joining us now the host of varney and company american built fox business stuart varney. french betrayal. is it just words or do you expect action? >> it's just words. what macron is trying to do is position europe as the third sawrp pawrks the china, the u.s., europe in the middle as a third super power. just come back from three-day visit in beijing. there and saying nice things to his host. he wants to exert leverage over china. he is fooling himself. he said we should not be entrailed by the u.s. dollar. move away from it if we can and promote the yuan. if he thinks that's going to happen? he is dreaming. is he saying it to be nice to his chinese host. not because he thinks it will happen. 90% of the world's obligations or transactions i should say 90 percent in the dollar. maybe 4% in the euro. less than 1% are in the yuan. decades before the currency takes the place of the u.s. dollar. >> brian: i hope you are right. but china loved it? >> yes. >> brian: they increased their pressure on taiwan and military sites because of it. they said this. this signals a dead end

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stuart: good with morning, everyone, and welcome to the "varney & company." yes, it's friday, and we are capping off another big week. there are no summer doldrums here, honest. today the big banks kick off earnings season. are hay making money? do they the look solidsome yes and yes. for the most part. jpmorgan, wells fargo, citigroup, they've all reported earlier today, and those stocks are up. remember, these reports look back. investors are perhaps more interested in where profits are going in the future. remember that, please. the dow the industrials this morning,st friday, they will open to the up -- no, they'll open to the downside. dow's off maybe 11, the nasdaq down about 90 points. red ink as we start out friday morning. no decline sister interest rates, maybe that's why the nasdaq is down. the 10-year at 3.52. in other words,es it's back above 3.5%. investors don't like that. the 2-year firmly above 4%, no wonder nasdaq's going down. the price of oil this morning, $82.25. gas keeps on going up, $3.66 is a -- the average for regular, up another 2 ce

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joining us now host of varney and company and american built on fox business and our friend stuart varney here. >> stuart: good morning, here. >> pete: feels like a back and forth. a little confusing at this point. in february desantis got rid of the self-governing district. replaced it with own tourism board. what is it. >> stuart: classic contest between florida republican desantis and california disney iger democrat. that's what's going on here. republican -- i think he is going to be the candidate for the presidency ron desantis. >> pete: you think is he going to declare. >> stuart: yes he is. put anti-wokeism going after disney as part of his national appeal. he doesn't like woke corporations. and he wants to control them. i think they tried that on a national basis. that's his presidential standing. robert iger meanwhile now runs disney. i think he wants to be president. yes, sir, i do believe he wants to be president in the back of his mind. and is he a very woke guy. so here is disney, woke, going democrat going up against florida republican desantis. it's a classic contest. flori

stuart varney, you would be really ticked off if they did that to you.ump or is no different. and i think republicans look at him and are, like, i don't like always the style, but he's a fighter. listen, ron desantis, i think he's slipping for a number of reasons, but these big donors say, well, ron's going too far to the right. ron desantis has to win a primary, and the primary voters are on the right. you can't look at a general election million you win a primary election, and so ron desantis is actually smart to come to the right and challenge trump in that space. but if you're a donor you're going, listen, as lauren just mentioned, donald trump's pulling away. it's not getting closer. there's a lot of road left to run, but it's not getting right ther. donald trump seems to be running away with this right now, and this legal case in new york is causing that as well. stuart: that's true. sean, we're going to be watching you on "the bottom line," 6 p.m. eastern with dagen. thanks very much, see you later. karine jean-pierre defended president biden over

who is peter varney. >> brian: he had his rival. >> ainsley: we had stuart varney on our show he saidouldn't worry about it this is a scare story. >> brian: china, if you want to trade with me in the yuan, i will do that now we have would you buy my oil i will give you a discount if you accept the one. took them off the swift system. is the one ba yuan worth anythi. and its worth. do you want to start trading on that when america has this history of a solid dollar and traded by 90% of the world's markets. the question is when france is in china right now. macron, is he going to ask for a deal there? the those bric countries formed their own country are they going to start trading on the yuan? that's going to be up for them. the best thing we can do is strengthen the dollar get our fiscal house together pursue other countries listen if you go and leave our currency there will be a price to pay for that we can't just sit there and watch. >> steve: well, i was just watching. we just put up a graphic and the top line was terrifying. it's not helpful. japan has begun importing oil from rus

