Maria good friday morning. Thanks very much for joining us i hope you are having a great friday morning it is friday, march 8, 8 00 a. M. On the east coast hot topic of the hour state of the union or Campaign Speech President Biden delivered third state of the union touching taxes crime abortion guns. The stadiuming stadiuming address sounded like a rally democrats interrupted several times to break out in chants of four more years biden tried to convince americans old age isnt a problem 81yearold had 80 exclamation points this his speech almost one for every year he has been alive. I know i may not look like it i have been around a while i have been told i am too old. How old we are, it is how old are ideas. Biden kicked off address talking ukraine january 6 abortion before the economy he bragged about it saying u. S. Economy is the envy of the world also called out snickers without addressing the fact people cant afford to feed families but did have time to talk about raising taxes.
Good friday morning thanks so much for joining us this morning. Im Maria Bartiromo i hope you are having a good friday morning, friday, may 10, 8 00 a. M. On the east coast, time for hot topic of the hour former President Trump socalled hush money trial day 15, lydia hu outside New York State Supreme Court right now in the very latest lydia good morning. Good morning, good morning, maria. We have important update for you on this trial continues on this day we expect former trump fixer Attorney Michael Cohen will take the stand to testify, on monday. That information confirmed by colleague of fox news eric the fox trial starts 9 30 continues after judge juan merchan denied another defense motion for mistrial yesterday judge also denied request fors modification to trumps gag to do allow trump to responded to allegations, laid there by Stormy Daniels this week former president sponge about both as he left court yesterday watch here. Everybody saw what happened tie he is a corrupt judge t
It is thursday, okay 123wer, 8 00 a. M. On the east coast, take a look at live pictures this is a live shot of smoke in gaza the explosion happening moments ago. Secretary of state Antony Blinken israeli bn ben will holding a press conference comparing brutality of hamas to is isis, the Israeli Regime is entirely responsible for unfolding violence as Business Leaders are looking to blacklist students for writing that, from future jobs, at least a dozen ceos endorsing the ceo of hedge fund giant Pershing Square Capital Management bill ackman calling on getting the names of every student who wrote that letter, and denying any hiring of those students from their student groups, take a look at New York Post cover this morning, schools in hate, bill ackman, wall street wants names of harvard israeli bashers does not hire them, mark reaction. Mark i very rarely agree with bill ackman in this situation i think one hundred percent on point, anybody that supports, murdering raping women be head
Trading. Check it out, 40. 21. The last time you saw prices like this it was 2009. March of 2009. We were in the midst of the financial crisis. It was a lack of demand. This time around its not just a lack of demand for slowing economies like china but also massive amounts of supply. Well talk a lot more about whats happening to wti but right now barely holding on at 40 dh 40 dhr 40. 21. The shanghai composite closing down by more than 3 and in europe greece making a 3. 5 million payment to the ecb on a maturing government bond. Athens using money from the latest bailout. Back here in the states a few economic report of note, weekly jobless claims at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time and then at 10 00 existing home sales. We got a couple of other big stories in focus right now. Of course the fed is on our mine. Yesterdays release of the minutes from the last fomc meeting raising a number of questions about the timing of a possible rate hike. Its the question we talk about virtually every day and
Strong, he says september. Is he over 200, it has to be or. I thought he said 185. So as long as you hit that. I believe so. Which is the whole thing is bizarre because the jobs number is readvisable by 100,000 jobs every time anyway. Details, brian. If you get anywhere between a d plus and aminus, im going to. Thanks appreciate that fed. Lets check out overnight this asia. At least in japan looked like the market was up 1 . Markets were mixed in china. Hang sang was down less th than. 20 . In europe in the early trading right now, at least at this point, things are mixed. The cac is the biggest gainer of the major averages. The ftse and dax are slightly lower. In italy stocks are up. Abex up. 80 . Crude oil prices. Crude oil is a little lower. Right now down only by about 14 cents to 46. 21. Among top corporate stories. Deutsche bank had considered a merger with commerzbank in the past. A deal would combine germanys two top lenders. Played down that report saying he doesnt think a mer