In fiveyear notes and well be watching the price of gold today as well. The precious metal dropping 2 yesterday. That was the worst day in six weeks. You can see right now its trading at 1,264. 70 an ounce. Andrew, over to you. Thank you, becky. Welcome back. We have corporate news, tech news, talking about re code. General electric Ceo Jeff Immelt is in france, meeting with president hollande, also with the countrys economic minister to discuss ges bid for alstom. An official in hollandes office says ge has improved its offer for the french train and turbine maker. The comments could suggest a change. This could be a change for the first time for the french government which until now has been critical of ges bid. We will see where all of that heads. In other european news, this morning, the uks fraud office launched a formal criminal investigation into Glaxo Smithkline amid claims of foreign bribery. The Company Faces claims in china and four other countries. Weve talked about this be
Candidates are hitting the trail this week in key battleground states. A bit later this hour, the president heads to michigan and wisconsin for rallies tonight while joe biden after holding a drive in rally in the motor city yesterday will be campaigning in North Carolina tomorrow. Were going to go over those stories and more with our team of reporters and analysts coming your way. Well go to that womens march in washington. My colleague is there. Shes joining me on the phone. It got really loud and you were moving around the last couple of hours. Whats the latest from where you are . Its alex, can you hear me . Reporter alex, hopefully you can hear me right now. We are on the phone and we are on the move. Were trying to stay away from the crowd. Keep socially distant. We have our crew ready to set up at the Supreme Court of the United States hopefully here pretty soon. We have seen its got to be at least 10,000 marchers if not more. They are making their way up to the Supreme Court of
A good sunday to you. What is going on with this bill . Is there any indication its going to get signed any time soon . Reporter i hate to sound like a broken record standing here day after day with very little new information to add to the picture of this. The president and his aides at the white house refusing to say whether the president is actually going to sign this legislation or not. The most recent that we heard from the president was in a late night tweet last night where he once again called for these 2,000 payments that the president has been insisting on now since tuesday. Without shedding any light on how he actually plans to get there. Its not like the president has been involved in any kind of negotiations that we know of. We havent heard from steve mnuchin, who actually brokered the deal with members of congress. In fact, told them the president intended to sign this deal. He has been absent since the president threw this wrench into the negotiations. We remain in the H
And we are going to bring you the president elects speech live when it happens. As i said, in just a few moments. But first, out front tonight trump at this hour obsessed with his demise as the president faces his Second Senate impeachment trial. Trump is said to be consumed by the spectacular unraveling of his presidency. And he is, though, still shutting down any talk of a possible resignation. This as another republican senator signals support for his removal in a senate trial. Republican senator Lisa Murkowski in a statement writing, the house has responded swiftly and i believe appropriately with impeachment. I will listen carefully and consider the arguments of both sides and i will then announce how i will vote. The alaska senator open to convicting trump in the impeachment trial as the gop source tells cnn, quote, there is no love lost within the Senate Republican conference for trump. Look, if the ballots were closed it would be overwhelming for conviction. But we will see how
Billion in buy backs. The company also approved Quarterly Dividend of 8 , nearly 3. 29 a share. Analysts were looking for about 38 million phones to have been sold. Apple earning 11. 62 a share and that blew expectations out of the water there, too. More than a dollar above estimates. Revenue came in at 45. 6 billion. That was more than 2 billion above expectations. Heres what carl icahn tweeted out after apples report. Agree completely with apples increased buyback. Believe well be happy within we see new products. As we said at conference yesterday, we continue to believe apple remains meaningfully undervalued. Many analysts fail to understand the company. Well, investors really took a second look at this, jumping on apple shares, soaring more than 40 in the late trading, gain of 7. 5 . We haven aanalyst coming up in a few minutes. One of the tweets that was really great yesterday was like 11 weeks and 6 days of doubting apple in the quarter and one day of believing and jumping back