About this recount cnbc learns the current u. S. Tax plan features a 21 corporate rate as President Trump prepares to host senate and house tax negotiators at the white house. Fashion forward. Net profit jumps 6 for inditech as sales get a boost from 99 new store openings. Dixons carphones sales surge to the top of the stoxx 600 after theres a shakeup to the mobile phone Division Following a slump in first half profit good morning its wednesday its a bic day we have an action packed show for you. First one of our main stories, its fomc today. It will be Janet Yellens last press conference for her tenure. Lets look at how european markets are looking one hour into the trading session overnight asian indices drifted slightly lower the nikkei down 0. 5 a stronger session for hang seng the picture in europe is dim if you look at stoxx 600, the Overall Index is trading down 0. 1 or so lets look at individual european markets as you can see, its not a pretty day at all. Ftse 100, just below
Winds are picking up. But we should start to see this quiet down overnight. Straight to the radar so i could show you what im talking about. So right now that line of heavier showers is getting ready to move through the district. You could see it in that deep red and orange and yellow continuing to push toward the east. So in the d. C. Metro you will hear the rain coming down. And then the winds picking up. So here is what you need to know. As we said through tonight and into tomorrow, dry for sunday. But by cass d by christmas da, we are feeling cold. Snow chances taye to the north and west. A mix of sun and clouds. But ill talk about your full christmas forecast. Thank you. Switching gears now, police plan to charge a teenager with a double murder that shocked a Quiet Community in reston. The victims a husband and wife would recently moved into the neighborhood. Darcy spence ser live along black fur court with reaction from residents to this darcy. Reporter erika, Fairfax County poli
About an hour ago and about an hour before that, berlin and paris welcoming in the new year. Lets take you live look to time square, the Biggest Party in the united states. Four hours away from the ball dropping in new york city. That is where Chris Pollone is joining us. Reporter you are starting to feel some energy from the crowd. Those poor people, i mean they chose to do this, but many of them had been out there since 9 00, 10 00 out there this morning. Stand anything a metal pen. If they left they wouldnt be allowed to come back. The giant crystal ball has gone to the top of the pole ready to make the trip down at midnight. This place is loaded with security. The mayor of new york says this will be the safest place to celebrate the new year in the united states. Thousands of Police Officers covering this event alone. There are uniformed Police Officers but also under cover tactical teams. Snipers on businesses around here. And there are detectives now in all of the hotels surround
Also iphones, macs are affected by a processor flaw and also billboard reports jimmy iovine could leave his role at apple music and a survey shows an improvement in demand for the iphone x, despite what it calls supply chain volatility. For all that lets bring in the man behind that note, steven malanovich steven, good morning, happy friday same to you i want to start with the iphone x thats the big profit and revenue driver at apple. Theres often all of this supply chain noise around iphone releases often a lot of it doesnt actually translate when we see the results. Which are we to believe, the fear, uncertainty, and doubt among the demand for the iphone x as evidenced by component orders from apple, or the demand that youre seeing for the phone itself well, at the end of the day demand drives supply, so we focus quite a bit on demand. We did this at Ubs Evidence Lab survey followup, so a couple months ago we looked at demand for the new phones we thought it was good, but more tepid
And again, governor, i cannot thank you for your support. Weve been on the phone constantly. He was here the second this happened. I cant thank you, fdle, the sheriffs office, and this is what you dont see around the country. You see team work. Thats what happens in id special. Thank you. Before we take questions, id like also to thank congressman ted deutsche from coming down from washington, d. C. The elected officials from parkland and around the county. My message to the community to Broward County is simple. Your elected officials, your commissioners, your state reps, your state senators, make sure these are people that arent worrying about millage rates and saving money. This is a time to save lives. We need more Law Enforcement, we need more deputies. This isnt the time to worry about how many dollars might be saved if we dont have a deputy here or a Police Officer here. This is nationwide. We need more, more heroes, more First Responders, not less First Responders. And i know m