following the headlines. natasha, first to you. this is a change from the white house. the white house is pushing back very hard on what it says is inf en inflammatory behavior by china. they said please don t up the ante here. now they re making public the fact that they have in fact summoned the chinese ambassador to the u.s. to the white house to essentially give him a dressing down about china s provocations against taiwan in recent days. they had said numerous times that they expected that china would have some kind of reaction to this visit by pelosi, which was extremely offensive to the chinese. but the white house has been, you know, kind of willing to respond in a meaningful way now to the chinese activities that we have seen around taiwan, which are really escalatory and are the most that we have seen in decades. so what the white house is saying now is that they re reiterating to the chinese that this is unacceptable, that the u.s. position on taiwan has not chan
just it s a tense moment. we re on the outside of the main protest here. as you can see, there is a small group of people protesting who are in support of the supreme court decision. and what we re seeing is really a conversation, passionate conversations taking place. both sides arguing, and, in fact, there was a larger group out here getting in an argument a few minutes ago at one point someone swiped a megaphone from the other crowd and they were given a verbal warning from the d.c. metropolitan police who moved in some other police forces just to protect this area over here, but i want to give you a sense of the broader flavor certainly as these sorts of conversations are playing out not only here but deeper into this crowd. this is a crowd of a couple 100 strong. we do see some counter protesters, some protesters who are out here kneeling and praying over here. and certainly some other protesters talking to them, i think overall things have been respectful here. i did
Airstrikes on facilities used by iranianbacked forces in Eastern Syria. S the a correct clash it is a direct clash. Two drones aim at israel launched from yemen. They landed in egypt, injuring six. Iranbacked Houthi Rebels launched those drones. Rockets launched from gaza hit tel aviv, three injured, thousands in bomb shelters. Another tank incursion into gaza. Action on all fronts. And there is movement on the political front too. Look at this, a new poll shows President Bidens Approval Rating among democrats has dropped 11 points in a month. Why in the president s support of us radioreel is popular with the israel is not popular with the left. Not hutch of a bounce for not much of a bounce for stocks, this week was a big tech slaughter e. The dow industrials might open with 157point 17 point game, but look at the nasdaq, thats a nice bounce. Not bad. The two stocks doing well this morning, both in technology, look at em go. Amazon up 6, intel up 2, whats that, 5 up for amazon and 7 u
Hes not. Hes not that person. Hes lost his step. Everybody on all sides of the aisle has recognized that we have a weak american president who is not fully engaged. At this stage, not acting actually has more of a probability of widening the war. It looks like were going to have a lot more of this back and forth, and hopefully we dont have any casualties on our side before we learn this lesson. I do think in the months ahead, that were going to see the 10year bond go over 5 percent. Again, the markets can function with a 10year at 5 percent. It can. It just needs to regroup and build a base. 11 00 eastern time, friday, october 27th. Mixed picture on the markets. Dow down 80. Nasdaq up 110. Show me big tech, please. Took it on the chin yesterday. Some of them are coming back this morning, except for alphabet which is down another 1. 26. Amazon straight up 8 percent higher on amazon. Meta up 2 1 2 percent. Microsoft back to 334. Apple floundering around at 168. Have a look at the 10 year
Kick off the final hour of trade. Look at the dow jones industrials, down 40 points. Low of the session, down 291. So a big comeback here. The s p 500 down 19 points, but weve got breaking news on the nasdaq. Right now it is still falling deeper into the correction hole, right now down 122 points. Of course, it tumbled into correction yesterday. Right now the techheavy index though is well off the lows of the session. You can see low of the session a loss of 277, so weve chopped that in half. Yesterday though the composite suffered its worst day in eight months, clocking a 318point loss are. Alphabet really led the dive into correction with a bruising 9. 5 loss on weak cloud results, the google parent getting hit again this session, down 2. 69. Off the lows, but thats good for at another about another clip of 2. Yesterday was the worst performance for the stock in three and a half years. Microsofts 3. 1 gain wednesday was not enough to cushion either the nasdaq or the dow, and today it