Right now the Dow Jones Industrial average is slightly higher along with the other indexes. The nasdaq is up for a third day. Also in the news, i. T. T. Educational services shutting down all of its schools, this after the government banned the company from enrolling students who get financial aid. The move will affect about 8,000 itt employees. And hurricane neuthen is barrelling up the golf of california, expected to make landfall over mexicos mainland before hitting the u. S. Later tomorrow. Melissa. Well, weve got a very busy two hours coming your way, but we start off with the race for the white house. 62 days to go until election day, and donald trump is on the attack over the economy. Cnbcs eamon javers kicking things off for us on this tuesday. Eamon. Hi, melissa. Get you started with a polling snapshot so you can get a sense of where we are as of right now the new nbc survey monkey poll out this morning Shows Hillary clinton ahead 48 to 42 in a headtohead matchup against donal
Amazon has three ceos now sort of. Two Division Leaders officially getting the ceo title. They give you the promotions but never the raise. Could that create leadership issues for jeff besos. I understand they both got prime memberships as part of the perkz. Twitter is getting new Board Members today, moving on. There we are. But the stock is still sliding and well look at what other changes may need to be made to that social network. Sfl nhl commissioner will join us live along with the stanley cup, its here, to celebrate the start of the playoff season. The stanley cup, this will be the fourth or fifth time ive ever seen it. Arent you lucky . We get to see it on cnbc, we like it. Jackie is tracking all of the action for us at the nimex on this masters friday. Good afternoon to you. Dom chu says i have a masters tshirt waiting for me. At the close, about a 7 surge in prices, its sort of a tale of two surges, technicals and fundamentals. We had such a whacky kind of week. Some people c
At t and yahoo reporting after the bell five ten minutes afterwards so well have plenty of coverage on that. Earnings continue to be a theme all day. We have also got an eye on the nasdaq which is lagging again today. Part of that has to do with the intersection of two stories right now. The stock story of the day no doubt is apple which has been crushed. Lets look at the shares at the moment. Theyre down 7. 6 . A big move for this name. There are some people who believe this is a buying opportunity. Carl icahn buying half a billion dollars worth again. We have someone joining us who says carl is going to take a bath because apple is going down to. Hes hear to make that case. Were also two hours away from a crucial decision from the central bank, not our central bank talking about turkeys central bank. You need to care about this because the decision it makes will have ripple effects on your money right here in the u. S. Its all part of the emerging markets mess the currency things tha
Revealed. This morning the whistleblowers own lawyer said his client would be willing to answer written questions from republicans as long as their identity is kept secret. President trump is also railing against two new polls out this morning showing where americans stand on the impeachment inquiry. Both polls show for and against removing the president from office. Reporter fredricka, the president spent the morning attacking the whistleblower, saying he wants the whistleblowers identity to be revealed. All of this despite the fact the whistleblower is an intelligence official who is protected from law from any kind of reprisals or having his identity disclosed. That despite the fact that we have already seen multiple current and Foreign Administration officials corroborate what this whistleblower initially alleged in their complaint that set off this house impeachment inquiry. What we do know is that the whistleblowers aide has said that the whistleblower is okay with answering ques
In the ukraine who testified it was his clear understanding of President Trump withheld military aid to get the ukrainian president to launch investigations of his political rivals. The president has insisted he did nothing wrong. Kent is a highranking state Department Official who testified that President Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani led a campaign of lies. On friday we will hear from her. She said she was abruptly removed from her post because of what she calls unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives. In the meantime g. O. P. Lawmakers are demanding House Democrats allow public viewings for their own list of witnesses including joe bidens son, hunter, and the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint launch the entire impeachment inquiry. Mike emanuel reporting live from capitol hill. What are the chances that republicans get there witnesses . For others it sounds like a definite maybe. There are other requests that i believe the chairman will mak