Delivering the first model 3 made in china today. We take a look at the road ahead as it tries to charge into the future. Plus, serving up profits, find out what could be the top restaurant stock of 2020. Mornings with maria begins right now. Say, say, two thousand, year izero,zero, party, oops, out of. So tonight im going to party like its 1999. Lauren some prince this morning. Weve got a big show coming up this morning. Joining the conversation today, New York Posted tor post editd member, Richard Fowler and stephen moore. Great to all of you here. Happy almost 2020. Storely thifutures point to gais wall street gears up to finish 2019 with record highs. The dow up 6 points this morning, s p barely higher, nasdaq down just a point. The nasdaq ended the week last week with a slight loss. It did snap an 11 day winning streak. It is up almost 36 on the year. Steven, your reaction to this surge . Yes, this is the time of year when stocks go up, the meltup at the end of the year, but 36 ga
Now, they say they have a little more than 102 million in the bank. We begin here with trump 2020 Communications Director tim murtagh on the money raise. Happy new year to you. Happy new year to you, blake. Blake those are big numbers. You guys reported 46 million in q4. 143 million raised for the year. A little more than 100 million in the bank. Those are big numbers. This is the most amount of money a president ial Election Campaign in history. 142 million. More than george w. Bush or barack obama, preceding their elections. That is a big number. That is the most important number. We have 102. 7 million in the bank. Blake essentially a profits of a is about. You bring in fundraising. Spend stuff on rallies and events Going Forward. What will you use it on then . Beauty, the money were talking about in the Fourth Quarter, the cash on hand, this is not even to count what the rnc raised as well. When those numbers come out for the Fourth Quarter, you will see a really, truly, jawdroppin
Its stronger half of the trading. The korean won jumping most in five weeks and all of this ahead of the tariff deadline as well. A little bit of a risk on sentiment coming through in asian equities and assets today. Absolutely. And youre seeing it with futures trading in singapore. Having a look at what is going on there we are seeing an uplift. We could add to the near half percent gain we saw in the nifty session. Nfte. The dollar is falling against its Indian Counterpart the rupee , half a percent down in the last three trading days. The bloomberg dollar index erasing the gains we have had this year. 10 year yields a spike up as well. It is a time when we are seeing not just a lack of any Interest Rate cuts a perhaps a pause in Monetary Policy is the general feeling. Quite a few rate cuts priced in as the market is adjusting itself to factor in one or two next year. There are looking also at shadow banking and how some liquidity in the market is helping to unfreeze this troubled pa
Measure a lot of people look to to get a gauge of consumer spending. 172. 3. Ll to 166. 9 from we can get a quick check of what is happening in the u. S. Equity after coming off of the 24th record high for the s p 500 for the year. If youre looking for leadership in this market, youre not really going to find it. Consumer discretionary getting a little bit of a bop, but most of the strength is in real estate. Also seeing that play out in some of the havens. You see the tlt here. More buying there. Across the treasury curve, seeing a bit of steepening, but because buying is across the front end of the curve. Gold, interesting. A lot of bearish calls out on gold, failing to hold that 1500 level. You see it breaking below that. A lot of data out of china showing that imports not quite holding up. Interesting story on the brazilian rial, bouncing around all day. It hit a record low earlier in the day. Comments from president bolsonaro on whether they would support the rial. They have not r
Earls. I can honestly say one of his books i read at graduate school is one of the very finest and, in fact, one of the very first books to explore soldier motivation and ideology. It is an outstanding book. He has done many others that include pickens charge, rightful musket in the civil war. His book on braxton brag as well. Im not sure youll love him after you read earls book. It is a fair and very well researched and deeply analytical look at that controversial general. Earl has won a number of awards, including the tom watson prize for his work on civil war tactics, something he will be speaking about today. And, i should note, that this book, fighting for atlanta published by the university of North Carolina press that it, in fact, will be his topic. Let me welcome earl hess. Thank you, peter, very much for that nice, generous introduction. Fighting for atlanta, tactics, terrain and trenches in the civil war. Thats the topic. The purpose is to understand one of the more important