New furniture. Dream to in europe, stocks open higher in the wall street rally. Jerome powell testimony this morning. Lauren japanese stocks gaining upper 1 and falling over 1 . Tree into breaking overnight comcast is with 31 billion with the rival bid from 21st century fox. The details of that deal. Fbn am starts right now. Lauren 5 01 a. M. In new york february 27th and lauren simonetti. Lea i am Lea Gabrielle been for cheryl casone. Lauren a big day, said dave. Jerome powell and the hot seat on capitol hill as he makes his first Public Comments about the economy and inflation is the Federal Reserve chairman. Investors listening closely for any clues on whether the fed will raise Interest Rates more aggressively than the expected three times this year following the taxcut plan and also budget spending. Stocks rallied sharply yesterday ahead of day one of powells testimony this morning. Basically what we know is jay powell had no reason to push a more aggressive stance right now and i
When people feel fear, they rush for safety. We had the yield on the tenyear below 2130 earlier today. Selling of stocks across the board. The dow down 117 points off just slightly yesterday. That is half of 1 . The biggest and hardest it is then not back down almost 1 this hour. In europe, losses across the board as well. Heavy selling in england, france, germany being the hardest hit, 1. 5 right now. Asia overnight, markets mostly lower. All of that and so much more coming up this morning. With me all morning long, fox news correspondent lee gabriel. Wall street economics editor Jon Hilsenrath and democratic strategist michael star hopkins. Welcome one and all. To you first come of this missile test is not the first time north korea has shot a missile over japan, but again, this is a different situation given the fact we know that its nukes have been miniaturized. Absolutely. The last time was in 2009. They said it was a satellite they are launching them. This basically into three pi
All with this plan. We are looking for the middle class and we are looking for jobs. All this coming ahead of the visit to florida will he were surveyed the damage from Hurricane Irma is a criminal investigation is launched into nursing homes. Breaking news overnight. In the threat from north korea wants to reduce the United States to actions in darkness. Market lower this morning after the major indices closed at a high yesterday. Major indices of the Dow Jones Industrial average up a fraction of two points. S p 500, nasdaq down fractionally. Investors waiting on the bank of england decision this morning happening in the next hour expected to keep Interest Rates unchanged. In asia overnight, markets lower to close concerns about chinas economy weighing on the market after industrial activity is the shanghai composite down a third of a percent. The other is mostly weaker. Martin said by breaking up behind bars. His bill has been revoked after offering money for a piece of Hillary Clint
Facebook feeling the heat as investors look into russian meddling in the u. S. President ial election. Fbn am starts right now. It is 5 01 a. M. In new york city on monday september 18th. Im Lea Gabrielle in for cheryl casone. Lauren happy monday. Im lauren simonetti. We begin with President Trump said to make his first address to the United Nations. White House National security advisor h. R. Mcmaster saying the president thinks the speech is a tremendous opportunity to reach so many world leaders. First is to protect the American People will in the third is really to help promote accountability and sovereignty. Those three things allow him to communicate his vision for americas role in the world peered lauren today the president will have several meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu and emanuel machrone writes your new york. Lea the president see says they intensified. Ambassador to the u. N. Mcneely says the security is running out of options. We were trying to use every diplomatic poss
Ft 100 of fractionally. Asia overnight markets are lower with the exception of japan which was up about a fraction. Devastation in puerto rico. The entire island this morning is about power after Hurricane Maria slammed catastrophic flooding. Very serious. Both territories are basically without power and will be for a very long time. They both had very fragile power systems. We dont have a good handle on the search and rescue at this point from the standpoint of fatalities were people trapped theater folks are moving out as soon as the weather allows encoding to be performing delayed safety missions. Maria we are following marias path as the storm battered the dominican republic. A daring operation underway in mexico. Rescuers in a race against time this morning to free a little girl trapped under the rubble of her School Following tuesdays devastating earthquake. The latest from mexico city coming out. President trump continues to deliver strong message in your beard the commanderinch