To retail after macys posted stronger than expected Third Quarter results that missed on Third Quarter sales. Three heavyweights expected to release numbers. Well bring you the numbers just as soon as they hit and impact on your money tomorrow. First, here is what is new at this hour. At the white house President Trump is about to award the National Medal of the arts, National Humanities medal for the First Time Since taking office. Among the recipient, actor jon voight, author james patterson, and Country Singer allison krauss. Well bring you any breaking headlines from the president. Plus on capitol hill the marathon public impeachment hearing continue. Meantime President Trump is meeting with the biggest ceos in the country. The commanderinchiefs new request from tim cook. And netflix suffering a worldwide outage. The current status and the latest response from the streaming giant. If you thought you were watching netflix tonight, you better tune in. Connell we have fox Business Team coverage of all our top stories with Edward Lawrence on capitol hill. He will have the latest on trade. Kristina partsinevelos and Jackie Deangelis both in our newsroom here in new york but edward, we start with you. What is the latest . Reporter the ball is in the administrations court. That is what House Speaker nancy pelosi told me on the future of usmca. There needs to be more protections in the agreement, not just inside papers. There may need to be more negotiations with canada and mexico before this is all said and done. For that reason the House Speaker says, as well as the all the committees that have to sign off on the deal there may not be a vote on usmca this year. Listen. Im not even sure if we came to an agreement today that it would be enough time to finish. But, just depend on how much agreement we come to. Reporter there was no agreement that was made today. The house, after the house votes on it. The senate will have to take up usmca. Now today House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy tied the usmca to the impeachment process saying the House Speaker was on a path to said what she said last month. Then they started these impeachment hearings. The House Minority leader said the vote got delayed because of those impeachment proceedings. There is growing pressure from the freshman democrats in the house to get a vote on usmca. The House Speaker said she told those democrats that the legislative process takes time. And because there may need to be renegotiations with canada and mexico, again that vote may not happen this year. Back to you. Connell Edward Lawrence on capitol hill. Melissa stepping up the pressure, President Trump is expected to sign the hong kong human rights and democracy act into law as the escalating violence is threatening to turn the Global Business hub in something that looks more like a war zone. Fox newss Jonathan Hunt is in hong kong with the details. Jonathan . Reporter the students at the Polytechnic University here have all along said they are desperate to see President Trumps signature on the human rights and democracy act. They have painted their pleas for help on buildings on campus. They have arranged safety helmets in the shape of the international sign, sos. And they have honk the stars and stripes as an indication theyre looking for the u. S. To do more. Even though they are grateful for the language of senators like marco rubio who tweeted after the house passed the bill already unanimously approved by the senate, quote, over the last 24 hours by a cumulative vote of 5171, the United States congress has made it clear that america is going to stand with hong kong. A few dozen studentsed meantime remain holed up on the campus determined to avoid arrest, looking to get out any way they can. Trying to run out from the sewage system. They tried to go out by roof or climbing out and jump down from the building, trying to go up from rope and trying to find someone to take them out. So, theyre looking for different way. Reporter the Chinese Government already condemned the hong kong human rights and democracy act saying that the u. S. Administration should stop, quote interfering in chinas internal affairs. Connell were joined with more on this by jack hough barrons associate editor. Begin with jonathans last point. They may not be happy with the president if he signs the human rights bill. Any impact on the china trade talks . It could slow things for sure and the question many of your viewers might have, with will that mean for investors, economy here in the u. S. . I honestly dont think it will mean that much. I dont think china trade is the driving narrative of this stock market. Weve had a 10year narrative of positive but lackluster growth here, very low interest rates. Decent growth from corporate america. A really strong corporate sector here. We return now to positive earnings growth. This is the last quarter of very weak growth. Connell right. I think investors look ahead to next year, saying companies in the u. S. Will grow up. Stock market will continue to move higher. We would love to see a trade deal, but i dont think that is a necessary condition for the economy and the markets. Connell could still go up even without that. Well bring you back on another story later on in the hour. Jack hough. Melissa the fight against misinformation. Facebook is weighing steps to curb targeted political ads, this according to the wall street journal just one day after google announced a similar approach on its platform. Lets go to Kristina Partsinevelos for more. Right now as we speak facebook has the least restrictive political advertising rules but like you mentioned this new wall street journal report is showing maybe facebook is starting to crack. Theyre considering right