Washington has been demanding transparency and threatening to delist mainland companies. Australia is ramping up tensions with its top partner. You a quick get track of the markets. This after we saw another record high for u. S. Equities. The s p 500 and nasdaq composite soaring to another record high for a fourth consecutive session. The s p gaining ground for five sessions. Tech and communication stocks leading the gains. We are up about 55 since the march lows. We had some positive data. The u. S. July durable goods orders meeting estimates. All of that boosting optimism that the fed will keep Monetary Policy loose. With the dollar weakened, due to the strongerthanexpected eco , take a look at what oil is doing. It is gaining ground. About 43 per barrel. In around five months, the highest level. We have hurricane laura. More than 80 of oil output and nearly 3 Million Barrels have been shut down in the gulf of mexico. Haidi continuing to watch the oil patch for those disruptions. Le
Belarus continues to liquidate the consequences of the disaster, as belenergo said, the weather will be completely restored by the end of the day, today the most tense situation is favorable for work today in the vitebsk region, where three people , a man, a woman and a nineyearold girl, who still had a serious leg fracture in the region, were injured during thunderstorms the day before without electricity, more than 400 settlements were sent here to help employees of Energy Networks from other regions, as well as employees of the ministry of emergency situations of energy of the vitebsk region, worked in an enhanced mode all last night. And over 200 brigades and 300 units were involved all night. Special equipment. Most technological violations. Automatics were liquidated in the operational mode and Consumer Protection was transferred to backup schemes , diesel generators were used. We know all the damaged areas of the site, uh, the nature of the damage. Uh, all the necessary supplies
Mining fees set to surge after china crack down on bitcoin operations. Another day, another on bitcoin, right . We cant stop watching the cryptocurrency markets, but so watching lots of Economic Data. I want to just point out one that we had this morning. Jobless claims spiking tota threemonth high. Guys, take my chart. 5444, these numbers can be quite volatile. N september, those jobless on the backrose of the hurricanes. However, as you can see, relatively low still against the back drop of what weve seen in the last few years, isnt really any that there is a turnaround here in the jobs market. This tight labor market es to get tighter and tighter which means, of course, well continue to hiking rates. Yeah. That we n the fact past now eform what does this mean for companies . Saw walmart with news of raising the minimum wage to 11 per hour. Tight in the you cant t exactly add more jobs but aising wages, that will be ey, although there are a lot of questions, how much will that add to
Recognized for his questions. Okay. Thank you. Id like to welcome my fellow e coloradans to washington, d. C. , gentlemen, thank you for your testimony, all of you, thank you for your testimony today. T part of this is i feel like, you know, were in the early stages of litigation, and i, the chairman, i think, maybe a frustrated litigator wanting to figure out who was negligent, who wasnt negligent, whos responsible for this, what happened. Appreciate the fact that the epa got to the department of health in colorado quickly, who got to durango, quickly. To share this. There apparently was some breakdown in communication getting to the Navajo Nation. A court is going to figure out o exactly what happened, when it happened, should it have happened, dr. Williamson, but id like to ask some other questions, because i think dr. A benn, you suggested some things that the epa should consider inn the short term and in the long term, one was help you with some monitoring devices to keep an eye o
Michelle obama. A signature feature of book tv, is our allday coverage of festivals from across the country. Near the end of september, we are in new york for the brooklyn book festival celebrates its 10th year. That, we arefter live from austin for the texas book festival. Near the end of the month, we will be covering two book festivals. On the east coast, the boston book festival. At the start of november we will be in Portland Oregon for wordstock. Followed by the National Book awards. Then we are live, for the 18th year in a row, from miami, florida. That is a look at the festivals this fall on book tv. Wednesday, an epa official, the colorado mayor and a chemist testified at a special hearing. They talked about the toxic river spill near the shuttered Gold King Mine site. Witnesses discussed the response to the bill, the responsibility and the longterm impact on farmers and businesses in the area. This is just over two hours. The committee on science, space and technology will co