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higher after several days of declines and following the string of declines we have seen around the world. also strong because of technology earnings. take a look at what s going on. walmart is up 7%. comparable sales of 2.7%. the strongest it has seen in eight years. it s having its best single session in a year and half and trading at a record high. cisco shares are also rising expressedcompany optimism that its transition to more software services is going well. its current quarter will have twofirst sales gain in years. that s helping propel those shares higher. we ve got walmart again. rockwell automation. rockwell shares have been rising. also taking a look at paypal and synchrony financial. it is buying a loan portfolio of 6.8 billion dollars from paypal. it s also getting an exclusive contract for paypal consumer lending and paypal is also at a new high today. mark: getting some breaking news on siemens planning to cut jobs. it is closing at least two sites . eur ....
secret. we ll talk with the author of a once authorized biography so explosive that jann wenner has now disowned it. but we begin this morning with today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. how is this different? senator franken has admitted wrongdoing, the president hasn t. president trump is under fire after franken s misconduct. is it a crime or not? roy moore s wife standing by her man. he will not step down. that s right. [ applause ] i certainly have no reason to disbelieve any of them. the governor of alabama who said i believe the women, i believe it s true, i m going to vote for roy moore anyway. the president tweeting there will be no new body parts allowed here. announcements of his sons holding hunting trophies. is kislyak in the room? before i get started here. any russians? it took hundreds of firefighters in new york to put out an apartment fighter. a man got behind the wheel of a police car after being arrested. he crash ....
nations in the world. corporate rates will be reduced from 35% all the way down to 20% , which will make us competitive again and companies won t be leaving our country. finally, our tax plan will return trillions of dollars in wealth to our shores so companies can invest in america again. at the same time, we are working to reduce wasteful government spending. we will hear from budget director mick mulvaney, who is working with my cabinet, to find taxpayer savings in each and every department. the cabinet members with us today are working on getting reductions to their various apartments that we think will be able to save a lot of money, even lower than the budgets we are submitting. we will be working on health care, infrastructure, and welfare reform. we are looking very strongly at welfare reform and that will all take place right after taxes. very soon, very shortly after taxes. onwill be submitting plans health care, plans on infrastructure, and plans on welfare r ....
gets back to its version of tax overhaul with republicans pushing hard to get to a full senate vote as early as this thursday. we welcome our chief content officer, marty shanker, and from washington, sahil kapur. what does it look like in terms of whether or not they will get a vote by thursday? is a scurry to get all the votes they possibly can between today and thursday to cobble together the votes the frontpass it on end. the vote is likely to come in on thursday around what s called a ama.e-a-ro a there s a small faction of deficit hawks in the senate, two of them retiring, immune to political pressure. they need to be placated. they need to believe that this won t simply explode the deficit and put the nation in a more precarious place in terms of red ink. raisedollins has concerns about repealing the obamacare individual mandate. she is concerned that it will raise a means for other people. otheren there are some wildcards. one of the big possible no votes, ran ....
such as a regulatory rollback. critics say the report lacked rigorous analytical back in. at a news conference, three women who have accused president trump of sexual misconduct called for a congressional investigation into his actions. two of the women, jessica leads and rachel crookes, said mr. trump made sexual contact with them without their consent. the third accuser says mr. trump behaved inappropriately with contestants in the miss usa pageant. thetrump has denied allegations since they were first reported ahead of the 2016 presidential election. movie theaters are coming back to saudi arabia after a 35-year absence. that is seen by the latest attempt by crown prince mohammad bin salman to reform the country. saudis shutdown movie theaters in the 1980 s as part of a wave of altra conservatism. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. julia: live from bloomberg s wor ....