Because he kind of got this ball rolling. Earlier on we got stocks hitting new highs as earnings season kicks off. Iting still very early. 5 of the s p 500 companies have reported. Of never less in small pool of names. They handily beat expectations. They were after cheted down. You know how they. Fbn ams lauren lawyer simonetti. Ceo jamie dimon said this, we continue to see positive mope momentum with the u. S. Consumers. Rising wages reflected in our consumer and banking results. The banks credit card sales that division saw doubledigit growth. That stock is up today. Different picture at goldman sachs. Stock trading revenue rose, highest level in four years by the way. Goldman has been investing in the trading technologies, algorithms, but the effort to bulge up the consumer fell short. The stock is up 1. 1 . Johnson johnson down 1 1 2 now. The Company Raised its Sales Forecast for the year, investors are weighing sales of cancer drugs looking good against legal issues related to ta
we re back to president biden giving an update on the student loan forgiveness program. he will be speaking at that podium right there. we ll go there when he begins. first, candidates in some of the most crucial races of these midterms are starting to debate in a few hours. in georgia, brian kemp squares off with his democrat opponent stacey abrams for the first time in the gubernatorial rematch and what they will be telling voters. what will happen there in the first big election cycle since donald trump allegedly tried to overturn the 2020 election in that state. we have a report on what election officials are doing to stress test new security features meant to protect the process. and the senate race is tight in ohio, republican jd vance and congressman tim ryan will debate for the second time and what voters tell us they re looking to hear from the two men. and where it all stands, new numbers out today shows a lot has changed in the last month. can we trust those number
Train to the big selloff on wall street. The dow dropping 362 points yesterday. Some of the biggest drops in the last two years. A lot of big earnings coming out. Facebook, microsoft and the Federal Reserve Meeting Results as well. Right now futures point to higher open. Dialup 78. Lauren investors with a close eye and Interest Rates a 10 year treasury help at the stock markets the past two days. It is about to. 7 right now. Cheryl in europe, and treasury recovery at the open right now. The ftse, cac are higher. Lauren nation with the nikkei nikkei japan following poignant down for six days in a row. The only green arrow in that screen is the hang seng in hong kong. Train to some more for apple. The Justice Department and the sbc launching investigations into the iphone slow down. Fbn am starts right now. Lauren three at five of 2 00 a. M. In new york. Wednesday, january 31st print last day of the month. Im lauren simonetti. Train to it as the morning after. Im cheryl casone. But his s
In the meanwhile, we have the federal staff writer brie with us. One of things that comes up with Jared Kushner, trump, jr. , paul manafort, former campaign adviser, manager, i should say, who did they know, when they did talk, is this developing into anything or is this just going to be a week of closely monitored hearings even though theyre private hearings . The media is going to be completely fixated on all the hearings this week. If any of the past hearings with comey and Jeff Sessions which revealed very little to nothing as the substance about this investigation into potential and alleged collusions with the Trump Campaign and russia. I think given the past kind of hearings that weve had, nothing came much from it. If thats indication, hearings ha that are coming up, i doubt that those will reveal much either. Yeah. One of the things that kushner try today clarify is they werent meetings of the case up to them. They were receptions where you had russian embassador Sergey Kislyak
To hope for better ties with President Trump. What are better ties with russia . They have been jerking us around since the 1980s. We sit in the drivers seat, russia doesnt. President trump was backed into a corn o a corner on this bef the election. Hes hands stover executive authority under article 2 under a Dysfunctional Congress that may come back to bite us. Lee lea, he says this legislation is significantly flawed. He says it 10 controversied on his ability to negotiate which is one of the reasons people elected trump because they thought he was a good negotiator. Absolutely. He went on to say as a businessman he can negotiate Better Business deals. But obviously negotiating business deals is not the purview of congress. That outside of that scope. Thats just not true. But im glad to see he did do what was right. Congress had to drag him by the ear and make him do right by america and employ these sanctions. Protecting democracy is always our number one priority. Ford lets say rus