Cap have, and what they jobs are still open. You see monks here at a temple in tokyo ringing bells to celebrate the new year. They are right outside, as you can see. New years is getting underway already in tokyo and overseas. New zealand started off this morning. Welcome to our new years eve edition of market makers. The final day of the year. We have breaking Economic News as well. Consumer confidence numbers are just coming out. We get a better than expected reading in Consumer Confidence for the month of december. Eric, you are just checking that this is the highest since when . September. Calexico decline has been revised higher to a read of 72. It is in line with what we have in seeing. University of michigan, confidence index, all rebounding from lows they saw a couple months ago. So we are coming off of base here. This is certainly a way to tie in how people are feeling as we head into the new year. It is backward looking because it included the runup to the Holiday Shopping se
Business as usual elsewhere. The jobs report is playing out in this part of the world. Yes, that is another a another big one. A chance to react as far as the jobs report. 74,000 jobs added to the u. S. Economy for the month of december, well below the 200,000 estimate. What we saw was a drop in yields as far as government treasuries are concerned. Just about the lowest level in about a month for the u. S. 10 year as far as yields are concerned. Broadly speaking, this is what we are seeing in the equity markets this morning. Is really about dollar weakness which is seeping through to various degrees in the asiapacific. Once again, we see dollar weakness, asian currency strength and a lot of these out,ts as was pointed japan,he holiday in second week into the year and we have already seen for public days. Anyway, we will see how that pans out tomorrow. We are seeing the currency, the south korean won strengthening. We will see how that will impact the markets. On that note, back to you.
Phil manning has details on the white houses proposed 4 trillion budget. The 1 billion impact for ukraine. Peter cook tells us how the ukraine is fueling the Energy Debate here in the states. Ukraine. The latest on president obama says russian president Vladimir Putin has breached international law. The present spoke to reporters earlier today on the situation in crimea. Thatere is a strong belief russias actions is violating international law. President putin seems to think has a different set of lawyers making a different set of interpretations. That is fooling anybody. Everybody recognizes that, although russia has legitimate interests in what happens in a neighboring state, that does not give them the right to use force as a means of inserting influence. Said heresident also has not spoken to president putin since the weekend. Lets get the latest on the und rumble bloomberg ground from bloomberg. What is the latest in the standoff . Much a tensel very standoff. Theres is an air bas
You are watching Market Makers they let everyone in boston today. The worlds two Biggest Gold Mining Companies have hit a snag. According to people with knowledge, they had agreed to an old sock merger. What would be included in ace been off of australian and new zealand assets. There is the possibility it could be revived. Collections rising the fastest rate since the housing crash. They have set set records. Rose 3 tax revenue last year. Folks like and is signaling that it will once again in china. This for they beat out the very first time. To easeweeks agreement the crisis may be unraveling. More sanctions on russia could be coming. Want to bring in peter cook. He has the latest. Resident biden accomplish. Many say it is just for show. It is to a certain extent. It is a show of unity. But to thewo that neighboring countries who worry that they could be next on russias looks tear. That is one of the primary reasons he is going on this trip. He is the highest official to head to the
Consequences of any action that we take in syria. Woodruff then, al qaedas fight against American Drones and the black budget behind u. S. Intelligence. We examine the latest revelations from the classified information leaked by Edward Snowden. Ifill roughly one out of every six new yorkers is over 65. Hari sreenivasan reports on efforts to make the big apple a little more agefriendly. Woodruff and are colleges too focused on Career Training . Jeffrey brown sits down with the author of the new book why teach . Thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you.