>> doctor varney, depends on the bank. we say that a lot but today it is true.s abundantly clear the biggest bank is the biggest winner coming to the latest period of turmoil but even jpmorgan says the future is uncertain. we tell a story for jamie dimon, not just talking about earnings-per-share industry specific metrics like net interest margin but focused on banking deposits. look at these numbers, overall deposits fell $20 billion, three of the biggest deep -- that is $57 billion and it is because you get paid a lot more when you put your money in a money market fund and savings account but with the collapse of silicon valley bank it was clear that jpmorgan was the safe choice. citigroup pays more interest but jamie dimon is adding to its deposit base. even jamie dimon is cautious saying the economy is healthy but storm clouds we have been monitoring remain on the horizon in the banking industry turmoil adds to these risks. more of those are in the regional banks. pnc, strong result, stock is down and the other two highlighted down. if you think of the real

varney said this and that.magine it and happening at their level and that level of distrust, do you know what, i don't think this can ever be mended and i think they'll stay on the west coast for america for the rest of their lives. lives. stuart: okay, leave it there. the relationship between america and britain is in "great shape. i thought there was some speculation briden doesn't like the brits. >> when a bomber came to the uk and any part of the flag and union jack on his car and when biden went to cop 26 two years ago in america, he had the american flag and, yes, the union jack on his car w. biden goes to ireland last night, he has the american flag and the irish flag when he was in northern ireland yesterday it was the american flag and the presidential flag. he wouldn't even fly our national flag in northern ireland. that tells me all i need to know. he's never liked the british and always been biased against us. our relationship is with the two countries and frankly in the fridge at the moment. it's a

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"varney & company" begins now. stuart: good morning, everyone. in, the second important inflation indicator of the week, and here it is: producer prices down, i repeat, down 0.5% last month. however, they were up, but up only 2.7% in the last year. that means price hikes to businesses are significantly cooling, it means inflation is coming down sharply. all right. on your screens down for the month, up year-over-year but not by much. here's the market reaction. the dow, well, the the dow is going to be opening with a gain of about 60 points. yesterday an early rally on the back of favorable inflation news, well, that eventually faded. don't know what's going to happen today, but we are opening higher. s&p up maybe 13, nasdaq up 72. bitcoin and etherium, they're holding their gains. bitcoin is well above $30,000, 30,300, and look at e etherium, it is now above $2,000. interest rates dropped yesterday, today rates are holding at their lower level. look at that, the 0-year yields 3.38 and the 2-year, now it's the below 4%. i think the 2-year is at,

"varney" & company is up next. stuart take it away. stuart: good morning, maria, good morning, everyone. every monday we start with your money, because everybody wants to know if anything happened over the weekend that drastically affects the markets. nothing too dramatic. hold on. although we have more earnings reports that are helping a modest rally at least for the dow. pretty flat as we open for trading this morning, dow up maybe 20, virtually no change for the s&p and same with the nasdaq. dead flat today. interest rates holding at their higher levels i've got the 10 year yielding 3.56. the yield is up there, and the two year now well-above 4% looking at 4.16 that's quite a jump in rates there. the price of oil still around $ 82 a barrel, 81.93. gasoline up just a little bit today 3.67 is your national average. bitcoin last time i checked was at 30,000 bucks i'm checking now it's at 29, 500. elon musk at it again. this time he's blasting artificial intelligence. if it goes the wrong-way, it could lead to serve civilization destruc

