Maria joining the conversation, Dagen Mcdowell, former republican president ial candidate steve forbes. Im so happy that youre back, dagen. Dagen i was watching or trying to, i missed you immensely and i will leave it at that. Maria we will talk more about it. Maria steve, thank you so much for joining us, big day again. Consumer is still king. Maria we are wait on retail numbers, top story, markets hitting record high, futures on the way to another record at the start of trading, s p futures up 8 and nasdaq futures up 34 with a number of retailers to report quarterly earnings, home depot, kohls, tjmaxx among them. Lets get to home depot, Ashley Webster are the numbers. Ashley lets get right to it, home depot on the earnings per share coming at 2. 53 a share, that is one penny better than the estimate but revenue just a hair short, estimate for 27. 53 billion coming to 27. 2 billion, lets not forget home depot lowered guidance in last Earnings Report and reaffirming that, same store sa
The currency weapon has been. Yeah. It was a big surprise last week when the president dropped that tweet about september 1st tariffs. And some people that i talked to, tyler, and kel, it changed the game for them. That what they thought they had was a figured out market for the most part. They felt that way because of the fed and the rate cut and they felt like they had their hands around where the market could go in the months ahead were still throwing out of whack by that. Going into that, this was a market that was up almost 20 , so far this year, trading near record highs coming off of good earnings, fed rate cut, felt it was all working for the markets. As you heard Barry Banister say, sure, we get more of an odds of a fed rate cut, trump did something good on the trade front and markets will be fine on that note, well hand it over to you guys. Youre always one tweet away. Thank you. Well see you later. Welcome to the closing bell. Im scott wapner stocks plummeting, names like ap
The millions of people around the world. This week ive watched developments and fold in the case of wiki leaks, co founder Julian Assange view case, High Court Heard arguments on february 20th and 21st. As to whether assigned, you should be granted permission to appeal his extradition to the United States. To face 17 felony counts of espionage and one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. All the charges related to the rock and ask in war logs the Guantanamo Bay detaining files and Us Diplomatic cables released to weaken links by u. S. Army whistle blower. Chelsea manning this includes the infamous collateral murder video, which show us helicopters gunning down 12 civilians, including 2 writers, journalists, assange faces, 175 years in prison. In the United States, the high court did not make any immediate decision on the request to grant assigned to the right to appeal the decision to extradite him. A decision is not expected until after march 4th. Im john carry onto welco
A new president and. Heart i will do for myself. The way he pulls me back there and its people. Soul ever to go. President emerson man god would take the oath of office in the jubilant scenes at the National Sports stadium in the capital harare he is due to make his first speech as president shortly will be carrying it live. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us a landmark day for zimbabwe emerson and gaga has been sworn in as president tens of thousands of people and v. I. P. s from across africa gathered at a stadium in the capital harare to witness the ceremony theyve been cheering on the new president. Its been a tumultuous week for the country after Robert Mugabe resigned earlier this week he ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly four decades. Well the christian one who has been following all the latest developments for us from harare and we also have a journalist youre going line on who reported from zimbabwe for a decade he joins us from Bonn Christine and e
Meltup as a result. Get the wall street journal editorial board, mary ogrady, Charlie Gasparino, independent womens forum. Patrice. Patrice what do you make of the backup in rates, does it worry you . It worries me slightly. It is important to keep rates down and were doing very well. If the rates are driven about china potentially pulling market we borrowed from them, that is a case for worry. We have such a high market and taught economy right now it is something to keep on our radar. Neil mary, we explained china is thinking about halting additional treasury purposes. I dont think they have been making a lot of new ones. I could be wrong. Japan said much the same. Should we be worried . Im not wore i had at all about the 10year. Neil it is still very low. Not only that were hoping to get back to a normal yield curve. Longer term bond should have higher yields and this very flat yield curve, i dont think was good for the economy. You know, if we were talking about an inverted yield c