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Its up another half a percent. Well get disneys earnings after the bell today. Apple is thought of as sort of the lead dog. Its the Largest Company out there. I think disney is the company to watch these days. What a performance it has turned in. Meanwhile, aetna out with earnings this morning. Its getting a big boost from medicare and medicaid these days. We have a first on cnbc interview with ceo mark bert bertolini. Breathtaking consolidation in that industry. Really looking forward to that. Also rock star and actor Rick Springfield is joining us at the New York Stock Exchange. Well talk about his latest film with meryl streep and what he thinks about taylor swifts harsh words for spotify. Ring springfield has sold 25 million albums in his career. Thats a lot of potatoes. Im sure he has some comments about streaming these days and whether or not that is a way for a musician to want to get paid whether the compensation is enough. Taylor swift says its not. As soon as you said he had
Plus ten Million People at risk for severe storms just like this one in eye ohming. Buckle up. Early today starts right now. Good to be with you. Im frances rivera. Rumors swirling around the white house that President Trump is considering firing special counsel robert mueller, just as the russia investigation turns to attorney general Jeff Sessions. The ag will be in the hot seat today testifying in front of the Senate Intelligence committee. Nbcs Peter Alexander has more about the testimony as well as details on President Trumps bizarre Cabinet Meeting. Reporter President Trump facetoface with Jeff Sessions. Its great to be here. Reporter the attorney general preparing to break his silence on russia testifying in public before congressional investigators days after james comey addressed potential conflicts about sessions role in the controversy. We were aware of facts i cant discuss in an open setting that would make his continued engagement in a russiarelated investigation problemat
Today. Call it daydream. The head of vr will join us to discuss this daydream. In a first on cnbc interview. In the meantime after losing a second lawsuit claiming Johnson Johnsons talcum powder causes ovarian canister, they are speaking out right here on cnbc. Comments in a moment. And super bowl of bio tech coming up in just a few weeks. Well start getting data from a number of companies that that could cause sol bic moves. And fed minutes released about an hour ago. Steve leisman has some of the highlights for us. Thanks a lot. The u. S. Federal reserve strongly suggesting the possibility of a june rate hike if the Economic Data improves and that is what they expect to happen. In fact in the minutes before the april meeting that came out just a few hours ago the fed said some of these conditions are already been met but many members of the fed expect the other conditions to be in place by the time the fed meets in june. That means further evidence by the economy is rebounding in the
That we saw yesterday, increasing concerns about whether or not the fed is going to raise rates in june. Does the fed threat then rally . I dont think. So im not going to speculate on when theyre going to raise rates. The bottom line is you know theyre going to raise rates. It could be june or september, next year. What the real important question is what are you doing in the fixed income market if the feds raise rates you . Know theyre going to go up. Its just a matter of time. And i get very, very concerned about the 3. 5 trillion that is sitting in fixed income mutual funds as i look forward into a higher rate environment. They could be potentially at risk. Talk to me about stocks. Do you do anything differently with your stock portfolio . No, not at all. If you look at the market, i think the market is in great shape here. Reminds me of 1982 to 2000 market where it was up each and every year. Except for 1990 when down. 5 . One thing that you have to look at this market is theres no