third hour of "varney" starts right now. ♪ ♪ stuart: all right. is here, the aforementioned kennedy is here. mayorkas is doing exactly what biden wants, that's my opinion. >> is that true? you really think that? i think our immigration system is broken, and every possible realm -- it's impossible for people to come to this country legally. you may know a person or two who has tried to come over and become a u.s. citizen. it is an arduous and difficult process. it is -- there's so many layer withs, there's so much bureaucracy. but if you want to come to the southern border, then, you know, it's the, like, it's hunger games. stuart: that's what biden wants -- >> why would you want that though? you have two completely different immigration systems. the border protection is completely overrun, the towns along the border cannot support the people who are coming over. children are being harmed in the process because their parents are promised that once they get there, the family can follow. but the amount of sexual and physical abuse if -- stuart: of co

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"varney & company" begins now. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, maria, and good morning, everyone. heads up, everyone. the gas price spike cometh. it's not going to help energy inflation, and it's not going to help your spending power. here are the numbers. the national average for regular gasoline has gone up 7 cents in a week, and it is still rising. here's the interesting part, it's hitting ohio where it's gone up 22 cents in two days. gasbutted key says the rest of -- gasbuddy says the rest of midwest and maybe florida will see similar spikes just as we hit the driving season. that's the gas price spike. it's a 3-day weekend for the market, wall street closed tomorrow for good friday. in advance of that dow's up about 30, nasdaq's down 64. not that much price movement. interest rates staying at low levels, some are calling this a recession indicatorrer. the 10-year all the way down to 3.the -- 3.28% and the 2 the-year back to 3.75. wasn't that long ago we were well above 4%. golding, it's at $2,027 per ounce. more on that

"varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: all right.aight to this, or you know this, trump plead not guilty to 34 felony counts. good morning, lauren. we heard from mr. trump last night. what did he say? lauren: it had a rally feel. he denounced the charges against him as political attacks. >> -- like this could happen in america, never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. [applause] even people that aren't big fans have said this is not the right thing to do. it's an insult to our country, but our heads are held very, very high. they want to settle the case -- lauren: he spoke for about a half hour. i thought service the effective. he didn't go off on tangents. you said angry, i said subdued. i thought he was a bit more subdued last night, but that's a consequence of the long and sad day the he just had, arrested, charged. that carries weight. the charges don't necessarily carry weight. he's speaking out this morning. on truth social he wrote

goodspeed cheryl casone, thank you so much everybody have a great day we will see you again tomorrow "varney & company" stuart: all right, good morning , maria and good morning beings everyone. yes, we have the all-important inflation report. it is a pointer to your buying power, and to the future course of interest rates. in the last year, consumer prices went up exactly 5%. 5.0%. that is a pullback from the previous reading of 6%. now the core rate came in with a gain of 5.6% over the past year and that's significant because the federal reserve pays close attention to the inflation rate that strips out volatile food and energy. here is the reaction on the markets. i can tell you now it is euphoric. the dow up maybe 150 points, nasdaq up close to 100. softer inflation numbers may give the fed some leeway on raising rates. that's why stocks were up this morning. don't know how we're going to close but at the opening bell they are up. interest rates very interesting. down sharply. look at that the yield on the 10 year treasury all the way down to 3.37%. before those numbers were released we w

"varney" & company about to begin. let's get it started here, let's get it started ♪ ashley: so "let's get it started " says the black eyed pea s and let's get to that jobs report. 236,000 jobs were added in march good morning, susan li, to you. take us through the rest of the report. >> yeah, so good morning to you , i thought they were pretty good as well so slightly less than estimates, still strong. 236,000, so that's 3,000 less less than forecast but i would say that shows the economy is still resilient. revisions upwards in february. down in january, and the jobless rate also lower as well. down to 3.5%, matching the lowest in more than 50 years now the inflation gauge in this report average hourly earnings. those gains are also slowing as well, only up .3% and most encouraging number and statistic i saw in this from payrolls the participation rate at 62.6% and you know, that is the highest since covid started, which shows more workers are coming back into the workforce and that's always good when there's more la

