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China trade deal jobless claims fall. And real estate and staples are leading the charge joining us for the hour is stephanie link were both feeling the holiday red but we got a green market. Like a christmas theme were now starting to see internalsin the market thats confirming the stabilization look at the 210 spread, the yield curve is steepening. Nats a good sign asia stocks, they are breaking out. You look at oil up 10 in the past month all of these things are confirming were seeing stabilization and that sets us up for 2020 seeing better growth my biggest question mark does this translate into better earnings i think we will see better earnings which maybe not right away you have pmis globally that are stabilizing. I feel good going into 2020. It has to be an Earnings Growth year all three averages are up half a percent first lets focus on the big stories were watching Kayla Tausche has the latest on china trade and usmca. Then the senate spendling bill vote and Bertha Coombs has
Well tell you what it is and what to expect in the new decade but first its the final countdown cool. The whole show lousy song yeah . Its a miserable song right up there with the eye of the tiger which is one of the five worst songs of all time. Great movie. The movie it was in jordans bulls were introduced to this song the other night, werent they . Good memories for me. Okay. Well, it is the final countdown nonetheless, guy, whether you like it or not its the final countdown theres one trading day left before we ring in the new year and a new decade and its looking to be an ugly end to the year with stocks posting the biggest losses in four weeks so should you hold off on popping the bubbly or was today just a minor blip i think its a minor blip i thought the market was going to go down since september i said it earlier that december is going to be at best a choppy month but at worst a volatile month. Didnt pan out that way. Look, i do think that things have gotten ahead of themselv
Sessions we have all the angles of this market selloff covered for you, though but first, joining us for the hour is aerials investments director of research, Charlie Bobrinskoy here at post 9. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Pulloff pulloff, correction, selloff, pullback, was this over due . Well, no, things changed today. The momentum had been wonderful around trade and people say that people spend too much time worrying about trade. I actually dont think thats true free trade is very important and people say in 1776, the most important thing written was the declaration of independence. It wasnt, it was wealth of nations by adam smith the idea that trade helps us all is something that the markets believe in and when that gets called into question, you get an appropriate big reaction do you think that it is, especially based on the comments we got from President Trump today, do you think that the market is, especially with this pullback that we have seen today, do you thi
Were talking about here is a priceless historic art and cultural value. Also coming up a lake to Chinese Government documents reveal details about the forced detention of Something Like a 1000000 we go muslims the significance is that we have an unprecedented insight into what the Chinese Government is really doing the endgame is to change an entire minority population its a cultural genocide and its a course of social range nearing. For us here in germany have pulled off a spectacular high said one of europes most renowned museums police in the eastern city of dresden say the break in at the greed vaults comebacks and took place in the early hours of monday morning and that the loose includes priceless early 18th century jewelry the state run music moves home to around 4000. 00 presses objects made of gold silver jewels and divers. Dress dozens of Green Vault Museum home to one of europes greatest collections of treasures now its a crime scene after burglars snatch several sets of ear