morning i am ashley webster in for stuart varney today.liday. more than 9000 lights counseled, 33000 flight

i'm ashley webster and for stuart varney. trouble.of federal judge blocking the biden administration contacting social media sites the judge ruled the white house likely violated the first amendment during the pandemic. facebook's parent company meta planning to release microblogging app called threads tomorrow so watch out, elon musk. threads could be a tough competitor sure twitter. transportation secretary pete buttigieg crimes flights are back to normal as the faa expects 50000 flights to be flown today there have been a slew of cancellations and to make things worse, a power outage in buffalo causing major flight delays. is the american dream out of reach? a large number of people believe they are on the way an increasing number of people dipping on the first full trading day july. the dow off 196, down to only is the beat and 500 in sending back for the fed minutes from the june many, jay powell says to more rate hikes in a row are not off the table. let's look at the ten year treasury yield up one basis points, 3.87. t

morning i am ashley webster in for stuart varney today. travel chaos ahead of the july 4 holiday. more than 9000 lights counseled, 33000 flights delayed, what a mess but transportation secretary pete buttigieg is downplaying his responsibility and true to form blaming the weapon. many people will be hitting the road, gas prices nationally by the way $3.53, wait a minute, california as always a whopping $4.84, thinking to the taxes. president biden says he is a new plan to eliminate student loan debt after the supreme court shut down the program. a new poll shows voters are split on the decision with the much larger majorities supporting the supreme court's decision using recent college admission, let's take a look at the markets, a shortened session today the markets closing at 1:00 p.m. the futures will see the dow down 70 points, you can expect trading to be very thin, the nasdaq slightly higher and s&p slightly lower the ten year treasury yield that goes up normally, it's down 1.1 basis points for the tenure at 3.83%, let's take a look

ashley webster has that story for us in florida. ashley. >> reporter: and -- hey, jackie.onomy as well. the ranking of the worst stakes to live -- states seems to contradict everything that we've witnessed over the last couple of years. the rankings rate texas as the worst state ever for work and quality of life, bottom of the pile, saying that the state has some texas-sized issues when it comes to life, health and inclusion. oklahoma, louisiana, south carolina, alabama, missouri, indiana and tennessee follow texas with florida coming in at number 10 which, by the way, the survey says is one of the most difficult states to vote in, also says that when you rate the sunshine state on life, health and inclusion, it can be a dreary place. florida's chamber of commerce beg withs to differ. begs to differ. >> if florida was a country, florida would be the 16th largest gdp in the world at a $1.4 trillion gdp. florida's growing significantly faster than the national gdp. >> reporter: well, the survey is based on quality of life factors, everything from crime rates, environmental q

ashley in for good morning, great discussion on the show, good morning, i am ashley webster and forth stuart varney. another read on inflation, producer price index showing inflation continues to slowdown. this follows yesterday's consumer price index so you'd expect the markets to like it and they do, taking a look at the futures, the dow up 66 points, s&p up there, nasdaq up three quarters of a%. look at the ten year yield let's come back down below the four points that level, down another 3.7 basis points, 3.82%. look at that going, crypto world and we can show you the.of $166, 30,000 500. now onto politics. fbi director christopher wray saying the fbi is absolutely not protecting the biden's. will ask ted cruz if he believes that, he's going to be here in a few minutes. president biden having a european trip, another international trip to the tired looking leader, field president of finland and we will monitor that. a lot of news on artificial intelligence, elon musk launched the company, bill gates says you should be afraid of the technology and if you want to learn more, ask kam

taking a look at beautiful blue skies, look at the empire state building, 10:00 eastern and i am ashley webster in for stuart varney. the dow is down, the s&p is down, the nasdaq is down but nothing too drastic. we are waiting for the fed minutes this afternoon. let's look at the 10 year treasury yield, slightly up 1.3 basis points. looking at the price of oil, the saudis will not cut production too much more but they may if they can't get more for their oil. $71 a barrel. take a look at bitcoin, it was down slightly. down 430 one dollars, 30,368. let's move on to this. a new op-ed on foxnews.com says, quote, the supreme court affirmative-action decision reveals democrat hypocrisy. i like that. liz peek road is, great to see you. explain the hypocrisy. what are you talking about? >> reporter: democrats are outraged at the decision by the supreme court to ban affirmative-action, claiming it blocks progress for black and brown children, but most black and brown children don't have a shot at going to college. their progress is blocked in elementary school where two thirds of them aren't even taugh

this monday july 3, i am ashley webster and forth stuart varney.'s look at the markets, nothing to get excited about. all is an attempt down on the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500. let's look at the big tech names earlier, i think microsoft was higher -- note, amazon. still higher, have a present. stocks including microsoft and apple done 1%. let's look at the ten year treasury yield of we can, that was headed down marginally so by about a basis.and 3.83%. supreme court with the use of race, what are americans saying about this decision? >> it seems most americans ag agree, there's supportive of the outcome, supreme court restricting the use of race as a factor in college admissions. 52% of americans according to a new poll. this follows the massive landmark decision from last w week. about one third of americans say they disapproved of the court's decision that american opinions change when we start to take a closer look about closer racial groups and whether they have a fair shot of acceptance. americans less likely to think black and hispanic students h

