Now and see how much you can save im Elizabeth Wagmeister in Los Angeles in this is cnn ever want to thank so much for joining us. Im Jessica Dean dean in washington alongside my colleague, jim sciutto, who is in Tel Aviv. And we begin in The Middle East where fears of a wider war are growing. Israel and hezbollah, again trading fire across the lebanon border today. And theres this, israel also attacking targets in houthi controlled parts of yemen the idf saying it attacked our station and a seaport. We learned just moments ago, president biden will be speaking with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. Lets send it over now to jim, who is in Tel Aviv and jim, i know youve been monitoring so during all of these developments, what are your takeaways its a multifront war, right at each of those fronts is growing. Israel and hezbollah. They continue to fire at each other today. Of course, the most extensive attacks or by israeli forces on targets inside lebanon. And now you have isra
Attack. He simply said dont. Iran is threatening, its foreign minister said irans hand is on the trigger. Overnight, irans proxy, hezbollah, fired antitank ziti missiles into israel and Israeli Defense force says 199 hostages taken by hamas and fbi director Christopher Wray warning about terror attacks inside america from lone actors and four iranians apprehended at the border this month. Tension at a boiling point, the president canceled his trip to colorado. A wider war may be imminent but the stock market shows modest gains and the dow is actually gained nearly 500 points since the fighting began. The dow this morning looking for a gain of maybe 200 points and Empire State Manufacturing slowing down and that helps the market. The s p 500 up 23, nasdaq up 50 points. This is premarket, but wash out for oil. Im going to call it the canary in the financial coal mine at 87 a barrel this morning, had been at 88. If that goes up, the market may take a hit. Watch out for Interest Rates too.
Weaker looking at europe this morning, the early trading taking place, at least at this hour things are flat there the dax is slightly higher, the cac and ftse are slightly lower. Spain up by a tenth of a percentage point crude oil prices were up yesterday to a twoweek high, up at 51. 87 this morning those gains continue with wti for november delivery up by 21 cents to 52. 08. Wow dow component United Health is reporting. Stock has been on a tear for years, right in fact, the stock getting close to a new high, 1 186 billion market cap, almost 1 187 billion market cap reporting 266 a share. Thats tencents above expectation. For the year, they see 2017 adjusted net at 10. Medical loss rates, they call it Something Different now. They call it medical care ratio, 81. 4 thats like the inverse of profit margin. Revenue, 50. 32 billion you cant necessarily compare apples to apples, i like the earnings per share or the earnings increase. 26 . 26 earnings increase. That is what do you do with t
Is expected to touch on this evening in the state of the union. Lets check on u. S. Equity futures at this hour. Youre seeing implied open for all major averages here. S p 500 would open up by 8 points. Dow up by 50 points. The nasdaq up by 21 points and a lot of that is based on firming in the markets over in europe. Better than expected gdp numbers out of china and of course thats helping move Global Markets in a vastly different direction than we have seen for much of the month. Breaking news overnight too. Isis releasing a video early today which has been verified by nbc news consultants. It shows two japanese hostages and the now notorious isis militant seen in previous videos. Hes now demanding 200 million from the japanese government within 72 hours or the hostages will be killed. Japan reacting with anger demanding a release of the hostages and saying it will not yield to terrorism. Quite a stunning release of this video and looks similar to past videos released from isis that
With a tax increase for the rich. Nbcs tracie potts live in washington this morning. A tracie, what can we expect to hear from the president tonight . Reporter a lot of what hes going around the country already talking about, brandnew momentum. Our poll unveiled overnight, 46 approval rating. Thats the highest this president has had in over a year. As for americans who think the country is on the right track, satisfied with the state of the economy now, that number is the highest in more than a decade. Our job now is to make sure every american feels they are part of our countrys comeback. Reporter tonight in the first ladys box a crosssection of those americans president obama is targeting. Astrid had surgery thanks to obama care. I remember laying there and thinking wow, im just really grateful and blessed that i had insurance. Carolyn reed a government loan helped her expand the family business. We had three stores and now we have seven stores. We have over 100 employees. Things hav