Barrel. 60. 12 a barrel. Lauren in europe this is how stocks are trading this friday morning. Mixed bag. Cac down 4 in paris. Markets were close nod south korea, nikkei lower by just fractionally. Lauren too little too late the socalled fix apple is calling for your iphone. Fbn am starts right now. Lauren it is 5 01 a. M. In new york on friday, december 29th, good morning, im lauren simonetti. Lea good morning, lauren, im Lea Gabrielle in for Cheryl Casone this morning. Last show of the year. It is, indeed. Lauren lets begin with strong words from the oval office, President Trump is criticizing north korea and china after the country reportedly and here is the image spotted illegally selling oil to north korea obviously in defiance of un sanctions against the north, trump spoke to New York Times, he says his position on trade with china has been soft and hopes the country would help end north koreans Nuclear Program but now trump says, quote, oil going into north korea, that wasnt my deal. And he tweeted yesterday, caught redhanded very disappointed that china is allowing oil to go into north korea, theyll never be a friendly solution to the north korea problem if this continues to happen. As for china, they say they have been strictly enforcing the un sanctions. Separately President Trump told the New York Times that he thinks special Counsel Robert Mueller will be fair in investigation of possible collusion between trumps team and russia. Lea joining us leet colonel danny davis, senior fellow for defense priorities, nice to see you, danny. Appreciate it. Its a rare sampling of what u. S. Spy satellites have seen. Can you think we will see more of this . I dont know if we will see more. That certainly is enough. Whole redhanded information there. Its not a minor issue. Certainly useful, i think, for diplomatic pressure. Lea how else can the u. S. Motivate china to do more, this is sort of public shaming. Here is what we have to recognize. China has their selfinterest, russia that is selfinterest and very often they diverge from ours and any time that happens, we need to put pressure back in specially on Public Record saying they will take certain actions, but what it does in my view highlight that is we can take care of this on our own, we cant rely on other people, deterrence is what we have in our hand with our military and our diplomacy that we can work as much as we can with the nations. Our deterrence is whats going to really keep news driver seat here. Lea you make such a good point. Keep the Nuclear Triad strong and continue to work military. What about economic restrictions and further sanctions against Chinese Companies . You know, i think thats a bit of a slippery slope because we dont want to do anything that will damage our own economy and our own relations with them but you certainly cant let it go by without any actions, when you have Something Like that you have to be firm in response and something measured an commensurate with our own interest. Lea President Trump told New York Times that the mueller information into collusion, quote, makes the country looks very bad and puts the country in a very bad position and for russia discrediting the u. S. Is the name of the game, do you think that its time to move on from this . You know, i think it is, if theres something there, if they have information, by all means present it, but if they dont, nothing after a full year, you have to stay, its time to move on and take care of issues that really do matter to our relations with russia. Lea thank you, nice to be with you this morning. Thank you. Lauren more attacks against the Justice Department, House Intelligence Committee devin nunes slamming doj as well as the fbi saying they failed to produce documents relating to dossier, subpoenaed information relating to dossier in august but hasnt received it yet, House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy says he understands the frustration. When you sit back and you look at what has happened, the lack of response, congress has responsibility of oversight, they have been ignored, they have been delayed, they have been refused to send people in to have hearings, to be questioned. Lauren congressman nunes is demanding that all records be provided to the committee by wednesday. Lea apple is making amends for admitting to purposely slowing phones. Lauren i bet they wish they didnt admit to that. Tracee following eight class actions and backlash from many apple users, apple finally apologizing for controversial move to slow down older phones saying it would not internationally shorten the life of any apple product or degrade the User Experience to bring customer upgrades, apple said its taking 50 off the out of warrantly replacement for the next year bringing the cost to 29 for anyone with an iphone 6 starting in late january. A new Software Update will also hit early next year. That should help with battery life but not everyone is satisfied with apples apology, a group in france latest to file criminal complaint for the slowdown iphones, the charge carries the punishment of up to two years in prison and 5 to have annual turnover. Lea image problem going on. A lot of people traveling for the holidays, i want to ask you about tsa, it sounds like they have been pretty busy this year. Theyve reached a new record here. This is onset to create a new record, confiscating nearly 4,000 firearms from travelers, in 2017 surpassing records that last year by nearly 17 , the report that is have led the nations have been dallasfort Worth International airport, Jacksonville International and george bush interconty in any eventual, both texas and georgia allow people to openly carry handguns with a permit. Most of the guns have been found in carryon bags. Lea the question is whether they are Getting Better at catching them or more people are carrying them. Tracee more people have been traveling. Lauren the number is up. Tracee jack in the box taking aim in california, half servings of curly fries and mini churros and small drink, the price is 4. 