So i try to incorporate all holidays. In the meantime, we have a developing story about deadly weather across central u. S. Tornadoes, blizzards, heavy rain killing more than 20 people in three states. More bad weather coming. Western oklahoma bracing for a foot of snow. Blizzard warnings remain in texas and missouri. A little bit of travel trouble across the country. About 1500 Flights Canceled nationwide yesterday. Another 6,000 planes are delayed. Youre going to be getting a live report from the Weather Channel in just a bit. Meantime, the Global Markets are open today. We are seeing some negative activity in the futures market because of some of the activity that we have seen in asia and in europe. In europe the u. K. And irish markets are closed for bank holiday observing boxing day. Australia and new zealand closed for the same reason. In germany we are down fractionally. Down 1 4 of 1 . Same for spain and groogs which we are still throwing in there for good measure down by 3 4 o
Be celebrating at 11 00 a. M. Eastern which we are about 18 hours away right here in new york city. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. The dow tracking to close out 2015 down about 1 . The s p is just near break even levels. Were three or four points above break even. That would be looking at the nasdaq and looking to finish 6 or 7 higher at this level. Lets take a look at the quick u. S. Equity futures. Where we go this year, break even on the futures this morning too. The dow futures are up by 7 points. Not to rain on the new years eve parade but news just out that authorities in belgium now detained six people as part of their investigation into a new years eve terror plot yesterday. Heres where it gets more complicated. They called off the new years eve fireworks display citing fears of a militant attack. They wouldnt be able to guarentee that every attendee could be checked so they cancelled the celeb
We are about an hour away from the close of trade. Ant to head in where raimi did not watch kung fu panda three. But you have been watching an incredible comeback. Ramy i will be watching it. Stanleyare right, fischer is definitely giving a boost to the markets today. The nasdaq slipped into the green and we are close to the dow slipping into the green as well as the s p 500. The dow had been down and now we are down by only 15 or 16 points here. Earlier today, we saw chinese numbers weigh on the market as well. We are definitely in turnaround mode. We will see in the next hour or so if we could get to the green. I want to show you the imap function. Earlier today, wednesday started , all of these sectors were in the red and we now have four sectors in that territory. Energy is no surprise. Look at this. Telecommunications is the biggest gainer up by 1 . Crude is still at a low but still down by a more than 6 . Today, he did see a fivemonth low. Still on track. More oil in the global m
Nobody should have to condense something just because they our founders knew that religion happen to be born muslim. Charlie but if you also believe helps strengthen our nation. They are hijacking your religion , you clearly want to speak out tolerance is not enough. And say this is not islam, dont we must embrace our common humanity. You . That, and ifort since 9 11 and the attacks can parisari attacks in muslims want to take the initiative as they do throughout the world, that is something and san bernardino, you see too that is to be encouraged. Often people conflating these but the idea of communal responsibility, just because you are a member of a particular attacks with the police of an entire faith. Group, you have to say certain things . Thats problematic. We heard inexcusable political rhetoric against Muslim Americans that has no place in our country. That contributes to the sense charlie we have a senior fellow that there is something wrong with us as a muslim community. Tha
Said to leapfrog apple and become the worlds most valuable company. It is their first Earnings Report under the new structure. Headlines,ok at the powered by over 2400 journalists in 150 bureaus around the world. A quick look at the market. We have hong kong and china close to the lunch break. This is how they were trading a mixed bag. This is a picture for singapore, tokyo, and mumbai. Its time now for bloomberg west. Emily im emily chang, and this is bloomberg west. Coming up, leapfrogging apple is the worlds most powerful company, topping investments and letting investors take their first peek. Will our data centers of the future be lining the ocean floor . We will talk to microsoft about the first server pod underwater. Now to our lead. Alphabet surging in afterhours trading, up as much as 9. 4 , surpassing apple as the worlds most valuable company in extended trading. After the company top there estimates, fourthquarter revenue passed on to partners and rose 19 to 17. 3 billion. U