Could be at risk because of not enough capital. And thomas cook shares dive more than 10 as margins are pressured despite a turnaround in demand for trips to egypt and turke turkey we are an hour into the trading session here in europe so far stocks are just slightly tilting firmer, but not by much on the broader image of stocks on the stoxx 600, the core markets not exactly helping out. The ftse, the cac, the dax, the uk market is slightly higher than the rest. If youre looking for decent gains, its on the spanish stock market that market up about 0. 6 , versus what youre seeing in the rest of the charts the ftse in the uk and the ftse mib selling, but the dax and cac on the flat line in terms of sectors, this is how were perched. Travel leisure at the bottom thomas cook not helping out the Sector Technology down by 0. 4 . Media stocks weaker. Rw in germany moving towards the upside we had a fairly firm move in the price of brent overnight 1 higher. Almost eclipsed by wti, up by 0. 19
Update on immigration policy negotiations. At 8 30 eastern, holly harris of the Justice Action Network on prison sentencing and reform. And at 9 00, Darrell Burnett of Education Week on the failing infrastructure in u. S. Schools. Host good morning, this is friday, january 12, and welcome to washington journal. As you can imagine, reaction is pouring in from congress and elsewhere to the president s comments on immigrants from certain countries, something we heard about yesterday afternoon. We want to get to the president s comments on immigration, talk about daca and the immigration issue. If you are a democrat, please. All 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. And we have a special fourth line to recent immigrants to the u. S. 202 7488003 202 7488002 202 7488003 202 7488003. Front page of the Washington Post. This first reported on the president s comments late yesterday afternoon. The headline todays piece said immigration offer on socalled dreamers fails,
Guests, friends, family and most importantly, my fellow pennsylvania pennsylvanians. [ applause ] okay. Before i begin, i want to take a moment, a moment, to congratulate the philadelphia eagles, the city of philadelphia, but all of us, all of us in pennsylvania. I know just like we are sometimes split between parties, we are also split between eagles and steelers here in the commonwealth. But you know what . We are all fans of pennsylvania and the eagles and their devoted fans deserve this moment, and we should all be happy to share it. We now have seven super bowl rings in pennsylvania. And that is truly something we can be proud of, so fly eagles fly. So just like so many of us have pride in the eagles, the story of the commonwealth of pennsylvania has always been a story about pride. We pennsylvanians have always been proud of the work we do. Proud of the industries we have built. Proud of the communities we grow up in and raise our kids in. Proud of the traditions we pass down thr
We are without the United States. President s day in the u. S. That means a lot of participants stateside but we also see reduced trading over the Asian Session as well. We saw the asian equities session with the nikkei moving higher, 1. 8 . A little higher a little harder to make any headway. More will get to more that. Our focus on what we are doing in europe because without the United States and the chinese and hong kong markets are closed. Thats get the first word news update. President trump spent the weekend criticizing everyone but russia for meddling. He tweeted 14 times over 24 hours criticizing the fbi, democrats and special counsel Robert Muellers investigation. They came after his sweeping indictment of 13 russians for allegedly leading social media efforts to attack trump rival, hillary clinton. In florida, students at the high school where 17 people were shot and killed are speaking out or gun control. They plan to organize antigun violence marches for next month. In the
Gov. Wolf thank you very much members of the assembly and invited guests and most importantly my fellow pennsylvanians. [applause] gov. Wolf before i begin, i tot to take a moment congratulate the philadelphia eagles, the city of philadelphia, that all of us in pennsylvania. We are sometimes split between parties and eagles and steelers. We are all fans of pennsylvania and the eagles and their devoted fans deserve this moment and we should all be happy to share it. We now have seven super bowl rings in pennsylvania. [applause] gov. Wolf that is truly something we can be proud of. Fly, eagles, fly. [applause] just like so many of us have pride in the eagles, the story of the commonwealth of pennsylvania has always been a story about pride. We have always been proud of the work we do. Proud of the industries we have built, proud of the communities we grow up in and raise our kids in. Proud of the traditions we passed down through the generations. Officetime i took this three years ago th