Brooklyn, how we doing . When the host and Creative Director of Msnbc Life and we are so excited to welcome you to our very first of soldout fanfocused event. Thank you. This is where you get to meet and greet your favorite msnbc personalities live and in person , and i can let you guys in on a little secret. Steves khakis are just the same as in real life. Over the course of the day, we will give you our take on the state of this crazy election. Are you enjoying it so far . Its only september. All right, lets get this thing kicked off. You may have seen them reporting from the dnc. They are going to tell you what it was like to be there in that electric atmosphere, but first theyre going to dig into what is at stake in november. Please welcome to the stage, the host of the readout, Joy Read and Alex Wagner. Thank you. Add a selfie. So smart. Hello. Thank you all for coming. How amazing is this . Amazing. Thank you, brooklyn. I think we are going to just jump right in because really wh
the notes from the us central bank s last meetings show policy makers are feeling better about inflation. they a . ree better about inflation. they agree with better about inflation. they agree with investors - better about inflation. they agree with investors that i better about inflation. tie: agree with investors that rates are at or near the peak for this cycle. they also agree that that will come down this year. but they offer no clues as to how or when that will happen. just to remind viewers it started raising rates in march 2022. it did so 11 times, taking the benchmark weight to a range of five and a quarter to five and a half percent. inflation had dropped to 3.2% from a peak of 9.1%. new data out on wednesday showed the number of job out on wednesday showed the number ofjob openings in the united states fell to a .70 9 million in november. this points to weaker demand for labour, but it is still way above pre labels. that is consistent with the goal to slow the
year starts on january the 30th. that disappointment is reflected in how us stocks closed in their second trading session for this year. all the major indices closed lower. the tech heavy nasdaq led the drop, which includes stocks that are sensitive to interest rates, like apple, nvidia, and tesla, all of which traded lower. it s a sign that investors are cautious about what direction the fed will be taking for this year, shedding the optimisim they had at the end of 2023. anna rathbun, chief investment officer at cbiz investment advisory services, explains. certainly, there s walking back of some certainly, there s walking back of some of the excitement we saw in of some of the excitement we saw in december. december was really saw in december. december was really extraordinary. the fed went really extraordinary. the fed went to really extraordinary. the fed went to suggesting there may be three went to suggesting there may be three rate cuts. they didn t say three rate cut
committee, they suggest that these companies might be broken up if they don t take down more content. so big tech has gotten the message. they want their monopolies to continue going and mint money. so they re responding by practicing censorship. tucker: you ve been in this business all your life. were you shocked to learn that apple was preventing nonviolent protesters in china from communicating with each other? it is pretty shocking. the way that it was done, tucker, was they had an update. it was like 16.1.1 or something like that. they didn t say normally what they do when they do an update, they put in the release note what s they re changing. they said in the release notes that they said they were doing bug fixes. they didn t mention they were limiting the use of this air drop feature. normally apple is proud of their releases and eager to tell
governor paul la page. and records smashed from the midwest to the east coast. and now a new record. this past year has been the warmest ever for america. so turn up the ac, grab a cold drunk. cnn newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us. i m carol costello. right now, president obama is just about to head to the heartland. he is visiting the battle ground state of iowa and reaching out to middle class voters. that s who would most benefit from his plan to extend the bush era tax cuts. here s what s going to change. basically if we don t do anything, everybody s taxes go up at the end of this year. now, understand what i m proposing is 98% of america, 98% of american families, won t see their taxes go up according to my plaque. plan. the only folks who would see their taxes go up would be the top 2%, folks like me who don t need those tax breaks, are doing just fine without them. republicans will seize the spotlight first in