Joe biden has cemented his frontrunner status in the democratic race for the u. S. Presidency hes won the big prize of michigan in the latest primaries bill this super tuesday to the former Vice President also took in mississippi and missouri 3 more states are being counted its a boost to biden whos extended his lead of a month senator that makes and its i want to speak to you from philadelphia where we announced turkey and p. At the front we did our final note. To all those who have been knocked down all those have been counted lets be frank this is your Campaign Just over a week ago many of the pundits declared that this can be used. Now were very much alive. Thank. God has more now from detroit and michigan black voters here in the state of michigan came out in overwhelming support for joe biden that was very clear he also based on exit polls seem to win a lot of the working class white voters in michigan as well which was pretty cool you add all of that up and thats what you saw wi
Earnings season when theres too much to keep track of and the action seems to stop making sense. The dow gained 46, the s p advanced and the nasdaq climbed up, you have every right to be extremely frustrated stocks that should be going up are going down stocks that should be down are going up human sacrifice, dogs and cats are living together, mass hysteria theres a method to that markets madness you need to understand it. Otherwise, youll have no idea whatsing if on whats going on a close investor is a bad investor so let me walk through some of the craziest examples. Im going to start with caterpillar. Caterpillar, the stock huge shortfall in response of course the stock correctly plunged 6 in Early Morning trading. Well, i thought it was a bit of an overreaction, nothing unusual about a stock going down in disappointing numbers is there its what happens next thats should we take our cue from this hard to explain. Cat down 6 and slowly rebounded. If you saw it near the low, this is a
Plans to boost the ability to deny green cards for immigrants deemed likely to rely on government aid. A former governor of a border state, new mexico, here to break down all the latest policy. All that and much more on making money. Charles thousands of demonstrators have forced hong kongs airport to cancel all of their flights. This as the citys largest airline, cathy pacific, warning the staff, those that support or participate in the illegal protests could be fired. Hong kongers have been protest ing liberties and protests from china. Clashes leading to dozens of arrests. Wall street journal opinion writer Jillian Melchior is in hong kong. She joins us by phone. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Charles give us the latest, where are you, what have you seen, contrast it to your trip there just a few weeks ago . It is quite interesting. The protests have become much more spontaneous, much smaller. I also think a lot more dangerous. When i [inaudible]. Protests first broken
The International Energy agency has revealed that lng now makes up 35 of europes energy supplies, not far off the 40 contribution that russia made before it was sanctioned over ukraine. Joining me now is ben mcwilliams, whos an Affiliate Fellow at bruegel. Thank you very much for being with us today. What are your concerns about where gas prices could go if these workers do indeed strike . This is certainly a concern, but to be clear up front, nothing comparable to last year. The position we are in is that, as you mentioned, as russian Pipeline Supplies have been cut over the last 12 months, the eu and uk have become more dependent on liquefied national gas. Natural gas. Australia typically supplies asia. If it were cut to asian consumers, we would see asian consumers turning around and looking to qatar and competing with european buyers there, which would in turn have some Knock On Effect on prices. As it had last week, 40 increase from around 30 to 36 euros just nothing like close to
International analyst for msnbc news, and the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, happy new year to you all. Happy new year to you. Happy new year. We have so much to talk about. New year yesterday morning, mika and i went to a new Years Day Service, and the priest gave a homily on the need to be architects of peace in our daily lives and political discourse, and Foreign Policy and everything. The harsh path we have taken in our not so new century is elevated, revenge over reconciliation. And reminded us for all of us in attendance, and i love this. Its a good one. He said start by digging two graves. One of them for yourselves. Yeah. Wow, that really does strike you when you look whats happening in washington over the past 20 years because i really do believe, mika, we live in two americas. One that has seen Childhood Poverty has dropped to 60 year lows, and teenage pregnancy drop to 70year lows. Its in the u. S. World dollar and anytime over