Getting boiled. We welcome them in madrid. We will run down some of the results. I see Investor Confidence is there. The are revealing we are reviewing our priorities. Erik it is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Hello. Im david gura. This is bloomberg best. Lets start with a day by day look at the top headlines on monday. Three days after his inauguration, President Donald Trump cut down to business. Against his trump first full week in office. Leaders iness they had a Business Leaders meeting this morning. He basically said he wants to create jobs in the u. S. He wants to reduce taxes, reduce regulations, but he says that they decide to take their business to other countries, they will face a big border tax. President trump is not wasting time. He has signed an executive order from theaw the u. S. Tpp. That was meant to contain china, his nemesis, but he has indicated he wants to renegotiate the north American Free trade agreement with canada and mexico. For several days, the mar
What happened . Reporter what a day. It seems some tried to forecast what stocks were going to try to do. That turnaround is very remarkable. If you take a look you get an idea of what people were thinking about. Some of the drug stocks did particularly well. The likes of pfizer and merck. Caterpillar had terrific days. An 8 gainer. Also the banking stocks did well. So j. P. Morgan up about 6 give or take a piece. Johnson johnson up about 3 . The world reacted to the reality that donald trump will be our next president. The european markets were higher today. U. K. , germany and france all up 1, 1. 5 . The only that didnt get in on the act were asian markets. Today japan and shanghai were down. The final thing i will mention, we look at Financial Market reaction deal, the currency, the mexican peso. When mr. Trump is having a good day the mexican currency is not. What a day in the country but also in the Financial Markets. As i go back into you, we know the president elect is a big fan
Hitting alltime high as new report shows she mishandled classified information after leaving the state department. This is new. And another irs scandal, more than a million americans had Social Security numbers stolen by illegal immigrants. The irs learned of the problem five years ago and has yet to notify any of the victims. David just us taxpayers, thats all. Back to the markets, first, the dow ending the day in the red for five out of the past six days, chevron, boeing, du pont a drag on the blue chips. Phil flynn of price futures and fox business contributor has us covered from the cme. And lori rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Lori, first to you, the biggest winners and losers. Reporter as we wrap up the month of august. The dow and the s p with todays losses will close out the month of august in the red. So on the s p, the winners urban outfitters, good earnings up 20 . Micron gaining 20 in august. Other side of the coin, Dollar General down 22 , weak quarter
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