"varney & company" right now. stuart: good morning, everyone. historic day play frommed out on tv. actually, i think it is a sad day for america. a local district attorney is about to arraign a former president and current presidential candidate. he's charged with falsifying business records. democrats say he must be held accountable, and they'll twist and bend the law to do it. on tv today you'll see it all from trump emerging from trump tower to his appearance in court. alvin bragg's news conference later in the day and trump's big speech at mar-a-lago this evening. now, a majority supports the indictment, 60% support indicting the president. the president, president biden, he's saying nothing. it's a big no comment coming from him. trump has raised $7 million since the arraignment was announced. lauren has the timeline of events moments from now. let's got to the -- get to the markets because, actually, they could the care less what's going on in new york city. investors care more about interest rates, inflation and profits. seems like the market wants to go up, the dow industri

"varney" & company is about to begin. all right we've got to get straight to this. former president trump will be arraigned tomorrow following an indictment from a new york grand jury. okay, we've got that. i want to know what's new. good morning, susan. >> good morning to you so let's get to fox news reporting on timelines here because it does suggest we are awaiting trump's arrival at trump tower in new york city later on today and he's leaving mar-a-lago, florida so we have is on his plane. arraignment will be tomorrow, tuesday, in new york city. trump is expected to arrive at the courthouse at around 11 a.m. arraignment at 2:15 p.m. it should all be done by 2:45. now, according to reports, trump will not be handcuffed, so no pe rp walk and it'll be the only case on the docket. his lawyer this weekend says they will fight the reported 30 charges that will be filed against president trump. >> we will take the indictment. we will dissect it. the team will look at every potential issue that we will be able to challenge and we will challenge and of course, i very muc

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in fact, student varney is on to something there. a former special assistant to president biden, a former d.c. democratic party chairman, great to see you both. scott, i'm going to start with you. the drumbeat inside a political party happens to be the president, a democrat. for the going to see the coronation. that's one thing, that's a social event, you can send the first lady. people jumping away from him because of his age, what do you make of it? >> i don't think democrats are jumping away from him. i agree with the polling funs, they're concerned about his age. >> that's not a jump away? it's not a cozy hug. >> well, if you do the same poll, say who's your favorite nominee of any number of democratic nominees, including the president, he wins h hands down. if trump is the gop nominee, biden is expected to win that race because he beat him before. it's addai a dichotomy. biden will be our nominee. now it's up to the gop, whether they'll endorse someone indicted on 34 counts or choose somebody else. >> you know what, you're a gre

in for stuart varney.tu will be back tomorrow and let's get back to the markets starting quickly out of the gates and dow off 42 points and s&p down half a percent and nasdaq down 1% talking of the nasdaq and big tech names and take a look at big tech and they're all in the red and amazon, meta, alphabet, microsoft. they're all down 1% or more. take a look at 10-year treasury yield and the yield goes up and not much for the high growth tech names and the president confirms he plans to run in 2024. roll tape. >> i plan on at least three or four more egg rolls. maybe five, maybe six, what the hell. >> are you saying that you would be taking part in our upcoming election? >> help a brother out. >> we're not announcing it yet. ashley: that's all very mumbly but he said i'm planning to run but haven't made it official. >> steve, this isn't an official announcement and he sounded confident. could the economy survive another four years of biden's policies. that's my question to you. >> all those things, they're d