20, by april 20, 420 which is also known as weed day. We will leave that there. [laughter] lauren it did sounded appealing. I like the small portions of different items. Lea sampler. Lauren thank you very much for bringing it. Tracee thank you. Lea deadly fires sweeps through Apartment Building in new york city claiming the lives of 12 people including a baby. People were screaming, fire, help. This is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century. Lea mayor bill de blasio warning that new victims could be found as investigators search the building in the morning. United Airlines Passenger bumped for first class seat is firing back at congresswoman who took it. Latest on war of words, youre watching fbn am. Lea welcome back, lets get you caught up on whats happening now. New york city hit by residential fire last night. The fire spread through every floor of a fivestory building, it happened in the bronx within matter of minutes killing 12 people. Investigators are trying to figure out what caused the fire. Alabama declaring doug jones winner of u. S. Senate election, the state certified jones win after judge rejected republican roy moore lastminute request to delay certification. The First Democratic Senate victory in alabama in a quarter century. And united Airlines Passenger whose firstclass seat was given to congressman Sheila Jackson lee firing back at democratic lawmakers accusation of racism. Gene mary saying, quote, i could not see who had boarded the flight, i didnt even know who she was. Thats whats happening now, lauren. Lauren coming up. Millions of americans getting ready to ring in 2018 in new york city. We are ready to have a great celebration and i want to emphasize what you heard from the commissioner, there are no credible and specific threats against new york city at this point in time. Lauren still the city is take nothing chances. We will tell you about the unprecedented security cautions that are in place and from new york city to las vegas, what you need to know for your new years party. Youre watching fbn am. [vo] progress is an unstoppable force. The season of audi sales event is here. Audi will cover your first months lease payment on select models during the season of audi sales event. My business was going nowhere. So i built this kickin new website with godaddy. Building a website in under an hour is easy 68 of people. Who have built their website using gocentral, did it in. Under an hour, and you can too. Type in your business or idea. Pick your favourite design. Personalize it with beautiful images. And. Youre done and now business is booming. Harriet, its a double stitch not a cross stitch build a better website in under an hour. Free to try. No credit card required. Gocentral from godaddy. Lauren got your new years plans figured out . Only two days away from ringing 2018 and new york already gearing up for the big night. This years main concerns are security and the freezing cold weather. Fox news bryan llenas in time square in the heart of all the action. Nypd says this will be the most secure this event has ever been and specified, theres no specific or credible threat against time square or new york city on new years eve. You will see increase in heavy weapons, bomb squad personnel, rad logical detection teams and our technology to include over 1,000 cameras in and around the area of time square for the event. Among the extra security, theyll be Uniformed Police officers in every single hotel overlooking time square, response to worst mass shooting in las vegas, also dog sniffing out bombs in the air and on people. Sand trucks positioned along time square to prevent vehicular attacks and also more emphasis on rental trucks and cars to do so as well. There ought to be multiple checkpoints for people that are coming out here. They are expecting a million on sunday night all this as preparations continue. The ball is set, the numbers are also set and yesterday was good riddens day where people got to write down the worst memories of 2017, rip it and tear it and move onto 2018, frigid temperatures are expected. It could be 11degrees as the forecast which could make it the second coldest day ever on new years eve in new york city, as far as temperatures, Officials Say its up to people that they want to come out here. They do expect hundreds of thousands even a Million People to be here there are no other precautions being taken other than extra ambulances on site as hyperthermia are threat in this weather, lauren, lea. Lea former member of National Joint terrific task force. Good morning. We are seeing the massive presence of Law Enforcement, can you share with us, though, what we are not going to be seeing, whats happening behind the scenes to keep people safe . To begin with, i could assure you that new york city will be the safest place on planet earth come new years eve, the preparation for this actually begins weeks after the prior new years, begins after action reports, it begins with an analysis of some people who were arrested that you never saw last year with intelligence informationgathering over the past year, so the things you