazon, microsoft, facebook, google, apple all the names we know that are driving it higher. let s dig into a few of these. i want to focus on microsoft and amazon. microsoft serving to a record after a quarter beat on revenue. dumping jumping by double-digit. about the pivot to cloud computing and ai. similar with amazon. double-digit revenue, 34% in this quarter. a smooth transition with that whole foods business. like scarlet said, going into some of the pharmaceuticals, getting a license there in 12 states. we are watching that. let s put this into perspective here. we have been talking a lot about techech sectors sector s outperformance. it is outperforming by about 15% here next to the number two, the health care index. spreads there are certainly widening today as the health care sector is down again, and ....
then earlier.so this is a trend we have been seeing as we get into august here. you see the nasdaq down .5%. as it be at the lows of the session as well as the dow falls by 58 points today. i want to get to the highlights of what has been moving today. oil has been on the list. oil prices are plunging after we got the weekly inventory numbers showing an unexpected build in inventories. ago, $41.53. down by nearly 3%. putting pressure on energy stocks. in terms of earnings numbers we have gotten, tale of two retailers between ralph lauren and kors. kors beat estimates but did not raises forecast. that is causing some concern. ralph lauren beating with its numbers and stoking hopes of a turnaround taking hold under the new ceo. we are watching yelp as well. often and sales beating strength of ade revenue and a number of different analysts at places like raymond james are raising the rating on the stock as a result as it climbs by 13%. then we are watching an acquisition t ....