6. 9 trillion and we will hit the 7 trilliondollar mark. I have been covering money for 40 years and i have never seen a runup like this. They all combine to create this extraordinary rally and it continues today. I hope youre able to follow it from the comfort of your home because the weather along the eastern sea board is just plain terrible, the bomb cyclone, the bombo genesis, carolina, virginia, a blizzard by any other name and brought onethird of a country close to standstill. We offer a unique opportunity, sit back andat w dow 25k and th bombo cyclone, Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart liz peek with bombo cyclone glasses. Look at futures, we are going to go up 100 points in the opening bell. We should cross 25k. If those futures, quote, stand, we will hit 25k in approximately 27 minutes and 40 seconds. By the way, we just learned that 250,000, a quarter million new privatesector jobs were created in november, thats a big number, a very strong economic indicater. Lets take
Good morning, everyone, im scott mcgrew. This is a ledger. I bought it at office depot for five bucks. You can make an argument this is one of the most important inventions in public history. Public ledgers help people keep track of who owned what property. Important in the growth of colonial america and as far back as egyptians, they allowed banks and businesses to offer credit and make payments. Today ledgers are on the computers and theres a new computerized ledger that captured everybodys attention, called the blockchain. I cannot show you the blockchain because its inside computers but all it is is a ledger, who has paid what to whom. What keeps it honest, there are copies of that laedger on computers all over. The change is reflected in ledgers all over the world. Brad garlinghouse runs ripple. Martin jiles with m. I. T. Technology review. How did i do . Is that what the blockchain is . You did a really nice job. So lots of people have heard of this. They know its important, why
Im rooting for it to shut down. Weve all survived shutdowns. The challenge it is politically risky for both republicans and democrats. Of theyre in a mudslinging fight and hoping the other part has more mud on their face at end of the day. Charles deroy, forget about the market, only one year was the gdp down. I get back to the point. Why are republican so afraid of this . They seem to think they will get burned. After the last shutdown they benefited midterm elections after that. Depend who defines the terms of shutdown. He should do Oval Office Address on friday evening as we go toward the countdown. Lay out deal he is willing to sign. Have the senate vote on it one by one, let democrats on camera decide if they shut down the government and allow the government to continue in operation. Shelby is right to separate between a market story and political story. To take the last shutdown we had in 2013, the market, participants in the market tended to focus what they were already focused
Investors unnerved by claims against the chairman. This is a Bloomberg Markets asia. Taking a look at the markets and investors really checking themselves, taking money off the table and there is plenty to take off the table after equities had one of their best starts to any year. In 2018,he most so far and that negativity is trickling through, a lot of it coming from the selloff. 2. 7,d the 10 year pushing and that level is creating nerves when it comes to contagion. Take a look at the early asian sessions, the nikkei 225 just off. Topics also turning lower. Singapore lower ahead of the open. Thenoble group, one of biggest movers, really taking after investors restructuring the debt. The company saying the commodity trader will be safe from bankruptcy, but control will be handed over to creditors and essentially wiping out current shareholders in no ball. A lot of what has been happening with appreciation is down to dollar weakness. That is all seemingly changed in the last 34 hours w
Also indicted were three russian entities and separately an indictment followed an american who was allegedly involved in related credit card crime. The Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein briefing reporters this afternoon laid out a case called the Internet Research agency employed hundreds of people to the budget to the tune of millions of dollars in a longrunning effort to influence u. S. Politics. Ultimately, in the 2016 president ial election to benefit now President Donald Trump heres how Rod Rosenstein described the elaborate effort by the Internet Research agency. The defendants allegedly use that infrastructure to establish hundreds of accounts on social media networks, such as facebook, instagram and twitter. Making it appear those accounts were controlled by persons located in the United States they used stolen or fictitious identities, Fraudulent Bank accounts and false identification documents now the, bill, what im told here is that ultimately the special counsels offi