And big bets against one of the most wellknown Tech Companies out all also all matter to you and your money and we hit it all as power lunch begins right now. Welcome to power lunch, im melissa lee. Lets look at the markets right now. Dow and nasdaq hitting alltime highs during the comey testimony. Take a look at the vxx right now. Take a look at that below 10, 9. 93. Financials leaving the markets today this on the back of the house vote of overhaul of doddfrank. Jp morgan, bank of america, Goldman Sachs among the top performers. And take a look at some of the names hitting alltime highs today, netflix, united health, fed ex, ebay. Thank you. Well, we begin where else with the Political Drama in washington, d. C. Aimen jaifrs like millions of others listening on every single word of the fascinating comey hearing and he joins us with reaction and an update. Thats right. There were a number of astonishing moments. Let me bring you two of those. One was when the former fbi director used
Shares are climbing in the premarket after stronger than expected earnings surging on that news. Nasdaq set to open higher after the 39th record close of the year but revenues miss anz dekrien for the 31st executive order. Its a lot to think about. Its very hard to have cyber theft which is really important. He did it lightning speed. These guys are 15. It takes so long to remake an organization in an environment when youre up about amazon and microsoft. These are just, these are competitors the likes of which ibm has never seen before. And to outrun the legacy business its slowing. The growth is slowing more quickly than originally watson dont come here i dont need you. But thats a key part of their strategy. It is Artificial Intelligence is an important component of what ibm services is going to offer. Now another undercurrent is they cant get the ai people that you can get out west. I dont know it is difficult but it can be done ibm has not yet been able to make the transition the n
Senator ted cruz announces his run for the white house. Tell you this dont underestimate him. A new online hit list isis names 100 members of the United States military to be targeted for assassination. Unfortunately, not so difficult to pull off. Robert durst due in court for louisiana gun and drug charges but his attorney plans to argue officers acted improterly. On the steal. Wichita state head the to the sweet 16. And the spartans head on to the regional. Gonzaga punched its ticket to the sweet 16. Yemen is in crisis as the u. S. Pulls the last of its forces out in response to the deteriorating security situation there. And people hurt when they jumped from their chair lift which suddenly started going backwards at a maine ski resort. All that the owner of a pizzeria hand delivers the pizza right to the popemobile. Swarming a phoenix neighborhood. One of those little suckers got in my hair and i shrieked out. It stunk me and all that matters. Everybody needs to take a deep breath a
Running for office. Senator ted cruz announces his run for the white house. Ted cruz tweeted this morning. Dont understandestimate him. Radicalized over the internet. Unfortunate lit would not be so difficult to pull off. Robert durst in court this morning in louisiana for gun and drug charges but his attorney argues that prosecutors acted improperly when he was arrested. On a steal and a finish. Wichita state headed to the sweet 16. And the spartans head on to the regionals. Beganyemen is in crisis after u. S. Forces pull out in response to the security situation there. People jumped from their chairlift that started going backward at a maine ski resort. All that the owner of a pea zer rhea hand delivered the pizza right to the popemobile. One of those little suckers got in my hair and i freaked out. It stung me. And all that matters Everybody Needs to take a deep break and step back. Lets remember whats important here and it is not who gets the last word on twitter. On cbs this morni
California texas and florida. Today the pentagon asked local police to help protect these servicemen and women. We have more now from National Security correspondent david martin. Reporter most of the military personnel on the hit list are from the air force and navy. The two services which have been conducting the air campaign against isis. Some of them served aboard aircraft carriers launching strikes over iraq. Others are based at Dias Air Force base in texas home of the b1 bomber which has been carrying out the most visible strikes of the war. The ones around the syrian town of kobani. Isis has no way to defend against those strikes which by last count have hit more than 5,300 targets and killed more than 8500 fighters. Instead it fired off a salvo from what is proving to be its most potent weapon, social media. The eruption of grisly intermet videos and twitter feeds that spew into cyber space each day. The hit list first appeared to on a polish site frequently used by isis as a p