Connell it was. Thanks for having me. Maria bartiromo, welcome back to new york. Have a great day. Good morning, thanks for joining us. Happy thursday. I am maria bartiromo. Thursday, february 1. Examine the east coast. Technology taking on wall street. Apple, amazon, also that after the bell tonight. Weve got the preview. Last night we heard from facebook and microsoft after the close. A rise in profit but investors showed that the concern after the company said users are reducing the time they spent on the social media site for the first time ever. Microsoft topped expectations on news that it took a onetime tax related charge of nearly 14 million. The stocks are bouncing. The market spending the day higher. The dow in january at 6 for the overall month. Futures this morning take a look. Dow industrials at 72 points in the futures that could have pulled the dow down 40 points. The dow and s p are higher with earnings as we speak beating expectations on revenue as well as earnings. Eu
The u. N. Security council with a fresh round of sanctions against the Nuclear Threat. Russia and china on board. But were they tough enough. What it means for the Rising Nuclear threat coming up. And it looks like it could be a great tuesday as well. In europe, stocks mostly higher with a slight loss in england and in london. Lawmakers took another stab towards an exit from the European Union pasadena and e. U. Repeal bill. In asia overnight, markets higher as well come into use across the board. The biggest winner be the nikkei in japan of more than 1 . X marks the spot. Everything you can expect from apple this morning. A new phone. Is this a tenor bx. We know its going to be fabulous. A wild night in San Francisco coming to an end. The highlights of the giants dodgers game just finished after several rain delays. All that and so much more. Trump surrogate under Public Convention deputy secretary erin elmore is back with us. Good to see you. Jon hilsenrath and cfr a strategist linds
955. Cac down six, dax germany dan thinks. Stocks mostly higher with the exception of china. Shanghai composite could not get it done. The others up fractionally. Get it done. President trump calling on congress to take action as he sells his plan for historic tax reform to the American People. America is finally back on the right track. But our country and our economy cannot take off like they should unless we transform americas outdated, complex and extremely burdened some tax code. Now its our chance to reclaim americas destiny. Borne the major push for tax reform including what the commanderinchief cause a pay raise for the middle class. The white house is not stopping there. President trump moving forward without congress to sign an executive order on health care which will allow people and organizations to buy insurance across state lines. Fox Business Life to the president s event that begins at 11 15 a. M. Eastern this morning. evacuations are underway as massive wildfires grow
Can you even imagine . Well, it was pretty dramatic back then. Back then, i was anchoring for the old Financial News network, and on that day is that ron burgundy no look who that is that is a very young paul tutor jones. Oh, my goodness. This is back when paul used to take my phone calls call me again, paul. Wed love to talk again. Anyway, he was on the floor i love that stache. Talked about what happened, what was going on, what he was thinking. Did you lose the stache after the lets see, that was in 87. I lost the stache around 88 or 89 yeah wasnt long after that. Not too late to bring it back. I think it is by the way, paul tutor jones is lauded for having kind of foreseen that drop was happening. Let me tell you, i mean, we were friends back then he was a very still is very, very smart trader. He came up out of memphis trading cotton futures. Wow and hes very savvy trader. Very, very savvy trader. I mean, no surprise that hes had the kind of success he has had. Anyway, were going
Welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody. Happy friday. Happy to have you with us. The futures at this hour are pointing a little bit higher, up 42 points for the dow. 72 for the nasdaq. A a big jump in tech stocks. The s p 500 up some 9 points for the week as a whole, the nasdaq is 1 the s p is down 0. 6 the dow is up 0. 3 as we come into today it has been quite broad, if you look at some selling in the s p. 9 out of 11 sectors are down week to date telcos very much at the bottom of the pack, down 3. 3 a bunch of Big Tech Companies moving higher. Following earnings amazon, alphabet, microsoft and intel all firmly in the green, as you can see more on those numbers in just a moment that move in amazon, the stand out, up 7 . First big deal news hitting overnight. Cvs is in talks to buy aetna for 66 billion, making it the biggest healthcare deal ever Bertha Coombs is here with more. Whats behind this deal . This seems like the tail waging the dog, but the deal makes