Points overnight in asia, the nikkei hitting 26year highs during the trading session. Market ended up by over a half percentage point to 23,849 in europe this morning green arrows there the dax up is up by 0. 2 in france, the cac is up the ftse up over 0. 1 . Yesterday the yield on the treasury closing at 2. 48 . This morning the tenyear is yielding all the way up, almost 2. 496 stocks to watch today. Samsung is forecasting a 64 rise in Fourth Quarter profits on continued demand for memory chips but that guidance is below analyst estimates. The strong yuan and yearend bonuses hit results. Samsung will report detailed earnings at the end of the month. Shares of altice are higher after the Company Announced plans to spin off u. S. Operations the Telecom Provider will pay a 1. 5 billion Cash Dividend prior to separation and launch a 2 billion buyback of u. S. Shares after the spinoff. British American Tobacco says the new u. S. Tax rules will boost earnings by 6 in 2018 the changes will a
S p off by 13. Yesterday we saw a swing of 400 points or more we were up by 100, 350 i need more than 140 to get worried . No, thats a yawn at this point. 0. 6 at this point if you think back to all of last year watching, if it starts down 140, you could look away, look back, be down 800. You saw what was happening with treasuries. Lets look at that board once again. Looking at treasuries, these are the yields, the tenyear yielding 2. 831 . Stepping back from the 2. 9 it crossed yesterday. Check out the twoyear, 2. 069 look at europe thats where the markets are open for early trading at this point it looks like no, no back that up asia closed, but the nikkei down by 0. 6 hang. Shanghai up by 1 in europe, you can see active trading now, at least at this point things are relatively mixed ftse slightly higher but declines of a quarter percentage point for the dax in germany and the cac in france. Earnings still coming in this is a big one. Pepsico reported 1. 31 for the Fourth Quarter, a
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Hard for the slopes of the all time mountains in northwest china are off the beaten track and tourists are now flocking to the land worst skiing may have begun. Im swimming so whats going to good to have you with us the Opening Ceremony of the twenty third Winter Olympics has started in south korea fireworks went off over kyung chang as the gala event began nearly three thousand athletes from ninety two countries will be entering the sold out stadium over the coming hours of the games have had to overcome multiple hurdles ahead of Winter Sports most prestigious event the i. O. C. And the athletes will be looking to put all their troubles behind them and kick off the olympics with a bang. And we have a Jonathan Crane a from good abuse for its with us for more on this story hi jonathan. Opening ceremonies are usually pretty pretty spectacular how have these gone so far its been is visually impressive as we were hoping for i think as you say that or spectacular started off with a firework
Tree into those markets opening slightly lower currently in the ftse down seven. Cac down as well. Lauren holiday yesterday come the japanese stocks opened open slightly higher finishing the session not two quarters of 1 . However, the great on the screen for the other major averages. China up 1 . Cheryl listen up chocolate fans. What if we told you you could get paid to do nothing but eat chocolate. Fbn am starts right now. Lauren 5 01 a. M. In the morning in new york. Tuesday, february 13th. Tuesday. Ash wednesday is tomorrow. I am lauren simonetti. Cheryl im cheryl casone. Lauren a lot of people give up chocolate for lent. Cheryl i will not be one of those people. Lauren the white house budget director Mick Mulvaney headed to capitol hill today. He has to sell the president for . 4 trillion budget plan to congress. The plan would add a trillion dollars to the federal deficit next year. It would also increase spending for Border Security and infrastructure. Cheryl Connell Mcshane in