Hour the hearing is still going on behind me, but already there have been several fiery moments, including some from senator sherrod brown, the ranking democrat on the committee. In his opening statement, he compared facebook to a toddler playing with matches and said that it would be delusional for anyone to trust facebook with their finances, when the company has already broken so many promises on privacy. He then tried to get david marcus, a facebook executive whos testifying to make his own promise, and that is to receive his salary in libra. Senator, if your question is whether i would trust all of my assets in libra, the answer is yes. Do you trust this enough to make your compensation paid fully in your currency senator, i would, because it is backed one for one with a reserve. You could have said yes at the beginning of the question, then senator, with respect, i wanted to clarify that were not trying to compete with Bank Deposits he has said that statement repeatedly, that fac
Nations in the world corporate rates will be reduced from 35 all the way down to 20 which will make us competitive again, and Companies Wont be leaving our country. Timely, our tax plan will return trillions of dollars in wealth to our shores so that companies can invest in america again. At the same time were working to reduce wasteful Government Spending we will hear from budget director Mick Mulvaney who is working with my cabinet to find taxpayer savings in each and every department the cabinet members that are with us today are working on getting reductions to their various departments that we think well be able to save a lot of money, even lower than the budgets that were submitting well be working on health care, infrastructure and welfare reform were looking very strongly at welfare reform, and that will all take place right after taxes. Very soon, very shortly after taxes, so well be submitting plans on health care, plans on infrastructure and plans on welfare reform which is
Points are we seeing signs of a top well break down head winds. We have a 6 billion chip acquisition to tell you about this morning and what it means for other potential deals as well. And retailers gearing up for black friday but walmart gets slapped with a downgrade over at goldman today. We have the latest on the Retail Sector as we begin an abbreviated trading week due to the thanksgiving holiday, the dow and s p east in the midst of a twoweek losing streak na nasdaq coming off the Third Session and bit coin surges past the 8,000 mark over the weekend. I think the high 8101. 91 theres discussion whether or not it can hit 10k. I was thinking about zimbabwe, whoever has money may want to go to bitcoin. A chinese crackdown, they go to bitcoin. Venezuela, natural bitcoin because its defaulting on everything when you see defaults and people realize currency may be devalued, bit coin seems to be a Good Alternative jack dorsey this weekend disagreeing with sara fryer, the cfo of square. S
Sara eisen on this friday. Tgif. Thank goodness. Great day yesterday we were up 0. 8 for the major indices. Transports yesterday, the russell index, Smaller Companies up 1. 7 that positive momentum continuing, up 100 points on the dow this morning lets have a quick look at the euro popping on news that german lawmakers reached a break through in talks to form a new government the euro had a good session yesterday as well. That was off the back of ecb minutes. But todays move off the back of that german political news up to 1. 2121, thats a high we have not seen since december 2014 joining us is willem marx from london with more so, essentially whats happened here is the spd and the cdu have agreed that there will be a coalition they had a media blackout for the last five days over these preliminary talks. Were getting a slew of headlines now coming out of those discussions. Those include a lot of the spd wish list items they have been pushing for. Angela merkels party and her sister pa
Cramer and david faber futures on the move off the highs, retail sales are solid and 2year hits 2 Bank Earnings as a highlight as earnings season kicks in europe is mixed and oil is giving back gains. Our roadmap begins with the big banks beat jp morgan and wells and black rock with better than expected quarterly earnings. Wall street is eyeing fresh record stocks getting a boost from strong corporateresults and a bullish sign for the economy. West wing vul garts, the president mixing a bipartisan immigration deal and denying offcolor language. Jp morgan chase, wells are both mixed and jp morgans released, jamie dimon expresses optimism about the new tax law. The enactment of tax reform in the Fourth Quarter is a significant positive outcome for the country. U. S. Companies will be more competitive globally which will ultimately benefit all americans. The cumulative effect of retained and reinvested capital will grow the economy and growing jobs and wages we have always invested even i