Consumer price data as well as retail sales ecodata. Noon, federal fed president Patrick Harker gives an Economic Outlook street speech. 12 45, the president has his annual physical exam at Walter Reed Military Center. Emma chandra has the first word news. Emma lets get you caught up on the headlines. The United Nations calls President Trumps remarks about immigrants shocking and shameful. He is said to have used foul language speaking to lawmakers about why the u. S. Accepted immigrants from haiti and africa but not places like norway. President trump will not say whether or not he has spoken with kim jongun. He refused to comment but says he probably has a very Good Relationship with the dictator. A germany, there is preliminary agreement and four months of political stalemate. According to people familiar with the discussion, chancellor Angela Merkel and the Democratic Party have attempted to form a new government, using more government involvement in education and changes to Health
The nasdaq is on track for its best monthly gain since july of 2016 the s p 500 is at its biggest monthly gain since last february the s p and nasdaq have risen seven of the last eight trading days if you were waiting for things to slow down, you are still waiting. Triple digit gains for the dow already this morning overnight in asia there were gains this came after the strength yesterday with the dow up 200 points. The hang seng was up by 1 shanghai was up by 0. 1 . The nikkei did give back some ground in europe this morning, there are some green arrows across the board. Gains of a quarter percentage point for germany and the ftse in london. The cac in france is up by a third of a percentage point. If you want to look at treasury yields which have been picking up ground, you will see the treasury yield for the tenyear, sitting about the same, 2. 544 lawmakers in germany reached a break through in talks to form a new government the euro rising. You need a government. Euro rising to new
Up another, what, 60, 70, 80 as of this morning. By the time we open, the dow will be, what, about 300 points away from 26,000, another milestone. Heres that big number, put it up again, please. The value of all stocks has now gone up 7. 6 trillion since the election. And more companies are giving employee bonuses because of the tax cut. Fiat chrysler and capital one are among the 14 companies to join the list in the last 24 hours. All right. Jpmorgans chief, jamie dimon, he says tax reform is a significant, positive outcome for the country. In other words, we aint seen nothing yet. Hes americas top banker. Weve got to get to politics. Dueling comments. A vulgarity from the president thrown right into the immigration debate. Thats not going down well. A raciallycharged comment from nancy pelosi, five white guys are deciding immigration policy, she says. The multimillionaire, pelosi, also says those bonuses are pathetic crumbs. [laughter] sit back, folks. Were on a roll. Money and polit
Welcome to power lunch. Im michelle carusocabrera. Melissa said strong rally to end the week, the dow, s p 500, nasdaq, russell 2000, dow transports all hitting record intraday highs look at the Dow Jones Industrial average, dow 25,000 is so last week were 250 points away from dow 26,000 second straight week of gains, check out soft om movers within the averages amd downer today taking a hit. The company says its chips are susceptible to the specter security flaw. Its off 1. 5 . That flaw lets hackers steel sensitive information. Gamestop tanking about 10 retailer posting strong holiday sales, however, they took a big charge on iphone x related problems first ipo of the year, first energy ipo of the year Liberty Oil Field Services Soaring about 30 on its debut today. The ceos going to join us in just a few minutes tyler. Michelle, thank you very much welcome everybody. Im Tyler Mathisen lets tell you what else is happening at this hour the National Retail federation says holiday sales
Extraordinary moment for sports specifically womens. You go, girl. Matt we kick it off with our top stories. Those are two of them. The next move may be up to greece after voters rejected more austerity. Whatever greece does next, it will happen without Yanis Varoufakis. He has quit. He says there is a certain preference among european asp among european creditors that he no longer be involved in negotiations. Alexis tsipras that the no campaign which received 61 of the vote. He called it a courageous choice. Today, we celebrate the victory of democracy. From tomorrow, we continue and will complete our National Effort on exiting the crisis. The greek peoples believe in our own strength and justification we are right. Matt germany and france meet up today said decide a common response. Greek banks may run out of cash in hours unless the ecb extends another lifeline. Stephanie john kerrys temporary expectations that a nuclear deal with iran is imminent. He said negotiators are not where