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Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, Hari Sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. President trump is pushing the senate to pass its bill to replace obamacare, and pushing back on former president obamas handling of russian meddling in last years election. Though mister trump has played down the russia probe for months, in an interview broadcast today, he criticized his predecessor for doing too little about the hacking of Democratic Party and Clinton Campaign emails, and attempted hacks of state election databases. The c. I. A. Gave him information on russia a long time before the election, and i hardly see it. Its an amazing thing. To me, the question is if he had the information, why didnt he do something about it . He shouldve done somet
Decent day. The dow is on pace for its best day since april 25, being helped , plus Manufacturing Index energy and the banks. The nasdaq down nearly. 2 . Thereason it matters is on open the nasdaq had been up about. 6 . Dipping declining and down as much as. 4 at the lows. Now lower. A continuation of the tech selloff we saw in june. Still not well explained by investors. Some had been saying it could be profit taking at the end of the last quarter. The quarter is over and we are still seeing big losses, all down in a big way. You have earnings season ahead. Last week, analysts told our team nothing fundamental has changed. What does seem to be having is a sector rotation out of tech. It is important to watch whether this is a trend shift. This is the s p 500 and the nasdaq in white. Out of the election, we see a beautiful uptrend for both. On june 9, that was the last time the nasdaq hit an alltime high. The last time the s p 500 hit alltime high, june 19. The nasdaq had its first dow
Decent day. The dow is on pace for its best day since april 25, being helped , plus Manufacturing Index energy and the banks. The nasdaq down nearly. 2 . Thereason it matters is on open the nasdaq had been up about. 6 . Dipping declining and down as much as. 4 at the lows. Now lower. A continuation of the tech selloff we saw in june. Still not well explained by investors. Some had been saying it could be profit taking at the end of the last quarter. The quarter is over and we are still seeing big losses, all down in a big way. You have earnings season ahead. Last week, analysts told our team nothing fundamental has changed. What does seem to be having is a sector rotation out of tech. It is important to watch whether this is a trend shift. This is the s p 500 and the nasdaq in white. Out of the election, we see a beautiful uptrend for both. On june 9, that was the last time the nasdaq hit an alltime high. The last time the s p 500 hit alltime high, june 19. The nasdaq had its first dow
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