When the stock moves on it and it did so tim, whats your take on the action of wells fargo and whats your take on a possible m and a deal. Well, this kind of news, first of all, this rumor was out a couple of days ago in the market and the Market Participants didnt do anything with the move because we talked about the down move. This deal makes a lot of sense when we talk about the environment over the last couple of years for both of these players. I think this deal would be a ridiculously difficult deal even if were going hypotheticals to get through on the regulatory side i dont think either one of these have a lot of friends in washington i do think and again, this is not me saying that this is just my sense of where this would be, but look, i dont think this deal is going to happen i do think goldman has continued to build out their retail platform in markets. I think wells fargo has a lot of issues that im not sure goldman would want and the move weve seen and this snapback today
Attorney general Jeff Sessions, one of the speakers at the National Lawyers society federalist meeting in washington. Later there will be a keynote speech by white House Counsel gahn. D mc live coverage, here on cspan. [applause] host good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to be with you and to look at this overflow audience here. Particularly, its an honor to me to introduce a gentleman. Hat i have known for long time hes a good friend and certainly a person i have great admiration for. As lawyers we all appreciate the many responsibilities of the attorney general. He is, of course, the chief Law Enforcement officer of the area easedernment area eased the Legal Advisor to the executive branch. And he has a special responsibility to the people of the country to be sure that the constitution is preserved and protected. Sessionscareer of jeff could not have been better to make him such an ideallyqualified person for this responsibility. Jeff, of course, as you know,
Trump says he and janet yellen are doing well together. This is bloomberg. Im mark barton in london. Stocks marginally higher today, up by a 20th 1 . Overis up a smidgen dollar. Long andng to talk hard about barclays. Look at barclays shares. Down 5. 7 . Deutsche bank down 2 . Getting some details from the norwegian central bank. Rates will be kept unchanged today. Riskslance of economic unchanged since september. Unchanged at 0. 5 . Heres the news with sebastian. Donald trump says hes thinking about getting janet yellen another term as fed chair. Terrific and they are doing very well together. Familiar to people the matter, gary cohn is not open to the fed. Mindel holly faye was speaking asked lucidly to bloomberg. I have a meeting with two banks. They will come and apply for licenses to operate in saudi arabia. Were open. The u. S. House has in responseanctions to irans support for hezbollah. The two bills market first action against iran since President Trump refused to continue the
On capitol hill, what is the anticipated first two questions going to deal with . Will it be regulations or his personal conflicts of interest . I was just outside the Senate Finance Committee Hearing room where a bevy of activity is taking place as we anticipate this hearing to get started at any moment. Already looking to define him as someone who is out of touch with the middle class. They even have former clients of one west bank and they will talk to reporters. Recruitedchin has other folks looking to argue quite the opposite and that he was able to help people particularly low income folks merger. One west the take away there will be a lot of pressure on his previous financial dealings. To marsha question blackburn, a republican, about how they will defend. Will come back to that and in a moment, thank you. Let me go to jim milstein. It sounds like they will talk character and so forth as opposed to actual policy. Does he get confirmed . We will see. Onhink they have the votes th
Happy president s day if you are joining us from the United States. Good afternoon. Anna edwards, good afternoon. There you go. Stoxx 600 up for a second consecutive day, the highest level since december. It will be a quieter day today because of the president s day holiday. No chart shows a better story, no two day chart shows a better. Tory 143 billion, that was the bid put on the table for unilver from kraft heinz. The shares surged 13 on friday. The biggest gain ever, a record. Or unilver today, shares fell 9 . Kraft heinz walking away. Sixceo of unilver had months to put his ship in order because takeovers to debate that kraft cannot come back for six months. s defenses were not formidable, such as low Stock Ownership by management. Credibility may take a hit Going Forward. That is an interesting angle. Rbs shares up to a oneyear high after it said it would scrap its planned sale of its Consumer Banking division. Investors are optimistic today. The rbs is closer to resolving these