Come along with me. Step into christmas. The admissions free. Lauren welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning at home. Im lauren simonetti. Im deirdre bolton, in for cheryl casone. Keeping you company. Lauren we look like christmas this morning. I was thinking that. Lauren the music, the scene, merry chriss mass rally last christmas rally last night and historic vote to impeach the president. First lets take a look at how your money is moving. Dow futures gaining 31, nasdaq up about 4. Stocks in asia mixed. If you look at the japanese market, lowering the kospi, the if you like, nikkei as well. The kospi is a little higher right now but the nikkei is down after the central bank in japan p kept moneyly policy steady. Lauren the ftse is up 15 point, cac slightly higher, dax down twotenths of 1 . Nancy pelosi is considering bypass aing a senate trial after the Historic House vote to impeach President Trump. Th it is not letting the te president is not letting it stop him, rallying in michigan. R
Changing views on marriage and sexuality. Many, many other challenges too. During these and other periods of stress, especially over the last few centuries some have thought and argued the Catholic Church might become irrelevant. Disappear into the dust of history. My guess is says instead of being overwhelmed by modern times come the churches not only survived as it clearly has, but is actually key agent of change for the whole world. He is george whiteoak, catholic scholar and distinguished fellow with ethics policy centerpiece also wrote more than two dozen books and closing his latest the irony of catholic history how the church rediscovered itself and challenge the modern world to reform. George thank you for being here. Lets start with the book and pick this up right with the title. Whats ironic about the church, the churchs response. Whats ironic about it jerry, is a relationship that started with a lot of mutual head knocking. Vote tear, crying, crush the infini, folks hurling
Guess, what he expected. Pretty much what he expected. It is. He is doing a fantastic job, not easy, but doing a really good job. I think he will make great progress come october, come november. October. October the 31st. The results, the results will start to show in november. But, it looks to me like he is making great progress. It is an honor to have you here. Well discuss trade. We can drew group pell our trade with the uk and we can i think do a big job. Bob lighthizer is here, our trade representative. Your trade representative is here. Theyre already scheduled a to continue negotiations. For more substantially more trade with the uk. Well look forward to doing that. Well talk about other things also. Boris . Great to be here i hope we can make a our secretary of state of International Trade is here. We hope to get going on that always remembering the nhs is not for sale but everything else, theres a huge amount we can do. I guess well talk a bit about iran and some of those diff
A Great American soldier from puerto rico and 11 other innocent people they thought they would use this attack to show strength but actually what they showed is unrelenting week. The last 4 days we have hit our enemy harder than they have ever been hit before and that will continue now its not at all clear that the pentagon and the military is really stepped up the fight with the taliban they havent provided any statistics that anything is in fact changed in afghanistan and the president is in a predicament because he promised his base that he would end the war in afghanistan if he wants to actually increase the fight change the momentum hes going to have to send more troops into afghanistan and thats something he doesnt want to do so the president saying that if the tax had been stepped up not at all clear that they have been and not at all clear what comes next. Time for a short break here not just when we come back. People are praying and crying somebody gets ready to bid final fare
Washington many. But it is stronger than expected much more on china coming up in a few minutes. European equities, again, sliding in the last few hours. Germany basically flat were taking that to 3 decimal points here. France, uk, spain slightly negative, italy essentially flat as well. Finally treasury yields, the tenyear hovering right around 1. 7 1. 69 is where we have it right now. So certainly something that investors are watching. Yeah. You have yields slipping again a little bit this morning, but were off the lows of last week, which briefly dipped below 1. 6 on the tenyear. Thats encouraging yields had such a big effect on equities as we all know. I think on europe the interesting thing to note this morning is that were not seeing a gap up again in terms of the spread of italian over german yields and talk about the potential new election coming up hong kong, is down 9. 5 , shanghai down 5. 5 it is weighing more on the shanghai market. We saw that elevation escalation of conce