Present trump threatens to destroy north korea. Rocket man is on a mission to destroy himself and his regime. The United States is ready, willing, and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary. Vonnie here to talk more about these unusually stark pronunciations is Kevin Cirilli. He is in washington. Here in the studios is bill ferry. I have to start with you because we have heard this before with the fire and fury rhetoric that we heard. And not provoke as much as we might thought it would have. What is the difference . The u. N. Ally you go to and thats a body that was created for countries to work together. Some of the rhetoric we heard from President Trump was unusual in the sense that he said countries can go their own way, but one exception to that clearly for trump was north korea, which said the u. S. Is capable of wiping off the planet or destroye destroying. That is not a message frequently heard from a u. S. Leader. Vonnie he said this is hopefully not something necessar
Closing basis and the dow in their own intraday level. We continue with this rally was relatively modest as investors are waiting details on what the fed is going to do with its Balance Sheet unwind. Not expected to be announced when the fed concludes meeting tomorrow. Individual stocks we are watching, sprint and tmobile according to bloomberg reporting have been in talks since august on their combination, theres been talks about them being in talks for longer than that. They could be weeks away from coming to an agreement on some kind of all stocks deal in which Georgia Telecom would be the owner of the combined company. At t and verizon are also getting a lift as we watch that move. On the downside today, in terms of what we are watching, we have some big down movers envision health care is one of them, the Company Announced as chief Financial Officer was up and down and announced a buyback. On its give details forecast, and that could be responsible for some of the decline we are s
That significantly expands our authorities to target individuals, companies, Financial Institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea. Here to talk about what those sanctions could look like and what options are still on the table for dealing with north korea, Kevin Cirilli joins us from washington. Greg orton is our washington executive editor. Kevin, this has been teased all day, the president saying stay tuned after another meeting today. We got what he got to say this afternoon. What is this different on how we have seen what is it limited so far . The japanese Prime Minister put it well when he said this is the next evolution, so to speak, of the u. S. Foreignpolicy in pressuring north korea. It was a trilateral agreement, the second point i would make. The president directly thanked china. China may have well is been in the room. There is some discrepancy about what the chinese did or did not do, but President Trump thanking them. The other point i would quickly
Dow and s p, but we are still close to those highs, at least the nasdaq down almost a quarter of a percent. The biggest loser in the nasdaq and its competitor was to be in talks with tesla to create a chip for autonomous driving. I want to turn to the base metals. We have stronger dollar than yesterday, weighing on the metals. That is continuing a little bit today. Some of these companies. This was the highest price since as Aluminum Prices were from bloomberg world surging. Nucor ceo discussing headquarters in midtown manhattan, this is bloomberg markets. Im scarlet fu. Taking action against unfair Commodity Markets closing in new york, select highlight some of imports. I wanted to touch on the dollar, because we heard from janet todays notable movers. Yellen yesterday and are holding gainsgames is gains gold falling back below 1300 1293 andw at for the stronger dollar, and really holding in there higher rates. Change. Continuing to see that. Moving on to gas, that gas it up withand w
The North Korean Foreign Ministry explaining what the leader could have meant, a Hydrogen Bomb detonated in the pacific. This morning, donald trump tweeting in kind. Lets get to our roundtable. Megan murphy joins me from new york. And our Washington Bureau chief joins us from washington, d. C. Megan, we have seen the rhetoric escalate. What are you going to be watching this weekend . Megan i think we have to ignore the rhetoric we see on twitter and people making statements like this that only escalate tensions. Want to thisdont on news of a Hydrogen Test its alarming indeed. But economic sanctions, yes. Thats probably the one positive out of this week with trump. However, they have not been shown to really clamp down. What we need in the region is diplomacy. We need china to ramp up pressure. Japan, south korea. We have no indication we are making much progress, and frankly, this rhetoric really damages us. On megansg, expand point. Yesterday, we had donald trump noting about the pboc