friday april 20, 2023 varney & co. is about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: what is that voice x listen to that voice. 9:00 on friday morning. careful with that word. >> the s word. stuart: let's get right to amazon, the big tech rally. they got issues with the cloud business, tell me more. >> the cfo said customers started pulling back the cloud spending even more in the month of april. pastor quick from 12% to down 1% and that's where does so cloud revenue growth rate is still growing, 60% but a year ago 37% so it's a slowdown and has investors concerned. all in $127 billion quarter for revenue for amazon's are not terrible but the business is slowing. stuart: i saw intel, results in the biggest quarterly loss, 6 6.8%. >> that might have been the bottom. i think that's the expectation that intel has bottomed, it's all up from here. they are promising a recovery second half of the year. largest quarterly loss in history because of sharp fault and personal computer sales, they sells chips. stuart: i was going to buy that in the

stuart varney is a good example of that.working hard and there are a lot of jobs, close to 10 million job openings still in the us, almost two jobs available for every worker that's looking and today's job numbers saw the number of workers entering the workforce, the participation rate which is the most encouraging part of the report today standing at 62. 6%, the highest since covid started. people are willing to get back into the workforce and want to get paid and whether you are older, younger, those jobs, right? ashley: there's plenty out there and the older mature workers have a good work ethic, no doubt about it. >> don't paint everybody with the same brush. ashley: i don't, i don't they do as well. you are not a fine example of the younger worker. you are an outlier. let's move on. remote work continues to hurt big cities as they hope for a post pandemic comeback. kelly o'grady joins me now, great to see you. we've been reporting on san francisco and new york but you're in los angeles and they are having a problem too.

monday april 24, 2023 varney and company is about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: do it again.s going to do it again as an run again in 2024. well done, producers. nice job. monday morning sixth avenue. not that busy, is it? a new poll shows 70% of voters do not think president biden should seek reelection and that includes 51% of democrat. they don't want it. duffy is with us this morning. rachel, he set to announce his campaign tomorrow, where is the enthusiasm? >> there's none but you brought up his mental decline, we can't avoid it, it's absolutely fair but relates to his policies because he's double down on radical policies so i've always asked, who is running the biden administration? clearly joe biden is not up to the task, we've heard about his schedule, his naps, trip to the beach home, the few press conferences he takes so we know he's not running it and the more his mental decline start or continues to diminish, the more these radicals are taking over his policies and we see him doubling down on things that are very obviously hurting america both economically and in

third hour of varney starts right now. stuart: i like to see pete hegseth on the other side of the screen buzz i know we have fire coming to the show, and that's what we want. pete, this is what happen when is you say good-bye to energy independence, it is a disaster, isn't it? >> yeah, it is a disaster. you said it right. you don't just say good-bye but they've gone to war with it. our own administration gone to war with our ability to produce domestic energy, which is always cheaper and cleaner. so if they really believe -- instead we're look elsewhere for dirtier sources of oil. becoming dependent upon them and not addressing the climate issue that they're obsessed with. we get neither. none of the energy policy that's foreign policy and this administration turned energy policy into climate trying to undermine us and all this silliness and fantasy, this lunacy of we're going to somehow turn the temperature down on the earth makes us far more vulnerable and the world a lot more dangerous. stuart: i want to turn to the in

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second hour of varney just warming up. stuart: all right. tammy bruce always with us on friday morning. wearing red. hope she's fiery today. can biden afford to answer questions? >> he can and he can't. this would be remarkable movements for the country because president biden if he was honest, we see this happen before, where he seems surprised or has an answer for the far left and gets corrected and then climbs up. what is horrible about president biden is his cynicism. he's decided to go along with this. i believe he knows a lot of this is not renting care because he likes being president. it has to be a seductive office to hold and this is what you always imagined being for the last 50 years of your career so he sold out but he has sold out the country. he can't answer questions. they deluded themselves, they think we are okay so far. we are going to keep doing this and it is because they don't respect the american people. they have contempt for the people, they lie to themselves, they lie to everyone else, look at the condition of the w

second hour of varney just getting started. ♪ gentlemen on the right-hand side of the screen, that isen domenech but i don't think he's going to run, do you? >> that is a bold bold statement i think on your part. i think in terms of the argument on paper your argument is quite strong and that is one of the reasons so many democrats were in anticipation of a very buddy midterm. already starting the conversation what they were going to do after joe, what their plans look like but by having democrats over performing the midterms the way they did, that put those people inviting whisper campaigns, engaged in conversation about how they were going to leapfrog kamala on the ticket given how terrible her track record has been, that put a record scratch stop to their conversation and now the conversation is more can we replace joe? is it even possible politically? i think the longer he goes without announcing the more people are going to come around to your opinion and come to the conclusion he's not going to run. my own perspective is he's going to run because they have no one to replace him

