Assets mario has a different idea hell tell you what it is coming up. Excitement over tax reform is helping to fuel todays market gains, Murray Energy ceo whos been a supporter of the president s says the senate bill is, quote, a mockery of tax reform, and his companys taxes will go up under this plan hell explain and make his case. Then pancreatic cancer one of the most deadly forms of cancer out there former Nbc Universal chair bob wright will join us at post the, talk about his new rush to take on a new push. Hes rushing on this, too. Oh, yeah. Hoping they can get an Early Detection test out there on pancreatic cancer. Lets start with todays rally, though. Dow was up 300 early on, were about half that level right now. Bob pisani has more here bob . Good news, folks, we are acting rationally in the last five or six days so the sectors in the stocks that might see the biggest earnings boost from the tax cut are the ones that have been moving the most in the last five, six day. Its hap
Make big money if this cvs deal closes well tell you how much. Trying to count it up coming up first as you know, President Trump made this major announcement on israel today which could destabilize the middle east this coming just a day after carlisles David Rubenstein told cnbc the only thing that the market needs to worry about is an unexpected geopolitical event. The only thing we have to worry about in 2018 or 2019 some unanticipated geopolitical event, the black swan. But right now short of those kind of things i think the economy is reasonably good shape and probably going to be spurred on by the taxbill. Lets get to cnbcs eamon javers for a recap of eat vents. The president decided today to recognize that the capital of israel is in jerusalem breaking with longstanding u. S. Policy the president cast this as simply acknowledging the reality on the ground in jerusalem and said that he was fulfilling a Campaign Promise heres what he said earlier today. Today i am delivering ive j
Shazam is this an Artificial Intelligence play . Were going to look. Whats to buy ahead of tax reform debate on whether Airline Stocks could be the big beneficiaries of any tax bill. But we do start with the story thats taken wall street, main street, any street, frankly, by storm, and that is bitcoin. Bitcoin futures popping in their first full day of trading on the cboe Cnbcs Bob Pisani joining us with that story. Bob, everybody is talking about it. It is and its finally happened the good thing is at least trading has happened and relatively orderly we passed 18,000, folks. Bitcoin futures opened 6 00 last night eastern time, 15,000, moved up very, very quickly. Here you see its over 18,000. So its been small, 3,600 contracts, figure the math here. 17,000 p 17,000, 18,000 about 60 million. Thats not a lot but its a start at least heres whats important. Lets go over what exactly a futures contract is, why this is so important first of all, its just agreement to buy or sell a commodity
Low. And its projected as the population continues to age in the baby boomers retire that that ratio will continue to rise in an unsustainable fashion. So, the addition to the debt taking what is already a significant problem and making it worse is it is of concern to me, and i think it does suggest that in some future downturn, which could occur just for whatever reason, the amount of fiscal space that would exist for fiscal policy to play an active role it will be limited, it may well be limited. Sam fleming with the financial times. Couple of longer term questions, first of all, midway through the year, hot weather inflation targets might need to be raised. Obviously been a lot more debate and have had systems since then about this it may not be an imminent issue, it may be something the feds may be discussing over the coming years. Some sort of change to the inflation target second of all, the amount of stimulus tools that the fed may have at its expo sal are fairly limited. One of
Launching and landing a reused rocket weve got the ceo of a publicly traded Company Looking to capitalize on the increased excitement around space these days. Wonder if they call them certified preowned. Thats coming soon, im sure. Yes. After the bell, bitcoin millionaire, a young man who bought bitcoins at 12 is now worth millions good for him hell tell us whether he is selling right now and whether hes investing in ethereum, litecoin, or ripple. Or whatever the coin is. Isnt that a wine lets get to the big story out of washington right now. Republicans sprinting to pass tax reform before the holiday recess and a final version of the bill, we are told, is expected to be released in just a couple of hours. Ylan mui who has been way out in front on this story today gives us what she knows right now. Ylan reporter bill, senator marco rubio is making it official, he will be a yes on the republican tax bill as weve been reporting since earlier today. Now, hes onboard because republicans we