Global Stocks are Lower as Dow Tries for 7th Straight Record




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Summary: U.S. stocks are pointing to a lower start as global markets are down, especially in Europe. Investors are still digesting President Donald Trump's lengthy press conference in which he criticized the news media, said Republicans are in the final stages of presenting an alternative to Obamacare and announced his Labor Secretary nominee Alexander Acosta. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has hit record highs for 6 straight days. Blackberry now has virtually zero market share in smartphones. Gartner says out of the more than 431.5 million smartphones sold last year, about 200,000 were Blackberry devices that were running its own operating system. Microsoft windows phones share fell to .3% in the last quarter of 2016. The wireless wars keep going. AT&T is expanding access to unlimited data to all wireless customers after Verizon announced its own unlimited data plan earlier this week.