Yeah. Didnt scrooge send over a turkey at the end . He did something. He sent over dinner. And tiny tim was like, wow, its the best christmas. I dont know if that was the book version or the movie version. Im getting a little wait a minute there was a book huh . Yes, charles dickens. I know you know this we had this discussion there was a book it wasnt just a movie some people we know get all their news in tv which we hope is you at home. We hope you are getting your news here today. Look at the u. S. Equity futures. This is after major averages closed at record highs the s p 500 closed above 2600 for the first time as we saw this technology rally. This morning things are mixed. Dow futures up by 12 s p is down by a point and nasdaq down by 3 points. The major averages have been up three of the last four sessions. The dow had its 60th record close of 2017. The s p 500 saw its 54th record close of the year. Guess how many times, if you want to get to the record, 54 so far this year. The
Anna welcome to the program everybody. Check what is happening in the asian section. Everything is nervous given what we saw on wall street yesterday. Everyone is nervous given what we saw on wall street yesterday. Down by 2 . Reallysian markets joining the selling party. We see substantial offers coming through today. We are down by 5. 8 . Down very strongly, as you can see. Stock markets are asking themselves how they are coping, how theyre going to cope with higher Interest Rates. How were they going to cope with the repositioning we are seeing around volatility product . Those two challenges still working their way through the markets. We thought that was done at the start of this week. It seems as if that was not done. Futures are fluctuating over in the United States. They have proven as to where we head. Or to where we close out the u. S. Sessions this week. There has been a lot of youd volatility in those futures. This is really interesting. We have been talking about how some
Ipot 10. S9. Galaxy how does it stack up against its rifle. In monday. This is bloomberg markets. Two big themes, one is china, one is Goldman Sacks. Case varn. Worst we want to make it clear. This is a scenario they are run. Stocks could plunge if they hit 4. 5 . Is 3. 5 this year. Everyone has it. Love the e to contention debates on the volume. He other big story is around china, what will happen after two determines from xi, and of the some president ial limit, and the question is with the power, what n of does it do to the longterm china. In markets are calm. We break it down further. To the t you straight Market Action in asia. We are seeing interesting moves n what is a rally from hong kong to sydney. The apanese nikkei leading games, up over 1 . Highlights coming through from singapore, up half of 1 . I want to focus on the Foreign Exchange space. Have a move in the end. A 106 cents. 1. 6 . A lot of data to look forward to in japan. Dollar. Weaker the bloomberg dollar, down a ce
South jersey. Roxborough could hit the 50s before the temperatures turn around and head into the 80s this afternoon. Through it all we will see sunshine and low humidity. Thanks to winds coming out of the north 11 12mileanhour winds this morning. By 1 00 they die down a little bit but the low humidity stays with us. The temperatures so pleasant first thing in the mornings at 7 00 7 00, 65 and 71 at noon. Grab the sunglasses. Bright sunshine today. The weekend forecast when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, a check of traffic. Sun glare is not an issue yet but it looks like its later on jessica. Something to look forward to. Keep you covered there. Right now we are monitoring ongoing construction on the schuylkill expressway. Actually just off of the schuylkill expressway. Right around Spring Garden street. Here it is here. You can see actually its not closed right off the exit. Than this has been out there quite sometime. These lanes down here are open. Not something to watch out
A place in syrias future if it cuts all ties with the assad regime he also says that turkey has no plans to send Ground Troops into syria. Bernard smith that more on monday mornings raised. 15 people have been arrested in this latest wave of raised by the security services. The authorities eight all arrested are foreigners. They are part of a series of raised going on for the past weeks and months in turkey. They picked up steam after the suicide bombing last weekend. Turkey said its targeting not just isil supporters, potential fighters, also targeting people from the kurdistan workers party, the p. K. K. And extreme leftwing in turkey, saying targets are all groups that it consider as threat to turkeys national security. Over the border, the syrian kurds there claim that the Turkish Military shelled a village near kobane twice once on friday that the y. P. G. Assumed was a mistake when they shelled y. P. G. Positions and again on sunday. The Turkish Military said its investigating th