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i am ashley webster in for stuart varney he's back monday morning he promises.ixed picture, nasdaq and s&p are moving slightly higher, down slightly lower. big tech names, let's see what they are doing. amazon and alphabet on the upside but meta, apple and microsoft down about a half a% or thereabouts. ten year treasury yield continues to rise of less than a basis.but 4.04%. san francisco tech sector starting to bloom again thanks to artificial intelligence. the sector itself 2800 jobs in may, 38% were lost during 2022 layoffs now being recovered. steve hilton joins me know. should i read into this san francisco may finally be turning things around? >> it's one small piece of good news to set against the torrent of bad news we see over time. of course we want to be happy about jobs created, no question the ai boom scented in san francisco, is the city itself rather than the broader they area as you seem with previous trends but it doesn't compensate for the massive exodus of business we seen driven out by the consequences of the far left extremists policies prod

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i'm ashley webster in today for stuart varney. take ago look at markets for you. it's all green all though perhaps coming back just a little bit, the dow up 64 points. up close to 100 and nasdaq up 1% and s&p up half a percent and all of this because we found out that producer price index, the producer inflation rate was down again in june. more than expected. amazon, alphabet, apple and microsoft all up. 10-year treasury yield you'd expect it to go down and it is as stocks go up and 10 year is 3.81% down nearly 5 basis points. now this, we've told you about crime creating a so-called doom loop in san francisco. major retailers are moving out but there's another threat to their downtown's revival. hefty taxes. that's right. businesses could save up to 130 times more working in the suburbs than being in the city. remarkable. steve hilton probably doesn't find it remarkable. he live there is. steve, good morning to you. is there anything -- anything that could lure back businesses at this point? >> well, we should say there's one bright spot in terms of business env

i am ashley webster in for stuart varney. let's get straight to your money.kets move higher, the least inflation reading on the producer side showed it is easing off as well. markets like it, the nasdaq up 1%, the dow up one third, the s&p up half, look at the 10 year treasury yield, that in turn has been dropping well below the 4% level% level, 3.81%, down 5 basis points. look at the price of oil, oil is up ever so slightly, $0.50 or so, $76.27 a barrel, bitcoin was moving higher, up about $103, now up $300. bitcoin at 30,672. that's the markets, now this. fbi director christopher ray was grilled on capitol hill yesterday but refused to answer questions whether president biden is being investigated. >> the ongoing investigation being led by the us attorney in delaware, appointed by donald trump in the last administration at baltimore field offices working with, i will refer you to him as to what if anything -- >> the president is under investigation? >> i'm not going to confirm or speak to who is or isn't under investigation for what. >> is not under investi

ashley webster is in for stu. ashley: good morning, everyone, by the withdraw, stuart varney will be back on monday. all right. so we just got the june jobs report. 209,000 jobs created, a little lighter than we expected. the unemployment rate stands at 3.6%, and the labor force participation rate coming in at 6 2.6%. 62.6. revisions to april-may hoe that 110,000 few orer jobs were also created than previously reported. the market reaction, well, let's take a look. the dow has been down in the premarket, still is, down, what, 53 points. marginally. s&p down 7, nasdaq down just about a tenth of a percent. it's all about what does the fed do, how does this -- we parse every word, every piece of economic detail, and no one really knows. let's take a look at the 10-year yield. it went down initially, but it's now back up 4.6 basis points, just over 4% yield on the 10-year. let's take a look at the 2-year which has been inverted with the 10 for seemingly forever. there it is, the yield on the 2-year treasury just at 5%.

