Maria good wednesday morning, everyone. Thanks so much for joining us this morning. Im maria bartiromo. It is wednesday, march 13, your top stories right now. Todays thest of tiktok, lawmakers are readying a vote on a bill take could ban tiktok in the United States unless it you divests from bytedance. Executives including the ceo on capitol hill for a lobbying blitz ahead of the vote, whats got washington divided on the bill coming up. Markets are flat after a Technology Led rally on wall street again yesterday. Take a look at where we are right now, the nasdaq is negative by 20, dow industrials up by 15, s p 500 at another record high close, they they are looking at that right now and extending it. Chip makers and a. I. Powering stocks as nvidia hits an all time high at the close yesterday. What were watching this morning as the momentum in bitcoin continues r, now above 71,000 this morning, this morning we are looking at the euphoria around bitcoin. European markets are mixed. As yo
More focused on it than the fed is because the fed basically sort of ignores cpi because they prefer ppi to cpi. Sorry to go word salad after talking about kamala harris. But the fact of the matter is that the most important number to me right now is 85 and thats how much a barrel of oil is right now. Which means that were probably headed to 100, more than were heading back to 70 and 70 is the breakeven point where the spr was going to be refilled. I think right now oil prices are going to be the leading driver and then if you look at last fridays jobs report, you notice that 4. 4 was the year over year wage increase. So theres a lot of pressure on businesses to continue to pay workers, to find them, than their other input cost of oil so i think youre going to see ppi start to tick up. I dont know that cpi is going to be as high because, a, if you look at core they strip out food and energy but to the average american its certainly a high number but the markets going to look at inflati
the balloon had been flying over the country and parts of canada for more than a week prompting secretary of state tony blinken to postpone a planned trip to beijing. welcome to fox news live, i m miken manuel. the balloon was shot by f-22 fighter jet and raising questions about u.s.-china relations. we have fox team coverage with alexandria hoff, charles watson in surf side beach, south carolina and lucas tomlinson on the north lawn of the white house. lucas, let s start off with you. good afternoon. lucas: the u.s. navy dispatched 3 warships and salvage team to combwaters, records spread 7 miles and 47 feet of water. tom cotton say it is chinese spy balloon was a trial balloon for president biden. the president was paralyzed the entire week by a balloon. we should have shot the balloon down over the illusion islands. we should never have allowed to transit the entire continental united states. that incident had not been previously reported until today the pentagon 3 other
happening now to support pearson. any doubts about whether he will be reinstated. yeah that s what they believe that pearson will be reinstated . the energy is behind him, as you can feel with this yeah that s what they believe that pearson will be reinstated . the energy is behind him, as you can feel with this crowd that is marching a mile from the lorraine motel. all the way to the county. permission dude, look this direction that tennessee three are actually walking just ahead of us. this is actually been a nutrition giving with this weather right now because the weather has been so hot that several people have sort of passed out on this walk. we do know that they are planning to move people toward that county commission. we believe that will last about two hours, and then they will send back those minutes to the state capital. what a week. this has been to see democracy play out this way, with all three of these leaders now being catapulted into the top of the country, b
erin shaun. the storm making eric shawn. in ohio at least 3 people were killed in a 46-car pile-up in whiteout conditions. also chaos at packed airports across the country where millions of passengers are stuck. more than 2 the ,000 flights canceled, 6,000 delayed already today. anita spoke to montana s governor earlier today about the bone-chilling conditions there. we saw wind chill factors up to 75 degrees below 0, almost every community in the sate saw wind chill factors north of 50 degrees below 0. and what we learned in this time is that reliable energy supply is not a nice to have, it s a must have. it s a matter of public safety, and i m just proud of the work that the state has done to keep the power on. rich: getting relief from all this, let s go right to meet rolingsz adam klotz for the latest. adam: hey there, rich. you know what? things today slightly better than yesterday. that big winter storm that was the bringing the snow, the rain and the sleet, that s