Fed set 2022 and what the chairman will say and what i assume will be a Virtual Press conference today. Ofncine we will have plenty market action. We will look at the markets every 15 minutes, including what is happening in treasuries. We had the oecd coming out with their economic outlook. That was released about an hour ago, and the oecd, it is a smarter way of doing it, tom. Forecasting the pandemic would cause a Global Economic slump of 6 here, but if there is a second wave, that becomes a seven point 6 slump. It is a good way of visualizing percent comes a 7. 6 slump. By thewas taken aback differentials between the bar charts of europe and the United States. I did not have in my head how much worse the guesstimate is for gdp decline in the europe verses in the u. S. It is a very good report. Francine it is also because of where europe was in the economic cycle. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. A warning from jeffrey gund
Extraordinary. The underlying reasons why is very clear. We are up to our eyeballs in oil, at that means the price goes down. We have some terrific perspective today on oil. Too much oil, not enough storage. We will have plenty more on oil and we will try to figure out whether this could happen to another part of the market, but first lets get to the first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with speculation about the health of north koreas leader kim jongun. The u. S. Official got word that mr. Kim was in Critical Condition after cardiovascular surgery. The white house reportedly was told mr. Kim took a turn for the worse. Kim is 36. He recently missed holiday celebrations in pyongyang. Now to president donald trump, issuing an executive order temporarily suspending immigration. Late monday night, the president tweeting the move is needed to contain coronavirus. He also says it will protect american jobs. No word on how the suspension will last or who it
The trading session. Abigail doolittle is here. It looks like theyre trying for a lastminute santa claus rally. Absolutely. We dont have alltime highs. Record closing highs. Lets see if the dow can hang on. Just talking about the tax reform bill. Read tacit for mania. Reaching its target for the s p 500 to 3000. A lot of anticipation about what tax reform might do for stocks and the economy. We have some movers based on tax reform and the tax reform bill. At delta, we have gains saying they expect all u. S. Airlines to benefit from aspects of tax reform. Delta is one of Deutsche Banks top Airline Picks for 2018. And wells fargo trading higher as they are saying they will use lower Corporate Tax rates and a bit of a hike for wages. We have seen a big selloff for bonds. It is a longerterm chart over the 10 year chip yield. Just recently on tax reform as yields have shot hire and bonds have sold off, the 10 year yield is climbing out of this range highs of therd the election, suggesting w
President trumps normer attorney and fixer Michael Cohen admitting he lied to congress about contacts he had with the kremlin, about building a trump tower in moscow and he misled the lawmakers about how much President Trump was involved. Michael cohen pleaded guilty this morning federal court in manhattan. The plea was part of a deal with the special Counsel Robert Mueller in exchange for cohens cooperation in the russian investigation. According to new records, cohen now admits that he was in talks with the russia president Vladimir Putins righthand man and spokesman to get the trump tower project approved and got an invitation to st. Petersburg. This was going on while candidate trump was running for president. The kremlin interfered with our democracy as Russian Hackers stole emails from the dnc and Hillary Clintons Campaign Chairman. Michael cohen previously told congress under oath that the moscow project was terminated in january of 2016. Just before the Iowa Caucuses formally s