Im bill griffeth. On track for another record close. We came within 12 tantalizing points of dow 22,000 this morning. Weve since pulled back and the s p is trading close to its record levels. Grasso would know what that level is, that record, but well goat that in a few minutes were about a point away. Thank you youre welcome. Coming right up, apple has certainly been a big catalyst in the dows rally this year, but can it last . Coming up, we debate whether you should buy or sell this hot stock ahead of its Earnings Report which is due out today after the close. I love it when i get to be here for apple. Youre here every time we do Apple Earnings just works out that way. And President Trump is set to host a Small Business event at the white house called Small Business, the engine of the American Dream as son as it gets underway well take you there briefly live. What the president has to say on what has turned out to be another newsy day. The dow is inching ever closing to that 22,000 2
Driver of the van maybe hold up in a nearby restaurant Catalunya Police confirmed there may have been that fatalities and the search for the perpetrator or perpetrators of the attack. Officials are rebuking refuting reports of a shootout. Phonee a reporter on the from madrid. Tell us what we know at this point. Iswhat we know at this point 2 people is the settle debts, the official number, and over 20 people injured, apparently. Police are being careful with the details and information, but so far the reports have climbed from the initial 2 deaths to 13 at least. That is quite a big number. And apparently there were 2 people in the van, a bit like what happened in a nice last year or the year before. And when against the crowd on the sidewalk. There were 2 people in it, and one of them is reportedly inside a restaurant locked up. They both ran away. Police dont seem to have been able to catch either one of them so far. Them is in a restaurant and the other one we dont know . Rodrigo th
Awaiting janet yellen at 2 00. Plus, trump versus the house gop or not, two days until the inauguration and the president elect now suggesting that the border tax could be back. Trouble at target, Retail Stocks moving lower after target cuts its outlook on weak holiday sales. But stocks are looking to rebound one day after the dow and nasdaq each posted their lowest closes of the new year. Wall street digesting Bank Earnings today, citi beats on bottom line but misses on revenue, goldman exceeds consensus estimates. Stay tuned for exclusives with Goldman Lloyd blankfein and j. P. Morgan jamie dimon. Thats coming up later today on squawk on the street. Jim, you tweeted earlier today nothing is good enough mode on the fins. Yeah, look, these stocks ran a great deal and i thought the goldman quarter was exceptional. My travel strus owns this next one, if you adjust revenue for citi for international because they have a Huge International business, if you adjust for the dollar turns out th
Decline but negotiations continue between two Food Industry giants. Unilever rebuffing merger proposal from kraft heinz in what would be one of the biggest deals ever. Plus stocks pull back. Was the record run for the dow and u. S. Markets overly bullish . And four weeks since taking the oath of office, President Trump tries to focus on jobs and manufacturing. Hell visit a boeing plant in South Carolina later this morning. First up though, kraft heinz looking to create a consumer powerhouse confirming it has made a takeover proposal to unilever. The initial proposals been rejected unilever saying it undervalues the company. But kraft says it looks forward to reaching an agreement with unilever, adds of course theres no guarantee one will be reached. We finally have some numbers to work with, david, and im sure you got so color behind that. Yeah, luckily able to speak to some people who, you know, at least are familiar with whats going on here. Why are we learning about this . Well, sto
Yes. Were ready. [ inaudible ] thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. President thank you. Love it. I really love ireland. Ill be there. Absolutely. Thank you, press thank you, press thank you. All right, a short but sweet pool spray in the oval with Prime Minister enda kenny. It will be a busy day for the president with regards to ireland. Theyre going to have an annual friends of ireland lunch around midday, and then to this afternoon, a st. Patricks day celebration, in which the Prime Minister will present the president with a bowl of shamroc shamrocks. Oh, okay. Thats a nice tradition. I couldnt make out much except President Trump saying i love ireland. And that is the story here, right, a historic bond between these two countries, ancestral ties. They are our 15th biggest trading partner. We have a trade deficit with ireland. We have a lot of irish immigrants, and its a friendly relationship. There was a little controversy back at home, unpopular policies from