will not see are all those things such as the intelligence and information gathering, there are tremendous amount, probably over a thousand undercover agents, undercovered detectives that will be on the streets. Obviously you will see uniform personnel that will act as deterrence but the key here is what you dont see is what is really important and the most, whats very, very important, if you see something, say something. We have said that over and over again and ive also added Something Else to that, if you send something, send, let someone know. Lea you mentioned new york will be the safest place on earth and clearly such security presence, if you see something, say something, there will be celebrations around the country in smaller cities that are softer targets because they will not have as much as Law Enforcement presence. Are you concerned at all about the smaller cities being better targets . Well, i could tell you that the since weve had the creation of joint terrific task force in every state and in every county in many states, all of that intelligence information is being widely shared. Im not too concerned about the smaller towns as i used to be because i know now that the fbi, the greatest Law Enforcement agency on the surface of this planet. I mean, they work very hard in sharing a lot of information at times like this, so i think we could rest easy knowing that we are in good hands. Lea you mentioned jttf, can you help us understand the role of the jttf and helps protect the smaller cities . Sure, i was one of the First Military intelligent officers that was assigned to the joint terrific task force in fbi headquarters and there was Little Information sharing, cia, fbi, now with the creation of the National Joint terrific task force in early 2000s jttf have grown all over the country and information and intelligence, that, for example, a Police Department may get in los angeles will go to new york, new york will send it to every Police Agency in that state no matter how big or how small. So this is very important that it actually keeps us safe. Lea real quick, we have about 10 second, i want to ask you, that keeps us safe when we have the intelligence, what about the lone wolf, the ones who arent connected necessarily that we wouldnt have intelligence on . We will never be able to paren everything, theres always a crack that somebody might go through. As long as people are vigilant and they see something, send something, say something. Lea thank you very much, steve rogers. Happy new year. Lauren have plans . What are you doing for new years eve . Lea im going to miami. Im getting out of cold weather, what about you, lauren . Lauren nothing. Somebody give me an idea. [laughter] lauren coming up the department of justice as well as the fbi, they are under fire for fail to go turn over subpoenaed documents about that antitrump dossier. Congress has the responsibility of oversight, they have been ignored, they have been delayed, they have been refuse today send people in to have hearings. Lauren Griff Jenkins with the details on the new demands for answers, it has been a recordbreaking year on wall street, all you have to do is check 401 k to see, we will take a look at the highs and the lows and whats ahead for 2018, youre watching fbn am. Ndamental challenges that cities face around the world. Who knew asphalt could help save the environment . lani and the possibilities are endless. Lauren breaking this morning, caught redhanded, President Trump calling out china after report that is the country is illegally selling oil to north korea, what the Trump Administration is expected to do next. Lea demanding answers, congressman devin nunes blasting the doj and fbi for failure to produce antitrump dossier documents, the brandnew deadline he gave the mueller team to produce all of the records. Lauren final trading day of 2017, spectacular year for investments, futures this morning are looking good. Dow is up 43, nasdaq is up 10. Lea and oil trading back 50 a barrel again, oil is 60. 14, up by 30 cents. Lauren in europe, stocks trading relatively muted there. The ftse lea nikkei in japan, down fractionally. Lauren so many markets have done well this year, we will take a look at the highs and the lows and whats in store where you should be putting your money in the new year, fbn am continues right now. Lauren it is friday december 29th, 2017, one of the final days, good morning, everybody, im lauren simonetti. Lea good morning, im Lea Gabrielle. House Intelligence Committee devin nunes blasting the Justice Department and the fbi saying that they have failed to produce documents related to an antitrump dossier. Lauren Griff Jenkins in washington with the details, hey, griff. Good morning, lauren, lea, this wouldnt be the first stronglyworded letter around washington but it is telling, may make for fireworks in the new year, chairman nunes is slamming the department of justice and fbi for failing to produce documents for subpoenas issued four months ago concerning the socalled trump dossier. At this point, it seems the doj and fbi need to be investigating themselves. Nunes is demanding those documents now by january 3rd next week along with witness lists, hes clearly frustrated with the agencies stalls or slowwalking his request and sentiment shared on capitol hill, Kevin Mccarthy weighing in. There are a number of informations going on here but the lack of cooperation, the questions raised by individuals in the doj and also within the fbi and Inspector General doing the own investigations with the emails came out forward, i think we will