We start with an Epic Battle Raging On Wall Street that has seen small time Amateur Investors take on the titans of the hedge fund industry. Its all centred around this company the struggling us computer Game Retailer gamestop. It shares have soared at much as 1700 after a group of private investors used online forums to drive up their price. And that has raised serious questions about how Financial Markets operate in the era of social media, as paul hawkins reports. This is a story of david versus goliath, of the amateur online investor beating the Big Traditional Wall Street traders. At the centre of it, gamestop, a struggling American Retailer Selling dvds and video games. A number of the Wall Street Traders picked up on its problems and bet money that its share price would fall, known in the business as shorting a stock. Only for this particular stock, Amateur Investors swapping tips on the social media site reddit saw it as an opportunity. They bought shares, which actually drove
hello, mike. michael: taxpayer money to provide up to $20,000 for loan forgiveness for around 40 million americans but the court ruled 6-3, the biden administration overstepped its authority. we are covering this from all angles for you, justin and grace took out student loans. they have very different reactions to this ruling. you will want to hear them. they ll be joining us live in just a moment. begin with jacqui heinrich live from the north lawn. jacqui. hey there, mike. the supreme court said today the white house did not have authority to provide billions in student loan forgiveness absent any authorization from congress. it does not appear that there s any path for that there, and right now it is unclear what back-up plan the white house has. we just got a short statement from the president, we are going to hear more from him later, for now he says the fight is not over i will have more to announce this afternoon. i believe it s wrong, i will stop at nothing t
this rain in eastern areas will slowly tend to peter out and we will get some sunshine coming through and we could generate some showers all the way through yorkshire to the west midlands and into the west country. there will be some warm sunshine for many parts of the country and temperatures on the whole very similar to what we had today, but it may well be a bit warmer in scotland particularly in the east because we will see more sunshine. this area of low pressure is storm nino and it could bring more rain into italy and perhaps more rain into italy and perhaps more flooding, dominated by high pressure although there is this stripe of cloud in from the atlantic. i think on saturday looks quite cloudy for much of scotland and northern ireland, not much rain at all and most of the cloud quite thin and high. more on the way of sunshine for england and wales, that a fair weather cloud, one in the sunshine, temperatures 20 or 21, holding at 16 or 17 for scotland and northern i
To the kremlin s coffers . Well be getting the view from our man in moscow. There he is, steve rosenberg. And ill also be discussing all of this with a sanctions specialist. There she is, Agathe Demarais from the Economist Intelligence unit. Also on the show, its all about your people from taking on coca cola to flying on board your own spaceship. Im going to be getting the lowdown from self proclaimed Trouble Maker and Global Business magnate sir richard branson. Wherever yourejoining me from around the world. Once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. This was a year when the World Economy went to war as russias military invaded ukraine, bringing death and destruction and misery in its wake, the western allies responded not just with military assistance, but by turning the power of their economies to isolate russia as much as possible. Heres the us President Joe Biden back in april of this year. Theres nothing less happening than major war crimes. Responsible nations hav
thank you, sean hannity. i am laura ingraham and missus the ingraham angle. former university of kentucky swimmer riley gaines was attacked last year. tonight she spoke about how she intends to hold the school accountable. the first, the focus of tonight s angle. when president donald trump speaking at the u.n. warned germany and the rest of europe about becoming reliant upon russian energy, they laughed at him. germany will become totally dependent on russian energy. if it does not immediately change course. we will become dependent on oil in that way. laura: of course when sanctions were put in place, we saw that donald trump was right. and his demands that europe pay for their own defense were slammed by many in europe including the french president emmanuel macron. interest first and who cares about the rest, we wipe out what is most valuable about the nation. the moral values. just as obama years earlier had dismissed the idea of american exceptionalism, he w