the market may infect open a 22,000 this morning. take a look at the euro zone indices this morning. ft 100 up two thirds of a percent in the dax index of two thirds as well. gains across the board to report. the hang seng in hong kong and the kospi in korea. on to the white house another major shakeout. anthony scaramucci has been taking out his medications director less than two weeks after taking a job. the issue reportedly coming from the white house chief is not, general john kelly during his first day. the administration looking to move forward in policy as the holds a meaningless mall business owners this afternoon. look at tax reform and prospects as well. new developments in the investigation into the congressional base all shooting in the capitol police went to the wrong location first. they went to the home of house minority leader nance nicolosi instead of going to the baseball field. what we know coming up this morning. chaos in venezuela. opposition leaders take
big day for retail. walmart announcing the best quarter in more than four years. home depot beating estimates. kraft drops its $134 billion takeover bid. irene rosenfeld will join us later. new records. the dow up more than 4% since inauguration day. how long can the trump rally last? first up, walmart reporting a better than expected quarterly profit. revenue just shy of consensus. online sales up 29. home depot beat its quarterly results. boost the dividend. macy s posting a revenue miss earlier on squawk today. the ceo addressed speculation the company is up for sale. first of all, you ve heard it talked about, rumors of the company buying us. yes. you ve also probably heard the rumors that we re buying them. yeah. so what i can tell you is this, that we re going to do the right thing for our shareholders and we re not going to be a highly leveraged retailer. those movies never turn out well, and we ve seen that before. a lot to chew on here. a lot of d
for democrats, 202-748-8000. , 202-748-8002.s you can also join in on the conversation on our social media pages. before the mixup at the academy awards, donald trump was repeatedly in the spotlight yesterday. here are some of the headlines from this morning s newspapers around the country. the inside page of the washington post, diversity and politics attend the ceremony. that is their headline. another headline, trumps name looms in speeches. another headline, assailing trumps white house from the hollywood glasshouse. we will get into this a little bit more as our program goes on this morning. this broadcast is being watched live by millions of americans and are around the world in more than 225 countries that now hate us. [laughter] and i think that is an amazing thing. [applause] as you know, i do not have to tell anyone, the country is divided right now. i think it is time to bring everyone together. you need to say something to unite us. let us just get som
difference. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: it is now the trump economy, and the numbers out today show that the recovery that began eight years ago is continuing on his watch. in february, president trump s first full month on the job, the economy created 235,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.7%. all the more impressive if you believe what candidate trump claimed the rate was just a year earlier. don t believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5% unemployment. the numbers probably 28, 29, as high as 35, in fact, even heard recently 42%. pelley: well, today, the white house didn t think the numbers were phony, and we have more now from jim axelrod. reporter: they are hiring once again at quality controlled manufacturing, which supplies parts to the aerospace industry. he controls both of these machines. reporter: by the end of this month, chief operating officer rick urban will have i
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