The u. S. Stocks set to surge at the open. A hectic agenda on capitol hill with President Trumps 100 day milestone looming. Taxes, health care and avoiding a Government Shutdown all on tap. Robot warnings. Alibabas jack ma is predicting that robots will make many irrelevant. And first up though, global rallies in place a day after the first round of the french president ial election. Macron and le pen set to square off in a runoff may 7. Shutting out frances traditional ruling parties. Polls show macron as favorite to defeat the antieu le pen in second round and win the presidency. These polls, jim, somewhere 6436. Some argue this was one of the best outcomes the market could have hoped for. It is, but i wanted to distinguish between them and us. I think that we should not go up as much as they did. They had a lot more at stake. I think were going to quickly revert to what has controlled us which is oil. Which is already sinking. The Interest Rates which need to go higher. And our earn
Whitbread falls to the bottom of the stoxx 600 after the costa coffee owner says it expects the consumer environment to worsen in 2017. Ericsson promises to continue with cost cuts to improve profitability as the swedish firm posts a wider loss than expected in the First Quarter. We will speak to the ceo at 11 20. Good morning, everyone. Glad youre with us on street signs. One of our main stories, lvmh and its majority shareholder, arnault, are set to completely take over the Christian Dior brand. Claire is at the lvmh press conference in paris. I cant get over this 12 billion euro deal. When looking at history and how Christian Dior started selling sketches for pence back in the 20s. Yes. And this is a move that is appreciated by the market. You were talking about the performance of the stock, because it has been requesting that lvmh simplify its capital structure for a while so in a move to do that, the number one luxury Group Announced a public offer by the arnault family on Christi
There is Movement Towards him. Disney, moving down in the stock, the trouble with espn and thats disneys cash cow, its going to be down big. But the big money story, the long list of big names hitting record highs. Amazon leads the charge again and, yes, Varney Company is about to begin. Well, i wont back down. [laughter] you hear that, you know, the producers select very good music. No, i wont back down. All right. Bernie sanders is not backing down, he won another state. The economy, one of the big issues for democrat voters yesterday. A third of those democrat voters in West Virginia said theyd go for trump in november. How about that . More coming up on that issue, but right now, well check the market for you. Here is how were likely to open today, ever so slightly lower. But what do you expect after a 200 point plus gain yesterday. That was biggest gain in two months. It will open lower, but thats mostly because of disney, which is a dow stock, which will be down. That will cost t
Back to my coworkers. Nbc 10 is learning more about the burks county family dead in the murdersuicide. Today were learning the wife was planning on leaving her husband. The couple and three children found dead saturday in their home and lauren mayk joins us with more on the shooting deaths. Lauren, what did you find out . Reporter jim, today they performed an autopsy on the body of mark short, the husband and father and it is the only requested by the d. A. s office as part of this investigation. Now the Coroners Office is referring questions about the results that up a back to the d. A. s office and ive reached out to the them and were waiting to hear back and this all some as mark shorts family is trying to come to terms with what happened. The 8yearold was going into third grade. The 5yearold shared a name with his dad and Little Willow had already been through a heart transplant in her short life. They loved them. I mean, it was family, family, family. Something went horrifically w
Declaration from 1956. It stipulates that the former soviet union, now russia, would return two of the four contested islands to japan after a peace treaty. But he added that the russian government may consider conditions for their return and their sovereignty. Russia controls the four islands, japan claims them. The japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of japans territory. It says the islands were illegally occupied after world war ii. G20 leaders wrapped up their summit by issuing a joint statement. They plan to implement policies to achieve sustainable and balanced global growth. Xi jinping held a News Conference after the summit. Translator the global economys capability for recovery is still weak, and the influence of international and regional issues on the World Economy cannot be overlooked. I believe the summit has achieved significant results through the efforts of member countries. The economy continues to recover but faces risks as the pace of growt