And joel, we will start in the finance section. We have to talk about the markets because we all started off the week with a crazy stock market. Joel it has been a wild week. Backdrop here really starts last friday with the jobs report. Markets come back on monday and there happens to be a new fed chair. That backdrop is a really interesting thing that ends with this major selloff on monday. Right . And then on tuesday, it goes the other way. I think everybody has been a little whiplashed by that. A bigger conversation nine years into this epic bull market. A lot of Retail Investors have only ever seen green and this is their first time seeing red. Carol a lot of millennials, right . Joel the youngs. And its so easy to trade now. If you think about what it was like nine years ago to where it is at now, you can do this on the smartphone with a touch of a button and that is a free thing, right . A free transaction. That builds in really bad behavior. Thats part of what we read about this
Are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r. T. International and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. And Germanys Social Democratic Party leader Martin Scholtz has announced his resignation with immediate a fact his decision comes after he lost out in the german election to chancellor Angela Merkel and then faced criticism over agreeing to a grand Coalition Government for a second time he said his decision will allow the party to refresh itself and come back stronger. Yes you did all. This big you need to compute when you will put organization including its personnel and this is the urgent wish of the Party Members with my resignation and also the relinquishment of my federal government membership i want to help bring an end to this debate and then allow monitors to really focus on coalition the green party. With the background to this decision heres how the debate is going. We know that resignations is something that Martin Schultzs done well in the
Carol we are here with the editor in chief joel weber. And joel, we will start in the finance section. We have to talk about the markets because we all started off the week with a crazy stock market. Joel it has been a wild week. Backdrop here really starts last friday with the jobs report. Markets come back on monday and there happens to be a new fed chair. That backdrop is a really interesting thing that ends with this major selloff on monday. Right . And then on tuesday, it goes the other way. I think everybody has been a little whiplashed by that. A bigger conversation nine years into this epic bull market. A lot of Retail Investors have only ever seen green and this is their first time seeing red. Carol a lot of millennials, right . Joel the youngs. And its so easy to trade now. If you think about what it was like nine years ago to where it is at now, you can do this on the smartphone with a touch of a button and that is a free thing, right . A free transaction. That builds in rea
Michelle carusocabrera. Stocks are lower but steady. The dow managed to hit record intra day highs earlier columbus day is today. J. G. E. , the worst annual performance in years what investors should do with this the big announcement tesla is down 2 after they said they are derailing the announcement of the new semi truck until December Tyler mathisen is here here is what is happening now. General motors taking a bigger step towards selfdriving cars, buying a sensortech firm called strobe no price tab mentioned marvel drops a planned venture with northrop drum mondmonds. This comes after they attacked the company for potential ties with the defense contractor. Apple looking into why some of its iphone 8 batteries are swelling maybe they need antiinflammatoriries. Brian . Tyler, thank you very much greetings from the janus advisory conference. We have had low Interest Rates for a better part of a decade. A lot of people may have never invested rates are expected to go higher. How do yo
White shocker, the snowboarder makes the stunning announcement one day before the competition is set to begin. Well tell you what it is today, wednesday, february 5th, 2014. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today countdown to the olympic winter games with matt lauer, live from olympic park in sochi, russia, and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer in olympic park in sochi. Matt, good morning to you, im Savannah Guthrie here in studio 1a. And dont make us wait any longer. What are we hearing from shaun white this morning . We have just received a statement from shaun white, hes giving to us first. And heres what he says, after much deliberation with my team, ive made the decision to focus solely on trying to bring home the Third Straight gold medal in halfpipe for team usa. The difficult decision to forego slopestyle is not one i take lightly. As i know how much effort everyone has