As for the tenyear note yield, a couple of days now after yellens testimony. Shes coming back soon, too, though, right . Tenyear note has moved up of late, 2. 743 . Lets take a look at europe. See how we performed there. As you can see, weakness there perhaps following probably some weakness here in the United States. And that is where we start with the deal that will create the Largest Cable Company by far in the u. S. Comcast the parent of Nbc Universal agreeing to acquiring Time Warner Cable for 45 billion in an allstock transaction. The deal values time warner at roughly 159 a share, before we open trading this morning. Of course. Comcast shares may be down ever so slightly. We will city. Of course, that would impact the value of the deal. The deal trumps Charter Communications recent offer which was 132. 50 a share in cash and stock and had been firmly rejected by Time Warner Cable. Charter earlier this week, of course, nominating 13 people to be on the board of directors as it be
We always do at this time. It looks like were setting up for a slightly lower opening. We shall see. Not much of an active day there, we were very focused on the enormous cable deal yesterday in terms of the Broader Markets. Tenyear note yield, weve been in the 27 range, yes, 2. 75 and europe was positive, euro zone gdp showing betterthanexpected growth in the Fourth Quarter led by france and germany that has helped those markets. Yesterday a bit of a turmoil, you get that and italy and the like, markets were a bit lower perhaps impacting us slightly. Lets get back to our roadmap right here and its what else, the weather. Thousands of flights are still being delayed and canceled this morning as the northeast is recovering from yet another very large snowstorm. Plus, joseph a. Bank is buying eddie bauer the deal worth 830 million this comes as the retailer is still fighting off a hostile takeover attempt from its rival mens warehouse. And 8 isnt great for microsoft. The Company Announci
And good evening. Its great to have you with us on this saturday. Im tom llamas. And we begin tonight with president trump, exploding over the multitude of issues clouding his administration. Less than 24 hours after the stunning shakeup at the white house, the president ferociously unloading on twitter. His tirade about leaks, the russia investigation and the new bombshell report about attorney general Jeff Sessions and the campaign. The new White House Communications director digging in on his first full day, explaining why hes deleting his old tweets criticizing thencandidate president trump. Abcs david wright starts us off. Reporter today, the president s flamboyant new Communications Director thank you. Reporter sought to kiss off any and all harsh words hes had in the past about his new boss. Tweeting, full transparency, im deleting old tweets. Past views evolved and shouldnt be a distraction. Former wall street executive Anthony Scaramucci was already at pains to explain how in
Know that is a coerced confession that they had to make at gunpoint maybe. And if at least 100 of the girls are being kept together which is what we saw in that video, how real is the possibility that many of them have already been sold across ni jeer yas borders into the neighboring cameroon or neighboring chad . Well, there is a report possibility that a small number has been trafficked across the border, but we dont believe and somebody reports that we are getting directly on the ground from the people in nigeria is that a majority of the girls if not all of them are still within nigeria, because when they are going across the border, attention starting to focus on them from othernations within the border. And so right now it is a safe haven for them within nigeria, and so we believe that most of the girls are there, and maybe not all of them, maybe have fit into the picture, but we believe they are there. And you are believing they are all still alive and there with the kidnappers
We've all seen shots of meteorologists fighting gale-force winds to report on storms. So just how high can the winds get before the reporters are knocked off their feet?