Well talk about that coming up. Speaking of taxes, coca cola ceo tells cnbc what he would do with a Corporate Tax cut well have all of those details coming up. Then theres best buy, its sitting out the rally today. Down pretty sharply. In fact, its off the lows right now. Less than 4 decline is the iphone to blame, iphone x to blame we have a debate on best buy coming up here. We begin, though, with the breaking news. Stocks hitting session highs as the house passes the tax bill. Ylan mui, our intrepid reporter on capitol hill has the latest for us right now ylan reporter bill, that final tally is 227205, that is a comfortable margin of victory for republicans. They said they were going to get this done by thanksgiving. No one really believed them. They were able to pull it off. Republican leadership held a press conference to celebrate. From the very start, we said that failure is not an option and the president and his team have worked so constructively every step of the way with us.
Low. And its projected as the population continues to age in the baby boomers retire that that ratio will continue to rise in an unsustainable fashion. So, the addition to the debt taking what is already a significant problem and making it worse is it is of concern to me, and i think it does suggest that in some future downturn, which could occur just for whatever reason, the amount of fiscal space that would exist for fiscal policy to play an active role it will be limited, it may well be limited. Sam fleming with the financial times. Couple of longer term questions, first of all, midway through the year, hot weather inflation targets might need to be raised. Obviously been a lot more debate and have had systems since then about this it may not be an imminent issue, it may be something the feds may be discussing over the coming years. Some sort of change to the inflation target second of all, the amount of stimulus tools that the fed may have at its expo sal are fairly limited. One of
Big premarket moves on mixed results from cat, gm and mcdonalds. Global volatility, a common theme. Apple cut its spending forecast by about 1 billion. Well explain why. Qualcomm looking for 1 billion in cost cuts by trimming workforce by 15 . First up caterpillar shares taking a hit on a quarterly miss hurt in part by weakness in mining and construction in brazil and china. Cats lowering their full guidance. Doug oberhelman did talk about it. At some point, the economy will stabilize and business will pick up. It was too whose in 2012 and too slow right now. Somewhere in between is where we will be. Until that happens we have caught in this period where we have to hunker down and do everything internally day to day. Sales down in every region including north america. Oil and gas not helping. They lowered the revenue forecast for the year. They keep the adjusted eps forecast. He is a very nice man. Thats the key. He is a very nice man. You believe this is about him. Whats your main hea
Good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im sara isner and im wilfred frost well get the latest on irma in just a moment, but first, lets check on global markets. Apple led the nasdaq higher ahead of its big iphone unveil today. 11 out of 11 sectors on the s p were higher led by the banks reverse ago 3 decline last week for the Financial Sector that was mainly because of yields rising. Also reinsurancers got a big boost on the back of irma. They did, indeed. We also had news on barclays at the conference, Goldman Sachs and wells fargo in the spotlight. We look set for another positive day on wall street ten heavy year treasury note was key yesterday, as i said yesterday we touched below 0. 5 moving close to 2. 15 yesterday and we remain around that level. So a big move, higher in yields yields it pushed the dollar higher, it pushed the equities higher, as well and the move continues in asia overnight the japanese nikkei after a 1. 4 day the day before higher, another 1 gain over
Percentage point dax is slightly weaker, relatively flat as is the cac. Crude oil prices, crude Oil Yesterday was flat ended up by two cents this morning another 44 cents 55. 35 so wti above 50 a barrel. Back to the markets in a moment first the latest developments on Hurricane Maria. The hurricane making landfall on the island of dominica as a category 5 storm it is now weakened slightly within the past few hours to a category 4 thats the good news forecasters warn that maria could reach strength as it nears the Virgin Islands, puerto rico also in marias cross hairs. You know, when these hurricanes come, they come. This come in waves we are also following developing stories out of Southern California overnight a magnitude 3. 6 earthquake shook parts of los angeles it happened at 11 20 p. M. Local time dren residents as far away as costa mesa felt the rumble joseph, why never heard of costa mesa i called it so ed ied it cos, im mesa. Im a messa in the morning. Look at my script its thi