Circuit. Lawmakers will also vote to limit debate on Adrian Zuckerman to be u. S. Ambassador to romania. Both votes are expected to happen at 11 30 a. M. Eastern. Youre watching live coverage of the senate on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Listen to our prayers, almighty god. Let not our nation be ashamed. You are our mighty rock and fortress. Lead and guide us, enabling us to honor your name. Protect our lawmakers from the hidden traps that can derail freedom. Remind them that the truth aloe will make us free. Show yourself strong, even to those who strive to save themselves. Manifest your might to all. May our senators trust you, sek your wisdom, and obey your precepts. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and
Talks. Stocks are set to open higher. New records still within reach netflix erasing its gains this year, amid increasing streaming competition. Jim spoke exclusively with the ceo of one major competitor, his name, bob iger the company, disney. Full details from their conversation coming up. And under pressure, federal prosecutors in california, reportedly opening a criminal probe of Vaping Company juul stocks are looking to resume their march toward record highs. Investor sentiment getting a lift after washington did confirm trade negotiations with china will resume in a couple of weeks. Meantime, the president will address the u. N. General assembly in the next hour. Well see how long he goes jim, as we get more news out of the uk Supreme Court, maybe lesser likelihood of a no deal brexit yeah, but i also there is another court over there, just talking about the this is eu court, european commission, gives a big win to starbucks in terms of charging starbucks, violating eu state aid
Global trade war all of this comes together and says you should probably be selling industrials and autos. I dont think these are just oneday quick trades but do think the response from markets today was very interesting think of the rotation weve had over the last month and think of the reaction weve had in the last three days. It is beginning to build back on, hey, lets take back much of what we lost that is how we appear to be ready to open up tomorrow. The first leg lower in the markets happened when President Trump was in front of the u. N. And talked tough on china, mark and the results from nike this afternoon would probably give some investors some hope that perhaps there are companies that could buck the trend is nikeidiosyncratic. Its been the consumer that has driven the market and the entire world not just the u. S. Is relying on the consumer the consumer has been strong and rye sell yents in the u. S. A lot of these consumer names are still strong a lot of them are hitting
This after snap reportedly conjured up a whole chamber of secrets on facebook in a dossier titled project voldemort the document lays out all the ways facebook tried to thwart the competition and prevented snap from trending on instagram. Now snap is hoping the ministry of magic known as the ftc will step in. Will regulators be able to work any real magic here . Guy. That was one of the best openings in the history of the show. He doesnt know what to say anymore. Do you even know what she said im familiar with this harry potter thing there are like eight of these movies. Yes. Theyre its the sack same movie. The kids get older and run a dont spoil the end. It sounds like fast money. Its a scam run around with their wands good job. Back to talking. I want to dislike facebook in the worst way. I want to stand here and say, you know what, the stock is headed sl headed little headed significantly lower we said in july, you know what will happen, it will go back and test that july high from
By president bush. Have a listen. Always prepared, never haas been a country more prepared. I spent, i spent 1 1 2 trillion dollars. Were spending another 738 billion now. I spent 1 1 2 trillion dollars rebuilding our military. Obviously china is a threat to the world in a sense because theyre building a military faster than anybody. And frankly theyre using u. S. Money. Neil all right. So the president linking these two developments. Keeping an eye on both, iran and china, two very Different Cases to say it mildly, the target of iran is its central bank. Iran is all about black markets. Doesnt deal traditional fashion shipping out money. The central bank, trying to freeze assets coming in and out of there, the flow of funds there, might do that in the sort of the official diplomatic way but the fact of the matter, iran is notorious for finding endruns around that, working with other countries that help them find endruns around that. Well get the sense what this means with former trump