12, maybe. And jpmorgan says dont give up on nikola. Thats ahead we start with the markets. Dom chu has that for us. Weve been on either side of the unchanged line well call these markets stable. Weve seen some fractional gains and losses fractionally to the down side. A quarter percent to the down side for the dow the s p off a third of a percent. Similar moving for the nasdaq composite. Key level to watch for the nasdaq, 3401 at the highs of the day, we were up 19 in the s p and down 18 at the lows a good amount of symmetry with regard to the trading range today. A hot part of the market is the Cloud Computing industry this etf, ticker clou, has been a massive upside mover up another 1 today. Record highs for this etf and again since the pant lows wep lows, were talking about a 116 gain one other place to watch in terms of the stock, l brands, price target upgrade by analysts at jpmorgan, that stock was given up for dead quite a time ago. Up 87 almost a twoyear high this is victorias
rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor, is there and they promise they will bring back the rate of interest tax to fund nhs staff. other news this afternoon. a moment of history in italy georgia meloni looks set to become its first far right leader since the second world war and its first female prime minister. a school shooting in russia has left at least 13 people dead, seven of them children. and nasa prepare to crash a space probe into an asteroid to find out how hard it would be to save the planet. welcome to bbc news, very good to have your company and it is going to be a busy afternoon. the pound fell overnight to its lowest level against the dollar for half a century. asian markets were reacting in part to the government s announcement last week of tax cuts and increased borrowing to pay for them. of course, that had come too late for their trading week on friday. at one stage, sterling plunged to around $1.03, before regaining ground. a weaker pound raises the cost
Tomy question is a followup one of the other questions. You mentioned two things republicans avoid going in to the next election. You think they will be strong. My question was, what do you strength . He biggest 2014 is off year as an election. I believe as strongly as anyone the importance of having important conservative ideas. They will on their a more unveil a more comprehensive version of their own Health Care Reform that will be better than obamacare. People are working on that and doing good work. ,istory suggests the election it is about that partys tenure on the white house. Do you want to have to help them . Ut, or check senators that will not go along with president obama and given like his approval rating, it looks to me like republicans are in good shape. I think republicans hold the house. Different from 2016. President ial elections are about the future. Nonincumbent president ial elections, particularly about, president obama will have been there for eight years. Or do
Senators that will not go along with president obama and given like his approval rating, it looks to me like republicans are in good shape. I think republicans hold the house. Different from 2016. President ial elections are about the future. Nonincumbent president ial elections, particularly about, president obama will have been there for eight years. Or do we go now . Where do we go now . Very important for what they want to do and what their agenda is. The governors start on the state level. Publicans are probably a little slow on this but it is now beginning to happen, developing serious government agendas and domestic and Foreign Policy at the national level. It happens in magazines Like National affairs and others. Think tanks. A little slow to pick up. So until we get into the 2015 and 2016 election cycle. Important for republicans at this point. To say, ok, whatever happens, happens. If you are public in, you do not like it, if you are democrat, you like it more. That is the ke