Of ours. Actually 10 00 we are looking up on all the major averages i guess, yeah, looks like we are. European markets, you ask, we answer what are they doing jim . We trade with the good ones now. Whats that we trade with the good ones. All positive. Other than spain 10 year note right around look at that over 58 this morning our road map as well it starts broadly with stocks on track to open higher boeing boosting its dividend shares rising premarket. The plan maker setting a new 18 billion stock buyback plan and a mega mall merger. Buying the World Trade Center mall and new jerseys nearly 16 billion overall. What . We should have 3m just preannounced. Lets get to that too. Remember the other day a fellow was telling you to sort it it was ill advised. You were on him. I was all over him like a cheap kmart suit. Those are cheap. That was my first thing that i wore to goldman. They said get out of that corduroy suit. A day in which the fed will hold its final policy meeting of the year
Should be focused on what is it welcome to power lunch we are in rally mode the nasdaq hit its first record for december the dow jones and the s p 500 on the fourth straight week of gains. Consumer discretionary moving big. Underarmour moving higher. Kohls also. And take a look at the electronic retailer, up more than 50 this year thank you we begin this hour with tax refo reform expected to be agreed torsion signed, eventually unveiled to the public later today we still await the final details of what is in and what is out. Live in washington reporter two sources now confirming to me marco rubio does plan to support the republican tax bill. They put in some lastminute changes to win him over. Namely increasing the refundable portion of the Child Tax Credit. Just about an hour ago, kevin brady who chairs the ways and Means Committee spoke about at the chances of the bills passage, not just through house but also the senate where republicans have a very narrow margin im confident at the
A new poll shows the majority of americans believe that special Counsel Robert Mueller has a conflict of interest because of his past ties with former fbi director james comey. We are asking you, do you have confidence in the Robert Mueller russian probe . Republicans call 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. Reach us on twitter cspanwj, and on facebook at. Com cspan. Facebook. Com cspan. Lets look at what the president said on the white house lawn yesterday. It is a shamep what happened with the fbi but we will rebuild the fbi and it will be bigger and better than ever. It is sad, when you look at the documents and how they have done that is really, really disgraceful. You have a lot of angry people seen yet. It is a sad thing to watch. I am going today on behalf of the fbi, their new building, when everybody, not me, the level of anger at what they have been witnessing with respect to the fbi is very sad. Host more on that from the Washington Post today. It sa
Now a discussion on bitcoin and the future of crypto currency. From washington journal, this is about 30 minutes. Washington journal continues. Host joining us is brian knight, Senior Research fellow for the Financial Markets working group at Mercatus Center, and he is here to talk about bitcoin and the future of cryptocurrency. Thank you for joining us today. For people like me who really do not understand this very well, bitcoin andt is cryptocurrency . Is a computer protocol used to set up a peer decentralized network where you have a valuable token, a bitcoin, and a distributed ledger. One of the thing that is unique is instead of a centralized party maintaining the database, it is maintained by all of the Different Computers on the protocol simultaneously. That is why they call it distributed ledger. The goal was to set up a system for payments and value transfer that really is not subject to reliance on a centralized party. Host why was this developed, and how does it work . Deve
Live from new york where business never sleeps, this is squawk box. Good morning welcome to snark box. And whats new about that andrew is off today sitting in with us for the hour is Peter Boockvar, editor of the boock report very clever. Well done. Boock report yes i like it also a cnbc cribber we have a lot to talk about. Lets start with the u. S. Equity futures. Rattled rattled. Dow was down by 16. The s p was off by 3 nasdaq down by 10. Its the first time the nasdaq and the s p have fallen in 2018 it had a sixday winning streak up to that point well watch things this morning. Right now modest advances with the dow futures indicated up by 20 points. S p up by 4. Nasdaq up by 7 well see. Still early in the session well see as we head towards that opening bell what will happen overnight in asia, stocks in hong kong closing higher for the 13th day in a row, extending the record rining stre inwinning st index. Shanghai up by 3. 2 the dax is the biggest decliners of europe, down by 0. 2