Handled better. Yesterday you echoed that the situation could have been handled better. Today the chief of staff said it was all done right. You can explain does the white house think the rob porter situation could have been handled differently or all done right . As i said yesterday, we come here and do the very best we can, and every day we can do better than the day before, and were going to continue to strive for that, were humans making us imperfect people so every day i think we can learn from the day before and striving to do better. Thats our goal certainly within our team and try to do everything we can to help serve the American People to the best of our ability. Reporter was it appropriate for hope hicks to be involved in drafting the statements given her relationship with mr. Porter . She was not part of a lot of the conversations that took place. I dont recall you being in the room to be able to say specifically what comment she made or didnt make. Shes the White House Com
S p off by 13. Yesterday we saw a swing of 400 points or more we were up by 100, 350 i need more than 140 to get worried . No, thats a yawn at this point. 0. 6 at this point if you think back to all of last year watching, if it starts down 140, you could look away, look back, be down 800. You saw what was happening with treasuries. Lets look at that board once again. Looking at treasuries, these are the yields, the tenyear yielding 2. 831 . Stepping back from the 2. 9 it crossed yesterday. Check out the twoyear, 2. 069 look at europe thats where the markets are open for early trading at this point it looks like no, no back that up asia closed, but the nikkei down by 0. 6 hang. Shanghai up by 1 in europe, you can see active trading now, at least at this point things are relatively mixed ftse slightly higher but declines of a quarter percentage point for the dax in germany and the cac in france. Earnings still coming in this is a big one. Pepsico reported 1. 31 for the Fourth Quarter, a
Each. Cheryl japans nikkei falling half a percentage chinas shanghai composite up half a percent. Lauren is a list of u. S. Companies giving tax reform bonuses continues to grow, but what if those bonuses for taxfree . Fbn am starts right now. Cheryl 5 01 a. M. In new york wednesday, february 18th, valentines day and its ash wednesday. In cheryl casone. Lauren predicament for a lot of people. You may not go out to dinner to celebrate today. Trade to today is the beginning of lent if you are giving up things. So much for valentines day evenings. President trump trying to stay on track when it comes to his plans for 2018 and 19 meeting with congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle to discuss his infrastructure plan which is part of his 2019 budget proposal. White house budget director Mick Mulvaney on the hill discussing us. Lauren Connell Mcshane discussing those. Reporter the budget would boost spending for Border Security and military while cutting back on some domestic prog
First annual home market revenue rise in anyone years. And headwinds for iberdrola. The stock sees red after fullyear earnings miss expectations failing to offset a proposed Dividend Increase i will speak with the chairman at 11 00 cet all right. It is pmi extravaganza this morning. We already had pmi numbers out of germany an france both were disappointing. Just getting in the flash composite pmi numbers. Lets look and see where those came in. The february composite flash pmi came in at 57. 5. The forecast was 58. 5. We have another miss here coming in its not that surprising after what we saw coming out of germany and france a bit earlier. So definitely the numbers have begun to drop a bit. Were seeing that in services and in manufacturing as well a little bit disappointing there. The euro has come off a bit on those news lets look at how european yields are doing the currency dropped a bit i would expect there to be movement in fixed income as well, particularly as the bund was trad
Companies by market value. And they comprise a large percentage of the nasdaq 100. That means their quartersu s, their outlooks, and what their executivesbu say abo ness can sway the broader market. On the we hear from all three. Lets start with apple. The worlds biggest publicly traded company. Its flagship product, the of course has been a driver of growth. But in the latest quarter, which includ the Holiday Season apple didnt sell as many as expected. In fact iphone unit sales fell 1 . Nevertheless, earnings in the quter topped expectations, revenue did as well, coming in at more than 88 billion, almost a billion a day. But stock whipsawed in late day trading. Josh lipton is at apple headquarters in cupertino. Reporter 77. 3 million. That was the bigumber in apples latest quarterly report. Refers to the nber of iphones that apple shipped in the quarter. That was a bit light versus expectations. M analystselled 80 million. When people are buying those phones they are paying wemore. K