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talking about the s&p 500 and nasdaq on pace to post their largest monthly losses since january of 2016. we ll see where we get headed. we ve seen a couple of wild weeks with some big downdrafts and big updates, too we ll see what happens dow futures indicated down by 25 s&p 500 and the nasdaq positive. take a look at what happened overnight in asia. mixed series for markets across the board. you re going to see the shanghai ended up by 4%. hang seng up by 2.3% in europe this morning with some of the early trading that s already taking place you ll see at this point green arrows across the board it looks like the biggest advancer of the major averages is the ftse which is up by close to half a percentage point the dax is up by 1/3 of a percentage point the cac is up by .2 of a percent. treasury yields this morning, you ll see that the ten year note is yielding 3.196%. just below that 3.2% that we ve been hovering around. saudi arabia changing its story about the kil ....
trump is wrong. mike pence saying those words, something we have never heard before. former vice president before a crowd of republicans calling out his former boss, his partner, a man that he of course was fiercely loyal to for more than four years. i heard this week that president trump said i have the right to overturn the election. president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone and frankly there s no idea more unamerican than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. under the constitution i had no right to change the outcome of our election. the outcome, accepting and saying the words. trump is wrong. pence then took it further because he made it clear, his words, the lies about the election are putting the entire american democracy and constitution at risk. men and women, if you lose faith in the constitution, we won t just lose elections ....
one of the world s biggest crypto markets may ban trading altogether we are all over it power lunch begins, right now. and welcome to power lunch. i m melissa lee. we are around session highs now. the dow, nasdaq, s&p 500, across the board, green, nasdaq seeing the biggest gain up 0.7 of 1%. transportens hitting new record highs. and hitting $70 first time in three years. crude just under $65 a barrel. movers, delta higher on earnings, raising 2018 outlook thanks to the effect of tax reform dfc systems a pop. software provider bought by a technologies company for about $5.5 billion and xerox up by 4.5% on reports it s in talks to strike a major deal with japan s fujifilm melissa, thank you. what else is happening at the house. epa says fuel economy in new cars in the u.s. expected to hit 25.2 mimes per gallon in 2017 vehicles the senate banking committee votes next week, second time on the nomination of jerome powell. to be your next federal reserve chairman. ....
make something like ten times his current salary. yay for jim demint, good money. kind of. it s good for him, but it s really good for his colleague, republican senate leader mitch mcconnell. you see, jim demint is not your ordinary senator. he s like the grover norquist of the senate. he s the guy the other republican senators are really afraid of. and that is because moreso than anyone else and definitely more than any other republican politician, demint is behind the tea party strategy of purifying the republican party in the cleansing fire of party primaries. demint created this pact called the senate conservativist fund, a pact he made into a super pac which makes it more super and exists to help conservative republicans beat other republicans. since 2009 demint has raised more than $17 million to promote promising candidates in an effort to remake the senate not just in a republican image but in a diehard conservative one. the image of jim demint, even. and he h ....
tank called the heritage foundation where he stands to make something like ten times his current salary. yay for jim demint, good money. kind of. it s good for him, but it s really good for his colleague, republican senate leader mitch mcconnell. you see, jim demint is not your ordinary senator. he s like the grover norquist of the senate. he s the guy the other republican senators are really afraid of. and that is because more so than anyone else and definitely more than any other republican politician, demint is behind the tea party strategy of purifying the republican party in the cleansing fire of party primaries. demint created this pac called the senate conservativist fund, a pac he made into a super pac which makes it more super and exists to help conservative republicans beat other republicans. since 2009 demint has raised more than $17 million to promote promising candidates in an effort to remake the senate not just in a republican image but in a diehard cons ....