Gbis our decision zone will bring you live coverage from nbc affiliates across the country. Real time news and analysis as the results come in but right now lets get you caught up on todays business stories as we get ahead. Before we start this is a nice way to think about this. Did you see this cover of the New York Post today, vote for the one you dislike least. But that already irritated me. Already irritated you. One is pro trump, one is pro clinton. For daily news, what do they get . Stop the don con. They need to stop this lying orange facsist. So they get a total we hate do you get anything comparable on the other side. This is the objective version. Yes. This one is im with her and all through it. They get a full throated endorsement for hillary with this tabloid. All you get here is pick the so your gripe is with rupert. He has been a hillary person for awhile i think. Month theres no correlary to the daily news anywhere. What about bright guard. I just heard it didnt matter.
Well as eric jackson of Spring Owl Asset Management and an outspoken critic of management teams, including yahoo and viacomm. Earnings in revenue beat expectations. A big win for Ceo Jack Dorsey who, of course, runs two companies. The stock of square down more than 20 so far this year. Prior to todays move. I did speak to dorsey last quarter about the path to profitability. Square has been a very strong and really predictable business for us. And were really happy about that because we feel like we have a real understanding of how the business grows and what it takes to move it forward and can really understand what to do next. Predictable, of course being the keyword. How much of a victory is this quarter for jack dorsey . Short term its a great victory, longterm its a problem because square catches mass of competition from everywhere. And not only is card readers now, you have apple pay and new infrastructure. A lot of new technologies that could be developed that could really hurt t
The nikkei was down by almost 600 points. Thats a decline of 3. 5 . Among some of the things that were cited was a weak Business Sentiment result from a survey from the bank of japan. Traders also citing weak earnings expectations in the United States. Again, 3. 5 decline. Its not our fault. Its japan. I think thats a little separate from what we see here. Call someone, what do you think . They just come up with that. They didnt hear it from a single trader, im sure. Oh, how about this . Well, you saw whats happening in europe. Theres a selloff under way there too. Some of the indices down by over 1. 5 . Again, whats happening here in the United States pales in comparison to all this. We only saw things down by 40 points here this morning so far. Lets give you a little wrapup on whats happening in the First Quarter. It is now officially in the books. It actually was a pretty stunning turnaround for stocks. The last time the dow had a gain like this in a single quarter was more than 82
Rob driving in this morning, all the good people, all the costumes, 3 00 in the morning. Jillian i didnt see anything. Halloween night in new york city. Fox and friends first, rob schmidt. Jillian lets begin with this. Immigration taking center stage less then a week before the midterms, 15,000 troops headed to the southern border as donald trump double down on key policies. Rob pulling no punches down the stretch with 5 days to go. Reporter what began as a deployment of 5000 troops to the southern border has tripled. Donald trump about to send 15,000 troops for operation faithful patriot, it is intended to help manage the caravan of Central American migrants still hundreds of miles away from us soil. We have to have a wall of people, terrific dedicated patriots is what they are. A deployment of around 7000 troops to california, arizona and texas, and their primary role will be a support one. They are known to work with 2100 National Guardsmen already in place. Mexico meanwhile is push
Happening, but the fact is hes been a very good secretary of labor. What happened 12 or 15 years ago with respect to when he was a u. S. Attorney, i think in miami is it miami . Yes. You know, if you go back and look at everybody elses decisions, whether its a u. S. Attorney or an assistant u. S. Attorney or a judge, you go back 12, 15 years ago or 20 years ago and look at their past decisions, i would think you would probably find that they wish they maybe did it a different way. I do hear that there were a lot of people involved in that decision, not just him. I can only say this from what i know and what i do know is that hes been a great really great secretary of labor. The rest of it we will have to look at. We will have to look at it very carefully. But you are talking about a long time ago and, again, it was a decision made, i think, no the by him but by a lot of people. So were going to look at it very carefully. We will be looking at that very carefully. Now House Speaker nanc