now at this point increasing the minimum number of people targeted in political ads from 100 to a few thousand. The thinking behind such a change would stop the spread of fake news which kind of tends to happen when youre targeting smaller audiences. A lot of large social Media Companies though are weighing in, like you mentioned. You got google and google which operates youtube. Just announced a ban on political advertisers from targeting consumers based on their political affiliations. Kind of like in the middle. You have twitter, not too long ago, also announced an entire ban on all political ads. So if youre comparing all three, big technology, versus political advertisers, you have got twitter complete ban, google partial ban, considering changes. Zuckerberg met with the president for a secret dinner in october. Maybe things are changing. Social Media Companies are definitely weighing in on free speech. Melissa very interesting. Everybody is talking about netflix suffering this big streaming outage earlier today. What is the latest on on that. There was a little panic from people around the globe. I tried to reach out to the Company Getting confirmmation because yes, there were outages on their streaming platform. Twitter, it was just a few hours. Twitter immediately said they fixed the situation. They put out a tweet from the account, saying theyre sorry. They apologized. They didnt provide any details what the issue was. They apologized for the inconvenience. If you look how the stock did throughout the day, this news came out, investors pretty much shrugged it off. Look at that. Climbed up over 2 . Closing higher today. This comes at a period when netflix is facing steep, steep competition. Disney plus launching their streaming platform, apple tv, yet netflix seems to be resilient . Melissa put out the new season of the crown. That is fabulous. Kristina. Thank you. Connell only thing i was thinking about honestly. Forging a new wall street behemoth. Charles schwab buying td amarried trade for 26 billion. Jackie deangelis with more reporting on it. Jackie. Those are nice closing prices if you owned either of those companies. This proposed merger, weve been waiting all day to hear companies confirm it is actually happening. We still dont have the confirmation just yet. Investors are loving the news. The combined entity would be five trillion dollars of company. Schwab ceo. Walter bet tinger would run the new company. Schwab was the disruptor, the one that flipped the tables in terms of the industry taking commissions down to zero. A lot of people were worried that would mean less revenue for schwab. But schwabs new client accounts they jumped 31 in october. Coincidentally the Company Announced commissions going to zero but at the same time a lot of others had to follow suit. So you have industry buzz right now. Who will be next . Is it Interactive Brokers . Would it be evident trade . A lot of companies out there to look at at this point. What is interesting also to note is that you put the two companies together, this new schwabTd Ameritrade youre competing in a much bigger Playing Field here. Youre competing with big players like vanguard and even blackrock. Connell is that just the size of the deal . People start to think about regulatory hurdles on deals like this. Are we hearing anything about that . That is a great point, connell. Barrons put out a great piece not long ago, bringing up the idea youre creating a new breed of Brokerage Firm here. Regulators could look at this with scrutiny even though wall street seems to love it. More to look at in this day and age in the financial crisis. Something to watch out for. Connell thank you, Jackie Deangelis. Melissa taking aim at facebook. Elizabeth warren slamming Mark Zuckerberg for secret meeting with President Trump. 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Republican impeachment hearings enter ad fifth day. President trump meeting with a number of republican senators on this day, including two of his biggest critics of his own party, at the white house. Blake burman with the latest on all this. Reporter hi, there, connell. There were a series of meetings over here at the white house as the impeachment proceedings continued up on capitol hill. I was told earlier today there was a meeting involved white House Counsel pat, Jared Kushner and group of senators as they talk a way forward with impeachment. Lindsay graham said he was a part of that meeting. After he told reporters up on capitol hill, the idea of the senate squashing potential articles of impeachment from the house is not going to happen. This is what he said in part. The idea that you would dismiss the trial before they presented the cases is a nonstarter. Youre not going to get a motion to dismiss. As you mentioned the president also had lunch today with a Different Group of republican senators. You see one there. Susan collins of maine. She is one of eight senators to come here along with mitt romney. You mentioned a couple who normally dont see eyetoeye in some cases with president. Susan collins gave a readout what she said, part of the discussion was on prescription drugs prices and vaping. Impeachment was a small portion of the meeting between the president and senators. Speaking of vaping, connell. Tomorrow, by the way there will be a meeting at the white house between President Trump and stakeholders in the ecigarette industry. You will remember back in september the Trump Administration said it was throwing its support behind a ban on flavored vaping products. However, since then there has been some pushback from some of the president s allies. It remains to be seen what the president what his position is on that topic. 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