Tie fell out of your pocket again, andrew like it did the other day and no one there that looks good. I figured today was one of those days. We spent some time on a farm yesterday, joe. Thats right. You head back out to the north 40. North 40, andrew, is a term that people out in that part of the world use for the 40 acres that are north 40 . Yeah, andrew is going to be bringing us up to date on everything thats happening in Middle America right now and give us a real view from the front lines on all of this. Well be back with him in just a few moments. Joining us is the u. S. Managing editor for the financial times. Well get to her in a moment because we have to talk about Deutsche Bank and whats happening. Thank you for joining us. First lets get a check on the markets. Take a look at u. S. Equity futures. Yesterday was a down day. Dow down by 200 points on concerns about the Deutsche Bank. S p was down by 20 points yesterday. And the nasdaq was off by 50 points. This morning things
Europe, germans biggest brought to to mes by american authorities either way we will be affected, welcome to the world of Systemic Risk its back. Opec a deal to get oil prices up will they stick to it jury out oil prize down a faction today. And, of course, Varney Company is all over the election the story this morning number one, media, more apoplectic attacks on donald trump number two, liberate barrierian gary johnson another aleppo moment, three trump goes into attack mode follow hillarys money that crooked woman he says. Just wait till you see what amazon is doing you are watching it now, i have been around a long time, you dont every see anything like that Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart get out of the way from getgo slightly other opening for stocks today, Economic Growth is still well below 2 , that was news this morning, oil consider this please. The saudis opec agreed to production cut, just as 9 11 victims get right to sue saudis a coincidence . We are on it oil dow
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New york city remains a top target for terrorists. The white house wants to cut the 180 million terror funding budget in new york city cut it by half to 90 million. Nypds Deputy Commissioner for counterterrorism, john miller, joining us this morning. John, welcome back to campus. Former abc colleague, of course host of 20 20. Nice to see you before we get to the antiterrorism, theres breaking news. Were recording this on a friday. I want to talk to you about whats going on with apple, and you have been the nypds point man so far this week about this. Today, late this afternoon, the Justice Department urging a judge to compel apple to help the fbi crack open an iphone thats locked right now that belonged to one of the San Bernardino terrorists. You are joining the fight because you have cases here. Youre making the case against apple, as well, though. Well, yeah. We have a couple of hundred apple devices operating on their new operating system that cannot be penetrated, even with legal
Children at a park. A political faction of taliban claiming responsibility. The park was crowded with christians on an Easter Sunday outing. A spokesman said the attack deliberately targeted the christian community. Many muslim among the dead as well. The explosion injured more than 300 people. Among todays top stories we had a couple of things. Microsoft reportedly in preliminary talks with private equity firms to help finance a bid to buy yahoo . This is according to several reports. Executives from private equity firms approached microsoft to gauge its interests. After its auctioning off its core business. Microsoft has had a partnership with yahoo for quite some time. Take a look at shares right now up marginally. Yahoo shares as well. Second time around. This will be the second time around, youll call when Steve Ballmer, they had meeting in airport hangars. What a mess that was. Dell is now selling its i. T. Services unit to ntt data corp. Part of efforts to raise capital and pay