I nigel, thank you. Well, the top story tonight on gb news is that we can exclusively reveal 80 migrants are currently being housed at a former raf base in essex. Housed at a former raf base in essex. Its more than housed at a former raf base in essex. Its more than a month after the first group of migrants arrived there, the wethersfield base near braintree in essex is meant to house up to 1700 people. The home office says therell be a gradual increase in the numbers, but sources suggest the pace will be significantly slower than was first envisioned. The site has had problems with disease amongst the first group of arrivals and there are problems with the utilities not working properly and gb news can reveal 550 people have crossed the engush 550 people have crossed the English Channel in ten small boats over the last 24 hours. That brings the number of migrants whove made the journey this year to more than 17,500 uk border force say theyre on red alert during an extremely busy time
Notched the first record close since november of 2021. It was up. 90 . It wasnt the only index to set a record. S p was up, too. The 14th record of the year. The dow broke a threeday losing streak and trading off. 75 . Nasdaq 100 set a record yesterday. If you look at treasury yields on this first trading day of march, you see the tenyear yielding 4. 227. Twoyear yield at 4. 58. And Congress Passed the shortterm funding bill sending it to President Bidens desk last night. It averts a partial Government Shutdown that would have happened this weekend. It is part of the broader bipartisan deal to push back the deadline for 6 of the 12 spending bills tofund the agencies until next friday and the remaining six until march 22nd. New York Community bancorp shares plunge after replacing the leadership. Leslie picker has the latest. Reporter andrew, good morning. The latest news is just salt in the wounds of investors who held on to new York Community bancorp shares through the year. The stock
Steve cohen had to say about markets and a. I. , especially. Plus, it is a pivotal day for disney. The companys battle with nelson peltz is set to conclude at its annual meeting. That is set for this afternoon when we will get the vote totals. And tomorrow, 9 00 a. M. , right here, dont miss an exclusive with bob iger. Is it right here or out there . Its out there. Its out there. I will be going out there, hoping that the high winds that are blanketing the area wont prevent my travel to see mr. Iger. And by the way, just to make a point here, this is not saying anything one way or the other about the vote. Hes going to do the interview either way. Huh. Okay. Okay . Is that okay with you . Well, id be more inclined to do the interview if i won. I think thats his expectation and or disneys as ive been saying all along, at least. They have had a lot of confidence they will win. But you wanted to make it clear that it is not do you share that confidence . I do. The reporting i have been ab
I think it will be a pretty polished sort of thoughtful speech as opposed to just offthecuff. There is a lot of anxiety. You may have detected it already about the kind of tone that the president is going to strike. What kind of tone would you like to hear from him . I think hes basically economically focused. With theconsistent World Economic forum. He has spent a lot of time in that area whether its on tax reform which was successfully and whether its getting rid of regulations and other things to boost economic growth. I dont know what is in this speech. I would assume there will be a bunch of time spent on those and the goodness that can happen when you get an economy growing at a much faster rate than we did for the previous eight years. Erik blackstone is a global investor. You travel the globe almost incessantly. Is there a risk to the president and the United States if he were to beat the America First drum too loudly . I think it has been pretty loud. I dont know that you coul
Every dollar that a main street business has to invest in lawyers and accountants to explain this gibberish is taken out of workers wages and capital investment. Is it any wonder that our economy is limping along at 2 Economic Growth, 47 below is an norm . Third and perhaps most ominously doddfrank has made as less free. We are losing not only are Economic Freedom we are losing our Political Freedom as well. Today americans are less and less governed by the rule of law and more and more governed by the discretion of regulators. It is osha not congress that governed the Workplace Safety. It is epa that governs our air quality. It is hhs now not congress the covers over health care and most alarmingly to Economic Opportunity and economic liberty it is not a bureaucratic progeny of doddfrank the rules abroad Financial Markets. John macy was most present wind up quote law class that provides people with the rules. Doddfrank is not directed at people. Its an outline directed at bureaucrats