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it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. we begin this hour with deadly storms now making their way northeast after leaving behind a trail of destruction across texas, oklahoma, arkansas and kentucky. at least 19 people are dead and dozens more injured. take a look at this. valley view, texas, gas station. officials say as many as 125 people were sheltering when a powerful tornado struck. overnight kentucky governor andy beshear declared a state of emergency as the severe weather threat continues into today for millions of americans. it leaves hundreds of,sands across the region without power. joining us from valley view, texas, is nbc s priscilla thompson. priscilla, good morning. where do things stand now? reporter: jose, good morning. right now in the hardest-hit areas there s devastation everywhere. we re here and you can see there s a car with its windows completely blown out. that car was actually in that gas station parking lot when this tor
The economy faces new threats. Jay powell is going to be facing the Senate Banking committee for his confirmation at 10 00 wall street time on tuesday to be the next chair. I want to bring into half for some reaction. That wes speculation might hear something different. Kathleen this is a 2. 5page statement. The testimony is tomorrow at 10 00 wall street time or 5 00 here in new york. You can see the Senate Banking committee decided to put this out on the table. Lets just run through. As part of our fed team, i received these under embargo. Ive had a chance to look at this. Powell is expecting Interest Rates to rise somewhat further and the size of the Balance Sheet to gradually shrink. Is this a surprise . No. We know this is the path the fed is on. Theres nothing in here about inflation and the fact that it has fallen short of the feds target. The fed must retain flexibility to adjust policy in response to the economy. Subtle, nuanced way for jay powell to make it clear, as fed chair
Consequences. Through 15,000, gaining 60 in the past five trading sessions. We hear from howard davies, who called the whole bitcoin surge in rational exuberance. That . Er we are about 30 minutes into the trading day. That is one reason bitcoin is so appealing. We see the slow and steady gains on equity markets and other traditional assets. The bitcoin rise is something different. We are seeing gains on the stock market. Industrials, energy, and materials. Industrials, energy, and materials have been leading those gains as we have sessions little changed in the past several days. Overall, not necessarily that large. They are larger and larger, potentially. Take a look at the correlations here. Back several years. You can see the loosening correlations. Less frequently in lockstep, which may lockstep, which may open up more opportunities for folks who called himself call themselves stock pickers, individual companies that will give them outperformance. We will keep tracking these are t
Bob iger is about to join us as disney buys a big chunk of 21st century fox. Retail sales up 0. 8. But we know what the lead is today. Yep, we finally got the deal weve been talking about now for more than a month, of course disney buying those fox assets that weve detailed time and again over this last, lets call it, five weeks or so since we first brought the story to you of the talks between the two it is a large deal, to say the least. Depends on how you want to value the equity right now, at current prices, and if you take into the considerations that minority interests, its about 55 billion in equity. Some 515 million shares of disney will be exchanged for the fox businesses that are going to be sold to disney. Were talking about a deal with an enterprise value of 69 billion. Theyll take on 14 billion worth of debt. Tax liability which i finally got clarity on, 8. 5 billion to fox. That is the spinco, could come down as a result of tax reform, the lower tax rate and that will hav