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third hour of varney starts right now.t: california guy steve hilton on the right hand side of the strene if not necessarily -- screen if not necessarily politically. good to see you, steve. is san francisco the canary in the coal mine for the whole country? >> yes, it is, as is california when you see what happens when democrats get their way and have no constraints on what they do. that's what you're seeing in california. they've had no real political opposition for decades, they push these far left extremist policies, and this is where you end up. now, in san francisco on top of everything you laid out so clearly there, you've got the crime problem and when there's an empty downtown, there's people around and it means it's easier for homelessness and crime and squaller that come withs that to sweep the city. you're seeing the consequence soft when the political leadership in a state like california has totally taken for granted wealth creating engine of the state. for years and years they've been so complaisant and the

i'm ashley webster in for stuart varney. of course let's get straight to your money.arkets are lower at the outset. we're coming back a little bit. the dow off 67 points, down .2 of a percent. the s&p down 3/4 of a percent, nasdaq down a third of a percent, down 160 points. let's look at the treasury yield if we can, ever so slightly higher. 3.14%. take a look at the price of oil that was just under $80. it is now what? it is flat. $80.68 a barrel for crude. what about bitcoin? let's take a look at bitcoin. it is up slightly $316, up 1% at 28,215. now this. the judge overseeing the trial into former president trump donated to joe biden's campaign back in 2020. okay. the former prosecutor though calls the optics troubling. watch this. >> it is troubling optics i think for any judge to have made a political contribution and then to have a party who is either the beneficiary or not the beneficiary of that political contribution before that judge in court. ashley: we're talking about a donation that is what, 15 bucks or less. byron york joins us this morning. byron, doesn

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i'm biased. >> stuart varney, forever in th- lauren: yeah.nd recorded even if it's not a crime. minnesota wants to report biased speech to the state department of human rights. so if your words are reported, you land your name in that government database. so my opinion is this creates a state of at thing -- tattle tails constantly triggered and reporting people. stuart: did i die and go to china or something? is that watched to he me? good lord. reporting speech? our next guest -- i'm going to change the subject. our next guest is a former espn reporter, and she is slamming espn for their on-air tribute to the trans swimmer, lia thomas. charlie arnold is with me. what was your issue with espn's trans coverage and lia thomas? >> yeah. the whole issue is they always make such a big deal about keeping politics out of programming, and yet during women's month they found it appropriate to the air a one-minute-long tribute about biological male swimmer lia thomas which which i i thought to be very hypocrite school, quite frankly, as a woman a huge

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"varney & company" picks it up here. stuart: good morning, maria. and good morning to the everyone. the president reeves for irelan, it is a goodwill visit. but around the world war talk is making headlines. china has completed three days of military drills where they surrounded tie expwarntion china is, quote, prepared to fight, end quote. the document breach raising the a anxiety level as new dethe tails showing the precise status of every ukrainian brigade right down to the number of rockets and missiles he was and when they will run out. no statement from the white house,9 and the president is not holding a news conference on ukraine or china anytime soon. perhaps, perhaps war with talk has something to do with the rise of bitcoin. maybe that is a stretch, but there you go. bitcoin has now hit $30,000 per coin, $30,127 as of right now. as for the market, as in stocks, pretty flat. actually, very flat. that's just ahead of two days' worth of inflation reports tomorrow can ask thursday. the dow may be down 10, nasdaq a may be -- i'm sorry, dow may be up 10 or 11, nasdaq maybe down

