Markets. Here in the u. S. , unchanged this morning. Now we are steadily moving lower and lower. If you want to take a look in my terminal, the bloomberg chart here, i have the dow intraday. You can see we took another leg lower and we are coming down lower now at noon as well. It looks like all the pressure is on u. S. Stocks as the european stocks slow at the close. Scarlet within the dow industrials, what is driving the measures lower . Matt we are on retail sales because of black friday and cyber monday. The biggest loser, for example, is nike. Nike is the biggest loser on the doubt. There has been in a lot of talk about discounting today. Piper jaffray is concerned about discounting. Under armour. People are concerned about discounting at lululemon. Maybe that is the reason you see the weight on walmart and nike. Watson did say that cyber monday sales would be of 18 across the board. Disney is also a big weight. We are here friday . Scarlet i was not here friday. Matt you were sma
An effort to bolster the economy. Iraqi forces have launched counterattacks to halt the advance of islamist militants. The militants have swept through northern iraq, and are vowing to march on to baghdad. Iraqi commanders are determined to stop them. Nhk world reports. Reporter the militants have captured iraqs second largest city of mosul and other cities. More than half a Million People have fled their homes. Tents have been set up as more and more residents try to escape the violence. Translator i was at home when i heard an explosion. I thought id have a heart attack. Translator these two children have no place to go now that theyve lost their father. Reporter the militants reached mosul earlier this week. They pushed south to bajii and samarra. Theyre now about 100 kilometers from the capital baghdad. Government commanders are getting ready to take back the cities the militants have seized. They ordered helicopter crews to attack and they dispatched special units to fight on the
Ready the country is to host the games. South Korean Police are questioning a male patient of a hospital for the elderly. They suspect he may have deliberately set fire to the facility, killing 21 people. Investigators are also looking into Safety Measures at the hospital. Now the fire in south jeolla province also injured eight people. Many of the victims were overcome by smoke. Translator all of the victims were the bedridden patients, who were unable to escape by themselves. And so despite the rescue efforts, many people perished. Police have detained a man in his 80s who they say has dementia. Theyre now questioning him for suspected arson based on surveillance camera footage. Local government officials conducted safety checks at the hospital just last week. Part of the response to last months fatal ferry accident in which more than 280 people died. Officials checked fire extinguishing equipment, and whether evacuation routes were properly secured. They say they found no abnormalit
Countrys embattled east. Chinese authorities are moving ahead with a project that has raised tensions in the south china sea. They say theyve completed the first stage of an Oil Drilling Operation near the paracel islands. The plan has triggered a standoff between china and vietnam. Both countries claim the islands. Officials with a unit of a staterun oil company say equipment is in place for the next stage. They say the second phase will be completed in august. Vietnamese Officials Say the areas within their countrys exclusive economic zone. Crews on fishing boats from the two countries have joined the standoff between government ships. Vietnam staterun tv says a chinese fishing ship rammed and sank a vietnamese fishing boetd on monday. But chinas official News Agency Says the vietnamese boat was harassing the chinese vetle. Xinhua says it capsized after colliding with a chinese boat. Japans defense minister says the leaders of pacific nations should Work Together to avoid trouble in
Stamped the stores in georgia at one time. Once i knew that her state of over twenty firsts here in korea life from school and keeping them from unpaid so much for joining us. We begin this evening with the revelation of fresh evidence of illegal electioneering by the nations spy agency the prosecution has uncovered more than one million additional twitter messages by agents of the National Intelligence service. I couldnt see her smile the allegations that the National Intelligence Service Medal in elections last year by posting political comments in favor of the conservative ruling party and twitter and other websites are piling up the prosecution announced thursday that the half confirmed the nations spy Agency Posted an additional one point two million politically slanted weeks the aim of influencing last years commentary and president ial election according to prosecutors all of the annuity found co star in violation of the election law and nis law that bans agents from intervene i