Good morning, warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost coming to you live from our studios in london today. Lets have a quick look in on futures this morning coming off a day of slight declines yesterday the dow down 0. 2 . The s p down 0. 3 . It comes off a couple of strong days today were pointing higher. 91 points or so for the dow. Nasdaq up 22 s p up 8 points. Well have more on the markets in a moment. First breaking news out of washington the Senate Passing a landmark tax reform bill early this morning. The measure heads back to the house for a final vote President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law later today. Lets get straight to cnbcs ylan mui with the latest from washington good morning good morning. Victory in the senate and a doover in the House Republicans in the senate cleared the tax bill just about four hours ago the final vote was 5148 no democrats voted for it. There were no gop defections Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell characterized the
The father is being questioned at a nearby precinct stationhouse. Live in baychester, the bronx, dave carlin, cbs 2 news. To a developing story now. The search is on for a man who slashed a woman as she walked to work in chelsea. Surveillance video captured the suspect running up to the victim leaving her with cuts on her face. She grabs her cheek here as he runs off. The unprovoked attack happened around 5 30 this morning at 23rd street and Seventh Avenue. Coming up tonight at 6 00, the victim tells the story. She describes what happened and also see the injuries he left her with. Well, tough talk tonight in response to north koreas Hydrogen Bomb claim. The white house is casting doubt on the claim. Cbs 2s dick brennan has the global reaction. Reporter if its true and thats a big if, its a dangerous step forward for one of the worlds most unpredictable nations,the claim of the underground blast condemnation from countries around the world. [ nonenglish language ] reporter north Korean
Good morning, everybody. You are watching the pulse. Im guy johnson. Im francine lacqua. We are just getting some breaking data. The services p. M. I. Figures falling for october to 62. 3. What we were estimating is a 62. 4. Pretty much in line with expectsations. We had an encouraging figure from italy. The surprise of the day. P. M. I. Was better than expected. We were expecting a can traction. The number for the whole of the euro area an area of grips at the moment by the debate that seems to be raging within the e. C. B. Were waiting to see what the meeting looks like tomorrow. The news yesterday talking took into account fact that maybe we have a significant refor mario draghi to deal with. Well talk about that issue later on. A revelt about his transparency about his speech. Nevertheless a significant Political Development if you can talk about politics within the e. C. B. Lets take our politics in a different term. Gripping westminster the last couple of weeks if not months. Mig
Off. The state of the consumer. The Consumer Confidence index is out now. The state of the consumer is strong. How the consumer is feeling. The university of michigan Consumer Confidence reading coming in at the highest level in 11 years in january. We know what has been fueling these numbers, lower gasoline prices and more job gains. People are feeling more confident that preliminary reading of Consumer Sentiment at 98. 2 the highest since january of 2004. The reading today is better than economists had projected. We are looking at the expectations index. It shows not just how consumers are feeling right now but how they expect the economy to do and how they expect their own personal finance to do. That number coming in ahead of estimates at 91. 6. This is in line with some of these other Economic Indicators that weve gotten recently. This would seem to be a positive sign. Thank you so much. The top business stories of the morning trading has not opened yet. The latest pending news fu
Watching ahead of the closing bell. Greecess war of words with germany is increasing this week. Renewing demands and today, formally complaining about the European Finance minister. They needed to look more closely at an agreement signed in february. Greece and germany battling over how to do with a cash crunch that athens will face in the coming week. Charter communications in talks according to people with knowledge of the matter. They have about 2. 5 million cable subscribers including florida, and michigan, and could be valued at over 12 billion dollars. Theyre able to rule on comcasts acquisition of time warner cable. Walt disney says it will make a sequel to its animated hit frozen. No details were offered in less than an hour to go. Scarlet fu is looking at all the action the contest is important here. Nine out of 10 groups in the s p 500 are gaining on the day. Come inside. We went negative for the dow on the s p. Just slightly, basically unchanged up 2 while the nasdaq up thre