on the east coast, i am ashley webster in for stuart varney.traight to your money, treading water the first fourth trading day of the second half of the year. the dow off a quarter of 8% nasdaq slightly higher. s&p slightly lower, let's look at take a look at the big tech names that led the market in the first half of the year, today met up, alphabet up what it half percent, meta is up three to half% it must be the thread future that there could be unveiling tomorrow, microsoft up 1% in amazon and apple moving lower, take a look at the ten year treasury yield applicable basis points right at 3.88%. now this, days after the supreme court struck down the use of affirmative action in college admissions, harvard could be heading for trouble over the legacy admission policy, lydia hu joined us in the studio. this is about favoring applicants who are children of alumni of wealthy donors, money talks, is that right, is that the problem. >> you got that right, this complaint says legacy admissions policy give preferential treatment to applicants who ar

i'm ashley webster in for stuart varney. let's get straight to your money. of red, the dow off 368 points down more than 1%, s&p 500 down more than one% in the nasdaq as well down one and one third%. one 1/3%. 10 year treasury yield has been on the way up. it is up 10. 9 basis points, now through the 4% barrier, 4.04%. so that in turn is certainly not helping those big tech names, the high growth stocks hit by those higher yields, people have to put money in those, back on the 10 year treasury, not bad. the price of oil is down 2% around $70 a barrel for food and let's take a look at bitcoin, bitcoin is down $98, 30,400, right on the money. getting all sorts of numbers, the very latest on the services sector. lauren: the expectation was 51. it is expanding. manufacturing is contracting, services are expanding for 6 months now. it is interesting because we have private sector job creation today. really strong report, the bulk of that number, 373,000 jobs in the services sector, consumer safety roles but the adp said hiring is just not happening yet. speaking

good morning it is 10:00 o'clock eastern i am ashley webster and for stuart varney, bit of a mixed bage dow slightly lower in the s&p up a quarter of 8% in let's look at the ten year treasury that is lower down five basis points now at 3.79%, let's take a look at oil if we can, oil is around 70 bucks and bitcoin is up 176 bucks at 30076 bucks per coin or less we got the latest read, lydia hu joined us now, what is a never say. 46.0 for manufacturing, that is coming in lower than what's expected, polls showing 47, that is a sharper contraction than what were anticipating for manufacturers and folks in the supply chain arena and prices paid were seen that coming up 41.8 in disinflation that is showing disinflation moving faster or prices faster than what was into the pagan, we're expected 44.0. ashley: interesting, every word and piece of data to see what the fed might do, not much reaction on the market, thank you very much. measuring financial security the fed has engaged households of 400-dollar emergency. and it doesn't seemed like much, the new cost of the surprise expenses is aroun

ashley: welcome to cavuto "coast to coast", i am ashley webster and for neil today.et's get to the top story. it is a funding frenzy, the best word a gop candidate race to bring in the money. new filings show the former president trump has over $22 million with ron desantis trailing behind with 12 million. fox news aishah hasnie is on capitol hill to break down the money. hello. >> good morning to you we are not just following the campaign cash coming in we're following the campaign cash that is going out. that is creating problems for governor ron desantis. he raised more than 20 million in the first six weeks of his campaign which is actually really good but he's spending quite a bit. he already spent nearly $8 million and that is leading the campaign which is 12-point to million in cash on hand. as a result the floor together has had to cut his campaign staff reducing his team by fewer than ten members. desantis told fox that his campaign issues are the result of a lack of support from the mainstream media. >> they've seen what i've done with florida where we beat

welcome, everybody, thanks to ashley webster for filling in for me, always appreciate that. you are not imagining what you are seeing with those delivery trucks. maybe your packages, things have to move. that is generally seen as a precursor to renewed economic activity, continued economic activity to start development but how long does it last, put more stock in it. mark tepper, certainly the best dressed on wall street, kind enough to join us. we were kidding about it during the break with so many indicators of stocks, this has a lot of currency because it's very accurate as a barometer. >> it's been accurate for hundred years. the fact that it confirmed we are unable market is a bit late, the market is up 19%, i love the commonsense component of it. if more stock is getting shipped that good for the economy and the been burning key had an indicator back in the day and his indicator was the number of boxes being sold. you are selling something you have to put it in a box. i could argue. neil: to carry it out by your hands if you don't have a box. >> i could argue in the mo

ashley in for good morning, great discussion on the show, good morning, i am ashley webster and forthey. another read on inflation, producer price index showing

i'm ashley webster in for stuart varneyed today.wo out of the three major exchanges are in the positive, the s&p up slightly, the nasdaq up a third of a percent but the dow ever so slightly lower. it's very much treading water right now. take a look at the 10-year treasury yield. we like to keep an eye on this, that has a big bearing especially on the nasdaq. up 2.8 basis point at 4.06%. meanwhile, the price of oil, where are we with oil in it's on the way up, 88 centss at $72.68 per barrel. and let's finish up with bitcoin. it was down slightly, now it's up slightly, up $164 at $30,382. all right, now this: a new poll shows 62% of americans think that a donald trump's classified documents trial should be held before the 2024 election. interesting. tammy bruce joins me now. do you agree with that, tammy? >> i do. this entire thing the americans are seeing this as political. this would help maybe dispel that a little bit. but americans want to have a result. no matter what that result is, they want to see. they want the government, i

