Weve had confirmation of a monster deal. Ryanair, europes largest carrier, committing to the 737. Maxs. Oing to buy 75 737 this comes on the heels of that grounded,being un after the huge grounding following those two crashes. We will be talking to the two ceos of these companies at the top of the next hour. Alix this is your super bowl. I just want to point that out. Some data dropping right now as well. Ism men effect ring data for november ism manufacturing data for november. Mike mckee has that. Michael it is slightly less than we expected. It comes in lower than the prior month. The services pmi comes in at 55. 9 from 56. 6. Not much of a change. Still growing strongly, which is important because this is a Services Economy. New orders were down a touch, as is the business facility. 51. 5 from 50. 1. In the Manufacturing Survey earlier this week, we saw employment fall into contraction soritory for manufacturing, Rising Services employment is still good news for the auto for the ov
Sanitation and water crisis on the streets of guys that will be reporting on how diseases are spreading across the street from it, fears of color and ukraine issues restrictions on passports from military age men outside the country to address a shortage of troops at home. The restore at this news hour with the student protests in the United States. The camp setup at Columbia University in new york and solidarity with palestine as turned into a movement that spread across to the United States to europe and beyond students or demanding their schools divest from israel and columbia. They are promising to maintain their encampment until their demands are met. The universities have made several offers, promising to examine and review the investments. But its not enough for the students more than 550. 00 protesters have been arrested so far. Today is day 203 of genocide for palestinians in gaza and nearly 75 years of colonial violence from the apartheid state of israel and a meant anguish f
Im sort of any a good to have you with us. This is alice is your life from the also coming up in a worker with the Belgian Development agency has been killed by and is really arrow striking garza a flip to the set. The leaves are key for gaza with thousands of tons of aid, delayed, a group of you and experts is calling for unimpeded access. And ukraine issues restrictions on passports for military age, men outside the country to address a shortage of troops at home. The beginning, this is our, with the voices of students across the World University protests that were triggered by the war on gaza. Now growing into a chorus of distant chestnuts with governments and leadership across the globe. Its just over a week since students at Columbia University began demanding their schools divest from israels after that students of columbia, harvard georgetown, mit and George Washington university. To name just a few followed suit protests spread from the northeast to campuses in michigan, texas
Here the shares are down 8 right now. Thats not even the biggest point decliner in the dow. Which goes back to how low its share prices got. Exactly. At this hour the Senate Finance committee is beginning to mark up its tax reform bill well tell you whats at stake there and what could be the most contentious issues between the house and senate. Meanwhile, amazon is reportedly considering a freemium option for prime video. Wel n will netflix make a similar move lets get to our top story today, the big decline in ge shares Morgan Brennan has all the ugly details for us morgan reporter hey, bill, yeah, so ge cutting its dividend in half. Its only the third time since 1899 its cut that payout, this is the first time its done it notscenario. Thats only part of the story here big part of why these shares are falling 8 is the updated guidance new eps numbers for 2018 expected to be 1 to 1. 07 a share, reduced by half since the previous target and lower than consensus estimate 6 billion to 7 b
Behavior across the bond space. Oil, tyler, the dollar, you name it. You would definitely say that this is a relief rally in a very classic way. The catalyst, really the lack today, kelly, of a negative catalyst. Now, the stanford finance professor who wants a lot more Bank Regulation and has the ear of president obama and the attention of the Federal Reserve vice chair, stanley fischer, is here. These ideas make wall street nervous and theyre gaining traction. She will be here with what she says is wrong with the banking sector. Our old different Marcus Lemonis joins us after the bell. The profit star here on cnbc has a few things to say about this market. Plus, marcus has accepted the ice bucket challenge for als and will do so here on the closing bell and you wont believe who hes going to challenge to do it next, kelly. Watch out. I know. Lets take a look at markets right now. With an hour left in the trading session, the dow is turning in a strong performance, up 168 points or 1 no