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[ cheers and applause ] thank you for joining us right here on a special night. you join us on what is hands down our wettest show of the year. our most beloved summer tradition happens tonight. directly behind our theater we have erected this beautiful above-ground swimming pool. it cost us more than $40 million to build this. and it was worth every penny. [ laughter ] because tonight we re going to grab random people off the street, ask them to disrobe and do a belly flop on television for you. it is our 11th annual [ cheers and applause ] pedestrian belly flop competition. it started back in 2006. and from time to time people ask me why a belly flop contest every year? and to those people i say, mom, go to bed, we re doing this. [ laughter ] my cousin sal is out on hollywood boulevard right now. sal, are the streets full of bellies and hopeful floppers there? oh, we ve got some big ones, some flat ones. we ve got everything for you. jimmy: good. let s meet so ....
action this morning. this off the back of a day where we saw slight gains for the dow and s&p. fractional decline for the nasdaq that was a better performance than we saw around the rest of the world yesterday. you could frame it as resilient as opposed to lackluster futures pointing nicely higher taking their lead from around the world where it s a risk on mood today nasdaq up about 27 the dow jones up 65. the treasury note, we are back above 2.2% on the ten-year yield. yields just rising a bit equities rising a little bit, too. stocks mostly higher around the world. in asia it was a bit more of a mixed picture. we saw the nikkei fall again that makes five straight losing sessions for the nikkei, something that has not happened since april of 2016. marginally lower but it counts as a drop. as you can see, mainland china shares mostly higher for the major sessions all eyes pointing to jackson hole, towards the end of the week where we will hear from janet yellen and m ....
discussion. [ applause ] anyone working at any hedge fund who involved in short-term trading, meaning every day they re coming in and trading in and out of stocks, all the people want edge. that is a common term in the industry. they want edge. and, you know, there s this white edge, kind of useless for their purposes, there is the gray zone, and then there is black edge, which is clearly inside information. sunday night, on q&a, new yorker staff writer sheila kohotcar talks about the insider trading case against steven cohen in her book black edge, inside information, dirty money, and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on wall street. the two concentral characters at the heart of the story, they re very central characters in my book are these two former portfolio managers for cohen s fund, matthew martoma and michael steinberg. martoma is currently serving a fairly lengthy prison sentence, though his case is on appeal. and mr. steinberg was convicted, bu ....
few moments. the dnc kicks off amid country controversy over leaked e-mails. the ceo will join us in the next hour first up verizon announcing the deal to acquire yahoo! s core business for $4.8 billion in cash. verizon plans to combine the internet asset with aol. the real estate holdings in that action. marissa mayer will join us in a few moments once that conference call ends. wow. this day has been a long time coming, jim. yeah. and i think that the i remember speaking to lowell mcadam many months ago when he said this could happen and a clear vision if you gave it to tim armstrong they could make something of it. i m excited. maybe it will be back like the old days in 98 and 99 when yahoo! was the leader or not you mentioned mcadam in february, a reminder of what lowell told jim on mad money. take a listen. we said we would look at it. i think their board has been very responsible how they re doing this, very deliberately, very logically and we have t ....
jessie mueller! and a musical performance by animal collective! featuring jon batiste and stay human ! (cheers and applause) and now it s time for the late show with stephen colbert! (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by cbs stephen: hey! hey, everybody! (cheers and applause) how are ya?! (drum snap) stephen: hey, everybody! thanks, everybody! welcome to the show! thanks so much for being here, everybody! thank you very much! (cheers and applause) welcome to the late show. i m stephen colbert. tonight, i m wearing your mother s favorite suit. (cheers and applause) looks even better on the floor. don t ask. don t ask. you know what? let s get straight to it. as usual, there s one big orange story tonight, donald trump. (laughter) he s the presumptive g.o.p. nominee, but there are a few people he still has to win over. for instance, everyone in the g.o.p. (laughter) but today the healing began. trump went down to washington to meet with speaker of the ....