Citing the threat of Foreign Military intervention. They claim to have information a foreign power is preparing to attack. It comes after the expiry of a sunday deadline from west African Regional bloc ecowas, which demanded the coup be reversed. The group now plans to hold an Emergency Summit on thursday. Bbc correspondent chris ewokor is following the story from the neighbouring nigeria. It is one day after the expiration of the alternation given to the coup leaders by ecowas to reinstate president mohamed bazoum. The leaders are due to meet later this week to agree on the demands by ecowas mac defence chiefs and other matters which will help them resolve this diplomatically. Believers want to make very clear that coup or military takeover of the government in the region will no longer be acceptable. Meanwhile, here in North Western nigeria the board remains closed against niger. Long lines of vehicles, lorries, carrying loads covered with tombola, have been stranded with their drive
2 00 in our trading day on the east coast. Nasdaq composite leading the way again up 1. 6 . The s p 500 adding more than a percent. Dow jones industrial are the laggard but higher by half a percent and chip stocks helping to boost that. Nvidia now up 85 this year. Its added almost a trillion dollars in market cap in 2024 so far. Its only march 7th. Micron higher on the upgrade from stifel and intel gaining on reports its expected to receive 3. 5 billion from the government to develop advanced chips for the military. All about the chips. 900 a share. I mean. For nvidia. I remember when it was 700. Unbelievable. I remember back when it was 700 about two weeks ago. Gosh. Lets move on now and begin with the state of the union. The president is expected to propose, among other things, a 21 minimum tax on corporations and a quadrupling of the tax on corporate buybacks. Bob pisani joins us from the nyse and you followed buybacks for years and what would the impact of what the president is pro
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