Wynn resigns from his own company overnight. This morning, what hes saying about the growing scandal. All that plus kim jonguns surprise announcement about the Winter Olympics as his cheer squad arrives overnight. Robbed gronkowski. The prizesurprising 911 call from the patriots star who returned from the super bowl who discovered this is Rob Gronkowski calling. He had been robbed. Out of this world. Elon musk pulls off his historic rocket launch. And his sports car becomes the newest star in the sky today, wednesday, february 7th, 2018. From nbc news, this is today, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Thanks for being with us on a wednesday morning. I wish you could all see al roker dancing when i was saying there was a big winter storm coming. Exactly. He loves it. He cant help it. A lot to get to this morning. Were going to start with the massive winter storm. Thats right. Another brutal round
Le we have the editor of the book report thanks for joining us were going to check on markets see how were set up heres the futures dow down 15, nasdaq down 20. S p down 5 coming off the huge rally to close on friday, another strong week of gains for wall street. How about the tenyear, 2. 65 last week. We begin the week at over 2. 7. Did you see that i think the futures are down. Thats a sticker shock to people tenyear at 2. 72. 30year, just a hair under 3 fiveyear under 2. 5 twoyear, 2. 15 wow. Lets get you caught up with stories were watching perhaps the biggest over the weekend, saudi arabias prince alwaleed has been freed. He was detained. We talked about it for the past two months with the corruption crackdown. Several other officials and saudi royals were rounded up and they were at whats known as the ritz prison. Youll get to see it the ritz prison and alwaleed described it as a misunderstanding there are no topics its just a misunderstanding its a key position we had it was a d
H mpacked week filled w earnings. The state of the Union Address and the big jobs report end of the week. But what got investors nervous today was a rise in bond yields with thete year yield hitting its highest level in nearly four ye just one day before the start of a fed meeting. Theow jones industrial average dropped 177 points to 26439, nasdaq was off 39. And the s p 500 fell 19. Bob pisani takes a look at this big week ahead. Stocks took a breather today, ilbut therel be no shortage of marketmoving events to watch this week. Were more than a quarter of the way thrgh earnings ason, and this will be the busiest week yet. On the surface, this news could not better. Earnings are growing faster than anticipated. And thats the best news you can get. So far roughly 80 of Companies Reporting are beating earnings estimates in the Fourth Quarter. Now, that is way above historicn. It normally would be closer to 60 , so were 20 above the normal numbers. But traders have been getting nervous a
Here on the Halftime Report. We do want to begin technology where were watching an up raffling of the chips. Smh seeing its worst day in a month. Youve been talking about it for so many months. Is this going to be the down fall of tech . Well, i think that there is no doubt in my mind we talked about the idea of this thing moving very fast. We talked about going all the way back to brexit and suddenly this entire sector took off with technology and a lot of that is because the fundamental story was there to to back up the fact that you had dividends. And pes are starting to stretch a little bit. Weve talked about this on the show. Time to maybe take it out of the stock and do a stock replacement, old options for more up side. If it falls apart like theyre starting to roll down now, you at least were able to get yourself into a risk reward position. And thats what were seeing right now is down side. And we asked if we were going to have some kind of melt up. And now i wonder if were goi
Valleys news leader. Im brian loftus. Kirsten Joyce and im Kirsten Joyce. President elect donald trump is making his first two key appointments. As he continues his transition to the white house. brian loftus this. As he spoke in his first post election interview on cbs 60 minutes. Discussing one of the big topics of his Campaign Building a wall along the border of mexico. stahl would you accept a fence trump for certain areas i would but for certain areas a wall is more appropriate. brian loftus president elect trump stood firm on his vow to choose conservative Supreme Court justices who could overturn roe versus wade. And also said he would only take 1 dollar a year. As a salary during his presidency. Meanwhile, trump officially named Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus as his chief of staff. While the former head of breitbart news, steve bannon, was named chief strategist and senior counselor. brian loftus meanwhile. Protests against his presidency continued into the weekend he