Looking at early trading in european equities, in the green. The dax up by 0. 6 . Cac up by 0. 9 . Lets check out the Energy Markets. Yesterday Energy Markets traded higher. Once again as it looked like demand in china might be pushing higher. Some of the opec nations looked like they might be cutting back as they said they would be doing. This morning, wti down about 1 . Steve . Here are the big stories today. Janet yellen says she is upbeat about the shortterm economic outlook. Speaking to a group of educators in washington late yesterday, janet yellen said the labor market is looking strong, but the central bank chief is worried about longerterm issues like growing income inequality and weak growth in labor productivity. Its the busiest day of the week for economic data, retail sales out at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. This is the important december retail sales number. At 8 30, the december Producer Price index. At 10 00 a. M. , january Consumer Sentiment and november business invento inven
Prosecutors about the way he had been helpful when those prosecutors were asking for the judge to go easy on him. But so much of it was redacted, so much of it was hard to piece together that we cant, i think, substantively in normal words describe what it is that hes done. He apparently hasnt done much more with prosecutors since then. It was the judge who said he wanted flynn try to do more. It will be interesting to see the way the judge reacts to this since the judge has been so independent and sort of i dont want to say contrary. Hes at least been his own man on this very much so, but then it looks like if the judge goes along with it, we still wont know more about flynns fate until midjune. We have a couple guests who are studying these right now, so we wont know much until we get to that in our next segment. Thank you, rachel. President trump took a hard turn today meaning no pardon and no one can defeat what happened in the investigation today because it happened in the state o
Is about to take personal action to eliminate the Death Penalty there, that will change history. Watch this space. That does it for us tonight. We will see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Michael cohen reportedly will get another 90 days before sentencing. Maybe. The judge gets to decide if he gets another 90 days, and that judge has been a little fickle about sentencing. That would be the likelihood. Its fascinating that the special prosecutor in these filings says theyir work with m is otherwise complete. What do you make of that . Well, we dont exactly know what flynn cooperated on. In the initial leadup to his sentencing hearing that went so awry in december, we got a fairly detailed statement from prosecutors about the way he had been helpful when those prosecutors were asking for the judge to go easy on him. But so much of it was redacted, so much of it was hard to piece together that we cant, i think, substantively in normal words descr
Winning the 2018 midterm elections with the largest margin of victory since 1974. Donald trumps dream to build a border wall with mexico ended with his complete venture on the trump government shut down to the new democratic majority in the house of representatives. The new house put Donald Trumps former personal lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, under oath. Donald trump is now the subject of 11 congressional investigations. Donald trumps former Accounting Firm and Deutsche Bank are in the process of compiling records to comply with subpoenas from documents from the house of representatives. In two weeks, special Counsel Robert Mueller will testify to the House Judiciary Committee and the house intelligence committee. At last count, 85 house members have called for impeachment, including some of the democratic freshmen stars who won back the speakers gavel for nancy pelosi. Tonight you will hear from some of those freshmen stars. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley of massachusetts and member
Elections with the largest margin of victory since 1974. Donald trumps dream to build a border wall with mexico ended with his complete vendure on the trump government shut down to the new democratic majority in the house of representatives. The new house put Donald Trumps former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen under oath. Donald trump is now the subject of 11 investigations. Donald trumps former Accounting Firm and Deutsche Bank are in the process of compiling records to comply with subpoenas from documents from the house of representatives. In two weeks, special Counsel Robert Mueller will testify to the House Judiciary Committee and the house intelligence committee. At last count, 85 house members have called for impeachment, including some of the democratic freshman stars who won back the speakers gavel for nancy pelosi. Tonight you will hear from some of those freshmen stars. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley of massachusetts and member of the House Oversight committee will i