have to clean some areas up and i think you have to have transparency. This comes as President Trump sat down with New York Times reporter who asked about the mueller investigation, the president telling him that he has confidence in mueller saying, quote, i hope that he will be fair, i think hes going to be fair and based on that theres been in collusion. It follows change, guys, fbi and doj where we have seen former deputy general bruce ohr remoted and peter strok removed and baker reassigned and Deputy Andrew mccabe expect today retire early next year. My hats off to our colleague john roberts who obtained this letter exclusively yesterday. Its going to make for a very busy perhaps next week, lauren, lea. Lauren what a mess tat Justice Department. Griff, thank you. Lea winning bid to buy a stake in uber. Lauren Tracee Carrasco joins us on that and other headlines making news this morning. For uber this significantly devalue it is company from a prior valuation in tracee this is about a 30 decrease, the deal values uber at 48 billion, that is less than what it was previously valued at 68 billion, but soft bank did win bid to buy major stake in uber at steep discount. Own about 15 of uber and other members of soft banks bidding group, theyll own about 3 of uber, as part of the deal soft bank plans to invest 1. 25 billion into uber. Lea lets talk about amazon. Amazon has been killing it this year, theres Something Big going on today. The holiday deals arent not just day, today is digital day on amazon. Lauren if you need to shop some more. Treys treys if you didnt get enough shopping for the whole month of december. Digital downloads, ebooks, movies, music, tv shows, all of that, for example, 60 of wonder woman on amazon video, 33 off of games like sonic forces and civilization 6, 75 off selected ebooks, so this is also great for amazon because they can cash in on all the shoppers who got those gadgets for christmas. Lea good time to start gets things on the digital devices so you can bundle up and watch wonder woman. Lauren if you got a gift card or console. I am feeling lucky, friday and sat night that we have basically never seen in history. We are talking about the lottery. Two jackpots. Tracee lets start 2018 a little richer. Mega millions and pow herbals have jackpots of more than 300 million right now and fridays mega Million Dollar jackpot, 306 million, the Powerball Jackpot tomorrow night saturday, thats 384 million, so get out, buy your tickets, lets make some money here. [laughter] lea chances of winning no so high, we should get together and buy tickets. Lauren 1 and 292 million. Tracee more of a chance to getting hit by lighting. Lauren two times. Lea i definitely would like to win the lottery than that. Lauren 2017, speaking of the lottery, many people feel they hit the jackpot if they invested in the stock market this year, joining us to take a look back at 2017 and look ahead to 2018 because a lot of folks are saying, the s p 500 up 20 in 2017, how do you top that, melissa, arian at mv financial join us now to look into their cristal balls, good morning, melissa, we will start with you . Good morning, what a year it was this year for the market, the market is the winner this year, let me tell you. Some kind of catalyst for the market to have pullback and there could be some type of geopolitical event but right now smooth sailing, the market had the best year that it has ever had and everyone has been talking about it all year, im telling you the market had the best year it ever had this year. Here is why, it made more brandnew alltime highs than it ever has, it had more follow through, bearish stock was quickly brought up. Two pullbacks on march and august that could have technically bought the market into pullback or rally, i dont know what today brings, we wont know until 4 00 oclock, the market might close and make another brandnew alltime high today and that would be more confirmation that in 2018 we will move higher. Lauren which would be for the dow 72 record highs and we are about 163 points away from 25,000, light volume, we will see some wind dressing, but anyway, it could, let me bring you in, besides geopolitics, could Something Like messing up some trade deals or what are the catalyst that you see that could pull down this market . Sure, well, we are overdue for a direction no doubt about that, but black swan is really the only thing i could see derailing or a grate change in the fundamental picture as long as earnings continue to stay strong, i think the money will continue to fly in from the sidelines, we are at the late stages of bull market, i dont see anything changing in the fundamental all picture. We have shrugged every worry and we will continue to see that happen. Its been a strong economic picture or stronger one, so more of the same. Lauren earnings are expected to grow 12 next year. If you take a look at the dow and the winners and losers this year, a lot of folks are saying, if you look at the beatendown stocks, ge being down sharply two years in a row, that for instance is a stock to buy in 2018 . I would not buy ge right now, im sorry to say it. Its a lovely company, however, the fact the stock is in down trend, technically speaking you dont buy stocks that are in down trend, you buy stocks that are strong, one of the biggest winners is facebook, facebook flows at 115 and brandnew alltime highs, facebook moved 50 . The market moved over 20 . Facebook moved 50 in a year, facebook is a good buy. Lauren isnt it expensive . I will add microsoft to that, four tech funds in the s p 500. This is what a