Governor phil bli auryant signe despite opposition. This comes on the heels of p paypal saying it will plan to bring jobs to North Carolina after lawmakers in that state passed a law in a restricts protections for lesbian, gay, by sexual and france gender people. In the North Carolina situation, a large number ofgender people. In the North Carolina situation, a large number of east called on petition calling on the governor to reject the particular law. The mississippi news comes just when the whole controversy started to heat up in the southern part of the united states. There are other bills that are pending in various states. Thish to that, nissan gave cnbc a statement previous to this law being signed that says nissan is committed to providing an inclusive Workplace Environment and we oppose any dlaw 45 allow discrimination. So it will be interesting to see what the corporate reaction is to mississippis governor signing this particular law just a few moments ago and also paypal can
Down another 1. 7 to 39. 07. Also, the u. S. Governments Energy Information administration said stockpiles climbed by 9. 4 Million Barrels last week. A couple other stories were following. Starboard reportedly now ready to finally launch a proxy fight to remove yahoo s entire board. The furm has now been a vocal critic of the tech companys management, most recently asking yahoo to sell its core business. Starboard owns less than 1 of the company. The wall street journal saying they will nominate nine directors to yahoo s board. Also, yum brands is reportedly in talks with private equity firms kkr and hopu inforvestmen to sell a Minority Stake. Reuters reporting the possible stake sale values the China Business at about 10 billion. And app sl reportedly expanding its Payment System into mobile websites. Its going to do it later this year. Recode says the move will happen before the Holiday Shopping season. Apples Payment System will be integrated with its Safari Browser to allow purchas
The attacks in paris killed 130 people. What we know now is there are reports that two people have been arrested and are alive. Thats from an nbc news fixer on the ground there. We do not know whether one of them is the person you saw in that mug shot, which is Salah Abdeslam. There are reports hes one of those arrested. Nbc has not confirmed those at this point. But there are various belgium reports he is one of those suspected, but were waiting for nbc news confirmation on that. Both are reported to have been wounded. This, of course, is the second consecutive raid, second day of consecutive raids in that particular part of brussels. And it follows the 2015 paris attacks. They have been look for Salah Abdeslam since those attacks. Hes considered one of the primary leaders in that particular attack. Isis claimed responsibility for the terror attacks in 2015. And french president hollande has confirmed the raid is still undergoing. But he is not going to confirm whether or not anyone h
8 . S p futures are down by 5 points below fair value. Dow futures are down 36. The nasdaq off by 7. Also take a look at what is happening in the early trading in europe right now. Red arrows there as well but these are a modest decline at this point. The cac is down by. 25 and that is the biggest decliner among the latest averages there. Overnight in asia, the nikkei dropping by more than 3 . Looks like shanghai and hang seng were down 1. 4 . Some of the reasons for japans biggest decline, the major exporters there suspending production after two earthquakes on kyus huru killing at least 4 people and rescue efforts are still underway. 246 people were killed and more than 2500 injured after an earthquake rocked Ecuadors Pacific coast on saturday. Hundreds of buildings were destroyed. Officials say there have been more than 160 aftershocks just since saturday night. In other global news, the lower house of Brazils Congress voting last night to impeach the countrys president , dilma rous
Candidates look ahead to the primaries in florida, ohio, illinois, North Carolina and missouri. Hillary clinton and trumbull trump is demanding needs of the rest of the field. A lot can change next tuesday. 358 delegates up for grabs republicans and democrats capture 691 delegates. Peter burns with the latest. The debate between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton and sanders coming into the debate with a bit more slacker. He clashed with Hillary Clinton over the key issue of them ration which weighs heavily on the mind of florida voters. Secretary clinton said simon back. Thats the difference. He voted in the house with hardline republicans for indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants. In the given data, where dropout . Not going to happen. Im not even answering that. Will show up in with a commanding lead in florida. The average pulse today has clinton at 52 and sanders at 30. 5 . The polls show clinton way ahead of sanders in michigan before accused a period trade to thank yo