The decline for the month of july state in place, down 6. 8 , durable goods for the month of july. Not much of an influence on major averages. Small the clouds for the now, s p 500 and nasdaq. We are looking at declined. The s p 500 is on pace for its first down day in seven as there are increased tensions between north korea in particular. The last times we saw as tensions with north korea in the month of august stocks initially sold off and recovered. Not necessarily on the day, but shortly thereafter. Turning to one boost for major averages, energy. The s p 500 index, up about 6 10 of 1 , getting a tailwind from oil, up nearly 3 . This is taking some of the movers come a Companies Trading higher including baker hughes, je ge along with halliburton. The worst sector is financials. Yields,eing dragged by down six basis points. Bonds ares that rallying. In addition to having modest declines for stocks, we have investors going toward some of the Asset Classes including bonds along with
We getting breaking data out of the eurozone. It will close the final figure for august, 54. 7, narrowly below the earlier estimates and still way above the 50 level that separates expansion from contraction. The figure is 55. 7, narrowly down from the earlier estimates of 55. 8. Below thelightly earlier estimates, but still showing strong growth. Big ecbpproaching the meeting on thursday, as if you did not know. Lets look at european equities, rising for the fourth day. Investors are shrugging off yesterdays geopolitical concerns, at least when it comes to the equity markets. The stoxx 600 is up by 1 3 of 1 . The swiss franc remains the haven currency of choice. That is the eurofranc, rising for a second day. Of sundaysans nuclear test. 10 year yields in the u. S. , down a couple basis points. 2. 11 is the level to watch, the level reached on august 31, the lowest since november 9. Hroughwest for 2017 and t november last year. Gold was a haven earlier. Coming down off the earlier high
Faster Danielle Allen National Book Award Finalist kevin Young Software engineer ellen ullman and many others. First up is to look at some of the lesserknown stories from world war ii. This is like coverage of the texas book festival on booktv. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Good morning. My name is Jim Horne Fisher and its my pleasure to welcome you to the opening session of the 2017 texas book festival. [applause] thank you for coming out in support of our authors and second of his wonderful annual event now in its 22nd year. [applause]he and third of all the books that we discussed and enjoyed throughout this beautiful Texas Capitol complex hereom in downtn austin i would ask you to silence your cell phones t. Live tv, thank you cspan. After a session both offers authors are relocating to the book signing tent down the street to autograph their books. Books are for sale at that beautiful independent bookstore. You are supporting not only the author off the festival and a great l
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Mountainview and concord. Could you find the list on our website at nbcbayarea. Com. It could be a chaotic day in the south bay, because of a strike planned by sunnyvale workers. Marianne favro joins us from sunnyvale with a look at what is planned there. Reporter well, the city tells us that police and dispatchers and fire crews will not be impacted by tomorrows walkout. But it will definitely not be business as usual. About 400 people are expected to walk off the job tomorrow. And that is because Union Employees say after years of negotiations they have hit a tail ma a stalemate with the city and the strike la guardia start at midnight. And today the mayor described what people could expect. An impact would be at our planning department, people getting inspections, if they are doing home remodeling, library services, people in the parks. Mainly, we have not had a pay increase in over five years. Weve been without a contract now for two years, weve been at the table for two years, and