“So picking a fight with Kelly – as Trump did when he chided her during a tough debate question about insults he’s lobbed at women, dissed her in the spin room, and tweeted his complaints about her – carries risks that Trump’s other feuds do not”.
The report was not bad enough to derail the Fed’s and markets’ expectations for a rate hike this year, and it was not stellar enough to lock in a September rate hike.
The odds of a rate increase-based on trading in Fed-funds futures-at the September meeting were 56% Friday, compared with 46% before the jobs report and 48% Thursday, according to traders.
Trump said that was true of Rosie O’Donnell and he didn’t care if Kelly didn’t like his comments about women. “In my opinion, she was off-base”. They call me the ratings machine.
The drop was sparked by Tuesday night’s second-quarter report, which beat Wall Street’s earnings targets (as usual) but also delivered a rare miss against top-line revenue estimates. Time Warner stock fell nearly 9%, or $7.85, to $79.80 a share on Wednesday.
Tensions came to the fore at the ongoing East Asia and Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting in Malaysia, with countries including USA, India, Japan and Australia expressing deep concern over China’s territorial claim and creation of artificial islands in the South China Sea...