Liz is out today but we have breaking news to begin with, fox news is reporting that hamas has released to elderly israeli women both being a poor health, of course we are following all of this and more on the latest developments coming up in the show out of the middle east. Markets right now are pretty mixed with the choppy trading session. S p and nasdaq up slightly, then affect doing better the dow down slightly, all of this as republicans reconvene to discuss potential speaker candidates later today. Again, jointed us with the very latest in the soap opera is chad pergram, good afternoon. Good afternoon, republicans meet tonight again for another Candidate Forum for speaker, nine republicans vying for the job, they are names youve heard of like House Majority whip tom emmer and Byron Donalds but also backbenchers to jack bergman in dan meuser. Everyone on that list would make a good speaker but i bring a lot of experience to this and a lot of time the private sector and the revenue
Of ours. Actually 10 00 we are looking up on all the major averages i guess, yeah, looks like we are. European markets, you ask, we answer what are they doing jim . We trade with the good ones now. Whats that we trade with the good ones. All positive. Other than spain 10 year note right around look at that over 58 this morning our road map as well it starts broadly with stocks on track to open higher boeing boosting its dividend shares rising premarket. The plan maker setting a new 18 billion stock buyback plan and a mega mall merger. Buying the World Trade Center mall and new jerseys nearly 16 billion overall. What . We should have 3m just preannounced. Lets get to that too. Remember the other day a fellow was telling you to sort it it was ill advised. You were on him. I was all over him like a cheap kmart suit. Those are cheap. That was my first thing that i wore to goldman. They said get out of that corduroy suit. A day in which the fed will hold its final policy meeting of the year
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