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Thursday, January 9, 2020
1)
From ABC News, I’m Michelle Franzen.
In Iraq, reports of two rockets fired landing somewhere inside the so-called Green
Zone in Baghdad where the U.S. embassy and other diplomatic offices are located.
It comes as the U.S. and Iran took a step back from recent escalations
following Iran’s missile strikes into U.S. bases in Iraq. Those strikes in response
to the U.S. drone strike that killed Iran’s top general.
2)
Earlier today President Trump said Iran must change its position on nuclear
weapons and attacks. President Trump said the United States will immediately
impose what he called powerful economic sanctions on Iran. “These powerful
sanctions will remain until Iran changes its behavior.” The U.S. already has
sanctions on Iran putting in place, since President Trump pulled the U.S. out
of the Iran nuclear agreement. Those penalties have had a crippling effect on
Iran’s economy. Karen Travers, ABC
News, the White House.
3)
ABC’s senior foreign correspondent Ian
Pannell is in Erbil, Iraq and says
the threat to the U.S. is not over. “We’re certainly hearing from the leader of
one of those organizations that is prescribed by the United States as a
terrorist organization. They’re saying that the Iranians have had sanctions. Now
it’s time for the Iraqi militias to respond. That may calm this conciliatory
message.”
4)
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers were briefed for the first time today on the Trump
Administration’s claims that General Qasem
Soleimani posted an imminent threat. Democrats remain skeptical, and
following one briefing, GOP Senator Mike
Lee of Utah lashed out. “What we were told over and over again was… Look,
this action was necessary. This was a bad guy. We had to do it, and we can’t
have division. We can’t have dissension within our ranks, within our government
or else. It sends the wrong signal to Iranians. And just, I think that’s
completely wrong.”
5)
The investigation into the Ukrainian International Airlines flight that crashed
shortly after takeoff in Tehran continues. Ukrainian intelligence points to the likelihood
of a catastrophic event like an engine blowing up. You’re listening to ABC
News.
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“I’m
Maria Bartiromo and this is the Fox Business Report.” The major averages
closing in the green and paring gains in the final minutes of trading on reports
of sirens and blasts in Baghdad. Only the NASDAQ closed at a record high today.
Among the gainers, banks and tech companies, while energy companies lagged as
oil prices fell. The Dow winners; Apple, UnitedHealth and Microsoft. The Dow
decliners; Boeing, Walgreens and Chevron. The Dow rising 161 points, the NASDAQ
up 61, S&P 500 up 16. // And the Dow would have closed higher today. It was
the worst for Boeing. Its shares falling 1.5% after the crash of 737-800 jet,
not a MAX, near Tehran. // And shares of Apple closing up over 1%, hitting a
new all-time high. The tech giant announcing that its new service has reached
100 million monthly active users, and customers spent more than $1.4 billion in
the App Store between Christmas and New Year. That’s your Fox Business Report,
I’m Hilarie Barsky, invested in news.