lot of people own. You keep buying or do you say, all right, they pulled up recently, minus amazon, maybe we sell them in the new year . I would hold. Its always a good strategy, right, to buy the losers and sell the winners but at this point the companies will remain strong, theres no reason to sell. Generally, you want to have a good ray of different sectors and stocks in your portfolio, you want to remain discipline, now is not the time to make fundamental changes like we talked about, things are looking good and remain the same. Is there place for ge and companies that are in a downward trend or doing poorly, sure, when you buy them, thats anyones bet. Lauren you guys are optimistic for me. Im trying to play devils advocate. Is this a sector beaten up in close to buy in the new year, melissa . Well, i would say that anything its in the down trend and youre talking an the cheap. The problem is that when something cheap, it could keep going down, down until it rides back up again. So you dont want to buy something and then go down before it goes up. The idea to buy something and then go up right away, Different Oil stocks have been doing better than others, you have to pick and choose, i think, which ones you go for. I think the tech stocks are the ones that you want to focus on. You better to have less size and quantity if youre a longterm investor, it really shouldnt matter because youre driving it out for the long haul, if youre a trader, youre in a day or two, thats up to you, depends what your time horizon is. Lauren what about bitcoin, arian, thats a good way we can all make money in the new year, right . [laughter] you keep hearing about it, dont you . We are not recommending to our clients to buy bitcoin. We have a lot of questions on it. Im personally saying away from it. Everything looks rosy and you hear about success stories, again, we are here for the longterm growth and participating in Market Growth and bitcoin is just a little too speculative and too much crazy about it. Lauren we hear about all the hackings and everything else, governments around the world are warning against in crypto currency market. All right, melissa, arian, good to see both of you. Happy new year and even better 2018, hope to see you then. Well, coming up today is the last business day of the year and it could be the last chance americans get the prepay their property taxes for 2018, thats if they and local authorities can figure it out. Blake berman will have those details and move over luke skywalker, a new jedi in the galaxy. I like him. Thats awesome. Ohio grandma lighting up the internet. Lauren shes good. Lea youre watching fbn am. Lauren all right, good morning, lets get you caught up on whats happening now. Rose marie, the actress made famous in show, has died at age 94, film and broadway actress had running career in entertainment. Passed away at her home yesterday afternoon. Well, the Trump Administration has struck down rules proposed by the Obama Administration that limits fracking and other oil and gas drilling practices on government land. Companies would have had to disclose the chemicals used in fracking, environmental environmentalists who want federal regulation says it propose risk to groundwater, the rules were supposed to go into effect back in 2015 but then wyoming judge blocks them at the very last minute, Industry Groups praising the decision, arguing that the rules would be duplicating state laws that are already in place. All right, star wars might have found itself another jedi. No. No. [laughter] you get [laughter] lauren you get. The ohio grandma celebrating christmas by playing star wars augmented reality video game. Im impressed by the grandma putting jedi master skills to the test, clearly was not aware of grandmas skill with the light saver, the video going viral and has been viewed thousands and thousands of times. I think its the voice that she uses. Lea my grandma is 99. Lauren can she do that . Lea i dont know, i think she could have fun with it. Lauren when is she 100 . January, shes coming up on a hundred. Lauren happy early birthday. Lea today could be the last chance for homeowners to pay pretax but still a lot of confusion whether payment wills qualify for deduction, more now from blake berman. Irs tried to create clarity but in the process what they really might have done is created more confusion. The irs says 2018 property tax repayments can be made, quote, under certain circumstances and boil it down to two factors, first streaght forward, make payment by years end. Property taxes that have not been assessed prior to 2018 are not deductible in 2017, translation there, if your municipality hasnt put forward your 2018 tax bill, you could be out of luck. The Tax Foundation thinks this is outstanding issue and could be headed toward litigation, if you happen to end up on the wrong side of prepayment, its not like youre losing money. At worst if they didnt make the payment, they simply provided interestfree loan. This is a onebyone situation where tax adviser is best advice. Blake potentially this could bring amt into play for some people, there are, though, potentially big tax savings for those who decide to load up their deductions in 2017, the bottom line from everyone we have talk today from the irs on down, if you are considering making these prepayments, either talk to your local tax official and in many cases as well as talk to your accountant. Back to you in new york. All right, blake berman. Lauren brandnew push to refund fans offended by the nfl protests. Fantasy football paying forward back to running