Main Opposition Party steps up the pressure on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi over that huge citizenship law thats divided the country. Top story is being called a mockery and anything but justice the end results of a saudi trial into the killing of the germans jamal. Has brought criticism from the u. N. Special investigator and condemnation from human Rights Groups 5 people have been sentenced to death but the right densities have not been revealed after the closed door trial in riyadh its clear the former royal aides qahtani widely suspected of being a ringleader and mohamed el who was the saudi consul general in istanbul where the Washington Post columnist was murdered the former deputy intelligence chief. Was released for insufficient evidence 3 other people received jail terms totaling 24 years the kingdom has denied any links to the hit squad killing but some of the team work for the saudi crown prince. Help us more. 14 months after Jamal Khashoggi was last seen walking into th
Good morning, im david asman in for stuart the varney today. Meta is bleeding cash. The companys lost 200 billion, thereabouts, in market value since their report after the bell yesterday. Now, Mark Zuckerberg says he plans to spend billions more on artificial intelligence. That had investors a little concerned. Meanwhile, gdp for the First Quarter coming in well below expectations. That accelerated selling. The dow is now down 447 points. The nasdaq is down 276 points, so its going to be a wild day for trading. Lets check the Interest Rates. The 10year just above 4. 6. Its now 4. 7. 2 right now. 4. 72. The 2year is up over 5 . You get a 2year bond for 5 right now. Not Much Movement for bitcoin, trading around 63,000, 63,5. Gold is trading around 2300 an ounce, its up a tick, just 4. Oil trading around 82 a barrel. And now to politics. Wow, what a day. Very busy day for donald trump, and it started early. He made a Campaign Stop this morning. Trump is making a big play for new york. He
Of course, joe biden has already said it. Trump hasnt responded yet. The vote will take place in just over 48 hours on saturday april 20th, which coincidentally happens to be hitlers birthday on april 20th. So, lets consider this a gift to zelensky personally. True, uncorking champagne or, in the ukrainian case, a bubble. It is not yet a fact that congress will vote in favor. Washington kremlin congressmen, who are also supporters of donald trump, began to delay the process of bringing the document to a vote, 46 have already been introduced amendments congressman andrew oogles, stanosi is asking to prohibit the use of american money for weapons and training forbidden. In russia, the neonazi azov battalion. The same applies to the socalled third assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed forces, actually a rebranding of kozov. The ban applies to the wards of the terrorist budanov from gur, and the vlasovites from the socalled rdk. Congressman paul gassard from arizona believes that billions
Began ti gigantic sales of merchandise. It all gets thrown out at once. Thats what happened today with the dow plunging 328 points. I know the market took a hit today, but even after todays sale, you need to know that were down only able 3 from the highs and there could be further to fall because the market has run a great deal. And we only fell back to where we were mid august. Im concerned that many of the big industrials, when they report their earnings, will disappoint wall street. Some of these stocks have been going down for ages. Others are just beginning to roll over. As i see it you have two choices here. You can be like warren buffet, take the paint and all will be well because its a great country. Given the declines we experienced, you may want to stay the course on everything. Or you can acknowledge that were going to roll back a little more, a decent chunk of the gains for the year. And you could take some evasive action. Given the economies are gets worse off, not better,
Tell us to talk to us. It is snowing up and down the east coast today. After two months of record cold snap, there are problems keeping up with the demand of salt. Welcome to Market Makers. K is off this week in colorado. Scarlet fu is helping me out. Good morning, you talked about comcast and time warner. The deal is more than 45 billion. Christina has been talking to executives and studying the fine print. Give us the overview. Pulled a shrewd move. It was talking to charter about and in thenturer middle of everything, it went around everyone and negotiated a deal on its own with time warner. It is the price the time warner wanted, 1. 60 per share. It becomes a matter of selling it to shareholders. Did that today on the call with analysts and its a big price. When you look at how historically these these stocks have traded, this is a phenomenal price and could spur some further consolidation. We are looking at some of the smaller players now that charter is left way behind. This is a