Sydney, i believe, the first to in and the consensus price target out there about 18. Celebrate the new year. Higher by nearly 30 . We will be doing that in a betty thank you. Little bit. Well get our time. About a half hour into the trading session. China, the u. S. Or emerging i want to head to the markets markets, what region will see desk were julie hyman is the best returns and biggest standing by. Julie im happy to start risk in the coming year . Celebrating right now. We take you around the world to betty break out the champagne. Julie Market Participants are get the outlook from the worlds top banking chiefs. Not celebrating. Selling onng some the Monetary Union is very difficult. The last day of the year. Agree withtions to all major averages are down by a half of percent this year. One half of a percent. Something. They will have to muddle through. I think because of the willexity of that, they right now it is looking like a loss on the year. The yeartodate performance of hav
From israel to ukraine, where a Malaysian Airlines plane thats cashed near the border with russia. Ll people on board are dead. Ukraine said the plane was shot separatists. Ssia those rebels deny responsibility. And google and i. B. M. Are out with earnings. I. B. M. Posted a 2 drop in revenue but the declines were smaller for some business units. To our lead story. Israel has laumped a Ground Invasion into the gaza strip, its first significant offensive there since 2009. Its aimed at stopping the miss aisles fired into israel from hamas, which is in control in gaza. Israel has also authorized the callup of 18,000 additional troops. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Israeli Forces are charged with, quote, destroying the terror tunnels dug through the gaza industrial nto israeli territory. Elliott gotkine, what is the very latest on the ground where you are . The latest, as you say, is tanks have gone into the gaza strip. The first major ground offensive since 2009. And
Biden praising the california senator as ready to lead. The president wasting no time in taking on the new democratic ticket. Sandra team fox coverage for you this morning. John roberts at the white house with new reaction from President Trump. We begin with peter doocy in wilmington, delaware where the biden harris event is set to happen. It will mark a very big day in the race for the white house. Good morning. Good morning, sandra. On the campaign trail last year Kamala Harris did not always like talking about possibly being joe bidens running mate insisting when there were early reports she could someday be the Vice President ial candidate for joe biden. That it should be the other way around. I think joe biden would be a great running mate. He has proven he knows how to do the job. And if you zoom in on the zoom call biden made to harris to tell her he one the veep takes he had typed notes that included this line, i decided i would like you to join back the effort to be our nation
Again today or at least in his twitter feed. The president writing, quote mini mike is a 54 mass of dead energy. A tiny version of Jeb Low Energy bush. Firing back saying the president is a carnival barking clown and the feud escalated from there. We all know trump is a bully. I know how to deal with bullies. I come from new york just like him, and im not afraid of donald trump and he knows it. Thats why he keeps tweeting about me. Thank you, donald, keep sending it in. I love it . Yeah, he has money. They spent 2 billion on me, Hillary Clinton and mostly negative ads. And i won. And i won really easily. He is so deficient in so many ways that i think he would be easier than bernie. Ed the president speaking with our own Geraldo Rivera since 1972 no candidate from either party has gone after placing second in iowa and new hampshire. Two States Bloomberg did not even play. In but maybe he is playing by a different set of rules. Thanks to his 60 blt 60 billiondollar empire. Allows entry
Hand down the max essentially, handed down a sentence of a little over three years, some thought it was maybe less than expected, she gave roger stone a tongue lashing, made statements that spoke to larger context of the case. She addressed stones defense in court which was so what. So he lied to congress. Didnt really matter. She said of all circumstances in the case, that may be the most pernicious. The truth still exists, still matters. Roger stones insistence that it doesnt are a threat to the most fundamental institutions. And another point, she said dismay and disgust at the defendants bell ij rans should transcend party. It wasnt the democrats that referred roger stone for prosecution, it was the republicans who controlled the house and senate at the time. She also made points that seemed to speak to the president s tweeting about the case. She said it was important a neutral observer decides stones sentence. She said she wasnt sentencing because of his political friends or poli