With scott pelley. Reporting tonight from washington. Pelley good evening. A president of the United States once stood back there at the capitol and declared the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Well, today government officials were echoing Franklin Roosevelt after a few words from the Prime Minister of iraq touched off a wave of fear in new york city. He said terrorists were plotting to attack an american subway system. But the official said they know of no such plot. Don dahler is in new york. Reporter new yorks top officials, including the mayor, Police Commissioner, and governor took to the subways this afternoon to show nervous commuters they had nothing to fear. Mayor bill deblasio with the evening rush hour about to gip, i have a simple message for all new yorkers there is no immediate credible threat to our subway system. Reporter Police Commissioner bill bratton the people of this city should feel very comfortable and secure moving through the subways. Reporter the P
Welcome to the pulse. We are live in london. Im guy johnson. I am francine lacqua. Lets get to our top stories. 3. 3 billion. Regular dinners regulators banks 3. 3 five billion dollars to settle a probe into Exchange Rate rigging. Great to have you on the program. Give us a sense of how much this was actually expected. We published of 2013 that outlined problems with the benchmark, the focus of the fines today, and suggested that traders were regularly communicating ahead of these fixes. They were aligning their positions and attempting to manipulate the fixes. Here is more detail if anything is more egregious than anticipated, interested banks to work would Work Together to rig benchmarks to maximize their profits. It is the same old story in that respect. One name that really stuck , that was being there barclays. What is going on with barclays . It is a bit of a moving feast. We were under the impression that barclays was going to settle. Something changed recently. An interesting p
Im Stephanie Ruhle. Erik schatzker is off today. Bill cullen is joining me today. Bill cullen is joining me today. I wanted to be similar to santa claus. We are breaking news on the housing market. Olivia sterns is in the newsroom with headlines. The numbers look like u. S. November home sales fell by economist we surveyed were looking for new home sales to rise by about 4. 4 . This is a big disappointment. Thirdquarter gdp showing 5 growth in the american economy. Add to that the disappointing herbal goods orders and durable goods orders. U. S. Consumer spending rose by 6 10 of 1 . Incomes rose by 4 10 of 1 . Those numbers were in line with estimates. The takeaway is that new home sales in a month over month basis for the month of november fell point fell to 1. 4 . I do not think we will see too much of a market hiccup. Thank you for giving us the latest. We have hit a new milestone on the dow, 18,000. It is up a little less than half of 1 after the gdp report earlier this morning tha
Over 1 . Some individual news that is worth bringing to our viewers attention, these are three stocks we will be watching. Well holcim do the deal with lafarge . Is bruno the man that the market wants to see at the helm . Lafarge wants to do a deal and they want new management structure. That has implications for this company, crh up 0. 9 . 24. 70 is where we are. Hes got his eye closely fixed on that. Next this is where it gets a little spicy. Fullyear numbers. They have lowered their guidance for this year. They say you are going to see sales rise between 1. 5 and 5. 5 . Originally, they set a rise between 2. 5 and 7. 5 . They are in 70 countries at the moment. The market doesnt like the critical issue. We get some data from switzerland. Centralbank comments later on from mr. Jordan. Johnny is on his way to do that interview. We have seen exports drop over 2 . Theyve dropped their sales. Still doing very little to impact that particular stock. The question is actually lets have a loo
The flames. More than two dozen people were arrested. This started after the funeral of freddy gray, a black man who died in police custody. A this sister called for calm. I dont like it at all. Betty the orioles postponed their game. Schools are closed and a citywide curfew starts at 10 00 tonight. We will be watching the situation. The death toll in the Nepal Earthquake is over 4400 people. The Prime Minister fears that number could double. Rescuers dont think they will find survivors in the rubble. People are living in tents, hearing aftershock. Authorities are rushing aid to the hardest hit areas. The finance minister says it will cost 10 billion to rebuild. Apple powered a spectacular quarterly result. They sold more phones in china than in the u. S. That is a first for the company. Iphones sales were up 40 . Look at the oneyear chart on apple area invested in a share of all this. The Quarterly Dividend is being raised by 11 . Everybody is happy with apple area analysts are surpri