Jacket before you head out. 33 we want to give you a quick traffic update as you head out and about this morning. And good news at the top of the hour. There are no incidents to report in or around the capital city. But as always. We will continue to update you if anything changes for your morning commute. Abc columbia wants to help you jump start your day. We have a quick rundown of your top morning headlines. Were starting with vote 2016. And the result of last nights iowa caucus. Unbelievably close race out of iowa. After a long night. Its a race many are calling too close to call. For the democrats. The Clinton Campaign is already declaring victory in iowa. But with 99percent of precincts reporting. Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders take about 50percent of the vote. But the numbers are in from the Iowa Democratic party. The Iowa Democratic party chair. Doctor andy mcguire released a statement on last nights historically close vote. In it, mcguire outlines that clinton has bee
Im francine lacqua. Were just getting some breaking news. This is the i. F. O. Just breaking in line with expectations. The expectations for the future are a little bit higher. Germany is strong. They are certainly outdoing french. You look at the p. M. I. Numbers. Not difficult. You got some 47s from france and mid 50s from germany. Another piece of fairly strong data, pretty much in line with expect aations. A little bit of weakness maybe at the fringes but nevertheless germany still showing signs of strength. We have a guest hose for you this hour, jim oneill. A columnist for bloomberg view. Very Quick Reaction on this i. F. O. Number. Going strong. Actually the latest i. P. Numbers were not so great in germany. The surveys are strong. The Current Assessment is it is not the first time Current Assessment disappoints. It has gone on for a long time. Kind of boring. Lets move on. Our markets editor, manus cranny has more on how prepared the markets are for a possible december taper. P
Cap have, and what they jobs are still open. You see monks here at a temple in tokyo ringing bells to celebrate the new year. They are right outside, as you can see. New years is getting underway already in tokyo and overseas. New zealand started off this morning. Welcome to our new years eve edition of market makers. The final day of the year. We have breaking Economic News as well. Consumer confidence numbers are just coming out. We get a better than expected reading in Consumer Confidence for the month of december. Eric, you are just checking that this is the highest since when . September. Calexico decline has been revised higher to a read of 72. It is in line with what we have in seeing. University of michigan, confidence index, all rebounding from lows they saw a couple months ago. So we are coming off of base here. This is certainly a way to tie in how people are feeling as we head into the new year. It is backward looking because it included the runup to the Holiday Shopping se
Protest outside the fcc, calling for the commission to save the internet. We will host a debate. And fast food workers go on strike for higher wages. I feel now it is the time for not only me, but all workers across the nation is stand up and speak out and come out of the shadows and let the public be aware of how we live our daytoday lives, which is very poorly. As fast food ceos make 1200 times as much money as the average fast food worker, we will speak with one worker on strike in the fight for a livable wage. Then, to walmart. That is what walmart understands and walmart is pretty good at counting its pennies. Just days after president obama spoke at a walmart, over 18 1800 warehouse workers in california settle a major wage theft lawsuit against walmart and one of its largest contractors. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Nigeria has a currently ruled out talks of a prisoner swap with the boko hara
Here. Well talk about the big miss of big blue and spoke with david faber and investors are watching to see if we shake off that mess. Interesting, had the news of ibm come out midweek last week, big problem. Oh yeah. Dont you think . Markets for the most part, even though the dow hit pretty hard, is kind of taking it in stride at least now trying to work back into positive territory. All about earnings, fundamentals, a miss, one of the biggest price weighted names in the dow, youre right. A more nervous environment is raising the concerns. Today trying to fight back. A change of sentiment we felt over three days. Apple takes focus after the bell. Third quarter earnings with about nine days of iphone 6 sales and obviously closely watched and the reaction in the stock could be significant and well have the first analyst and best anywhere around. Jim breyer, he was in on facebook before anyone really knew what it was and well find out what hes interested in right now. Turned out pretty w