Installed within a whisker of februarys alltime high. The cash trade is less than one hour away. Your are your headlines. Germany extends its Job Support Team until the end of next year, spains or rules out another National Lockdown as cases rise. Britains vaccine bet, the u. K. Backs a plan for a dnabased maxine. We look at a 50 million rates for a solution. And caveat emptor, u. S. Consumer confidence drops to the lowest level in six years. We will get the latest french figures out this hour. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets look at how futures are trading. Right now across europe, we are seeing slight green arrows. And i mean slight. You can call dax futures and euro stoxx 50 futures unchanged. In the u. S. , we see most futures contracts falling this morning, although also very slight drops. S p futures are unchanged after another record high yesterday. Nasdaq futures gained about 1 10 of 1 . Anna, what do you see on the gmm . Anna feel
Which will hit in b about an hours time. The s p up by just three basis points coming up on todays show, former National Economic council dr director, gary kohn, will join us about reopening the the economy. The debate over funding for states and the Small Business ppp funding. Plus, a flood of big name earnings set to hit this afternoon including as you mentioned, alphabet. Starbucks, ford, am well also speak with the ceo after his Company Reports earnings, what consumers are doing and how much theyre snacking around the world. Lets focus on one hour of trade. Mike is tracking the Market Action in whats shaped up for a volatile day meg has Quarterly Results from big pharma names mike, start us off with the brorder market of what you seeing some pretty strong opposing currents holding the index in a steady mode. Look at the s p 500. This goes back a couple o years because i want to point out the areas that were encountering with this rally. Here we are around 2880. That takes us back t
Is outside the white house, elon is there in washington standing by with the latest on the tax bill itself. Lets start with you, what do we know about this event coming up . Reporter theyre not actually going to do a bill signing. The sbil not ready to be signed just yet, but this is very much a Party Atmosphere here on the south lawn of the white house. We have the marine band going through a list of Christmas Carols a few moments ago theyre serving hot drinking over here. Some of the vips and dignitaries have gathered in the audience. You can see behind me, republican members of congress lined up on the steps just above the south port co. Here on the south lawn of the white house. This is a unified Republican Party right now. Theyve been through a lot of tough infighting particularly over obamacare, this is a big win. This is a moment in which youve seen the president of the United States already today handing out praise to republican leaders, some of whom hes been attacking earlier
Literally lining up to pay their 2018 property taxes. Are we in there somewhere . Do you hear christie made moves today. Did he . He did. In his last couple of days in office yes, apparently well tell you whats going on with that and whether its worth it to pay your property taxes ahead of time because of the tax bill thatll be very interesting. But lets start with how companies are going to be impacted by this tax law, number of corporations have released the impact that they will see, Morgan Brennan has going through those filings, she joins us now with the latest details, morgan. Yeah, thats right, bill, finally getting some hard numbers regarding tax reform or at least i should say the Immediate Impact of tax reforms. Companies readjust their Balance Sheets among the immediate or near term winners which expects the bottom line boost of at least 250 million in the forth quarter, german auto makers expect to see net profit wind falls for 2017, they did add it couldnt quantify the tax
Happens. Its totally lacking in rigger but it happens all the time around here and thats what throwing us off today sending the dow dipping, nasdaq loss 0. 14 . Let me explain what im talking about so you can see how a bullish situation gets turned into a bearish one by mepessimists who want it bo way. Sell, sell, sell. And sell, sell, sell. This morning we awoke to a story of how the chinese are cooling to them. Oh, boy, did that freak people out. Shares came in for sale at the opening because of the chinese perhaps dumping the treasury you know the dow is down 100 points in lightning speed on that one of the principle worries of Portfolio Managers there is no inflection in the yield curve meaning youre almost getting the same return from shortterm treasuries as you are from longer term ones that puts news a situation where we have whats known as a flat yield curve. Something that is often a precurser to a recession makes sense fed raises rates too quickly, falls off and the economy w