Harassment allegations rocking capitol hill. New charges against al franken that he groped and kissed a radio host without her consent. A picture fills worth a thousand words it was snapped on an air course c17 on the way home from afghanistan. Alleged groper, then comedian tal franken. Im asleep literally on the plane and there is a picture of al franken doing this, grabbing my boobs over my flight vest. Reporter she claims franken tried to rehearse it. He grabbed my face and stuck his tongue in my mouth. I just remember his lips were really wet and he pushed his tongue in my mouth. Reporter Numerous Congress people are asking for an ethics investigation. More members of congress may be outed. Speculation fueled by stories like this of a young female staffer sent to deliver documents to a congressmans home. At that point he decided to expose himself. She left and she quit her job. In the last 20 years there have been 260 settlements at a cost to the taxpayers of this country of 15 mil
And the nasdaq tumbled 1. 05 , you need to understand this is a redistribution its not a bet on the future, its a wager that some earnings estimates are going higher while others just stay the same and judging by the intraday reversal, investors are starting to realize that we may be a little too enthusiastic about stocks in general. Even if some do deserve to be higher because of changes that are going to be made to taxes in this country today truly brought a bifurcation in stocks. The action was 100 about tax reform Domestic Companies get a big cut while more internationallyoriented Companies Like most of tech see much less of a benefit sure they can repatriate capital from overseas at a better rate, but the real benefits here are for the purely domestic players. Its Like Congress has waved the magic and with and every cable company, railroad, retailer, restaurant as well as a smattering of industrials that have great u. S. Exposure and that has radically raised earnings for 2018. No
Of ours. Actually 10 00 we are looking up on all the major averages i guess, yeah, looks like we are. European markets, you ask, we answer what are they doing jim . We trade with the good ones now. Whats that we trade with the good ones. All positive. Other than spain 10 year note right around look at that over 58 this morning our road map as well it starts broadly with stocks on track to open higher boeing boosting its dividend shares rising premarket. The plan maker setting a new 18 billion stock buyback plan and a mega mall merger. Buying the World Trade Center mall and new jerseys nearly 16 billion overall. What . We should have 3m just preannounced. Lets get to that too. Remember the other day a fellow was telling you to sort it it was ill advised. You were on him. I was all over him like a cheap kmart suit. Those are cheap. That was my first thing that i wore to goldman. They said get out of that corduroy suit. A day in which the fed will hold its final policy meeting of the year
Have an exogenous event that drags down the whole mark and always say this could be the opportunity to get your toe in the water if youve got some spare money lying around yet after senator marco rubio said he couldnt vote for the tax bill the market took a hit and dow ultimately dipping 77 points s p declining 0. 41 and nasdaq edging down 0. 28 . How many took this moment and treated it as a buy, buy, buy im betting most of you didnt i dont want to get in front of this d rail freight train. Not after weve rallied hundreds of points based on the idea this tax bill will pass yet, the risk of being a pollyanna, id like to point out this is precisely the kind of event that brings out mass sellers, especially in the s p 500 stocks, well, and then creates the momentarily proverbial sale. Sell, sell, sell. On coveted merchandise you would otherwise have to chase to own and always say, look, theres a store that throwing a sale in the mall and, hey, lets get mothballs and im a buyer. Same kind
Of a percentage point. The hang seng was up by 0. 4 shanghai composite was up 0. 4 in europe in some early trading that were seeing, we are looking at a mixed picture slight declines in germany and in france. The ftse is up by a quarter percentage point gains in italy and in spain as well finally crude oil prices, which were up by 50 cents yesterday, they have given back some of those gains. We are talk about crude oil below 58 a barrel a couple stories were watching, bombardier said it is confident u. S. International trade commission will reach the right conclusion in its dispute with boeing. The Commerce Department announced yesterday it will impose duties of 300 on the companys cseries jets after boeing had been complaining they had been unfairly subsidized by the canadian government. The penalty will only take effect if the itc rules in boeings favor bombardier said it is common practice for a plane manufacturer to offer discounts to launch customers. Bombardiers ceo will join us