this year, and coming up, whether now is the time to get back into it. tomorrow marks president trump s hundredth day in office, and tom cole says how close congress could be to getting a deal done on both taxes and health care. amazon, alphabet, race to $1,000 a share. we are tracking the action. first to you on amazon. hey, sara, will. if you are looking at price targets, the streak thinks amazon gets there first. just shy 1500, that s $25 above alphabet s. after the quarterly results yesterday, it is getting closer to the milestone. amazon launched double digit revenue growth, and now heavy investments, and push in the indian market, drone delivery, to the recent nfl deal. shares surged more than 50% over the last year, and about 25% since january alone. by the way, guys, once shares get $990, jeff besos is the world s richest man of the it s worth noting what spoils the party, and not everyone is on board with the thousand-dollar plus average target. after earnings,
they talked about anything public in syria and discussed iran and the violence in ukraine. the president said the firing of director comey did not have any effect on the meeting. of. may see one last wave job seekers from poland before brexit. a recruiting company says that the u.k. beat out germany and in more than calls survey more surveyed the poles said they want to get the u.k. before brexit and what may be tighter rules on immigration. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. crumpton. this is bloomberg. julia: live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i am julia chatterley. scarlet: i m scarlet fu. joe: and i m joe weisenthal. we are 30 minutes from the close of trading in the u.s. julia: u.s. stocks near all-time highs. joe: the question is, what d you miss? scarlet: an abrupt termination president trump fires fbi director james comey in a move that raises questions about interference by sitting
yes. a busy earnings day. also awaiting whole food reports in a major board shake-up. what to do with the grocery stock. shares fractionally lower now. and you heard, boeing halted flights of its 737 max jets because of engine issues that surfaced over the weekend. we ll have breaking details and the stocks suffering as a result of that anournnouncementannounc we begin with the story the whole country is talking about, fallout from president trump s surprise dismissal of fbi director james comey last night. eamon javers and amy on capitol hill. eamon, you first. sanders here at the white house finishing up a briefing within the past hour or so. she made a number of points including that the president is going to meet with the new acting director of the fbi today. the search for a successor is beginning today. she also said that the president s thinking on this began mucherer than we learned when this news officially broke last night. what she said i think it s bee
the dow, 20,792. our leslie picard starts us off with the comments that have wall street talking. what did jeffrey oven have to say? two words to describe the markets. they are bad stuff. he was speaking at a reuters event on activism and says he is disinvesting and sitting on $3 billion in cash. ubben is focused on the risk of inflation. everything about trump i think is inflationary. it s the last thing anybody is worried about. interest rates are going up. there is no talk of fighting the fed at all. he did concede that tax reform would be positive. the devil is in the details. if there is a border tax, which is very inflationary. trump s agenda has been a boom for his investments. he invested in morgan stanley and the stock has doubled since. he said he got super lucky because you didn t expect trump to win and all of the sudden, regulatory relief looks to be on the horizon. rates are going up and volatility has returned. he still owns morgan stanley but sold some.
willing to speak with president trump with the appropriate introduction. cnbc europe s geoff cutmore joins us live with the details. hi, jeff. reporter: hi, kelly. this was ostensibly an event to talk about the arctic. and so we spent a little bit of time discussing the opportunities for cooperation between russia and other countries in the arctic community like the united states. but in reality i think there was only one question a lot of people wanted answered, so i put it. let s listen. there is a senate intelligence committee hearing as to whether russia has used disinformation to affect the outcome of the last presidential election. translator: i knew it was coming to this. i wouldn t really like to have all this positive sentiment while we re discussing the arctic region to be killed off by the issues in bilateral american-russian relations, but i respect you personally and cnbc which is your company instructed most likely you to ask this question. well, of course t