About fbi impartiality dating back to the obama administration. It says Text Messages between former Bureau Officials in 2015 reference a directive from president obama to know everything we are doing in regards to the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Texts indicated advanced knowledge secretary clinton even award prosecution before being interviewed by the fbi. Salt lake city is the first between announced it would pursue the winter olympics. After spending four months ensuring utah could host the games again without using money. Global news 24 hours a day andred by 2700 journalists analysts in 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Julia live in new york, im julia chesley. Joe im joe weisenthal. Julia another day of choppy trading. The dow up 200 points. 85 . Ar yield around the question is, what did you miss . Announce aers bipartisan deal to fund the government for two years. The senate still has to vote on the deal. Investors are trying to make sense of the violen
They talked about anything public in syria and discussed iran and the violence in ukraine. The president said the firing of director comey did not have any effect on the meeting. Of. May see one last wave job seekers from poland before brexit. A recruiting company says that the u. K. Beat out germany and in more than calls surveymore surveyed the poles said they want to get the u. K. Before brexit and what may be tighter rules on immigration. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Julia live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, i am julia chatterley. Scarlet im scarlet fu. Joe and im joe weisenthal. We are 30 minutes from the close of trading in the u. S. Julia u. S. Stocks near alltime highs. Joe the question is, whatd you miss . Scarlet an abrupt termination President Trump fires fbi director james comey in a move that raises questions about interference by sitting president s into po
Yes. A busy earnings day. Also awaiting whole food reports in a major board shakeup. What to do with the grocery stock. Shares fractionally lower now. And you heard, boeing halted flights of its 737 max jets because of engine issues that surfaced over the weekend. Well have breaking details and the stocks suffering as a result of that anournnouncementannounc we begin with the story the whole country is talking about, fallout from president trumps surprise dismissal of fbi director james comey last night. Eamon javers and amy on capitol hill. Eamon, you first. Sanders here at the white house finishing up a briefing within the past hour or so. She made a number of points including that the president is going to meet with the new acting director of the fbi today. The search for a successor is beginning today. She also said that the president s thinking on this began mucherer than we learned when this news officially broke last night. What she said i think its been an erosion of confidence
Seeks a court needed International Response and opposing penalties on the regime for undermining democracy. The Treasury Department accused macatee a mexican soccer star of having links to a major drug trafficker as part of hitting 22 mexican nationals with sanctions that freed their assets in the u. S. Departmenty or released a statement saying the move was made in conjunction with the Mexican Government following multiyear investigation of the drug network allegedly run by role hernandez that has links to two new major exits and drug cartels. Opec says three nations every a friend their commitment to the agreement to cut oil production. Iraq, and kazakhstan. When it come up short comes to actually reducing output. 24 countries agreed last year to cut back and try to end the global oriole global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Likewise. Carlet Joe Weisenthal is off 30 minutes from the
It looks like the worst decline going back to may 17 for the major averages. The nasdaq in particular is getting hit hard as we see Technology Sales shares selloff. It does look like this north korean rhetoric was the catalyst for this, but there has been more and more negative, at least cautious comments with disappointment on the earnings front. That, sort of, snowballing to create the selloff we are now seen for a Third Straight session. It is a broadbased selloff. All of the groups in the s p 500, save one, utilities, is lower today. Consumer, discretionary, financials each as individual groups are down by more than 1 . In terms of the individual movers we are watching today, it is a mix of earnings and this general unease. We have macys and calls getting hit hard after their earnings reports. Both reporting smaller declines than estimated, however the outlook for the second half is giving investors pause. We have apple selling off. It was, of course, trading at a record high. Now