European political news. It is about currencies and the new zealand centralbank news. When was that, last evening that i saw that . It is wonderful to have Holger Schmieding with us to go over with that signals. Is that a butterfly flapping . Is that the phrase you would use . It is not a small deal. Francine we could open it and see more troubles were Central Banks only looking at new zealand. There is a linkage with currencies. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with taylor riggs. Taylor the white house commenting on Donald Trumps accusations. The republican candidates as you can blame the white house wreaking havoc in the middle east. Is honoringsis president obama. He is the founder of isis. He is the founder of isis. He is the founder. Lamed trump has long president and Hillary Clinton for creating a power vacuum in iraq that was exploited by the Islamic State. Forces in libya are close to retaking the Islamic State strongholds. There taken over a hall that was used by the
Waiting for janet yellen. Its a quiet day on the markets, but watch out for commodities and watch out for dollar. Tom exactly. I was watching commodities today; citigroup was really talking up saudi arabia, having trouble moving oil. Really, the backstory, while you were off on your threeweek vacation, is the idea that the atlanta said lowered their gdp for this quarter under 1 . That is the backdrop, yelling those before the economic public. Francine rate. Right. It seems confusing to understand what the feds next move is. Lets get to the first word news. Vonnie good morning. A jetliner has been hijacked and forced to fly in cyprus. It was on a flight from alexandria to cairo. The Egyptian Government set a hijacker claimed to be wearing an explosives belt. 56 passengers have been allowed off the plane. Several for for flight crew are still on board. Last weeks bombing severely damaged the airports departure holes in. Brussel in brussels. It will only be able to handle 20 of the normal
572. here in europe, european markets are trading higher now. higher by 0.5% or so. the smi relatively flat like we saw yet. the ftse playing catchup today, as well, as we were off for trade yesterday in the uk. we re seeing a little bit of activity coming through especially in the basic resources and especially in some of the big sector companies in technology when it comes to mainland europe. let s check in on the u.s., as well. good morning, brian. hey, when boxing day falls on a weekend, you have to have that day off for everybody. let s take a look at the stock foorchs here at this hour. the gains have been incremental. nothing shocking to the system. but gains are gains. the cliche is you can still go broke on light volume. we re up about 7 points in the dow against fair value. slightly higher, only about .5% in the nasdaq and the s&p 500 up by more than .25 points right now. 80s stands, we look pretty good and the futures have held up pretty well for the entire day.