As of this evening to be impeached by the house of representatives. The president said leading into this he was not going to be watching what was transpiring up today up on capitol hill. Im told as it relates to the president over here at the white house he will be having a series of policy meetings throughout the day, probably making phone calls as well before he leaves for that Campaign Event in michigan later this evening. He did huddle last night here at the white house with Top Republicans in advance of this vote up on the hill today. One of those was Top Republican in the house, Kevin Mccarthy who gave this readout earlier today. Listen. He is focused on what the American People need but it is the strength of who he is. That is why we have a Strong Economy. Why well come out of this. Why, when you look at this, at the end of the day, everything speaker promised democrats, the poll numbers are low, theyre divided. Reporter democrat argue that the president abused his office by try
Its the little saint nick. Its the little saint nick. Just a little bob sled. We call it old saint nick. Lauren Christmas Tree shining bright. Welcome to fbn a. M. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl good morning, im cheryl casone. Lets take a look at money. It has been a big market day. Lauren new records on wall street, despite boeing shaving 100 points off the dow. All three major averages closing in record territory, the dow hitting the 16th record close of the year, gaining 10,000 points since President Trumps election. Cheryl with apple and microsoft hitting alltime highs, weve got a mixed bag today. Dow is down by 32, s p only down by 1 andahalf and nasdaq still higher. Remember, yeartodate the dow is up 21 , nasdaq up 32 yeartodate. It has been a great year for markets. Lauren and in asia, rally mode yesterday. Optimism on the trade deal helping the shanghai composite in particular, up 1 and a quarter percent. Cheryl chinas economy looking kind of strong. The brexit cloud is lifting. L
Halting max production plus, iff is merging with duponts biosciences and nutrition unit it is a deal that will create a new consumer giant valued at more than 45 billion. Iff ceo and duponts executive chairman will be joining us to discuss the deal in just a few minutes. And record rally, the iss p and nasdaq new highs lets start with boeing, moving lower in the premarket, the journal is among those reporting that the company is considering suspending or cutting production of the 737 max. In response to the story, boeing issued a statement to cnbc saying it would continue to assess production decisions based on the timing and conditions of a return to service for the max. And as we know, guys, faa last week through cold water on that return happening before year end. Right i think that this is something that some people say it is a foregone conclusion. And that the reason why you didnt see this before was that the way that accounting works, something i think a great cfo would understan
Unified party. One democrat switching sides, some others may vote no. But the end result is not in doubt. The president will not be removed from office. Now look at this. The market is going up again. The dow is being held back a little by boeing. The journal says it may halt or cut max jet production. Boeings a dow stock, way down, hurting the dow average by about 90 points. We also have to tell you that bank of america is talking about a melt up for the market into next year. Look at the market go. The dow is going to be up about 80 points despite the news on boeing, up about 80 at the open. S p, big gains, 17 points. Thats more than a half percent. The nasdaqs going to do well, 50 points higher. That is a rally this monday morning. In britain, landslide winner, Boris Johnson, is pushing hard for a brexit vote by christmas. Then he wants to work on a trade deal with trump next year. Defeated socialist Jeremy Corbyn says he won the battle of ideas. He just couldnt convince voters he w
Confidence ticking lower in november though still largely positive. Joining us for the hour is mark tepper from Strategic Wealth partners mark, welcome. Thanks for having me. Even as i just went through those different points that are driving the action today, weve got records again for the dow and the s p, albeit just barely. Right, yes. I mean, all investors are pretty much still riskon and whats most surprising to me is you have this news coming out of china where china is potentiallily bay lbalking at ae deal, but were at a new alltime high. The market has shifted from one of economic deflation to policy reflation and thats typically good for stocks, right a low inflation, Slower Growth economy is good for stocks over the next six to nine months, now would not be a good time to be underweight equities. You want to be pathetics right now. Is the trade deal priced into this market . I think completely, almost fully priced in right now. I think weve seen quite the runup over the cours