History. Massive storm. The heaviest rain in years, set to drench california. This morning, fears of major loading in los angeles and san diego. And farther up the coast, the first big test of the repairs to that damaged dam. All systems go. Elon musks spacex team, preparing for a key launch. A mission after spectacular successes and failures that may be a huge step towards sending humans to mars. And marks manifesto. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg outlines running his company. Why it is fueling rumors that his eye is really set on running the country. Today, february 17th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and is a van savannah guthrie. Live, from studio 1a, in rockefeller plaza. Hello, everyone. Welcome to today. Happy to have Hallie Jackson back in, while savannah is on maternity leave. Nothing to talk about. Ready to hop on a train back down to d. C. We have ooh la lot to talk a. A former navy officer has rejected the president s offer to be his National Security
Conference like no other in history. Massive storm. The heaviest rain in years, set to drench california. This morning, fears of major loading in los angeles and san diego. And farther up the coast, the first big test of the repairs to that damaged dam. All systems go. Elon musks spacex team, preparing for a key launch. A mission after spectacular successes and failures that may be a huge step towards sending humans to mars. And marks manifesto. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg outlines running his company. Why it is fueling rumors that his eye is really set on running the country. Today, february 17th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with van savannah guthrie. Live, from studio 1a, in rockefeller plaza. Hello, everyone. Welcome to today. Happy to have Hallie Jackson back in, while savannah is on maternity leave. Nothing to talk about. Ready to hop on a train back down to d. C. We have ooh la lot to talk a. A former navy officer has rejected the president s offer to be his National
Warren here to talk about it. They are pointing out that bonds and stocks are in sink again which question as reflation trade and i kept asking that last week. 235 . What is going on with the tenure. Were going to blow out the deficit and military spending and infrastructure and tax cuts and all the greeowth, all the stuff. Maybe warren knows why. But u. S. Equity futures at this hour. Hes shaking his head. Were going to ask him. I wanted to surprise him with that. I got a lot of well, to eo late. The futures are indicated a little bit low. But nothing that significant yet. Overnight in asia. It was kind of quiet. Overall, we can see japan was down less than a percent and in europe, sort of the same thing. Were almost in a wait and see mode. Now im going to formally introduce you, becky. Time now for our special guest this morning. Becky quick. No, wait a minute. Becky quick is in omaha with our special guest and i love god, i love some of the stuff im reading about warren today. Money
Declines. Thats the first backtoback losses youve seen for the dow and s p 500 since late january. Futured are muted this morning. Dow up by 2 points. Nasdaq up by less than a point. A lot of things happening, were waiting on adp numbers this morning. That may give us insight on what to expect friday from the jobs market. That can het let us figure out the Federal Reserve will do. In asia, the nikkei down by a half percent. The hang seng up, and in europe, a similar story to what were seeing here. Muted moves one direction ortd othe or the other. The dax up by . And a look at currencies. The dollar is up across the board. Euro at 1. 056. Dollar yen at 114. 05. Here are the storying were watching. China posting a trade deficit of 60 yuan. Exports dominated in yuan, they rose 4. 2 in february, imports jumped more than 44 . That import growth driven by a construction boom. Analysts say the data may have been distorted eby the long lunr new year sell breaks. During the sell breaks,celebrat
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