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Potential conflicts of interest and the possibility of recusals. From capitol hill, this is about 2 1 2 hours. This hearing will come to order. This morning we will hear testimony on the nomination of jay clayton to be chairman of the United States Securities Exchange commission. Mr. Clayton has extensive experience in our Financial Markets as a highly regarded securities lawyer. For decades he has helped Companies Access our Capital Markets, increased their ability to invest in the United States, and grow and create jobs. One area on which mr. Clayton has already indicated he would focus is C...

The man of the hour joins a long lineage of men and women who have broken barriers in this historic hall, advancing critical thinking, new ideas and the voices of others who have been marginalized. Some of the most important speakers in history have stood here to present, contest and shape the issues of their day. It is here that Abram Lincoln made his famous speech argument against the expansion of slavery and launching his bid to the presidency. Susan b. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady stanton advocated and organize here for the womens right to vote. Early meetings to form the naacp took place he...

Here on the Halftime Report. We do want to begin technology where were watching an up raffling of the chips. Smh seeing its worst day in a month. Youve been talking about it for so many months. Is this going to be the down fall of tech . Well, i think that there is no doubt in my mind we talked about the idea of this thing moving very fast. We talked about going all the way back to brexit and suddenly this entire sector took off with technology and a lot of that is because the fundamental story was there to to back up the fact that you had dividends. And pes are starting to stretch a little bi...

Welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Lets take a check on the markets. Out of the gate pulling stocks lower, we hit threemonth lows on the dow, as well as the s p 500. We are off session lows now. The s p higher by about 16 points from lows today. Banks gets hit hard again. Third day of lossesment this of course ased of a slew of bank easternings that start tomorrow. One bright spot in narcotics. Utilities are holding up nicely. Up by 1. 8 at this hour. Thank you very much. Welcome, everybody. Heres what else is happening right now. Worlds longest reigning king has died passing away today a...

And spain and france. Strong gains across europe. And look at crude, which is set for weekly gains, up by 1. 25 on the week. Showing just about that gain today. We got surprising inventory builds yesterday. Traders seem to be taking in stride. The u. S. Treasury department issuing final rules to crack down on those tax inversions. Thats when a company is acquired by a smaller foreign business in a low tax country to avoid paying the higher u. S. Corporate tax rate. The new rules crack down on earnings stripping when the u. S. Subsidiary avoids taxes on domestic operations by sending them overs...