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Investors to take risk even with the pullback, dow slipping 130 points and nasdaq losing. 27 and what a week. We almost went to war and then we didnt go to war. We almost didnt get a trade deal and it is coming next wednesday. And then this morning we were worried the Labor Department report might come into too hot and they might mouth off about inflation and a bunch of governors speaking next week and that could have gotten ugly and how about a goldilocks job number, one that was not too hot, not too cold. You get that ive got to tell you, we created good jobs but we had sub 3 wage gain so the the feds should not be worried it could have been a lot worse since some of the shortfall related to a companys specific problems at boeing that just said the former ceo is not going to get severance the labor report was one reason to buy stocks and that is what happened this morning for even the most raging bulls either ran out of capita ....
Are the situation in the share, will the us say, this is now cool . So whatever you call it, what we seen is the disruption of the Constitutional Order in each year. And we like many countries throughout africa, notably equal was, which brings together many countries. And in west africa is determined that, um, the Constitutional Order be re established. Thats what everyones focused on right now. So from our perspective for the united states, um, ive been in close contact with president presume with many leaders throughout africa. And everyone is working towards the same objective. The restoration of the Constitutional OrderStudy Results from a referendum in Central African republic suggest 95 ....
Good wednesday morning i am carl king with jon fortt. Dow is up 128. Tech sector leads the s p. For more on tech, bring in Victor Anthony and elly wheeler, partner. Welcome to you both. Welcome to tech resilience in the face of the selloff, even though we can parse, fang, talk about underperformance within that right i mean, there are certain names that are underperforming facebook and alphabet. Ironically, those are two names with multiple support but they have secular growth drivers. From all of them, market share gains across the board, ecommerce and advertising but in the case of netflix, subscriber growth that continues to be strong i am buying alphabet, a buy on facebook and amazon. Hold on netflix for now. But i am optimistic bought all these names. Facebook and alphabet, were talking later this hour about regulatory threats do you think thats effecting them, those two in particular . I think for alphabet, eu overhang has b ....
A deal tonight that touches the live of every single American Health care. Anthem says its buying rival cigna for 250 million. The deal comes just weeks after aetna says it wants to buy humana quickly altering the landscape to five major insurance carriers to just three, assuming the announced deals get regulatory approval. Both anthem and cigna saw their shares lower in trading. The wave of consolidation is raising a number of questions about the power of these companies, competition and costs per patient. Reporter anthem and cigna say together theyll be able to cut out more than 2 billion in overhead costs and ultimately that will be good for consumers. It will improve our ability to serve customers across commercial medicaid medicare and International Markets and create greater efficiencies and affordability for our customers. Reporter the sheer scale of the 54 bil ....