Looking at the hang seng and nikkei up. Shanghai composite took a dip overnight. European equities, pretty much a green picture across the board. Mostly marginal with the italian ftse down a bit. Wti crude, where were now hovering at 51. 17. Todays the day donald trump will give his first News Conference as president elect. It is scheduled for 11 00 a. M. At trump tower. You can watch the conference on cnbc at 11 00. The mexican peso tumbled to historic lows since the election because of concerns that the president elect could take measures that would weigh on mexicos currency. Former exxonmobil ceo riler son facing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in his confirmation hearing. First trump responding to new unsubstance yated claims that russian intelligence operatives have compromising information about him. Eamon javers has the latest. As this election season goes on, the bar continually gets raised for what can be shocking. As we hear more and more. Yesterday completely filled t
Megan i was at davos. It was amazing how many Global Business leaders were saying how much he would improve the business environment. Opening remarks focus on what you think when someone is tweeting policy. We see it in the drug market, autos, the defense space. You would think Business Leaders would be unsettled by this and that their business would be targeted, but when they compare and contrast with obama, that at least trump is visible about putting business first and a huge priority and that he will start dialogues with industry and identify where the regulatory and tax landscape may need to be changed. He has overtly threaten companies that if they move jobs out of the u. S. , there will be repercussions. So while there is uncertainty, there is a clarity that there is a dialogue more than they had with the Obama Administration, and what they hope first and foremost is that they are dealing with a businessman. If they make their case for their business and industry and why they do
Megan i was at davos. It was amazing how many Global Business leaders were saying how much he would improve the business environment. Opening remarks focus on what you think when someone is tweeting policy. We see it in the drug market, autos, the defense space. You would think Business Leaders would be unsettled by this and that their business would be targeted, but when they compare and contrast with obama, that at least trump is visible about putting business first and a huge priority and that he will start dialogues with industry and identify where the regulatory and tax landscape may need to be changed. He has overtly threaten companies that if they move jobs out of the u. S. , there will be repercussions. So while there is uncertainty, there is a clarity that there is a dialogue more than they had with the Obama Administration, and what they hope first and foremost is that they are dealing with a businessman. If they make their case for their business and industry and why they do
[cheers] we are going to come together and make America Great again. [cheers] thank you very much. Thank you, ohio, thank you. President elect Donald Trumps thank you tour getting off to a raucous start, our future president unifying americans and doubling down on several Campaign Promises in the process. Tonight, we break it down. Welcome to risk reward. Im adam shapiro in for deirdre bolton. After a surprise nomination of retired general mad dog mattis for defense secretary last night, the president elect not letting up on the Transition Team gas pedal meeting with a long list of cabinet contenders including former ambassador john bolton, former defense secretary robert gates, former Florida Attorney general pam bondi and democratic senator heidi heitkamp. President elect trump handing the Government Back into the hands of the American People last night. Im asking to you believe in america once again. We have many challenges, but this is truly an exciting time to be alive. The script
Nearly a 300point day on the Dow Jones Industrial average. Welcome to the closing bell. Im kelly evans in for maria bartiromo. Bill griffith joins us here in just a second. Stocks are kicking off 2013 with one of the biggest rallies weve seen in some time. The biggest, in fact, since 2009. Heres a quick look at how were finishing the day on wall street, waiting for the settle to come through to see if we can hit the three handle on the Dow Jones Industrial average, but we wont be far away from it, regardless. The nasdaq is adding about 88 points, the s p 500 and, bill, the bottom line, up anywhere from 2. 4 to 3 for these averages. Im looking at the board here in the new york Stock Exchange, and it shows were up 308 points right now, so we may be seeing a tremendous amount of buying coming in at this moment, and we saw evidence of that early on, and some of the Technology May be playing catchup right now. Youve been pointing this out for the last couple of hours just how lop sided this