And fbn a. M. Starts right now. Im just say its fine by he me. If you never leave. And we can live like this forever. Its fine by me. In the past i would try, try hard to commit to a girl. Lauren beautiful shot of the Christmas Lights in new york city. Welcome to fbn a. M. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl the fox red, white and blue tree is on fox square. Im cheryl casone. Lauren dow is down 25, nasdaq is unchanged. Cheryl lets take a look at asian markets. The pushback of the tariffs on 165 billion in chai chinese gos which is supposed to hit sunday, may give investors something to cheer about. Lauren the ftse is down 25 points, the tax i dax dax isp 12. Cheryl President Trump rallied thousands of supporters in pennsylvania last night, touting the usmca deal, while ripping into democrats over the articles of impeachment announced earlier in the day. Lauren Griff Jenkins is in washington with more. Griff, good morning. Reporter good morning, lauren and cheryl. What a truly remarkable day in
supply to finland the latest escalation of an energy payments row with the west. russia s gas giant gazprom confirmed it had completely halted exports to finland at 0a:00 gmt on saturday. finland says there will be no disruption to customers. today the 28th world gas conference starts in daegu, with 12,000 participants from 90 countries descending on the energy city of south korea. topics on the table for discussion will no doubt focus on russia and europe s energy supply or lack of it. meanwhile, the uk is apparently experiencing a gas glut, with surplus supplies of natural gas pouring into britain s re gasification terminals. the glut has squashed gas prices on the spot market in britain, but will this lead to prices dropping for consumers? joining me now is michael stoppard, global gas strategy lead, s&p global. read gasification terminals, where they store the gas until it is needed, if those are full, there is a glutton the supply of gas, will people watching at home
Lets look at u. S. Equity futures. Yesterday the markets were weaker this morning things are mixed. Dow futures up by close to 12 points s p down by 2 points nasdaq down by about 15. In asia, the nikkei was down almost a percentage point. Same thing for the hang seng the shanghai was up by a percentage point the cac is down by 1 now. Ftse is down by a third of a percent. The dax is off by 0. 6 the tenyear note, the yield yesterday settled at 2. 15 this morning the yield is below that 2. 146 breaking overnight, saudi arabias king ousting his nephew, the ksitting crown prine and putting his son, Mohammed Bin Salman the former crown prince was in charge of saudi arabias services footage showed an amicable change in succession the saudi all shares is up sharply today on the news. A check of crude prices, this is seen as a potential wildcard when it comes to crude with the change in power. Were seeing it holding on to modest losses here this after a big loss in yesterdays session. This happ
Good thursday morning. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt, sara eisner and with us is henry blodgett. Amazon officially closing its acquisition of whole foods google and walmart are teaming up on a voice shopping nasdaq slightly up this morning looking to avoid its fifth negative session in six. A retail analyst on yesterday who called the day of that announcement amazon whole foods a day that will live in retail infamy now getting one step closer to theyre going to close this thing in the second half. Yeah, which is great. A lot of us amazon and whole food shoppers are exited another bold step from amazon. Well be excited how they do it. How your characterizing the responses companies have you take your hat off to walmart. Theyre being very aggressive. They made a huge bet acquiring jet. They are being superaggressive its a smart idea with google. Does it immediately counter amazon no but the whole idea of ordering stuff through your home voice device, walmarts are Something Like an a
Central Bank Meetings later in the week. In advance of that theres not as much trading going on. Were seeing volume on the s p 500. About 15 below the 20day average. Were not seeing a lot of action here today as people are amazing those big news events. Also trying to figure out how to get into work tomorrow. If you look at the range in the s p 500, youll see that we once again see this tightening range for the s p 500. Now on the 103rd day that the s p has gone without selling at least 1 . Also related to the weather, were seeing some movement in the airlines. Downward movement as American Airlines cancels all of its new york city flights for tomorrow. And you can look at american, u. A. L. , and delta all trading lower. Flight aware dotcom reports that nearly 1,400 flights have been canceled today and 3,800 tomorrow. Not just new york city but boston, philadelphia, chicago being affected by some of these cancellations as well. Well continue to watch the airlines. Getting outside of s