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Bloodbath. It is a top issue as you know. The border and immigration with voters nationwide. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. President bidens team is going to try to get ahead of former President Donald Trump on the trail today. So now they are set to hold a News Conference hours before trump will take the stage in wisconsin. The focus of trumps remarks again what he calls bidens Border Bloodbath and likely to highlight the recent murders of 25yearold ruby garcia in wisconsin and 22yearold laken riley in georgia. In both cases the accused killers are illegal Border Crossers. Chad wolf, former acting security secretary under trump. What would have an Immediate Impact is actually using the authority that they have. Authorities that president Trumps Administration used to secure that border. They have the same authorities. No new laws have been passed. They can utilize some of those same policies that worked. Same programs that worked. They choose not to do that. Ins
Before the bell, well be hearing from retailers walmart and kohls. And the bulls are hoping todays earnings and Economic News can give stocks another boost. The dow snapped its threeday winning streak. Out to the futures this morning, youll see at this point there are some strong moves in a positive direct. Dow futures are up about 60 points above fair value. The s p 500 up by eight points, the nasdaq up by almost 20 points. While we were sleeping, asia closed mixed. Take a look at what happened with the nikkei. It was up another 1 . A lot of speculation out there that the Prime Minister shinzo abe may have decided to call an early election. Also thoughts that they would be putting off the planned hike in sales tax. If they put that off, that would be another positive for the economy. Industrial production rose therein than expected last month. Shanghai was down 0. 3 . Retail sales falling slightly below estimates. If you take an early look at whats been happening in europe, some stron
Future of orange as it closes in on its ee deal. Vodafone reports Third Quarter results in the next hour. Mark welcome to countdown. Anna coming up, bill gates reduces his stake in truck microsoft to 3 as against 1. 5 billion of stock to his foundation. Mark frances biggest banks earnings for the previous quarter. Net income rising to 1. 3 billion euros from 110 Million Euros per year. That is when the bank set aside money for legal costs. That 1. 3 billion euro figure just below the 1. 4 billion average that analysts conveyed. Escalating levees on europes biggest banks will dent 2016 that income by 500 Million Euros. That will endanger the profitability target once more. The economic recovery is winker weaker than the bank had foreseen and Interest Rates are lower. On the dividend front, bnp will pay 1. 5 euros per share for 2014. That is unchanged. It did maintain the payout even though annual net income fell by 97 . It is the lowest since the bank was created by a merger in 2000. Bn