Jcpenney, shake shack leading the charge. Numbers to watch for, deliver those the moment they hit the tape. Break them down for you, look at outlook, and the market response. All coming up here on closing bell today. Meantime more questions than answers following the deadly amtrak train crash in philadelphia. Well speak with rail refegsles and senator tom carper what can be done to fix the crumbling infrastructure bill. Ironically its infrastructure week. The house was scheduled to vote on amtrak funding today, they did, and did vote to cut amtrak funding, as expected. House committee, i think House Committee work on that. One proposal to increase funding, it didnt move forward and the bill being marked up would cut a quarter of a billion. Timing is everything. Such a great story from homeless to harvard. This wholelesshomeless girl, used crowd funding to raise thousands of dollars needed to attend harvard university. She will be here at the New York Stock Exchange to talk about how sh
She said more needs to be done to strengthen the economy but she didnt give any hints on policy. Liz House Minority leader nancy pelosi and other House Democrats will meet with president obama in about 30 minutes to discuss the budget and debt showdown. Top House Republicans will also meet the president. That will happen tomorrow. David General Electric announces partnerships with at t, Cisco Systems and intel to expand its industrial internet service. It allows customers to analyze data and predict outcomes. Liz Aubry Mcclendon raised 1. 7 billion to drill for oil and gas in the utica shale in ohio. The drilling will begin in the Fourth Quarter of this year. David joseph a. Bank clothiers why tried and failed to by bigger mens wearhouse. Mens warehouse quickly rejected the offer saying it undervalues the company. Liz how many have you gotten paper stocks before for your kid and self. They decided to follow the example of other big corporate names and go all electronic. After the bell
Crash is under investigation. And the republicans retreat will go on with an adjusted program. Republicans have a jam packed agenda after last nights state of the union and President Trump made clear he wants congratulations to act on infrastructure and other critical issues. Well break that down in a moment. But lets continue with the latest on that deadly crash. It happened just before noon. Outside of charlottesville. Republican lawmakers of theo theous the house and the senate were on the way to sulphur springs, West Virginia. That is as high of a speed as we go in this area. So i dont know what that would be. 55, 60 miles per hour. I suspect my recollection was that is when we all got jolted. It wasnt from the hit of the accident, but it was when the train was stopping that we all got tossed a little bit. So the engineer stopped the train immediately. It is amazing how calm people were. There was no screaming except for the kids that bumped their heads. Just very calm. You heard t
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