Good afternoon. Im Karen Greenberg and im the director of the center on National Security at fordham law school. Insulated today to be joined by allie phon by the new book the black standard declassified how tortured the war on terror after 911. I thank you probably know olley from some events weve done together, former supervisory special agent with the fbi, investigated highprofile terrorism cases before, during and after the 911 attack and in recent years he is brought his investigative skills to the private sector and is ceo of the soup on center and specialty is Global Security affairs in everything from governance culture to state actors to nonstate actors and i will try to put as much of that today as we can. One thing i want to point out is each day the Soufan Center publishes a soufan brief which is something you should read every day. It is a wonderful deep dive into a timely issue that goes to the heart of what we should be thinking about even if its not in the headlines. An
Outperformance of small caps for a sixth straight day, so that is sort of the good news, but it is all a waitandsee game as we head into the ecb. Underperformance happening with btps in europe. Twitter earnings breaking as well. Revenue coming in stronger than estimated at it hundred 7. 6 million. 876are shifting at. Illion has a look at the monitor bullet daily active users, they came in at 166 million. That did beat estimates. They did add 14 million average monthly daily active users since the previous quarter. Seeing more activity. Now it is about monetizing that activity. Twitter is up by about 10 in premarket. More coming out later on in the show. We do want to give you a snapshot of all that is moving the market from our team in new york. We are going to begin with the data overnight in europe. Recession,s record plunging into record contraction, shrinking about 3. 8 . The slump adding a lot more urgency for joint physical support and puts more pressure on Christine Lagarde late
At 1. 08. The unstoppable market as investors digest the details of that china trade deal. Stocks ready to open on new records. Southwest is pulling the boeing 737 max until june. Airlines are digging in for more delays. And shares of Morgan Stanley before the bell. They posted record profit and revenue in 2019. Stocks looking to make more history a day after the dow closes above 29k for the first time and the president signs that phase one deal with china the s p on its way to the seventh weekly gain in eighth. Total holiday, exauto and gas up 44. Names like target might have been an execution issue. Yeah, i have to say that. I just dont find any other excuse i do think that Brian Cornell pretty much said, listen, we screwed up other people, other stores kid better that aggregate number is so much stronger than anything you saw from target. I have to believe they went to walmart, best buy or costco but they sure didnt go to target. Were going to get more earnings as we shift from the
What, what have we got here, 8. Revenue up, ad sales up, profits up, and there are now 2. 45 billion active monthly users. It was a spectacular report. Stocks up. These two stocks are helping the market but a statement from china has put a damper on things. Beijing says its doubtful that a longterm trade deal can be reached. China concerned about the impulsive nature of President Trump. Where did they get that from . The dow industrials down about 50 at the opening bell. S p down six, a fractional loss for the nasdaq. Then theres politics. Namely, the vote in the house this morning, starting the impeachment process. This has consumed the congress. It has not consumed the market. It seems to be ignoring d. C. Entirely. We will follow it and pay special attention to votes of moderate democrats from trum trumpleaning districts. Will they approve removing the president from office because of a phone call to ukraine . Cant wait to see. Stay right there. Varney company is about to begin. The
Universities should be legally bound to provide Mental Health universities have been criticised support to students, by a former Health Minister according to a former for being in the dark over student Health Minister. Mental health needs. Lets get more now, on the news that oil prices have risen sharply the uk should advance its climate targets by 10 years, as a result of saturdays attack according to a leading scientist. On two Saudi Arabian facilities, discount Supermarket Chain aldi which caused a big slow down in production. Yesterday, President Trump stopped short of directly accusing announces a 26 fall in profit. Iran, but suggested possible military action once the perpetrator was known saying the us was locked and loaded. iran denies any involvement in the attacks. Our security correspondent frank good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Gardner is with me now. Im joanna gosling. Borisjohnson is about to hold obviously a very powerful target because of the impact globally