Into this Conspiracy Theory and why because it would help his own political standing President Trump even sought to withhold an Oval Office Meeting from the president of ukraine until he fell in line with president putins lies the leader who had actually invaded ukraine the 2nd demand that President Trump made of president selenski during the july 25th call was to investigate the front runner for the democratic nomination for president in 2020 former Vice President joe biden and his son hunter President Trump stated the other thing theres a lot of talk about biden son biden stop the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great if i didnt went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it it sounds horrible to me. Witnesses unanimously testified that there was no factual support for this claim rather they noted that Vice President biden was acting in support of an International Co
This after a day of trading that saw s p 500 hit another alltime high, second straight day of record. Meantime investors are cautiously awaiting upcoming earning season with 80 of s p 500 Companies Reportedly cutting earnings forecast. Joining me research chief macro strategist lenor hawkins, what is driving the market to plus side if you watch the bond market, 10year yield falling and closing below 2 yesterday and then you this percentage of s p 500 Companies Cutting their earnings forecast . This is really all about the fed in the hope that easy money will keep prices going up because this has nothing to do with fundamentals, if you look at what happened at first half of the year, s p 500 rose 17 , the strongest first half of the year since 1997 but if we look at earnings, if we look at whats going on with the fundamentals, earnings declined 4. 4 for the s p 500 for the First Quarter and expect today decline negative 2. 3 in second quarter, you have prices going up while the actual r
re-election in november by nearly 20 points. now he is aiming for the white house and taking on the last republican to hold it. florida governor ron desantis will declare tomorrow evening he s a candidate for president. part of a campaign rollout that includes a twitter conversation tomorrow with ceo elon musk. paperwork filing with the federal election commission. and an overhaul of ron desantis.com which went from a florida based political page to an alligator. rising from the water. i think what we have done in florida should inspire people. defended fight against disney. touted run as governor. he sparred with the naacp after the organization issued a florida travel advisory, claiming the state has become hostile under the governor s leadership. desantis called it a stunt. and republicans noted the chair of the naacp s board of directors lives in florida. the white house has even weighed in. republicans in florida have attacked diversity, administration for the pa
Is that the great bill helping the middle class . Absolutely not. Dagen the house will vote on the bill later today, likely sending it to the president side or derisive procedurals not that his force the second vote. The snag over in the senate. Following the passage in the Senate Current futures are showing this happening in the markets. Slight pullback in the dow up 37 points. We are seeing possibly new alltime highs for all your major market gauges. Either way, you have highs on the transports earlier in the week. Literally every Single Market in the u. S. Has been moving in sync on the optimism from the tax reform package. Check in on england, france and germany, all the slave markets down two tenths of a percent. Asia overnight stocks mostly lower as well. The nikkei in japan up ever so slightly. I suspect in america the terror Group Warning of the new years eve attack as new York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces heightened security measures for the holidays. Uber dull people in eu
Averages pointing to higher open in premarket, dow looking up by 53 right now, hammering the good news, over in europe taking a look at the markets, ftse again, one bright spot for european markets, up 26, in asia overnight, markets closing mixed, the kospi was closed for holiday, the nikkei the only average slightly in the red. Well, tragedy in new york on a freezing night flames ripped through an Apartment Building killing at least 12 people including four children. This tragedy is without question historic in its magnitude here and our hearts go out to every family that lost a loved one here and everyone thats fighting for their lives. We will have the latest from the investigation into the citys deadliest fire in decades. Well, no fear of the russia probe, President Trump opens up in a new interview saying that special Counsel Robert Mueller will treat him fairly and will be ultimately vindicated, explanation coming up. Investigating the investigators, House Intelligence Committee