the victims are 22-year-old ashley reel. 23-year-old brigitte leann ramsey webster.r-old kristin smith. all four were discovered in remote wooded areas. police did not release how they were killed. oregon public broadcasting governor brown pardoned or commuted the sentences of 38,000 criminals during two terms in office. republicans tried to stop her. >> shouldn't have to die because democrats have followed a failed policy of letting criminals out of prison and giving them a second chance when their victims don't get a second chance. >> and a short while ago, we confirmed calhoun is back in custody right now after the senior d.a. wrote to the governor's office that he has been involved in criminal activity that violated his commutation. laura? >> laura: matt, that is a stunning report. it's beyond disuring thank you. >> sure. >> laura: military readys in, the china threat, the war in ukraine, all items of great american interest and, of course, for many national security. now, john kirby didn't commit one tenth of emotional output to those threats. well, but he did t

they are 22-year-old kristin smith, 24-year-old charity perry, 31-year-old bridget webster, and 22-year-old ashley the bodies were all found in remote wooded areas in and out of the portland area, within 10. portland police initially said there was no evidence that they were links, but families felt otherwise. kristin smith was the first it is disappear back in september. her body was the first found in february. the last victim was found in may. the oregonian and other local media reporting that the person of interest is 38-year-old jesse calhoun, a career criminal from portland. his latest conviction for burglary, auto theft, and assaulting a police officer back in 2019. he was sentenced then to 50 months in prison but was let out a year early, partly because he helped fight fires in oregon as part of a prison crew. he was considered nonviolent, but then on july 3rd this year his commutation was revoked by the current governor at the request of the multnomah county district attorney's office. oregon public broadcasting reported that brown either granted commutations or pardons for more than 48,3

victims are 22-year-old kristin smith, 24-year-old charity perry, 31-year-old bridge it webster and 22-year-old ashley bodies were found in remote wooded areas around portland and surrounding counties. initially police tried to tamp down speculation of a serial killer saying they had no reason to believe the cases were connected. late yesterday that all changed in making the announcement they said the public is not believed to be in any danger and this is perhaps why. media outlet attention are reporting that 38-year-old gelsy calhoun is the person of interest and he is in custody. the department of corrections tells us calhoun was sentenced in 2019 to 50 months for burglary, assaulting a police officer and car theft. in 2021 his sentence was commuted and back on the streets. two years later on july 3rd at the request of the d.a.'s office clemency was revoked by the current governor. former governor kate brown granted clemency to 912 non-violent inmate. calhoun was among them even though his criminal history includes assault. she granted the 130 pardons and evented death row making her one of the soft

year-old charity perry is found in a culvert near a state park. 31-year-old bridget webster on harmony road. 22-year-old ashley heavily wooded part of clackamas county. >> jesse: calhoun is back in custody but did oregon's governor release a serial killer on the streets in order to avert your signal? we have requested for comment from the governor and we'll let you know what she says. new daily routine, mornings. it used to be burpees, sun, walks, stretching. my new thing is the morning s swim. i highly recommend the morning swim. you'll thank me. let's do texts. peter from spring hill florida. now that laura ingraham is on that-year-old 7:00 time slot, does that mean johnny is working for her now? johnny's mind and i'm never going to let them go. carlos from you, washington. a subway foot-long's are $14 here. it's been a long time since it was a $5-foot long. steve from virginia. some one please get me a virtual doughnut. i've been working a real job for 30 years i need a break. ray. denver, north carolina. we are with jason aldean. don't try that in this small town. thanks for moving to 8:00, jesse. i know t

bridget webster was found just over a week another victim ashley real was found dead on may 7th.play wasn't suspected in that case but another case, 32-year-old joanna speaks she was also found dead. her family is holding out hope for answers saying in statement yesterday, quote, we're in direct communication with our detective to verify why our sister's name hasn't linked to the person of interest as of this morning. we're extremely thankful that we're one step closer to getting answers for these families. >> kate. >> steven, what do we know about the person of interest in. >> we just heard back for the d.a.'s office no charges have been filed against anyone in these deaths. they have an identified person of interest connected to these four cases. they haven't released much information about that person, though, they do however say they don't believe there's any active danger to the community right now. kate. >> steven, thank you. >>> today we're also learning market the evidence that led to the i rest of suspected serial killer on new york's long island. >> investigators went t