Ahead of the open. Possible pressure for apple and antitrust allegations. Its thursday, march 21st, 2024. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Thank you for being here with us. Lets get you ready for the trading day ahead and the check of the u. S. Stock futures with the dow, s p and nasdaq all coming off record closing highs and looking to push deeper into the green this morning. The futures market is strong showing for all three. The nasdaq is opening up. 75 higher. You see the dow looking like it would open up more than 100 points higher. We are paying attention to small caps with the russell indicating gains. You have to see small caps rising 2 with super micro in the red today. And80 s p 500 stocks set to open at 52week highs. American express up in the premarket. Visa up as well as caterpillar as well. The fed maintained to cut rates by 75 basis points by the end of the year. With that, we are checking the bond mark
Seen the creation of another 141 billionaires. Ill tell you what industries they work in, and im going to ask how we keep ambition alive. Whilst perhaps reining in the super rich and Cook Prue Leith says that the junk Food Industry is winning the obesity war in britain. Shes accused the government of being too weak to end the obesity obesity crisis. Is she right . All of that and a lot right . All of that and a lot more in the next hour. First, though, the very latest news headunes though, the very latest News Headlines with sofia. Bev, thank you. From the gb newsroom at 6 00. Your top story this hour. A new poll suggests this hour. A new poll suggests labour could sweep to victory with more than 400 seats at the next election, leaving the tories with just 155. Yougov is predicting a landslide for sir keir starmer, with the conservatives projected to win even less seats than a previous poll conducted in january. And poll conducted in january. And another change of leader may be off the
The far left, over green adding his voice to the hysteria. He said deregulation of tax cuts gave us the last crash and we can afford to let it happen again. Hes the guy whos spending millions on his hopedfor impeachment for President Trump. Here comes the day of rage in the middle east because President Trump wants to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. Jordan, saudi arabia, turkey, they dont like this. The pope doesnt like it either. He favors the status quo to avoid violence. Here he comes, another big day, jampacked show. Varney company is about to begin. Suchs look at this. Developing stories. Posing a major threat. 2000 homes curfews in place. Interesting stat database. I have a number here. Think about that. By some estimates that would burn through new yorks central park in 15 minutes. You know how big central park is from bottom to top. That goes through 15 minutes. I down the mountains. No moisture in the air. Battle in again today. Stuart thank you, ashley. House ma
Yesterday, they were off the highs of the session this morning green arrows are indicated once again, but modest advances the doi ww was up by 10 1 2 poi, the nasdaq up by 3, the s p up by 3 the gains have been significant this year. Have we seen 71 days for the dow . 71 records. But 22,000 on the point 2,000 p before we got to the new year. I think i heard President Trump say 85 that could have been from the election to the first of the year thats probably what it was. Bitcoin today, did you see it . Yes we should probably show that we show it every time. We will show it after the tenyear tenyear is back under 2. 50 but it was above 2. 50 at one point yesterday. The highest weve seen since june or earlier. Maybe april. You look at the tenyear note, yielding 2. 486 . Looking at bitcoin actually its coming up a bit. Some of the dbig stories theres bitcoin okay. Its not so we got our first christmas vacation vignette out of the way on the opening there will be a few of those a great movi
Perspective of some the major events in history in witness at 2 30. That includes the partition of india in 1947. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The metropolitan police has confirmed it has paid compensation to the former chief of the Defence Staff field marshal lord bramall, and the family of the late home secretary lord brittan, who were both falsely accused of child sexual abuse. Both men were named a by an informant known as nick whos now being investigated for allegedly perverting the course of justice. Angus crawford reports. They were horrifying allegations, of a paedophile ring at the heart of the establishment, but they all proved to be false. During 0peration midland, police raided the homes of the former chief of the Defence Staff lord bramall, ex home secretary leon brittan, and former tory mp harvey proctor. All on the say so of this one man, nick, whose real identity cant be revealed. But a scathing review of the investigation found nicks credibility wasnt proper