Snapped last week. European markets, lets look at them as well and see how they are faring at this time. You can see down across the board including italy and spain, thanks and france is the worst performer at this hour crude was up a tiny bit, wti kind of a quiet story last week, 56. 76 and theres the 10year yield at 2. 38 lets get to our road map this morning on squawk on the street squt General Electric slashes the dividend by 50 . John flannery outlining his new vision and a Major Corporate revamp plus, wall street pullback, you saw stock futures pointing to a lower open investors still closely watching earnings and any progress on tax reform going on amongst our lawmakers on capitol hill. Toy takeover, shares of mattel surged on friday jim and i will get into that and into the official rejection from qualcomm of broadcoms bid, a lot to get to actually lets get to ge now. Its investor day, just getting under way started at 9 00 a. M. The dow component announces it is cutting Quarte
The new tax plan, is that something thats going to benefit us as investors. I think a lot of people are confusing the places on our screen with what happens in washington. And i can tell you that is one giganda mistake, they know nothing. Even after todays Late Afternoon pull back, the true driving force behind this market remains earnings, the profits of companies, were in earnings season. Just like the Strategic Bombing campaign from world war ii, were being carpet bombed with news. Far too many people in this business believe that what these individual Companies Say is just noise compared to what the president of the United States is. Too many investors are all about listening to lawmakers and debating polity positions rather than the merits of actual stocks, some lucrative, the others gaseous. Even though this is one of the single biggest earnings day of the year, we need to consider the effects of president trumps tax cuts. The president introduced some sweeping tax kuwacuts. We h
Stake in todays meeting from military deals to immimigration. Then we go to jackson, mississippi. In jackson,ens mississippi, impacts each and every one of us. And so we have to make the decision that we are going to start controlling the way electoral politics proceeds. And so we have made the decision that we are going to be the most radical city on the planet. Amy we will speak to the mayor elect of jackson, mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba. He was just elected to fill the post once held by his father who was dubbed americas most revolutionary mayor before his death in 2014. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol hill, opposition to the Republican Health care bill is growing as an increasing number of republican senators come out against their partys plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. The bill is facing criticism both from republicans who say the bill includes too many cuts to medic
In jackson,ens mississippi, impacts each and every one of us. And so we have to make the decision that we are going to start controlling the way electoral politics proceeds. And so we have made the decision that we are going to be the most radical city on the planet. Amy we will speak to the mayor elect of jackson, mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba. He was just elected to fill the post once held by his father who was dubbed americas most revolutionary mayor before his death in 2014. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol hill, opposition to the Republican Health care bill is growing as an increasing number of republican senators come out against their partys plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. The bill is facing criticism both from republicans who say the bill includes too many cuts to medicaid, as well as from those who say it doesnt go far enough to gut the Affordable Care act. So far,
Stake in todays meeting from military deals to immimigration. Then we go to jackson, mississippi. In jackson,ens mississippi, impacts each and every one of us. And so we have to make the decision that we are going to start controlling the way electoral politics proceeds. And so we have made the decision that we are going to be the most radical city on the planet. Amy we will speak to the mayor elect of jackson, mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba. He was just elected to fill the post once held by his father who was dubbed americas most revolutionary mayor before his death in 2014. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol hill, opposition to the Republican Health care bill is growing as an increasing number of republican senators come out against their partys plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. The bill is facing criticism both from republicans who say the bill includes too many cuts to medic