He will testify on possible links between russia and President Trump associates. Nato has confirmed the assassination of a leading politician and is calling on serbia and kosovo to return to associations in brussels. Negotiations in brussels. A conservative political leader was shot to death by unknown attackers in northern kosovo. The Trump Administration is cutting 65 million in funding from the United Nations relief and work agency, a social service body for palestinian refugees. That is less than half of its expected contribution. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg and Bloomberg Technology is next. Emily im emily chang and this is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, bitcoins tumble. The cryptocurrency sees its 2015. Ailey declined since will we see more selling in days to come . Plus, we catch up with arianna huffington. What she has to say about current ideal plans and the me to
Will join us on set and talk earnings, technology and perhaps future were watching Hurricane Irma. President talks tax reform today. Europe is relatively mixed our ten year yield below 207 this morning stocks set for a rebound futures point to a higher open big tech leading the premarket. Its one of the most powerful storms recorded. Puerto rico and the florida coast bracing for land fall by this weekend. Meg whitman on set. The ceo joins us live at post 9 in just a few minutes. Futures are in the green following tuesdays sell off in which financials suffered the worst day since may. Treasury yields hit the lowest level of the year. We talked about banks yesterday getting hit by not just the lower rate environment but the prospect of insurance pay outs. They were pressured across the board. Plus all the dovish fed speak is getting people to say maybe the banks wont be helped by a regular tightening path next year and that all came to pass youre not seeing any real concern about Financi
White house. We expect that service to end just before 10 00 this morning. Then its off to the white house for coffee and tea with president and mrs. Obama and the joint Congressional Committee on inaugural ceremonies. Guys, back home it truly is a hallmark of our democracy and it will be on full display this morning. Very much so. Just kind of the peaceful transition that we all expect even though its been such an unexpected election year. Doesnt look like theres anything different, carl, from what ive seen from all the other inaugurations which is a new president comes in, old president s there and it just transitions. Do you feel that are people saying, no, this ones going to be different this time . I think the general take down here this morning is that as different and nontraditional as the campaign was, trump is demonstrating real respect for the traditions of the inauguration. Going through the traditions of, for instance, this Service Today at st. Johns. That goes back to fdr.
Kansas caucuses. How many of the 40 delegates he will get there is anyones guess. Normally with this breakdown in percent he stands to get at least 25 of those delegates. Maine is still too close to call. But he has a very good chance, senator cruz, of winning that one and picking up a majority of the 23 delegates at stake there. Again, that is one that is not being called. Kentucky, another one. The caucuses there, way too close to call although donald trump is out in the lead with about 11 of the vote coming in. Louisiana polls close in about an hour. That is the only primary of the night. What it has in common with the three other caucuses i mentioned, only republicans can vote in them. That could be making a defining difference here. Amid a separate poll that we are getting out of the state of michigan that shows what appears to be a collapse in support for donald trump. A 20point collapse in that poll. Right now, john kasich is up by three points. That will be an important state t
Portfolio manager mart thousand martoma was found guilty of Insider Trading just a short while ago, and, it has got everyone buzzing. Here to tackle both topics in a headtohead, fox business senior correspondent, Charlie Gasparino and hedge fund manager, ed butowsky. Nothing below the belt. I have to tweet something out. Excuse me. Melissa right away . That is good point. Were ripping twitter yet we all on it and using it. I love it as a newsgathering tool and newsdim semination tool. I use quite a bit. I move stocks on this thing. I dont think they have figured out how to monetize it. Right. I think before an investor ever gets involved in this thing i think you have to ignore anybody that owns the stock, like the gentleman we have on here melissa just ignore anyone who owns the stock. That is strong statement. Heres why because theyre talking their book. Goldman sachs underwrote it and put some huge valuation on company recently. This company has to go out and prove itself first like