Capitalal has changed its business and cites among other things ge capitals exit of the u. S. And consumer businesses and transformation of its funding model. You might recall during the financial crisis ges finance arm almost took the company down and since that time, it has certainly changed that this or i should say last year undertaking an aggressive plan to reduce ge capital selling over half of its assets and, indeed, since that time, it sold about 166 billion or signed 166 billion worth of deal. Now keep in mind, ge is one of four nonbank companies that have been given this systemically important financial rating. Others include aig, met life and prudential and met life is involvedn a legal battle with the fed having, of course, received a favorable ruling earlier this year by a judge who said tFederal Reserve or the government could not designate it as that. That means these companies are subject to Federal Reserve reover sight and enhanced capital rerooirmts. The fsoc voted to
Lets get straight to the top story. Fed chair janet yel hn the floor yesterday, and she made it clear she isnt on the same page as her hawkish colleagues. Shes moving ahead carefully with the Central Banks decision on future rate hikes. In particular, developments abroad imply that meeting our objectives for employment and inflation will likely require a somewhat lower path to the federal funds rate than was anticipated in december. Given the risk to the outlook, i consider it appropriate for the committee to proceed cautiously in adjusting policy. Her dovish tone lifdhe dow and the s p, both indices posting their highest closing levels of the year. The s p is now up half a percent for 2016 as a whole and has fully recovered after seeing its worst january since 2009. Lets have a look at futures at this hour. Were expecting that positivity postyellen to continue. The dow called higher by 93 points. The s p by 11. The nasdaq by around about 25 points. Lets also have a look at the bond ma
Talked about a huge hailed for microsoft. It is dismayingly humor us. Lockheed as liftoff. We have the details on the new air shipments. And well show you what they look like. Its very, very cool stuff. After the bell, a rare and exclusive interview s. Erin callan, this is her first time speaking out about lehman since the financial crisis. Shes out with a memoir about what she calling leaning in too far, and shell join us live to discuss the new book and life after lehman. I would be interested to hear her thoughts on wall street today, and the impact that regulations are having on it right now. Maybe the tech world, too, where a lot of this discussion is taking place. Lets start with the markets and spikes in insurance and financial stocks. Bob pisani tracking the action here. Bob . Hello, william. Dont normal get insurance stocks leading the market, but were getting it today, and metlife up nearly 5 . A u. S. District court in washington ruled that metlife was not eligible for a sys
New model three ahead of tonights unveiling. The line is longer for the tesla 3 than it is for the apple se today. Well tell you how to play the tesla announcement without buying tesla stock. Thats coming up a little bit. I did see pictures of people with tents popped waiting to sign up for teslas. Lets start with the digital disruption facing our nations banks, hours ago the u. S. Controller of the currency sounded the alarm on the risks Financial Technologies pose to banks saying what were trying to encourage is responsible innovation. This coming just as citigroup is out with new research claiming that the Banking Industry could lose up to 30 of its jobs in the next ten years due to the rise of Financial Technology companies. We turned mike santoli on this following the story. What did you find . Both of those things you mentioned, the concern about the rapid growth and unregulated areas and potential loss of jobs is because theres really been this gold rush of Financial Technology
York times reporter. Welcome to everybody. We have a lot to get to this morning. A strong rally in the market but shares of am in the green after getting upgraded to outperform. It comes as the stock officially exits bear market territory. Meantime, now that the government has hacked that iphone without apples help the company is trying to figure out exactly how to fix the flaw and what comes next. A report says apple could consider forcing the fbi to reveal how it did it as part of an on going case in new york. A lot to work with here but lets start with apple stock. We were watching it to exit bear market territory yesterday. Theres the Morgan Stanley note about iphones a couple of weeks ago. What do you think did it . People might have come to their senses. What was it doing below 95 anyway. Its not like that much has changed. They came out with the iphone se is that going to change the overall trajectory of the iphone. Were not sure what the Gross Margins will be on that. People ha