Literally lining up to pay their 2018 property taxes. Are we in there somewhere . Do you hear christie made moves today. Did he . He did. In his last couple of days in office yes, apparently well tell you whats going on with that and whether its worth it to pay your property taxes ahead of time because of the tax bill thatll be very interesting. But lets start with how companies are going to be impacted by this tax law, number of corporations have released the impact that they will see, Morgan Brennan has going through those filings, she joins us now with the latest details, morgan. Yeah, thats right, bill, finally getting some hard numbers regarding tax reform or at least i should say the Immediate Impact of tax reforms. Companies readjust their Balance Sheets among the immediate or near term winners which expects the bottom line boost of at least 250 million in the forth quarter, german auto makers expect to see net profit wind falls for 2017, they did add it couldnt quantify the tax
While some investors like it when activists come in to shake up public companies, weve got someone who says theyre ruining corporate america. Hell make his case coming up. And the new years going to bring new business in california that would be legalized Recreational Marijuana what took them so long im surprised its taken california this long. You moving back no, i go visit family once in a while, though. Were going to introduce you to the First Company to be licensed to sell in california coming up. Lets get straight, though, to the confusion thats for sure. The confusion surrounding the tax bill as americans continue to line up to prepay their property taxes before the new rules kick in in the new year. The irs did release that memo late yesterday in an attempt to clarify who exactly can take advantage of the prepayment. But there are still plenty of questions. So we sent our guy, eric chemi, out, to look into this he joins us now from a hightax town in new yorks Westchester County
Ecommerce growth that even as they do sends some other packages out through u. P. S. , fedex, logistics and others the vast majority, Something Like twothirds of their packages go the last Mile Delivery to peoples doorsteps through the Postal Service back over to you. Sometimes Postal Service delivers on sunday specifically for amazon, several years ago. Thanks, morgan. Lets talk about this. Are the president s attacks on amazon a sign of bigger issues ahead for the company . Donald, and dave are both with us. Welcome to you both. Tom, you think a strong argument could be made that amazon is getting a sweetheart deal here right . I definitely think if you look at the research ive read, theyre getting as much as a 1. 46 subsidy on a perpackage basis. I do think in the case of the u. S. Postal Service Amazon is definitely getting a sweetheart deal, yes. Donald, what about you . Well, absolutely. You know, the bottom line is the post office is subsidized its Parcel Delivery through its fi
The oil markets. First, stocks kicking off the first trading day of the new year on a high note. And if the january effect plays out, todays gains could be a positive sign for 2018 bob pisani here with the story bob . Reporter yes, just a lot like 2017, some of the big names are moving today semiconductors doing well. Lot of interest in that. We see Retail Stocks doing better we see energy doing better heres something curious, the banks are not participating in the rally. I find that interesting given that the ten years been moving up utilities have have been a loser for a long time. Thats no surprise here. Look at some of the big banks. Come over here citigroup here down 0. 4 on very light volume most of the big banks, regionals in particular are down fractionally not a great month, frankly, if you want to look at january. We asked our friends to take a look at the last five or six years in january it tends to be a down month. Nasdaq and the s p and the dow industrials all to the down
With a set up of a fiery press briefing a lot for Sarah Sanders to talk about in a few minutes. All of washington inside the white house and beyond has been talking about the revelations in this new book by Michael Wolff about the first year of the trump presidency. He describes that meeting as having been treasonous and said the fbi should have been called immediately rather than having that meeting in trump tower. He also said he thought the chances were zero that donald jr. Did not take those russians to see his father. Now all of that raises potentially Serious Problems for the president himself in terms of his knowledge of what was going on during the probe that bob mueller and the special counsel was not continuing on. The white house responded sharply with a statement from President Trump in which he said steve bannon has nothing to do with my presidency, he said that when he lost his job, was fired last summer, he lost his mind. Hes been peddling false information to the news m