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This morning. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a statement saying this, american leaders highest priority to protect american lives and interest but we cannot put the lives of American Service members dye mr. Mats and others further at risk for engaging in provocative and disproportionate actions, tonights actions further dangerous escalation of violence; 2020 candidate and former Vice President joe biden also issuing a statement saying he supported terror and sub chaos, none of us negates the cause that this is escalation move, deter future attacks by iran and almost certainly will have the opposite effect. Joining me now white house fox strategic defense adviser and Army Special Operation shoulder bret and foxs military colonel david hunt. Good morning p. Thanks for having us. Cheryl to you first, big concern and investors are concern about possible escalation of tensions between u. S. And iran, how concerned should we be this morning . First of all we did accurate job with the investig
Course as tensions in the middle east are very high also new chapter for u. S. Cosmetics giant avon its not part of the brazilian personal care group nutura the groups new ceo will join us later this hour. Stocks are extending a selloff, oil and gold prices continue to climb. This is iran and the white house, trade threats following of course the u. S. Air strike that killed irans top commander. Jim, happy new year. Happy new year. Nice to see you, my friend. Good to see you, buddy, way too long i missed you. I know you feel the same but i havent heard you opine on this market and what risk there is in the geopolitics, in the backandforth, our viewers im sure are familiar with the president s tweets over the last lets call it 24 to 48 hours, sort of saying weve identified 52 sites that we would take action against if in fact you do something, and also notifying the congress, he said, as well, if iran should strike any u. S. Person or target wed quickly and fully strike back, perhaps in
The wall street journal calculates that icahn will make 400 million if hes right. More on that in a moment. Lets get to the market. Down yesterday, and probably opening a little lower this morning. President trump says if china doesnt make a trade deal, he might raise tariffs even more. He also said hes very happy with china because the treasury has taken in almost 100 billion from tariffs. All right. The dow is going to open down about 80, s p down about 9, nasdaq down about 32. But all of them still right at record highs. In a couple of hours, really big meeting in texas. Apple meets the president. Tim cook meets donald trump. This is at the new mac pro factory in austin. Pivotal meeting. Its about building apple products in america. Its about tariffs on apple products. Its about china trade negotiations. It is a big deal meeting. Just as important, what will the president say to reporters when he leaves the white house . We will certainly tell you. Varney company is about to begin.
The hang seng at the moment. The two thirds of 1 . Lets look at what is going on with the nikkei. Market, we are seeing a move to the upside. A case of bad news and good news. Indicating they could institute Interest Rate cuts. Lets get to the other asset classes. This is where we find ourselves at the moment. It must have been quite a meeting between the fed chair powell and his boss, the president. It must have been. A yield to that has barely been budged in. We have been seeing them lurch higher. More uncertainty in the haven buying. Pence against the euro. That is sterling moving to six month highs against its european counterpart as the threat of a hard brexit recedes. Aussie dollar moving to the downside. Just under . 68 u. S. Where it istuation to the downside potentially. Theyof many are saying would not be surprised to see a 66 handle in the nottoodistant future. Then we have the Violence Center stage in hong kong. It is continuing. That continues to be our top story right now