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Reporter melissa, today when the president held a joint press conference with the secretary general of nato, he began walking back some controversial comments he made on the campaign trail criticizing the institution as outdated, irrelevant and obsolete. Heres what the president said. The secretary general and i had a productive discussion about what more nato can do in the fight against terrorism. I complained about that a long time ago and they made a change. And now they do fight terrorism. I...

Attacks between donald trump and Hillary Clinton. You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Trump this was locker room talk. Im not proud of it. I apologized to my family and to the American People. Mrs. Clinton it is not only about it is not only these questions that he has also targeted immigrants, africanamericans, latinos, people with disabilities, p. O. W. s, muslims, and so many others. So this is who donald trump is. I think it is very important for us to make clear to our child...

Second best month of the year. Europe with some mild gains. Oils almost back to 47 on renewed optimism that the opec Production Cut will survive. Our road map begins with the next treasury secretary and Donald Trumps busy weekend, what the picks will mean for the markets. Plus, a mu bearish note on apple predicting a decades long malaise, quote, the risks to the company have never been greater. And facebook announcing a buyback, zuckerberg promising changes to combat that fake news problem. But ...

Listening about the european equities. Which are also positive right now. Right. I look at it every morning. Its called the cnbc app. Okay. Well say its the cnbc app. But you look at that, and see what time it was this morning. They were already sharply up. I saw 92 in the u. S. So we are off the highs at this point. I dont know. I didnt look at fair value. So you have to check that. But we left at 10 45. This was before 5 00. So at least for the last hour. I was listening to the radio at 4 00 a...

One stock getting a big upgrade today thanks to, get this, brown shoes. Lace up, ladies and gentlemen. Power lunch starts right now. I cant get enough yeah, yeah and welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Three hours left in the quarter and stocks are firmly in the green. Were just about two points off the session highs in the s p 500, which is higher by about. 9 . Financials really helping the lead, to lead the day, thanks to Deutsche Bank. Good news there potentially. Semiconductors a big sta...

Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. A key region in afghanistan could be on the verge of falling to the taliban. The Deputy Governor of helmand province, an area that u. S. Troops once fought to secure, says urgent action is needed to prevent i...

The countrys finance minister backs on demands that they write off the debt. Instead proposing a swap. They send the aussie dollar to a six year low. The Indian Central Bank keeping its powder dry. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hello everybody. Good morning. Welcome to a full two hours of Worldwide Exchange. Good to be back on the show. Great to have you. Great to be back. Lots going on today. Bp shares are already trading higher this morning...

Actual companies that are impacting their open own stocks with takeovers and breakups. Im hoping next week that it might produce some more logical action. But before we get to the schedule you need know there are three prisms. Three prisms thousand which well be viewing each quarter. First, if the company has an international aspect, we have to look at the strong dollar decimation where they get walloped from weak currencies and whats known as constant currency. Where we figure out what a compan...

Winners and losers. Sue is at the nyse as usual. Good to see you. Stoxx coming off of their lows on news of a meeting of key congressional leaders on both sides. Right now we are marginally positive by 4. 5 points on the Dow Jones Industrial average. The nasdaq continues to decline. It was the biggest percentage loser yesterday and its on pace for that same kind of record today. The s p is down. 2 of a percent. Amman javers has the latest on this marketmoving event. This is a possibly hopeful si...

Not this month. Home Builder Sentiment plunges as the unofficial start to the spring selling season gets under way. Is it a bad time for the Housing Market . We have all that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for tuesday, february 18th. Good evening, everyone, and welcome. Two big stories leading our broadcast tonight. One, disappointing earnings from cocacola after sales in north america lost some of their fizz last quarter. That sent the stock sharply lower. More on the troubles at c...