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Attack. He simply said dont. Iran is threatening, its foreign minister said irans hand is on the trigger. Overnight, irans proxy, hezbollah, fired antitank ziti missiles into israel and Israeli Defense force says 199 hostages taken by hamas and fbi director Christopher Wray warning about terror attacks inside america from lone actors and four iranians apprehended at the border this month. Tension at a boiling point, the president canceled his trip to colorado. A wider war may be imminent but the stock market shows modest gains and the dow is actually gained nearly 500 points since the fighting began. The dow this morning looking for a gain of maybe 200 points and Empire State Manufacturing slowing down and that helps the market. The s p 500 up 23, nasdaq up 50 points. This is premarket, but wash out for oi ....
Weaker looking at europe this morning, the early trading taking place, at least at this hour things are flat there the dax is slightly higher, the cac and ftse are slightly lower. Spain up by a tenth of a percentage point crude oil prices were up yesterday to a twoweek high, up at 51. 87 this morning those gains continue with wti for november delivery up by 21 cents to 52. 08. Wow dow component United Health is reporting. Stock has been on a tear for years, right in fact, the stock getting close to a new high, 1 186 billion market cap, almost 1 187 billion market cap reporting 266 a share. Thats tencents above expectation. For the year, they see 2017 adjusted net at 10. Medical loss rates, they call it Something Different now. They call it medical care ratio, 81. 4 thats like the inverse of profit margin. Revenue, 50. 32 billion you cant necessarily compare apples to appl ....
Is expected to touch on this evening in the state of the union. Lets check on u. S. Equity futures at this hour. Youre seeing implied open for all major averages here. S p 500 would open up by 8 points. Dow up by 50 points. The nasdaq up by 21 points and a lot of that is based on firming in the markets over in europe. Better than expected gdp numbers out of china and of course thats helping move Global Markets in a vastly different direction than we have seen for much of the month. Breaking news overnight too. Isis releasing a video early today which has been verified by nbc news consultants. It shows two japanese hostages and the now notorious isis militant seen in previous videos. Hes now demanding 200 million from the japanese government within 72 hours or the hostages will be killed. Japan reacting with anger demanding a release of the hostages and saying it will not yield to terrorism. Quite a stunning release of this video a ....
With a tax increase for the rich. Nbcs tracie potts live in washington this morning. A tracie, what can we expect to hear from the president tonight . Reporter a lot of what hes going around the country already talking about, brandnew momentum. Our poll unveiled overnight, 46 approval rating. Thats the highest this president has had in over a year. As for americans who think the country is on the right track, satisfied with the state of the economy now, that number is the highest in more than a decade. Our job now is to make sure every american feels they are part of our countrys comeback. Reporter tonight in the first ladys box a crosssection of those americans president obama is targeting. Astrid had surgery thanks to obama care. I remember laying there and thinking wow, im just really grateful and blessed that i had insurance. Carolyn reed a government loan helped her expand the family business. We had three stores and now we have seven stores. We have over 100 employees. Things hav ....
America through the coronavirus pandemic. The leadership of president dt. We did a lot of things right. More than six months after the first confirmed case of coronavirus in america, we are seeing record levels of cases and deaths from the virus. Trump has resumed his daily side show, trying to bolster his fake narrative that everything is totally under control. Holding yet another of his new quote unquote beliriefings, wito health experts, since they might disrupt with facts. Yesterday, he begin said the virus will just disappear. On tuesday, the u. S. Recorded more than 1,000 deaths. The most in a single day since late june. More than 143,000 americans have now lost their lives. And the number of confirmed cases is poised to break 4 million. We all know donald trump has a pin pinchon for nicknames so nancy pelosi has now branded him. It is a pandemic. That has gotten worse before it will get better. Because of his inaction and in fact clearly, it is the trump virus. And despite all o ....