a man capable of great anger. when he leaned forward and he said it was my property, and you saw his lip begin to quiver there, is that what you were expecting? no, i saw more contrition and remorse from his daughter than i saw from oj simpson. when you re on that parole board, you want him to embrace what he has done so he can promise you what he said they are considering which are risk assessmen assessments. . you want to feel good about the decision if you re that commissioner and i don t know if they saw that in oj simpson today. the objective factor point system, he was not ringing the bell today, being oj, for his release. perhaps he and his attorney, it didn t seem like they were overly prepared.
president trump. historians note nixon had questionable tax practices like the half million dollar deduction he took for transferring presidential papers to the federal government s national archives. but that deduction actually expired when nixon took office in 69, which meant he couldn t take it under the current law at the time. so, he tried to take it under the old law by having a lawyer falsify the records so it looked like he had made the donation earlier. according to bloomberg news, that allowed nixon to pay less than $1,000 on an income of over $200,000. then nixon fought to keep his tax returns private which makes some sense now that history shows what he was hiding. a secretive approach to taxes certainly rings a bell today. i am not releasing the tax returns because they re under audit. he s not going to release his tax returns. we litigated this all through the election. i won. i mean, i became president. no, i don t think they care at all. it s often said that tr
10 for johnson. while in utah, a different candidate is stirring up the race, trump has a six-point edge over clinton 34% to 28% with independent evan mcmullin 20%, gary johnson with 9%. two big events on the financial calendar today, new comments from the fed and earnings reports from the big banks. nancy hungerford joins us live from london. bring us to speed on what to expect today. well, it s going to be a busy trading day for investors, despite it being friday, because we have wells fargo, citigroup, and jpmorgan among banks reporting earnings before the opening bell today. expectations are rather muted with analysts declined in eps for all three lenders, part due to slower loan growth, a lot down to the low interest rate environment and what that means to profitability, but look for heightened attention around wells fargo, of course.
that s dependent on tourism, do you want it to be labeled a super fund site? there s always been a delicate balance between the science and politics and thinking now, craig, that balance may be shifted by the spill. scott cohn, thanks for the update. breaking news. involving wallet mz the dow at one point today was at a low for the year, right now you can see it, down about 31. more than half of the stocks in the s&p 500 had been in the red today. and the reason for these wild swings, china. let s dig deep for in what that means for the markets and for your bottom line as well. cnbc s mary thompson more on what s happening with wall street over the past 48 hours. what do we know? as you mentioned, stocks are now mixed, well off their lows of the sessions when we had some steep declines after the opening bell today. those were fueled by concerns about the chinese government s decision to devalue its currency.
i want to tell you about the irony this morning. a fund with the ticker hack hack that rang the opening bell today. that was a day after a massive glitch bright down the nyse. it s a fund that invests in cyber security company. while it wasn t a cyber security issue to blame, there were questions yesterday. the fact that h.-a-c-k rang the opening bell. to answer your question, smooth start to the opening bell. smooth start to the trading day so far. traders that i have talked to say they re cautiously opt stick that trading will go okay after the shut down yesterday. late yesterday the president of the new york stock exchange said they found out what was wrong and that they fixed it. they put out a statement saying the problem was a configuration issue. translation, the settings weren t correct before some new software was launched the previous night. and we ve actually learned, ana, it was the president of the new york stock exchange who made the