Meanwhile Federal Reserve not even thinking about raising rates now. Fed chair jay powell saying the current economic down torn is the most severe in our lifetime. Warning containing covid is essential to protecting our health and the economy. Big tech in focus all reporting today, their earnings after the bell, ceos grilled on capitol hill yesterday about anticonservative bias, Business Practices, privacy and china. Highlights from the fiery hearing coming up. Markets this morning pointing to selloff at the start of trading. Take a look at futures indicating decline 216 points right out of the gate, s p lower by 28. Marks rallied yesterday following Federal Reserve decision. The market was up 160 points don oh dow. The nasdaq up 140 and s p up 40 points yesterday. Unrest in america with violence in major cities. And the nba tipping off today, players taking to court in bubble at disney world with empty stands, we will check it out. The ceo of fanduel is here on how the virus is impact
Last night we told you the widely held dow component was close to a deal to sell its real estate portfolio. What we didnt know is that that was just the beginning. The company is planning to essentially shed its entire finance unit. The first move is a 26. 5 billion sale of most of its real estate and mortgage portfolio to blackstone and wells fargo. But ge is not stopping there. The company will dramatically slim down ge capital over the next few years and buy back 50 billion worth of stock. That buyback ties apple for the biggest single buyback ever. Wall street loved the moves and sent shares higher by about 11 on the day. Mary thompson has our look at the deal and the new ge. Reporter in its most aggressive move in 14 years of ceo, jeff plans to slash the ge finance unit. Once a strength for ge seen as a drag now. We felt from an investors standpoint this was the right time. Reporter right time because low rates mean yield hungry buyers pay for these assets and selling them mean ge
Last night we told you the widely held dow component was close to a deal to sell its real estate portfolio. What we didnt know is that that was just the beginning. The company is planning to essentially shed its entire finance unit. The first move is a 26. 5 billion sale of most of its real estate and mortgage portfolio to blackstone and wells fargo. But ge is not stopping there. The company will dramatically slim down ge capital over the next few years and buy back 50 billion worth of stock. That buyback ties apple for the biggest single buyback ever. Wall street loved the moves and sent shares higher by about 11 on the day. Mary thompson has our look at the deal and the new ge. Reporter in its most aggressive move in 14 years of ceo, jeff plans to slash the ge finance unit. Once a strength for ge seen as a drag now. We felt from an investors standpoint this was the right time. Reporter right time because low rates mean yield hungry buyers pay for these assets and selling them mean ge
Last night we told you the widely held dow component was close to a deal to sell its real estate portfolio. What we didnt know is that that was just the beginning. The company is planning to essentially shed its entire finance unit. The first move is a 26. 5 billion sale of most of its real estate and mortgage portfolio to blackstone and wells fargo. But ge is not stopping there. The company will dramatically slim down ge capital over the next few years and buy back 50 billion worth of stock. That buyback ties apple for the biggest single buyback ever. Wall street loved the moves and sent shares higher by about 11 on the day. Mary thompson has our look at the deal and the new ge. Reporter in its most aggressive move in 14 years of ceo, jeff plans to slash the ge finance unit. Once a strength for ge seen as a drag now. We felt from an investors standpoint this was the right time. Reporter right time because low rates mean yield hungry buyers pay for these assets and selling them mean ge
Control and it is notjust the fact that people suffer financially and wont isolate themselves, it is that the central system is so slow at getting the information out to people that they need to isolate, but by the time it has got there the £22 billion or whatever we have spent on it has been wasted. It is gone, information is useless. And weve also seen Evidence Public Health england have withheld information from a local Public Health authorities. If we want when we come back in two months time to get it right we must decentralise the expenditure and get it into Public Health systems. What i was going to say before the right honourable gentleman spoke was there is not a way forward where people dont die in the situation, that is tragic and everybody in this house wa nts to tragic and everybody in this house wants to minimise the number of deaths but sometimes because though if we have the most restrictive measures, which will undoubtedly stop people contracting covid, that will be f