Takes another step away from diplomacy and its International Partners the state department declares it is pulling america out of unesco thats the United Nations agency dedicated to a culture the u. S. Says it needs fundamental reform due to a perceived anti israel bias while the move comes on the same day that palestinian negotiators from hamas and france assign a reconciliation deal after a decade long split the bitter rivals talking in cairo about governing the gaza strip together we have reaction from ramallah and jerusalem plus a brussels delivers a blow to the u. K. The use it brings that negotiator michaud danya says he wont ask next weeks summit to open discussions on the blocks future relationship with Great Britain citing lack of progress also a deal worth one point five billion euros gets off the ground germanys Biggest Airline agrees to buy large parts of bankrupt carrier air berlin snapping up dozens of its planes and thousands of isaf. And are reclining series on being gay
Answer to the question so many are asking. Tackling the issue. Nfl players and owners set to meet today to discuss those Controversial National anthem protests. Will the league try to force players to stand, or can a compromise be reached . All that, plus florida declares an unusual state of emergency over a planned speech. An intentional crash on a racetrack . Leads to a dangerous brawl. A tasing and arrests. And morning exclusive. Chip and joanna gains will be here, live, to explain why theyre leaving their hit show, fixer upper, today, tuesday, october 17th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Its tuesday morning, and were glad to have you with us this morning. Its a busy tuesday morning. We have a lot to get to, starting with President Trump sounding off on a number of issues that are facing his administration. Hes also igniting a new controversy with former president s
Mostly higher taking its cue once again from the u. S. Through the shanghai composite, nikkei average and kospi. The hang seng lower by half of a percent. The saudi ipo is on track. The managing are getting some hopes to big investors that the oil giants public debut is on schedule for next year despite the speculation that we are going to see some private investors on the steel like the chinese, which may very well will be likely. The push for tax reform back in the u. S. President trump set to head to capitol hill to encourage republican senators to move forward on tax reform. First daughter ivanka trump spoke about the importance of getting the reform passed. Watch. The tax reform is so critical. We are doing it administratively, and the regulation ever really feeling entrepreneurship in the state in terms of optimism, stock market. I would hear it in every conversation i had with the people through the course of the day. So that is what fuels them and that is what we are fighting f
With the critical model three delays, proving hotter than expected. A. M. , thisst past 9 is daybreak astray which is an hour away. In newust after 6 p. M. York. Im betty liu and we will be looking at the action on wall street and how that will play into the asiapacific trading. Heidi, no doubt we are following these headlines coming across about jay powell being named the next fed chairman. These are all according to reports of the wall street journal coming out first with these reports. Haidi, given the speculation over the last several days . Haidi absolutely. As you mentioned, the muted response from u. S. Markets. It just surging a little bit higher. Powell essene is the next best thing to continuity other than janet yellen staying at her job. Betty it is safe to say some economists coming out that it is yellen 2. 0. Maybe there will be not a lot of change. Why the markets didnt react too much. Equity markets and the training trading session. Mostly shrugging off this news that te
Note, the hang seng. The hang seng hitting the highest level since june of 2015 during that session. The picture of europe here, inflation data hit the tape moments ago. A mixed bag. Fractional losses in germany and france. Home depot just out with First Quarter results. Earnings of 1. 67 a share, coming in 5 cents above estimates. Global Comp Store Sales were up 5 , that beat the consensus of 4 . U. S. Comps were up 6 . Wae above e home depot raising the fullyear earnings forecast. Market reaction in the currencies from the Washington Post story. I to be honest with you, i didnt buy it because what were seeing across the board is that people are willing to take on a little bit of risk. Euros are turning to levels since before the french election, yen is coming off. We saw the chart. Its been a while that the dollar euro has been strong. You can do just about anything you want in the Financial News reporting, sort of and im sure we didnt make that up. Im sure the person that wrote that