Check out the stock market in the early going. Right now, the dow futures are up by about 19 points above fair value. S p futures are up by 1. 5 and the nasdaq is up by 3. 5. If you were watching oil prices, youll see right now theyre down by half a percent. 104. 85 for the wti. The tenyear note at this point is yielding 2. 556 . Take a look at what the dollar is doing this morning. Youll see right now the dollar is up against the euro. Euro is at 1. 366. The dollar is down both against the pound and the yen. The yen is 101. 44. Gold prices look like they are up barely, 1,327. 80 an ounce. Among our market newsmakers, we have jim grant, jim paulson and andrew ill send it over to you. Thank you, becky. Our top corporate story this morning, jpmorgan chairman and Ceo Jamie Dimon announced late yesterday has been diagnosed with what hes calling curable throat cancer. Kayla tousche joins us now with more on the story. A lot of people on wall street and washington are talking about this situ
H hedge funds will be listening. We will hear from the former agent pfizer has hired to put a stop to it all. Good morning. Youre watching Market Makers. I am stephanie ruhle. A lot of market chatter that we need to dissect. First, lets get to the news. These the top business stories from around the world. The u. S. Cover he will drive the Global Economy this year. Had its forecast for worldwide growth. It reduced expectations for brazil and russia. Citigroup is settling up. They agreed to pay more than 1 billion to settle claims by investors in mortgage cap securities. Citigroup is still facing action from regulators. In germany there is a deal for art stolen by the not sees. It is held by an art dealer for decades. Had art in his apartment for decades. Billion. That is what two of the biggest Drug Companies in the world have been ordered to pay in damages for hiding the cancer risks associate with the diabetes drug. This is some serious business. Thought that was how much they made.
Those of you here in the audience and people who are joining us virtually. With the election less than three weeks away, it is important to remember it is essential to preserving our democratic republic that we have secure elections in which every citizen who is eligible to vote is to cast a ballot. We want a process in which when it is over everyone agrees, even the candidates who lost and their supporters that we had a fair and honest election. How do we do that . That is the question today. It begs the question, are comprehensive election audits a way to achieve that goal . In depth audits of elections are almost nonexistent yet indepth financial and accounting audits are standard practice. Heritage has published a new study explaining this issue available online. It is called best practices and standards for election audits. I encourage you to read it or download it. Today we have three experts with us to discuss this very important question. The honorable senator paul that in cour
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A michael frolic welcome to the show u. S. Backed syrian fighters are claiming victory over socalled Islamic State they say they have expelled the selfproclaimed caliphate and the last bit of territory controlled in syria rebels from the Syrian Democratic forces group raised their flag over of a goose after and now seeing the defeat of bias this followed weeks of fighting over the village on the iraqi border i asked declared its caliph it in two thousand and fourteen and went on to control vast areas of syria and iraq. Lets bring in ben to shallow middle east analyst based in Beirut Lebanon benton this fight against isis has been going on for years how big a moment is this. Well i think it is at least in symbolic terms a really big moment because isis territoriality ends with this and that was what differentiated it from other extremist groups that it actually had a territory and therefore it is worth celebrating however what i think more relevant is first symposiums thats france celeb