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We could learn today about the private company that we trust with so much of our information. But we start with new details this afternoon on the Justice Department raid on the office and residences of trumps personal attorney Michael Cohen. The New York Times reporting that fbi agents were looking for recordings abo records about payments to two women who claim they had affairs with mr. Trump. This, as news the president is embroiled in new controversy over his reaction to that raid. The president in that extraordinary display last night lashing out at the Justice Department, the fbi, the special counsel and his attorney general jeff sessions. So i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, good man, and its a disgraceful sit ....
Facebook s ceo mark zuckerberg is set to be in that room roughly, what, 45 minutes from now, lawmakers will be looking for answers on just how and why his company failed to protect the data of millions of its users. 2.2 billion actually. 2.2 billion facebook users. amade the cry for accountability, one thing does seem for sure, zuckerberg says he is not stepping down. the 33-year-old ceo says he s not going anywhere. but what he will do among many things is move facebook forward with advice from outside experts. that s according to his latest interview with the atlantic. who better to have to talk about it than robinson meyers, the man who conducted that interview is ....
That. from a politician s standpoint, it looks like you ve caught zuckerberg in a lie. on one hand he s expressing to all these extremely high principles. but at the same time, practicing lobbying efforts that reveal that facebook is just another business. robinson, i m going to ask you that same question in a moment, but i want to start with the conversation you recently had with zuckerberg, because, you know, in the article it seemed as if he opened up a fair amount to you about the fallout, how he is personally dealing with the fallout. i want to read something for ou veers and listeners here. almost unique among american companies, facebook is the outgrowth of one man s sensibility. as that firm changes its approach to the public, that man has not articulated why. in the days after i spoke to the famously private zuckerberg, i wondered whether it matters, how much of that change in the company s approach to the public, how much of that do you think we ll see today? will it last a ....
margaret thatcher has passed away at the age of 87. the nikkei, the highest close t and our road map begins with the markets poised ahead higher despite investors prepping for what s setting up to be a disappointing earnings season. general electric, ump approximating up its oil and gas business, provider lufkin industries for $3 billion. deutche says the airline sector is expected to take off expecting profits up 140% from a year ago. our own jim cramer on meet the press this weekend keeping about fed chair bernanke in the driver s seat. we ll kick it off with the markets as first quarter earnings season kicks off with alcoa. earnings outlook is fairly week. growth expect, compared to 6.2% last quarter is also an unusual high number of negative warnings. 107 negative revisions for s&p companies and jim, i think the ratio of downward to upward guidance is .28 to 1. it s one of the worst ever. i got that from twitter and i apologize where i first saw that on ....
nasdaq rising iing 2.5%. but the common reframe over the last week is stunning, remarkable. the operative term for this rally is bogus as in the rally is one gigantic bogusity about to unravel at any second or even started unraveling today if they are willing to acknowledge there s been a rally at all. since most of the people who watch this show own stocks and are decidedly not professional short sellers, i m sure you re wondering how could any rally be hated? what s the deal? why not embrace higher prices and celebrate? why not get in rather than disit from the sidelines? when stocks go up what the heck is not to like let alone actually despise? maybe we ought to spend some time analyzing this. this point of view i keep hearing simply because it will enliten you. this used to plague me and hurt my performance and made me not make a lot of money until i realized how the stock market really works. let me demystify the big objections to this rally, the things that make p ....