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palestinian men. israel is claiming it has taken out a number of hamas leaders. still organized to fire rockets against cities in israel, and we ve seen those barrages pick up again. an investigation into harvard, upenn, m.i.t. after their presidents failed to condemn anti-semitism. a board of advisers calling for a leadership change at upenn. it must be condemned, and condemned unequivocally. good friday morning, i m phil mattingly with poppy harlow in new york. this morning, the 2024 campaign trial is on a collision course with the u.s. justice system. hunter biden now facing nine new federal criminal charges as investigators say he avoided paying $1.4 million in taxes, instead spending that money on things like drugs, escorts, pornography and luxury hotels. hunter biden is not president joe biden and there is no allegation in the 56-page indictment that the president did anything wrong. he s not even mentioned, but that is not stopping house republicans ....
. this is nightly business report with tyler mathisen and sue herera. risk assessment. a rare event. the oracle speaks. the big mistake warren buffett said some investors like you may be making. hot topic. ab old drug gets a new price tag to treat a rare and debilitating condition. that and more tonight on nightly business report. welcome. gains were small today. minuscule really. but they were good enough to lift the s&p 500 and nasdaq composite to all-time closing highs. investors seemingly concluded the market had dodged yet another risk. namely, that france might elect a far right opponent of the european union and the euro currency. the french for now voted for a moderate and the status quo. and that was enough to let investors globally focus not on european vote counts, but on the improving health of europe economy and stock market which has been climbing. we begin with two reports. bob pisani takes a look at the markets. but first, michelle caruso- ....
show. can t wait for that, but we do begin with new fears about flying. poisoned flight attendants accusing boeing of knowingly endangering airline passengers. cnbc s phil lebeau is in los angeles. give us the story here. reporter: this is the kind of lawsuit that could potentially impact thousands of boeing airplanes being flown around the world. we should point out this is simply allegations at this point. a lawsuit was filed yesterday here in illinois against boeing by four flight attendants. let s set the story up for you involving these flight attendants. they were on a 2013 alaska air flight. four of the flight attendants got sick. three of them passed out. they allege that toxic fumes were fed into the cabin through the air ventilation system. they are blaming the bleed air system which basically brings outside air through the engines, filters it and it s supposed to make it suitable for air to be breathed in the cabin by passengers. the flight attendants say t ....
gartman here to explain why one group of stocks are still rallying. but first we start off with the record highs and propelled by biotech up 8% more than double the gains in the health tech sector. that all as president-elect trump is pushing for a quick repeal of obamacare and republicans in the senate and house maneuver to make it a reality. so what is behind this move? is it too late to get in? no, i don t think it is. what is behind the move? what is behind the move is the fact that you haven t heard politicians now effectively talkingabout biotech talk about it the last month. it hasn t been steadfast on everybody s radar screen. so thousand people are lonow pe valuation and maybe the companies are not left to dead. ibb we talk about all the time. look at all through 2016, how many times did to try to get through 250 on the down side? probably four, five, failed to come so each time. now it s above the 280 level that we ve talked about for the last year and a hal ....
six so far this year. closing at a fresh record. and the s&p 500 did something that hasn t done in nine years. drug and drug price crisis. as the opioid epidemic grows, so does the price of a life saving drug. the first part of our series on success, january 10th. welcome. the focus on wall street today was washington. on capitol hill the sfirs confirmation hearings took place and there was also a senate examination of russia s hack activities. future of health care was a big topic of conversation as was a controversial component of the revamping of a corporate tax code. he we begin with jeff sessions. while most of the questioning was focused on his civil rights record, his views on mergers, antitrust and regulations could face the business environment. john harwood reports. reporter: 30 years ago, jeff session mad his first trial by fire. his second got off to a more promising start today. the alabama senator moved to limit his vulnerabilities at a senate judici ....