Board here to europe, except the ftse. Look at the trade in crude. Wti and brent trading slightly lower. Here are the big stories were watching today. The tunisian man suspected of committing the berlin Christmas Market truck attack was killed in a shootout in a suburb of milan. Italys interior minister said there was no doubt the man killed was the suspect, anise amri. At home, shares of Lockheed Martin are falling after president elect trump tweeted about the f35 program. Trump said based on the cost and cost overruns of the f35, he asked boeing to price out a comparable f18 super hornet. Lockheed did not comment on the tweet. In a statement boeing said we have committed to working with the president elect and his administration to deliver the best capability, deliverability and affordability. A comparable f18 is tough. The super hornet doesnt have vertical capabilities, its traditional why are you looking at us like that. I get kind of turned on its kind of cool you know this stuff
Will have an update in our late news after the bucs game. Now to the campaign trail. The fight for florida continues for donald trump, rallying in jacksonville. So did per rock barack obama making a stop for Hillary Clinton. Its all hands on deck in the race. Both donald trump and Hillary Clinton are counting on surrogates to seal the deal. Mark meredith is in washington and he joins us now. That we actually have dueling rallies in jacksonville. Reporter you have to wonder why the candidates just didnt set up shop in california florida all along. I am a floridian, you might as well vote for me. As you were talking about, it is coming down to florida but there are nine other battleground states like north carolina, arizona and if you can believe it arizona if Hillary Clinton is hoping to find victory in an unlikely place. Arizona has only voted for a democrat for president once since 1948. That was my husband in 1996. Reporter wednesdays speech brought in 15,000 supporters. A strong tur
400,000 killed. Mr. Graham all with families. Mr. Mccain all with families. Barrel bombs, poison gas. By the way, there has been a recurrence, poison gas. Six Million People are now refugees. Six Million People are refugees, putting enormous strains on europe. And you can go around the world and see where all this weakness is reflected, whether it be in syria, whether it be in iran, threaten two american surveillance planes as they flew over the straits of hormuz, philippine leaders seeking arms from russia and chinese, chinese leaders seeking aggression in the south china sea, and the list goes on and on. In summary, i agree with the editorial in in the Washington Post yesterday. Whether or not the syrian ceasefire sticks, putin wins. This election is going to be a very important one. Mr. President , i yield the floor. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from West Virginia. Mr. Manchin mr. President , i rise today in a colloquy with my colleagues. Its a biparti
Cutting the number of rate hikes it expects this year in half. What that means for the markets. Shares of fedex are up on earnings and company taking a shot at amazon on its call yesterday. Plus jim cramer spoke to target ceo about competing with amazon. How hes positioning his company against jeff bezos. First up something that would have been nun thinkable. Dow and s p down 1 for the year after the fed reduced the number of rate hikes it expect this year from four to two. Futures moving lower. Caterpillar issues First Quarter estimates in the wake of lower Commodity Prices even though they stayed firm on their guidance for the year, jim. Yeah. I found that two surprising things was one how deep the cut was First Quarter. And two, how they believe that somehow things are going to get better quickly. I think that caterpillar is in a nutshell what fed did. Look these are Great American companies. Not doing well at all. That has to do a lot with oil and gas and mining. Not just all inter
They look at oil pressure, temperature, speed and they basically were able to do prevent of maintenance to reduce down time, they were able to have service sooner and increase the reliability of their system. So fewer breakdowns, longer Vehicles Service life and they were able to save 5 million per year in maintenance costs. So substantial impact. We can think about disrupting how we do things in government. A lot of people in this room are wearing activity trackers. Maybe breaks should depend on how much activity you do. Sitting in a patrol car versus walking for eight hours is very different. Maybe we can start rethinking how we do labor based on these type of technologies. Second, we have to start thinking how we can make smart the default. Were seeing this in some locations. California has decided by 2025, all water meters have to be smart. And we can see really big impacts sometimes when we to do this. In mumbai, they were able to cut water consumption by 50 . We need to be starti