The power ball but i never play it, you usually do. Dagen put it in the calendar. Connell lets go to Nicole Petallides at Stock Exchange to get started on markets now. Nicole good morning. We are watching the markets as you noted ahead of the fed and we are up 66 points at the moment, 1 2 mixed bag of winners and losers. The s and p is higher just like the dow down 1 4 and the nasdaq pulling back, coming off of two story weeks of gains for the dow but traders think the momentum remains to the upside and continues to note the fact we stomachs some tough Economic News like jobless claims and others that havent been so great and the market still managed to rise higher so there is good news that could propel us to the upside. That being said we had a couple pieces of news from abroad including u. K. Unemployment rate, and expected the edged higher and we have a big merger deal today in the jewelry business. A lot of pieces of news on wall street today. Connell Congressional Budget Office o
Economies to question how seriously he is about addressing this issue. Welcome, i am no cavuto. Sending out all the wrong signals. We have our panel here. David asman and tracy byrnes. So how is the president handling this, to a neil so Baseball Hall of fame, political fundraising, he does appear when you look at his itinerary is supposedlysue nfuriate him just yesterday. Ts it is apparently bad objectsl it is not good to be talking tough on one very serious issuee and then moving on to morestven softer tevents in his hometown. It is not a positive development him. Neil the next day what should you be doing . He should have stated thatate the timetable would be forwou further action. Because ultimately the bottom line is that the folks concerned with the issues include the actions hes taking that will follow this and i was disappointed that there wasnt more concrete action. Im not terribly excited at the doctor general is leading anm investigation of this. For once i agree with oliveri
The latest on what he will tell the committee and what we can expect at next weeks public hearings. Todays hearings are closed. With Brittney Griner back in her russian jail cell, i will talk to the brother of paul whelan, an american detained by russia since 2018, on what the u. S. Considers baseless charges. First, the shocking assassination of shinzo abe. Janice, such an important figure internationally, globally and in japan. Especially in strengthening their response to chinese aggression, military buildup. Reporter former Prime Minister shinzo abe was a political giant in japan. A prominent figure even after he stepped down no 2020 citing health reasons. He was in nara city giving a campaign speech, helping out a junior candidate, when shots rang out. It was captured on video. You can hear the shots and then from another angle see smoke billowing above the crowd. Abe went down bleeding. He lost consciousness. He was airlifted to hospital where they tried to resuscitate him. He ar
Good morning, and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie cy. The 2013 election brought major surprises, but for avid political watchers and the offyear voting was a tasty appetizer for the main courses to come, next years midterms and the race for the white house two years later. Voters picked new leaders in cities and states across the country. Most of the National Focus was on new jersey and virginia, where governors were chosen. New jersey incumbent Chris Christie was reelected in a landslide. Hes viewed as a Top Republican challenger to Hillary Clinton in a potential 2016 president ial matchup. In virginia a powerful clinton ally, Terry Mcauliffe narrowly beat republican ken cuccinelli. Virginia has been a battleground state in the last two elections. New york city elected its first democratic mayor in more than two decades, bill de blasio. In detroit mike dugan is the citys first white mayor in 40 years. Al jazeera has all the election details. In a race widely seen as a refe
This morning after the dow and the s p toastposted their best gains of the year. And carl icahn said one company has the worst Corporate Governance hes ever seen and Steve Ballmer making his first address since leaving microsoft, he did not disappoint coming to you later this hour. But first up well start with the markets, stocks coming off a record session, the s p a record high and the dow and the s p having their best day since december 18th. And adp showed the economy created fewer private sector jobs in february as the cold weather restrains hiring. You said the data has been okay. The durables and the chicago pmis have been all right. We have great data out of europe pmi. How could the economy be good and stocks be good and employment be bad . The economy is not necessarily good its delivering but with the employment weaker and the macromanufacturing come out and continue to amaze and the Mortgage Application number this morning that is strong. If you get russia off the business