And south korea offers talks with the north a day after the north Korean Leader, kim jongun says he is open to dialogue with seoul, despite telling the u. S. That the Nuclear Button is always on his desk good morning, everyone it is the first trading day of the year i want to alert your attention we have the final manufacturing pmi numbers for the eurozone they came out at 60. 6, in line with the flash this is the strongest pace of expansion in the Manufacturing Sector since the series began in june 199 7 thats two standard deviations above the long run average extremely strong numbers out of europe bringing in our first guest, i have Derek Halpenny on the phone with us. It appears as though europe is off to a great start, in line with the momentum we saw in december i also want to point out that Euro Currency is up through 1. 20, and it appears the currency has lagged this morning. What have you pencilled in for the currency from here we think that the euro can gain further, but 2018
London, we will go to london shortly to report on that terrorism attack. The nikkei average overnight up a half of a percent but the others mostly lower. The push per tax reform is continuing. The commander in chief insisting his plan will not benefit the wealthiest americans once again. This is not the benefit the wealthy. This is to benefit the middle class and to benefit companies where theyre going to be producing jobs. We want to produce jobs in this country. Maria more on the administrations tax reform plans coming up this morning and could the Equifax Breach keep you from getting an iphone. The new concerns surrounding your credit score, equifax once again down 2 . All the stories coming up this morning and joining me to talk about Dagen Mcdowell, Jason Chaffetz with us and fox news contributor, former economic adviser to president Obama Robert Wolf is here. Great to see you. Good morning, thanks for having us. Maria we have breaking news right now. We are following breaking new
Hours. Lets head to the markets desk where julie hyman has the latest. Bit of aeaking a losing streak, but not by much. You see a little bit of a gain, but it is a little one. We had markets open and even more little changed. The dow getting just 15 points, but that is enough to break the recent losing streak. Sessioneen on a seven that is an interesting chart. We have a little bit of a glitch. The dow had been on a seven session losing streak going into today. Here are some of the leading percentage of performers. Apple is rising as well and jpmorgan is getting some ground along with oddly the financials today and a bounce in some of the social oriented stocks. Twitter gaining after speculation about a potential buyout. That has not slowed down the stocks. Yelp to less of a degree. If you look at the financial stocks, American International Group Trading higher and the Company Announcing a new buyback authorization. Cityut with earnings, gaining ground and the oil stocks experiencing