Yes. A busy earnings day. Also awaiting whole food reports in a major board shakeup. What to do with the grocery stock. Shares fractionally lower now. And you heard, boeing halted flights of its 737 max jets because of engine issues that surfaced over the weekend. Well have breaking details and the stocks suffering as a result of that anournnouncementannounc we begin with the story the whole country is talking about, fallout from president trumps surprise dismissal of fbi director james comey last night. Eamon javers and amy on capitol hill. Eamon, you first. Sanders here at the white house finishing up a briefing within the past hour or so. She made a number of points including that the president is going to meet with the new acting director of the fbi today. The search for a successor is beginning today. She also said that the president s thinking on this began mucherer than we learned when this news officially broke last night. What she said i think its been an erosion of confidence
Good morning. Happy friday. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me as well. An extra happy friday on this long weekend. A long weekend back home, back in britain, and also here. One of the few Bank Holidays that are united. What are they celebrating there . Just a may bank holiday. Im not sure theres a reason for it. Well check in with steve, hell know. Also new music friday. Listening to carly rae jebsons new hit. Another record finish, and very strong day for both the s p and the nasdaq. We are looking at futures under pressure. Dow futures down 13. S p down 1 point. Nasdaq is positive. Well tell you about that in a moment. Its been a strong week as a whole. S p is up about 1. 4 . And the russell 2000 index has underperformed a little. As for oil prices, almost a 5 slide yesterday. Watching that carefully, seemed to be a big disappointment out of vienna. Wti crude below 49 a barrel. 48. 97, maybe a mini pop this morning. Bi
Cancer festival draws to an end. Sofia coppola becomes a second home to take him the prize for best director. Also coming up in the hour in business, more on the cancellation of in business we will have more on the financial repressions of British Airways canceling a flight. It is likely to shape franco russian ties for years to come. Vladimir putin touching down in france to me president Emmanuel Macron. They will get to it exhibition at versailles to celebrate the 300 anniversary of peter the greats trip to paris. International issues will not be a salt that salt without the russians. Will not be solved without the russians. Reporter it is here, part of the palace of versailles that Emmanuel Macron will receive Vladimir Putin. It is a symbolic menu. It was here in 1717 when peter the great forged a detente with france. This comes seven months after the russian president canceled a trip to paris following based that with francois hollande. Opening up a new page. Maybe to try to let ot
Lea President Trumps comments getting too strong. In china the shanghai composite up fractionally. Lauren investors focused on Bank Earnings. Jpmorgan chase, wells fargo, citigroup among others. Lea orders for the galaxy and have been strong. The exploding phone fiasco in the Rearview Mirror. Lauren Boston Celtics beat the Milwaukee Bucks are in the top seed in the nba playoffs in the hockey playoffs the new york rangers in their first playoff game. Train 25 01 a. M. In new york. Thursday, april 13th. Welcome to fbn am, your first look at morning markets and breaking news. Lauren almost friday. Raking us this morning. President trump offering better trade terms for north korea. In an interview, and this is what the president said. Thats worth having deficit and thats worth having not as good a trade deal as i would normally be able to make. In the same interview, the president said he will not label china a currency manipulator, but he said the u. S. Dollar is getting too strong. On th
More components reporting earnings today. Europe is mostly green and german wholesale inflation is at a six year high. And got some reassuring comments in the saudis yesterday. We begin with a big day for earnings. Verizon, black stone, travelers all reporting this morning. Bill oreilly is officially out at fox. So what does the network do now without its biggest star and are even more big changes ahead . Bizarre letter and a soccer ball seems to be behind kleinfelds ouster from arconic. And amex is going to do its part, rising in the market and helped by an increase in card member spending. On the flip side, verizon and travelers each posting earnings misses and i think fast called it the ding in the dow. Goldman, ibm. Today might be verizon. Verizon is clearly a disappointment. Travelers i would tell you you have to see through the catastrophe. I like the number. I know thats not necessarily todays business, but travelers had a good combined ratio. Very good underwriting so keep that