back that actually help today win. Jared max with those details. We will be right back. Lea indiana lawmaker wants to Indianapolis Colts to pay the price for player protests. Republican congressman milo smith filed legislation that would require the colts to refund fans who are attending games that are upset by the players kneeling during the the national anthem. Proposed bills isnt breaking any laws because doesnt restrict players from kneeling, would require colts to refund fans who want the money back. I dont think its likely that will happen. Lauren tbd. A lot of football news to tell you about in addition to that, we are also talking about controversy in basketball. Lea we are, jared max here with the highlights, hey, jared. Jared happy final friday on 2017 as we move forward. The stories connect this morning between football and basketball. Folks have been completing all nfl season about calls maid by officials even after instant replay reviews and the nba, a lot of grumbling by the leagues greatest stars about poor officiat, initiation g. Boston against houston. Only two referees instead of three, one of the officials injured his back before the game. Celtics made comeback from 26 points down. Not enough, celtics win by a point, 9998 after harden says you cant have two officials on nationally televised game. On thursday action kicked off with the military, at the u. S. Naval academy, indianapolis dominated behind the play, back up quarterback who ran for five touch downs, navy makes it four wins in last ball games, ran 111 yards, two touchdowns. Totaled 450 yards on the ground. They beat virginia, lea. Lea go navy, whoa jared battled back against stanford, stanford, win it 3937, finished the season 113, the gamewinning field goal. Number 17 Oklahoma State took care of 22nd rank virginia tech. Threw 150 yards, pair of touchdowns, cowboys now three straight ten win seasons. Washington state and that was in the holiday bowl, 4217. New york giants will hold conference of hiring of general manager. Spent 15 years in the giants organization, he will replace jerry reese recently fired, spent four years as general manager for carolina panthers, presided over three division titles. Question, whats more important to the jacksonville jaguars, fans or sponsors. Stadium capacity is 84,000, 19,000 potential fan tons outside because they put tarps with paid sponsorship. 3,000, maybe 3500 seats will be made available, navy mutual and alert today agreed with the nfl to remove the tarps, good news for 3,000 plus jaguars fans. Fantasy football champions were crowned last night, last week, many of the last days, and many of the teams have todd on the team. This story is great. They show appreciation of fans, all the people who made money off of girley fantasy football donating. Check this out. [inaudible] it doesnt matter. 10 dollars, 5. Fantasy sports is picking who will be the best athletes and todd has come up huge for them and say hey, lets give something back. Lea a lot of my friends were texting me. Needed something to pump us back again. You can catch jared sports reports on fox News Headlines 24 7 siriusxm 115,. Lauren on track to beat the s p 500, we will get details from the wall street journal straight ahead on fbn am [lance] monica, it is absolute chaos out here gale force winds, accumulations up to 8 inches. Dont know if you can hear me, but [monica] whats he doing . [lance] can we get a shot of this cold front, right here. Winter has arrived. Whooo hahaha [vo] progress is an unstoppable force. Brace yourself for the season of audi sales event. Audi will cover your first months lease payment on select models during the season of audi sales event. Lea banner year for the u. S. Markets but could still lag International Stocks, riva gold from the wall street journal joins us now with more. Good morning, riva. Good morning, certainly would not doubt that its been a pretty good year in the u. S. But International Stocks or at least the msci world stock index that looks at global stocks outside of the u. S. Is actually doing even better, thats up 24 this year thanks to a really, really synchronize growth story around the world from a pretty steady highgrowth in china, cross merging markets as well as rallies in textures in hong kong, rise in Commodity Prices and in general sense that International Stocks, compared to u. S. Are still relatively cheap and thats made them attractive investment this year. Copper, you are talking about metals, up 30 this year, speaking of 2018, what are the concerns that investors are looking at that can derail the rallies . I think the number one question is wage growth and broadly what that means for inflation, one of the reasons weve had such a fantastic year its been that inflation hasnt picked up. Even though the fed has been slowly raising interest rates, Central Banks around the world have still been providing market with a lot of liquidity, number one thing to watch is inflation, i think. Lauren riva gold thank you, we really appreciate it. Happy 2018 to you and we will see you then. Lea thank you for watching us, we will send it over to mornings with maria with Cheryl Casone. Cheryl good morning, i will see you a little bit later, lauren. Good morning, im Cheryl Casone. Im in for maria bartiromo. It is friday december 29th, top stories at 6 00 a. M. Eastern time. Homeowners across the country are beating before the law limiting state and local deductions go into effect on january 1st, why the lastminute effort might not pay off for some homeowners. Looking at markets, last trading day of 2017, its a strong