When you look at the situation, haiti is closed for business. Stephanie but there are huge opportunities to be had. Can private investment save haiti . We have a good for people and we would like tothem to benefit from what god gave us in haiti. Today, they are not. Stephanie 80. Most likely, the name sparks an image in your mind and it is probably not good. Even before the magnitude 7. 0 earthquake rocked the country i generate 12 2010,haiti was pretty bleak. Founded by former slaves in 1804 haiti has severed through a series of oppressive governments, including the notorious father and son president s. According to the world bank most haitians survive on less than 2. 5 a day. Is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Yes great push the country to the very brink. With one of the worst moment in our history. All the Public Ministry should was knocked down. Bit over 200,000 people that were homeless. It was an armageddonlike situation. Stephanie the haitian government was prepar
Getting ready to report its earnings after the bell. Lets take a look at shares. Currently up by 1. 9 . 132. 73. That stock is up about 20 this year so far. Most of that however, was before it joined the dow just over five weeks ago. What can investors expect to hear . What will it do for the stock . Josh lipton is in cupertino, california. Mandy, as you mentioned, apples stock has moved sharply higher this year. But can ceo tim cook keep that momentum going . Well find out after the close today. Heres what the street wants to see. Analysts are looking for earnings per share of 216 2. 16 on revenue and 56 billion in revenue. Drilling into the different product segments analysts think apple shipped 57 million iphones. Apple is still the iphone company, the product representing more than 50 of the companys total sales. Analysts think apple shipped about 14 million ipads. That product has been a sort of disappointment to wall street. Well see if that trend continues. Analysts think apple
Rejected the houses effort to appoint what they call a conferries to go to a house nate negotiation. The house sent their con ferries to that negotiation anyway and pointed out that there were no Senate Negotiators in the room with them. The house members said theyre extremely upset about that, very frustrated. Now at this hour, weve got House Republicans meeting in a room in the basement of this building in the house of representatives trying to figure out what the strategy is for the rest of the day. Heres the president. Good morning, everybody. At midnight last night can everybody hear me . Mike working . Good morning. At midnight last night, for first time in 17 years, the republicans in congress chose to shut down the federal government. Let me be more specific. One faction of one partyin one house of congress in one branch of government, shut down major parts of the government. All because they didnt like one law. This republican shutdown did not have to happen, but i want every
To the floor of the Stock Exchange Nicole Petallides standing there. Nicole we are down 6 of the last seven trading days, a different picture. Some things that may have turned the hour around the dow is up 156 points, a gain of one full percentage point. What may have caused this word gdp numbers and also economic numbers were good or good enough, earnings and outlooks that seem to be better than what we have gotten over the last 24 hours and fewer worries about emergingmarket, took out a wild card. That being said, the dow is 154 points, the s p 500 up 1. 3 . Lets take a look at ups, profit came in, stronger 2014, tough time during the holiday season, a flurry of lastminute orders. Up 1 right now over 52 weeks, year to date, ups and fedex still in the red. Back to you. Lori gains on wall street, emerging markets, crawling back from their route to. Trading near the level before the central bank announced its rate hike. In russia, a 5year low against the dollar earlier, now coming back
Companies, and more. Also asking the asset manager where he is investing. Health care is a big part. Details to follow. We will get you down to the sea d. C. The Obama Administration not renewing its cut contract. Ther cook with me now with change. First of all how much money is at stake . This contract was worth as much as 300 million. The company is out after one year and 90 through one million 93 million. You that the administration has not been pleased with those efforts to fix the problem. They won this contract in september 2011 to be the main healthcare. Gov. Certainly nothing as big as this. Its main job was to build the websites front door, a door that did not work very well for americans trying to sign up in october. Some of its top executives were grilled on capitol hill. Is turning to this new company. It has handled the rollout of californias exchange, covered california. That site has operated pretty well and the administration hoping for the company to do the same thing