Talks and rising inflation are two thorny issues. Have a look at where european equities are trading, under 30 minutes until the end of the session. Greece is up 1. 5 . Italy is lower, 1. 3 lower. Ost markets trading down we are awaiting the outcome of the fomc meeting in three hours. Fx sovereign bonds, commodities, and cbs are your final columns. One of the movers of the day, shares up 2 , the biggest clothing retail stegner signaling growth is slowing this the owner ascating having a good start to the Christmas Holiday season. Revenue advancing 13 to the start of the fourth quarter, excluding currency shifts. Third quarter earnings in line with expectations. Lets talk about italy. The ftse still looking cheap compared with european peers. The benchmark is poised to close as europes best performing major market, on call for its best annual performance since 2009 when it rose 19 . Analysts expect the trend to continue next year. A general election and possibility of political gridlock
On wall street, and squawk alley is live good friday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john fortt, Morgan Brennan is at post 9 for the hour, sara eisen is off. S p 500 tech sector is the best performer this year by a long shot, up almost 40 . The question is, will this continue into the new year mark mahaney joins us to start off the hour, just published his 2018 internet sector outlook mark, always good to get your take happy friday good morning, carl. Whats the headline on this one . Going into 18 we have three constant and one change. At least for the internet aspect, theyve been extraordinarily consistent and we think those Revenue Growth trends can continue into next year second, the multiples are the same they havent changed over the last three years, which should mean the outperformance weve seen in the stocks to date, its all bottom line driven or Revenue Growth driven. Theres less downside risk, despite the outperformance going into 18 and the third th
Equities. We will comedo, back to this in a second while we fix this. Vonnie i will check u. S. Markets first because we are 90 minutes into the trading day. The dow is up. 25 . The s p up. 1 and the nasdaq tax reform helping the. S. Profit outlook david from mainstay capital think the trading weve been seeing this year is equivalent to euphoria. Perhaps this wont end well. Theyre interesting when we contrast this to a great chart we have in the bloomberg. We are looking at the number of death without a 5 pullback or greater. We are looking at the number of without a 5 pullback or greater. The s p 500 in blue. We are looking at the number of days without a 5 pullback. We are on day 295. Week,eek, it was last it was day 292. You have to go back to 1965. One of the bestperforming sectors on the day helping the record high, the financial sectors. Citigroup and bank of america higher. We have regional banks higher. Behind this trend, not surprisingly, yields. The 10 year yield is up five b
There is all on very light futures. Oil stocks have been trading in nearly the same direction every day for the past month. Asia overnight. Were not being big moves. A fallout for that massive explosion in china continuing. Shanghai was up 0. 75 . We have some news to tell but. I cant believe this is real. Apple planning a big announcement in september. But the big question is whether we can expect more than an iphone in maces. The new speculation this time is about a car. I know weve talked about it before. But this is totally different now. The Guardian Newspaper reporting the company is building a selfdriving car. Its looking for locations to test it. The report says apple is further along than many suspected. If you read through the story, its real. Assuming the reporting is right, they talk about the location of where the offices are, the garages, all of the things that they tested and built out, the people that called on the record. Theres a guy on the record from one of these tr
To record high. This morning futures are looking like this. Markets expect today continue to gains with another higher opening at the start of trading, dow industrials expected to be up about 20 minutes, nasdaq also strong today a third of a percent. 32 points higher for the nasdaq. Cac quarante best performer. In asia overnight, gain as cross the board on top of record rally on wall street. Hang seng index best performer up better than 1 . Earthquake strikes near north korea, pentagon says its not as a result of nuclear test. Amazon looks to take another industry, this time real estate. Details on the new report that sent zillow shares to the basement. A new eye to prevent overbooked flights. We have the story as well after turmoil at united all year. All the stories and joining me to talk about it Fox Business Network Dagen Mcdowell, back, former Goldman Sachs partner and Peter Kiernan and andrew peek, good to have you here. Thanks so much. Maria good morning, everybody. I missed you