Ba bartiromo. The Federal Reserve met in its final meeting of the year and kept their pledge to leave Interest Rates low tore a considerable amount amount of time. As a result, people are looking at the stock market as the stock market for their money. China is slowing down from its peak levels, europe is also deteriorating and couple the low Interest Rate story in the u. S. With the fact that corporate profits are doing well and you have to own u. S. Stocks, just very few alternatives. Today one catalyst was better than expected earnings from oracle. That put the Technology Sector on fire, again leading to speculation and the suggestion that the corporate sector in america is the best game in town, as the rest of the world falters. One risk i would point out is that even though things in the u. S. Are doing well and we are looking at Economic Trends that are improving, its hardly gang busters. Were looking at an economy growing at a pace that is below expectations. As we see from poll
Students. Bill during a visit with troops yesterday president obama said the military had reached quota turning point for the mission reached a turning points for the mission in afghanistan. This month Americas Mission in and already will be over. This month americas war in afghanistan will come to a responsible end. That doesnt mean everything is great in afghanistan. Afghanistan is still a very dangerous place. Martha byron york on the potential political impact. What are we learning about all this now . Reporter we spent a lot of time in peshawar and we have seen a heard about a lot of taliban brutality, but this has got to be the cruellest act these militants have ever committed. The word we are getting is the militants stormed the school and shot away student by student. The school specifically picked because its for the children of the Pakistan Army staff. They have been waging war against the taliban. The death toll we are told is now at 130. Most of them children and young peop
Known to only a few, provided america with the information that allowed us to arrest the network of cuban agents that included the men transferred to cuba today as well as other spies in the United States. Most information about this agent is classified but the director of National Intelligence says hes a cuban who worked on behalf of the u. S. Now, about those three cubans. They were convicted in the u. S. Of conspiracy to commit espionage. Today signals the biggest thaw in u. S. cuban relations since 1961 when eisenhower was in office. Some travel bans are being lifted bit not yet for tourists. President obama wants to reestablish diplomatic ties with havana and possibly lift cubas designation as a state sponsor of terror. We will end an outdated approach that, for decades, has failed to advance our interests and, instead, we will begin to normalize relations between our two countries. A big day but not everyone is cheering. Mixed feelings today for some cuban americans and americans
About the massive sony data breach as federal officials may give word as early as today who the source of the cyber attack. The white house is calling this suspected attack a Serious National Security matter. U. S. Officials say it may have become months ago and ran through series of servers to disguise the origigiorigin. Senior official told nbc news that the u. S. Concluded that north korea was responsible, Administration Officials did not say so in public on thursday. The Obama Administration is considering now how to respond but it said the attackers may be sophisticated and just inching for a reaction. The White House Press secretary josh ernst confirmed that sony previously sought freedback from the administration and officials about the movie the interview. Administration officials were consulted prior to the release at the request of officials from the company producing the movie. But im saying you had an involvement months ago in this. Did the administration under estimate the
World has erupted in outrage and rare concert against the groups brutality. With one breathtakingly vicious murder, the the New York Times reports, the Islamic State has united most of the region against it. But even in the face of widespread condemnation, news of brutality continues. The new video by isis urges attacks in france. They report some are speculating the fighter second from the right in that image could be a woman. Perhaps the widow of french terrorist coulibaly. Nbc news has not been able to confirm the fighters identity or if she is in fact a woman. In the meantime isis continues the bloody cam tan. Today a u. N. Watchdog says isis militants are selling abducted iraqi children at markets as sex slaves and crucifying them or burying them alive. It is a savagery president obama condemned during the National Prayer breakfast this morning. We see faith driving us to do right. But we also see faith being twisted. And distorted. Used as a wedge, or sometimes worse, used as a w