A very bizarre interview. On the move 51 million americans traveling to thanksgiving week. Airlines bracing for record numbers. Will you be one of them . We have all you need to know before you hit the road. A giant media merger blocked. Baby on board. An officer intervenes. One hand and son in the other. Why did the elfapt cross the road . Well tell you the story behind this astonishing sight. Today is tuesday, november 21st, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Everybody, welcome to today. Its a tuesday morning. We find ourselves with more breaking news. We have a top story this morning. Another prominent media figure waking up to find himself embroiled in a Sexual Harassment scandal. This morning its veteran journalist charlie rose who is now facing accusations from more than a dozen women over allegations of misconduct ranging from crude sexual advances to groping. As a result, he has been pu
The dow crossed 24 how for the first time yesterday, but for the month the dow was up 3. 83 the s p up 2. 1 and the knanasdaq up 2. 17 . Telecoms led the way for the month. Check out the u. S. Futures those gains yesterday were something to see the dow Jones Crossing 24,000 for the first time the s p 500 was up by 0. 8 yesterday. All of these things we have been watching closely you are seeing a pull back this morning. Maybe related to what were seeing in europe the declines there are more significant. Declines in europe are because of the tax deal. You think absolutely. After we got so close last night. Its not just the declines in europe, europe is not matching 350 points of gains that we had here yesterday but the 350 points, that was at 4 00, all of this stuff they were supposed to vote yesterday. Im surprised theres not a bigger decline this morning based on the snags in the tax bill it was supposed to happen if we knew it would happen today, there would be further gains, now its
We are off session highs and off session lows perhaps restoking the trade war discussion, and they closed a percent, perhaps this gave investors that are looking for selling opportunities a bit of a window to do so. We saw a leg down again around 1 30 the dollar hit three year lows later on, and the dollar fell after treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin made comments, a weak dollar positive for trade, the weaker dollar pushing up the price of oil and gold, up higher by 20 bucks, for stocks, the nasdaq, weakest of the three averages, thats Still Holding to be true, and the weakest of the major s p sectors. Chip stocks, specifically weaker on pace for the worse day since the end of november, and Texas Instruments, the biggest drag in the chip group, the shares down as much as 9 at one point after an inline Earnings Report, but also the slowest Revenue Growth in a year, causing investors to rethink the prospect for Texas Instruments. Weakness in the tech stocks we watch closely, the faang gro
Falling by 242 points. Questions about what can get done in d. C. The president and the congress dealing with immigration and tax reform. Thats where we begin at the white house with adam shapiro. There was a Late Afternoon meeting between congressional leaders and the president. We were told tax reform was the topic. What do we know about it . Reporter we dont have the details of what tax reform will look like. But what we do know is we are moving towards markups. Those will be the Committee Hearings in which the proposals for tax reform live or die. Also potentially repealing the deductions for state and local taxes. President trump just before the meeting which finished 15 minutes i go. This is what he said and why its crucial to deliver tax reform this year. This is more than just tax reform, this is tax cutting to put it in simple terms. We are going to cut taxes, reduce tax for people, individuals, middle income families. Well reduce taxes for companies. Reporter connell when you
Time guy is so nice, he got everybody starbucks downstairs he does that once in a while. Every time he comes in. He expenses it you know, see, you ruined it . You ruined it. We had a moment. He did not expense your epsom salt no he did not youre a good guy, guy do people say hi guy, guy you just did. Japan has called for an emergency meeting of the u. N. Security council u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is calling on china and russia to take direct action against the north. There has not been much action in the u. S. Fought chores. The dow is indicated higher again. Futures indicate up 9. 5 points now. S p fought choutures down 2 1 2s the nasdaq down 11 lets look at the currency markets. The dollar coming up the dollar was lower versus the yen after the north Korea Missile Launch news first hit. You can see this morning that at least at this hour the dollar is up against the yen at 111. 20 down against the euro. Lets look at the asian markets. Overnight the nikkei still closed up