Territory for the year. The features are telling a different story. Loss on the dow futures this morning. Again, volatility in the bull market coming on the nineyear anniversary next month we will ask the question. The economy still strong. The atlanta fed reserve to lower their firstquarter gdp forecast to 4 . That is down from 524 last week. In europe, stocks are heading higher. The flood of gains across the board. Asia overnight stocks mostly lower. The kospi and south korea the worst performer there. The nikkei managing to eke out a small gain. The budget battles looming. Small banks tomorrow night to keep the government running as the house stopgap spending bill to fight now turns to the senate where immigration remains a positive issue. President trump waiting for the white house yesterday. If we dont change it, lets have a shutdown. We will do is will do a shutdown as we do for our country. I would love to see a shutdown if we dont get this stuff taken care of. Train to the late
Reports tillerson called the president eight more on it was considering stepping down. Moron and considering stepping down. Also reportedly challenged tillerson to like you test. Hundreds of firefighters and Law Enforcement officials are headed to california to battle wildfires that have killed at least 13 people. I wondered 15,000 acres have been scorched and one dozen wineries are damaged. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more , i am alisantries parenti, this is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Emily vicki choir summit in seattle. Google, facebook, and twitter are scrambling to hold washington and regular edition at bay as the result of the russian political ad scandal. What is the game plan . Being called to Congress Next month. We will cover how seattle has transformed into the centers of innovation. One of seattles biggest players, microsoft. An exclusive interview with president. First to our lead. Tech giants bracing themse
Economic outlook grow. The two biggest drivers, strength in germany and france. Things are up slightly this morning in european trading. But there has been some interesting calls on this. And well talk more about what jim cramer had to say about europe a little bit later in the show too. An update from our colleagues in london in a few minutes. Jimmy saying europe is back. And thats a big story for u. S. Stocks. Corporate news, the former jpmorgan trader known as the london whale and regulators reached an agreement to avoid criminal prosecution. But two are expected to be charged as soon as today. The s. E. C. Is said to be in settlement talks with jpmorgan over disclosures of the trading losses. Number of activist investors in the news today. Lets start with carl icahn. Hes taking a large position in apple and says the stock could be worth as much as 700 a share. If ceo tim cook pushed for a larger stock buyback. In the tweet yesterday, icahn announced he has spoken to the apple boss,