Military tried to capture a leader of the alshabab network, but that attempt filed. And violence continues in iraq. Its heightens fears that iraq will see more sectarian killings. In egypt a suicide blast killed at least four people in sinai. The dead and injured included several police officers. Those are the headlines this hour. Im tony harris. Real money with ali velshi is next on al jazeera america. While washington fiddles, investors large and small are starting to burn just thinking what damage a default could do to their wealth. Is buying gold the smart move or a foolser rand . Well help you take emotion out of your approach to keeping your money safe. Im ali velshi. This is real money. This is real money. You are the most important part of the show, so join our live conversation for the next half hour by using the hashtag ajreal money on twitter. Were ten days away from when the treasury secretary says his [ technical difficulties ] so let me start with what the actual problem
[applause] booktv is on facebook. Likes to enter act with booktv guests and viewers. Watch videos. Facebook. Com become tv. And now on booktv, npr media correspondent David Folkenflik talk about the rice and near fall of rue bert Murdoch News Corp and how mr. Murdoch was able to survive the recent bribery and phone hacking scandal in england. This is a little over an hour. [applause] thank you. Thank you for coming. Just turn the lights up. You have to make noise every now and then and well know youre there. Right now we cant tell. I get to introduce david so let me just bear with me a minute while i read what they wrote for me. Did you write it for me . David folkenflik has been nprs media correspondent since 2004. He previously covered media and politics for the Baltimore Sun and edited the 2011 book page one, inside the New York Times and the future of journalism. He was covered murdoch extensively and has been a protect commentator in the hacking scandal. His new book murdochs worl
Twitter slows. Hello. Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. I am anna edwards. In london. Welcome to the program. We begin with the earnings. First quarter profits rising 5. 2 . That is the net income increased. Analysts anticipate a profit of 1. 44 billion. The reason why it has been booted boosted by the purchase of its division in bell john. Belgium. Earnings were boosted by a drop in payments to minority shareholders after bnp body stake in one of its units for three and a quarter billion euros. It is worth noting bp hosted its profits and 08 after setting aside payments to u. S. Economic sanctions. It did say today that talks took place on the matter during the First Quarter. There is still uncertainty on the size of the penalty. Be excluded,annot but it could be significantly larger than the amount provision. That is worth noting. Bas profit rose and exceeded analyst estimates held by the person its of its provision in the elgin. Belgium. And they spoke to bloomberg. Reconsider
Also happen to be dow components. Intel and microsoft after jpmor count out pcs, and encouraging economic data, americans spent more than expected on clothing while shoppers spend a lot more on line. Here is what the Commerce Department says, retail sales rising 0. 2 this december better than expected but a little perspective for the year retail sales rose 4. 2 . That is the lowest gain in about four years. What are you going to do . At the moment the investors love this. The dow and the s p and nasdaq. And house of big financials, jpmorgan reporting Fourth Quarter profit, it is 7 less than a year ago, not a surprise because it is largely due to billions in legal settlements, find and penalties, wells fargos Fourth Quarter profit rose 11 despite a reduction in mortgage lending, wells fargo funded 50 billion in the Fourth Quarter, down from 125 billion a year ago. Wells fargo trending lower at the moment just like four pennies at Jpmorgan Chase higher by 0. 25. In a moment we will delve
In the last hour certainly having pretty good impact. Were looking for solutions to the obama care met. Tenet health care ceo Trevor Fetter is with us on how the bumpy rollout has impacted his company. Also muni bonds, Everybody Loves them, theyre safe and boring, right . Well, not so fast. Millions of investors are in these because many times the income is taxfree and its believed these bonds that are linked to cities and municipalities are a lot less volatile than stocks. But are there new danger signs of anyone who owns them or thinking about owning them, need to know about . Well take a closer look at munis coming up. The Dow Jones Industrial average near the lows of the day with a decline of 58 points. Pretty steady until the minutes came out. As can you see what happened, as soon as those minutes came out at 2 p. M. Eastern time today. Nasdaq composite under selling pressure today. Take a look at down about seven points on the nasdaq. Fractional move there. Again, very similar ch