And ringing in 2020. Parts of the world are already ushering in the new year as the final Worldwide Exchange of 2019 begins right now. A very good morning to all and welcome to the last day of 2019 a very happy early new year. Im in for brian sullivan. Here is how your money and the markets are showing up this morning. Showing the markets will open slightly higher. The s p 500, the dow and the nasdaq all on track for strong gains. Nasdaq could finish the year with gains of nearly 35 turning to the bond market currently trading at 1. 903 . In asia, the markets in japan. Remember they were closed today. Japan notching gains of 18 for the year the shanghai composite finishing up about 0. 33 and the hang seng is up about 10 , which is less than a lot of the other benchmarks lets look at what is happening in early trade in europe and Joumanna Bercetche joins us now. Thank you in line with other markets activity volumes are down about 40 to 50 . Not all european markets are open today the pi
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Nasdaq on track for the best performance. Dow futures indicated up about 34 points and gains for the nasdaq and s p futures treasuries, the 10year has finally hit 1. 9 exactly been watching for that a long time above that yesterday. Looking at it as the economy has shown some pretty strong signs. Now we do it in tens. Normally we wait for 3 . The volatility we talked about that. The inflation volatility is really low he thinks that why multiples have stayed so high. It will take years of inflations coming back. Multiples can stay where they are. This just happened well bring it to you. An Iraqi Security source telling nbc news that demonstrators have stormed the u. S. Embassy in baghdads green zone they have used tear gas grenades to try and prevent them from moving inside the compound hundreds have gathered what we saw. Some saying it was about time that some of the air strikes killed fighters from iranbacked coalition from operating in iraq a big piece saying finally we are addressin
At all. With our conditions this morning. Temps are running in the s. Jo 40th santa rosa, midso40s in oakla and upper 40s for San Francisco. This afternoon, enjoy the sunshine. Looking at highs slightly above average for this time of year. So specific locations 57 in San Francisco, pacifica. 57 fairfield. 58 in livermore. And concord later on this afternoon. As well as for oakland coming in at 58, 59, fremont, what would city, and 60 from Mountain View and for san jose. So for tonight we bring in the new year with that fireworks forecast. Partly cloudy skies. And temps will be and the 40s, so looking at chilly conditions, definitely put on that coat as you ring in the new year at midnight tonight. Well, do want to talk about, if youre hitting onto the beaches, please be careful. We have the beach hazards statement. Starting at 1 00 pm today until 9 00 pm wednesday due to sneaker wave threat. As well as 6 to 11 feet at 22 ndco of rip kebrea currents, definitely use extra caution at the
Billionaires adding more than a trillion dollars to their wealth this year. Lets get straight to the burning issues. With me is jason kelly, sonali basak, and Patrick Connor clark. The Public Markets have been shrinking. Give us a sense of how much we have seen the public world contract. Jason its dramatic. Obviously, im here in the heart of it in San Francisco, where Companies Stay private for longer. What that has meant is, over the last two decades, about half of the Public Companies have gone away, they are not publicly traded anymore, and that has been a boon here, Companies Stay in private for longer, but it has life implications for investors. A sense of whyt so Many Companies are deciding against going public, why they are sticking with private financing . The moneynly because is absolutely available. Here in silicon valley, we talk about venture capital, but private equity, we are talking about 4 trillion plus under management when you talk about private equity writ large, inc