this is going to be a special this month, it's going to call the varney and co., enjoy. stuart: how about that? it really is delicious. it's made by our friends in hoe to bogen, new jersey. that's it for "varney & company" for the day and this week. "coast to coast" starts now. [laughter] ♪ everybody's working for the weekend. ♪ everybody -- neil: indeed, everybody is working for the weekend. weather's to supposed to be nice in most parts of the country. florida's all rained out9 and, of course, some of the cold weather we were seeing in the midwest, that's going away. it's supposed to "up to near 90 degrees in new york city today, should get down to about 65 in the weekend here in the northeast. bottom line, nice weather pretty much across the country. not nice weather at the corner of wall and broad right now. we've got some selling going on here, but don't blame the bank socks. they tried to do their part with better than expected numbers pretty much across the board, not totally. they're doing okay as a financial group, not so, some of the other ebb shoes that are pl

"varney & company" picks it up from here. stuart: good morning, everyone. biden gets another challenger, the republican mayor of miami lines up against trump, a breakthrough mt. hunter biden case. where do you start? all right, try this: tesla, way down. they reported a 24% drop in profits. those price cuts hurt. the stock is selling off to the tune of 8.5% on the downside. big drop. stocks down across the board. shaky regional banks are hurting this market. check out the dow, the s&p and the nasdaq, red ink all over the place. dow's off 160, nasdaq down just over 100 points. the cryptos are down as well. bitcoin at, what, $28,800. etherium at $1972. both -- well, e three yum -- etherium's a little higher this morning. interest rates, 3.55% is the level on the 10-year, and the 2-year coming in right around 4.25%. 4.19%, to be precise. i've got to show you the 6-month treasury. it yields more than 5% just in a six month period. that's an annual yield, by the way. rooks like a bargain to me. robert f. kennedy jr. has jumped into the presidential race, challen

second hour of varney just getting warmed up. some support here. jason chaffetz with me. are we being forced into a way of life we don't like? >> i loved your take on this. they had the green new deal but couldn't pass it in congress so they do it through executive fiat, rulemaking, trying to get rid of lightbulbs, another thing, mandating, giving monopoly to china. they are in china. we don't have the ability. the greenys don't like nuclear. nuclear is the cleanest way to make electricity. they don't understand how to make electricity let alone store electricity, and how is the average american going to afford this? if you put an electric car in your house, you need a $500 charger and need to hire an electrician to do that. stuart: do you think voters are with this green president biden or against him on this issue? >> it is a far green lefty agenda led by elizabeth warren and other radical tree huggers out there. they are not -- but again they do this in the darkness of night. president biden is overseas and the epa director talks about new standards, emissions standard

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stuart varney and you have been asking me for years,t will it take?t areas where the rich people have spent money on campaigns and candidates that put into effect parole is that don't affect them. but now it's affecting them. maybe they will wake up. i hope so. sarah foster is blasting san francisco's quote liberal leadership on instagram saying liberal politicians are ruining liberal cities. she is upset about the murder of cash app founder bobby lee. >> if you were on the streets and you were mental are you ill or on drugs, now a cop says get up or the guy on the street says or what? there is no no orwhat. they have allowed people to sleep on the streets with no consequences. we have got that hot take coming up. former federal prosecutor with a new poll. the majority of americans believe former president trump won't get a fair trial, even in new york city. let's check in with my buddy day day began and sean. >> we have shannon bream coming in. >> also jason rantz. we'll talk about the downward spiral of american cities. everything to do with young p

third hour of varney starts right now. stuart: he's back. the man with life, energy, and a lot of jokes. his name is jimmy failla. will biden's basement strategy work in 2024? >> wow, i don't know. the country is in a bad spot and it wasn't a referendum on him and it was on him. this time around do you hate trump more than $7 gas. do you hate him more than a porous border? only thing i want to stand up for listen his behalf is asking tough questions and he struggled with that. what state are we in? it's sad and it's a political i can't tell jim jordan and we get why they're doing it trying to limit press exposure because of potential for unforced error. bigger problem is on the world stage and living media exposure and they know we have a guy that for whatever reason happens to be in a place of some type of cognitive compromise. i don't wish it on anybody. if you watch the state of the union he finished saying now is the time to choose between unity and inaudible. he made a sign language interpreter struggling because he didn't have a word.

