Hill some investors are saying its more about what she did not say than what she did. Well explain. Meantime, United Airlines is unveiling a new program to avoid upset passengers on overbooked flights. Wait until you this is actually a good idea. I love it. A great idea, and well outline it for you coming up. But we begin today with Senate Republicans unveiling a new version of the Health Care Bill, including offering plans with less coverage, the skimpy plans, quote, unquote, and keeping some of obamacares taxes. Kayla tausche has the details. Kayla . Reporter earlier today the Senate Majority leader said that the draft that came out today will be scored by the Congressional Budget Office early next week and after that point he hopes to bring it for a vote on a motion to proceed. That is where senators will say whether they think it should move forward, be amended, have changes be submitted by colleagues on both sides of the aisle and then have a vote on a final draft, but we are gett
Third. Hang seng down 0. 2. European equities, heres a look across the board. Seeing red, that is bleeding over into our markets. The ftse 100 the worst performer, down three quarters of a percent. The german dax, relative outperformer, down 0. 1 there. As we keep an eye on the trading in that session. Crude, obviously continuing to be important for the market. Kind of hovering around these levels here. 51. 52. Wti, brent both up a bit. Nat gas making a move as well. It has been whipsawed around the last couple of weeks. Ecb holding its first policy meeting of the year. President mario draghi will hold his normal News Conference at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Last month they decided to extend the Bond Buying Program until late 2017. Look at the euro. We are trading 1. 06 versus the dollar, the yen, 114, and against the pound, 1. 23. In the u. S. Today, fed chair janet yellen will deliver another speech. This time in stanford, she will take questions from the audience. In remarks yesterday, a h
Overwhelming Campaign Promise. Tweeting late last night, big day planned on national security. Among many other things, we will build the wall. Nbc news can report the president is expected to sign an executive order directing federal funds to be shifted towards starting that process of building the border wall. The very same one that served as a rallying cry for the candidate throughout trumps entire campaign. They say President Trump will enforce mexico to ultimately pay for that wall. The president will head to the department of Homeland Security today to sign the order and it comes weeks before he meets with his mexican counter part. Whether todays move is more than just opticsi or following through with a Campaign Promise remains to be seen. Trump would invoke through a bush era law, the secure fence act of 2006. A law that was backed in congress by then senators barack obama and hillary clinton. For 2006 fact sheet the law was signed by bush to towards comprehensive immigration r
Department. Who he is and what would he mean for millions of American Workers . Ramping up. Consumers are borrowing almost as much as they did no 2008 but is it different this time . Those stories tonight for thursday, february 14th. Good evening everyone and welcome. While you were focused on the stock market or the drama in washington something very important has been taking place. The economy started to pick up a lot of momentum and the increased activity is taking place across many sectors. Manufacturing his its highest level since 1984. Jobless claims remain close to record lows. Yesterday we reported that retail sales or sizzling and inflation is getting hotter, head in the direction of the Federal Reserve target number. Our first guest tonight agrees that sluggish Economic Growth is behind us and the u. S. Economy is set to take off. He wrote about in the the new york times. And he joins us now. Mr. Irwin. Welcome. The president today at his press conference said he inherited a
Jab holdings buying panera bread more than 7 billion. I hope you brought your appetite because power lunch starts right now. Thank you, melissa, and thanks to a big jobs number we have a nice little rally on our hands. The dow posting its biggest oneday gain since early march. The last time i checked just moments ago there was only one dow stock lower. That was Cisco Systems and it was barely down. Oil and energy a big driver as well. Crude may be off its highs of the day but it is still back about 51 a barrel. Banks and technology also big winners. One notable loser, though, valiant pharmaceuticals, now trading in the Single Digits down 97 from its highs of two years ago. More now on todays market action, bob pisani live on the floor of the nyse where the good continue to roll. Bob . Reporter and this is good times. This is a broad wrally, brian. 29 of 30 dow stocks on the upside. Ill show you how broad it is. Put up five of the big dow movers. You have Consumer Discretionary group, m