The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Send your spirit of peace and calm that all might have confidence in your faithfulness to us. That no matter what lies ahead your grace is abundantly available. Now we approach a week during which all americans will gather to remember who we are. A nation generously blessed not only by you, our god, but by courageous ancestors faithful allies, and the best good wishes of people everywhere who long for freedom, who would glory in the difficult work of participative government and who do not enjoy the bounty we are privileged to possess. Bless the members of this assembly and us all that we would be worthy of the call we have been given as americans. Help us all to be truly thankful and appropriately generous in our response. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The sp
Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody in for sara eisen. Good morning to you. Great to have you with us great its friday. Feels good. Lets check in on the markets. We did get a bounce back yesterday from what has been a week or so of softness with a few pullback days, no significant gain days until yesterday. We saw 0. 8 of gains for the dow and s p. It was a bounce back from some of that softness but also earnings driven, walmart up 10 . A huge gain. Cisco, gap, best buy, some Companies Reporting earnings to beat forecasts we are called lower. The dow down 40 points the nasdaq down a couple points. S p down 4 points. That gain yesterday seems a little bit temporary week to date, the s p before today was up fractionally. The nasdaq is up about 0. 6 . Tenyear treasury note has recovered in the second half of the week in terms of the yield rising the price falling. We did fall to the low 2. 3s earlier in the week. Up to 2. 36 now last friday we closed 2. 4 asian equities climbing for a second
What does that mean . Hello and welcome to bloomberg daybreak asia. Im haidi lun. Betty i am betty liu at the mobile headquarters in new york. Weve got one i clearly watching what is happening in the korean peninsula. In the meantime, we are watching what is happening here in tax reform and u. S. Markets. It looks like tax or formal possibly passed by the end of the year and markets will move higher,. I want to pull up a chart that shows perhaps a little bit of a warning sign. It just shows you the valuation of snp stock versus the euro stoxx 600uro companies. You can see how the valuation so muchinues to widen, so that it has some investors saying even if stocks rally, maybe there is better value in other parts of the world, particularly europe. Maybe it is europes time to shine next year. Haidi absolutely. It is interesting, this idea of momentum and sentiment driven rally we have seen. Haveore record highs we seen overnight as we get closer to closing out the year. Usuallyet period
Guests. The first served as u. S. Ambassador to israel during his long and distinguished career. Joins us from hes coming to us from the white house. We do have excerpts here. Does the president understand how historic this could be . I think he has had those discussions with a lot of key officials. Rex tillerson to the vice is they have all weighed in on this in the weeks and months now. Some extent yes, but how does playing out in the region and how does after that speech, it will be a major factor. Paragraphsve a few with excerpts and talks about on the one hand, jerusalem has been a place where christians and muslims as well as jews have been able to worship freely. Israel of israel. What does that mean . We are not seeing to stations between western and palestinian aspirations for the capital. Important with those subjects and remarks. Way for thea president to finesse this without inflaming tensions in the region . If the diplomacy is created and the speech is nuanced, it could h
Well take your calls and you can join the conversation on twitter. Nd is next. N journal [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] it is monday december 18, 2017. One week until christmas, and the selfimposed deadline for congress to pass tax reform. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Well spend the first part of the program asking you about the anticipated action on capitol hill this week and passage of the republican tax reform plan. Your message to congress as that. Et set to do heres how weve divided the phone lines for the conversations for the first part of the program. 50,000 a under that. Year. Year the numbers are on your screen. As always we welcome your comments on facebook, cspan and send us a tweet. Well get to your calls momentarily. The headline this morning. A look at the front page of the Washington Times and their preview of the days ahead. Host youre first up this morning. Welcome. Ca