second hour of varney just getting started. look who's here on wednesday morning.ak -- liz peek. you are on the other side of domestic policy, biden's foreign-policy experience has led to this accomplishment. i suspect sarcasm. >> the accomplishment is he's done nothing. we are at the trade deals, the outreach to our allies, president biden ran on many dubious claims, that he was a moderate, that he would govern from the middle etc. but also that he had vast foreign-policy experience that would undo the damage trump had done. where are we? americans don't even know, he has instigated a trade war with europe through the inflation reduction act which put subsidies and tax credits for products made in america, europe put forward their own green new deal which basically also begins to subsidize their industries. they are furious, we never get this reported by the new york times but this is a turnaround in our understanding of europe. president biden cares about that. what was trump's big failure in biden's view? he demanded nato up their share of spending. i think ever

i'm ashley webster in for stuart varney. let's take a look at treasury yield up nearly seven basis popoints and bitcoin slightly lower earlier and right now it is -- they say down $31 at $27,936. all right, now this. california governor gavin newsom has been touring the south this week and while in florida, newsom visited the new college and, oh yes, criticized ron desantis saying "i can't believe what you're dealing with. it's just an unbelievable assault. it's common with everything he's doing, bullying and intimidating vulnerable communities. weakness, ron desantis, weakness mas kanmasquerading weakness ace board". steve hilton joining me with this. perfect person. what about all the problems newsom faces in his own state, california, mr. pot meet mr. kettle; right? >> exactly. not even the problems he faces. the problems he's created. i mean, he's been the governor and his party has been in total control in the legislature for decades and whole thing is there's no one else to blame. take this issue of education. he's goi

april 27, varney & co. is about to begin. ♪ stuart: she >> i want to get to something that's really good news. let me to the stock price of meta. >> the thing is up $31, 14%. that's a huge jump premarket. they have the first increase in sales in nearly a year, that's good news. changes seem to be working. >> figure of efficiency is the year of acceleration, revenue up 3% at 286 billion dollars. ai mentioned by mark zuckerberg, 50 times on the call. ai is boosting traffic and add revenue because you could better target people. this is a milestone, 3 billion people use at least one meta- up each day. >> meta- stock is up seven% this year. stuart: who got tickets at the rest of the stock market but first, i want to deal with the school president biden caught with the cheat sheet at his presence conference in south korea, a list of reporters to call on and clearly printed was the vortex of the first question. what does the cheat sheet tell you? >> i don't know what's worse, the president leader of the the world

varney & co. picks up here. stuart: good morning. could it be another biden trump election? it is possible. three hours ago president biden released his three minute video announcing his reelection campaign and spent a lot of those three minutes bashing maga republicans and goes heavy on healthcare, climate and abo abortion. more on that in a moment. leftists run the biden campaign. julia chavez when granddaughter of the farmworker and rafael warnick's winning senate campaign, they will run the biden campaign. donald trump seems to be running away with the republican nomination. steve days, influential senator from montana is now back in trump. florida's government desantis so not officially announced his candidacy press by sean hannity last night and said stay tuned. to the markets, a lot going on with your money today, or early this morning pepsi, ge, gm, 3m and mcdonald's issued the financial reports. solid numbers across the board. all the stocks are up in premarket trading and mcdonald's may be the start of the day and another record high. dow industrials will open to t