investors brushed off comments from the chair of america s central bank, jerome powell, who s ruled out an interest rate cut next month. isaac poole, the global chief investment officer at 0reana financial services gave us his outlook on the interest rates and the markets earlier. what we are seeing here is the market really continuing to expect significant rate cuts from the fed and that has helped drive forward returns, as you say, this target was what we were expecting to hit at the end of the year, but we have seen a little bit better than expected economic data is also helping optimism, that earnings growth might pick up a bit in the next few months. so this is all bit in the next few months. so this is all about expectation for rate cuts, mr optimism because of strong earnings? i think it really does reflect rate cut expectations and a growing belief that the us can have a soft landing, because when you look at earnings growth, actual earnings growth has been slow and
language in the report about my recollection of the events, it is even referenced that i don t remember when my son died. how in the hell dare he raise that? frankly when i was asked the question, it wasn t any of their damn business. let me tell you something. since the day he died, every single day. every memorial day, we hold a service remembering him, attended by friends and family and the people who loved him. i don t need anyone, i don t need anyone to remind me when he passed away. the simple truth is, i sat for five hours, passed away. the simple truth is, i sat forfive hours, two days of events, going back years. at the same time i was handling an international crisis. their task was to make a decision about whether the charges in this case. that is their decision to make. that is hisjob. they decided not their decision to make. that is his job. they decided not to move forward. for any extraneous commentary, they don t know what they are talking about. it has no pla
this stems back to 2017, following his role as vice president. but special counsel robert hur has decided not to pursue criminal charges against mr biden. mr biden cooperated with his investigation, and guilt could not be established beyond a reasonable doubt. mr biden previously admitted that a handful of documents were filed in the wrong place, and said that he had immediately turned them over to thejustice department. he defended keeping hold of them saying they were locked in the garage at his delaware home. here s what he had to say about thursday s report. now, i have seen the headlines about my wilful retention of documents. this is not only misleading, butjust plain wrong. he butjust plain wrong. insisted his memory is fine. the he insisted his memory is fine. the special counsel said the president had presented himself as a sympathetic well meaning elderly man with a poor memory. in remarks that took a personal and combative tone at times, president biden said despit
thank you for being with us. president biden s memory has been called into question after an investigation by a us prosecutor in to how he handled classified documents after serving as vice president in 2017. the report found that mr biden had willfully retained and disclosed material but said he will not face criminial charges. the report says it would be difficult to convict him as he comes across as an elderly man with a poor memory . our north america correspondent john sudworth is in washington. in legal terms at least, this is a vindication for president biden. the report by a former trumpjustice department official finds there is insufficient grounds to charge him for his mishandling of classified documents after leaving the vice presidency under president obama. and it says that unlock president donald trump s alleged behaviour in a similar classified documents case, president biden has cooperated in full and in his reaction today, the president seemed to suggest t
Help desk at the dnc saying you ve been hacked and not following up with they re in washington d.c. it s incompetence. it s just incompetent. the comey letter was one thing. it was an alarm clock to people. all of that baggage of 30 years. oh, yeah. then i wonder if a day or two before the election when he said there was nothing there, whether that didn t just re-alert people to the issue. reminding it and bringing it back in. bringing it back into the conversation. he should have stayed out of it. yes, he should. still ahead are you ready for dow at 20,000. the markets are closer than ever to breaking that major wall street milestone. we re going to see that. we will reveal the top stories of 2016. wonder what number one is?