Musical guest the lemon twigs. And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 541. Oregon. Steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon . . . . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you. Please, please have a seat. Welcome enjoy yourselves welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Welcome to the tonight show [ cheers and applause ] this is it. This is it. This is the hot show of the year. Come on. Thank you for being here, guys. Lets get to some news that everybodys talking about. Of course everyones talking about tonights big debate Hillary Clinton. It was the first chance americans got to see Hillary Clinton and donald trump debate at the same time. But, more importantly, it was the first chance americans got to mute both of them at the same time. [ laughter and applause ] just press one button and thats it. You dont hear them. Steve mute. Jimmy the debate was actually split into several themes. Americas direction, americas prosperity, americas security, and then strangely
Were going to have much more of sara eisens exclusive interview in just a few moments. In the meantime, a lot to look at as stocks hit new highs for the year, about 2 from alltime highs. Bank earnings in focus. Europes mildly positive. Core cpi up 2. 2 year on year and jobless claims hit a new low going back to 1973. First up, wells fargo beating expectations with a firstquarter profit of 99 cents per share, revenues above consens consensus. They say while credit results remain solid, the oil and gas portfolio remains under significant stress due to low prices and excess leverage in the industry. And then b of a exceeded estimates with firstquarter results, put profits down 18 on a doubledigit decline in trading revenue. Not a repeat of the performance we got out of jpl. Going over these quarters all morning, and i have kind of a very simple takeaway, which is that, wow, if these companies were to have a bunch of rate hikes, you know, theyd make a fortune. And if they dont, they kind o
Lets check on the markets for you. Two hours and 30 minutes away from the market opening in new york and futures are a little bit softer. The s p 500 futures are negative five. Over in europe, the stoxx 600 getting beaten up this week coul. The ftse off by 8 10 of 1 . Heres the dollar ahead of payrolls. The eurodollar 11426. The dollar on the back foot they re. A forecast for low inflation down under. Yields are creeping a little bit lower, down a basis point at 1. 4 for the 10 year. Big moves in the bond market, matt. Matt that is one of the stories we will be focused on throughout the hour. I also want to kick off my stock move percent with what is i goig on in europe. Another loss that was 42 narrower than the same quarter last year. A secondhalf rally as steel prices improved. Man group is the Worlds Largest publicly traded hedge fund. Bywas moved from a cell to a off of Hedge Fund Fee structures. Paschi took fewer bad loan writeoffs as they are up, but it is a penny stock for real
Thank you, johnny, and welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Amaze me how important in resolving our matches. As we discovered yesterday with Andrew Winning the game even though he didnt come up with the correct response, winning it by just 1. Whats going to happen today with liz and todd . Well, lets start finding out. Good luck. Here we go. Lets take a look at the categories, shall we . Sounds like fun. Hey, theres a trend. Well, maybe there isnt a trend. Andrew, start us. Ill have some whiskey for 200, please. Liz. What is oak . Andrew. What is the incredibles . Thats right. Oscar for 400. Todd. What is birdman . Good. Lets go with nato for 600. Todd. What is quebec . Right. Nato for 800. Liz. What is unwielding . No. [ beep ] what is uniform . Todd, go again. Nato for 1,000. [ beep ] n is november in the nato alphabet. Charlie, 800. Andrew. What is afghanistan . Yes. Oscar for 600. Heres al gore with the clue. Andrew. What is an Inconvenient Truth . Thats the title of the film. Oscar for
Winston groom will talk and rear about half an hour and then take questions for 15 or 20 minutes more. We encourage questions, we just need you to ask them from the microphone over here both so everyone can be involved and also for our cspan awed yes, sir. Its great to audience. Its great to welcome kin son bloom winston bloom back to washington d. C. Histories including a storm in flanders, shiloh 1862 and tonights book, the generals. One of Winston Grooms gifts is his ability to flesh out the characters of these three influential but different leaders, giving us insights regarding how their experiences shaped their personalities and choices in the Second World War. Another gift is style, so please welcome Winston Groom. [applause] first, id like to thank everybody for coming out to hear me on this lovely saturday afternoon in washington d. C. I have been on a book tour now for a couple of weeks. Ive learned something about what people want to know. One of the first questions im usual