If you check out crude oil prices. Crude was all over the place yesterday. It did end the day up. See its up 31 cents right now. Wti at 45. 14. Nasdaq closed at a new high for the year yesterday. Lets get you caught up on some of the other big stories were watching. Notable comments coming from San Francisco fed president. Cue the star warz music. Repeating calls for gradual Interest Rate hikes saying it makes no sense to get back to a pace of steady increases sooner rather than later. The economy is in his words in good shape. Fed policymaker criticizing the Central Banks approach of targeting low inflation saying that method gives the fed too small of a buffer to fend off shocks. It is yap big day. Thoeld holding product event. Expected to unveil latest product lineup at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time. We talked about it. The focus of the event on the new iphone 7. The phone likely to have a faster processer and more pressure sensitive button, higher more pressure sensitive. This is the det
Americans played in the expectation. In the expedition. The library of congress hosted this hourlong event. Thank you john. Herman and i are going to act as a tag team today. We have been doing this for many years. We did a trail together a number of times going over the bitterroot mountains, following in the footsteps of lewis and clark. We initiated that for the smithsonian, carried that on. I was lucky enough to be involved in a number of those. That is how we became interested in lewis and clark. Of course, he is a historian. He came at it from that point of view. I am a historian of cartography. Together we put this book together. As far as we know, its the only book that talks primarily about the maps of lewis and clark. Of course, a huge number of books since the bicentennial of lewis and clark on them and on the various activities. Some touch on maps. There is a fine atlas that was put together of lewis and clark maps. We are trying to correct this imbalance by guiding and docu
Vonnie good morning david and stephanie. The city of brussels is under lockdown because of fear of an imminent terrorist attack. Schools, jobs, and the imminent subways schools, jobs, and the subway system remain close. They expect a peristyle attack with multiple attacks taking place at once. We will go to brussels for more in a moment. Francois hollande has the u. K. On board in his attempts to build a coalition to fight Islamic State he met with amy cameron today. That he met with David Cameron today. Tomorrow he meets with president obama in washington. Onn with Angela Merkel wednesday, and Vladimir Putin on thursday. Argentina has voted for a big change. Macrition leader mauricio has been elected president , setting the stage for improved relations with the u. S. He has promised to lift argentinas currency controls, cut inflation, and attract international investors. You can get these and other breaking stories 24 hours a day at the new bloomberg. Com. Matt lets look at futures. W
Was that i was not going to do. Terry, welcome, no better person to have ahead of thanksgiving. We have a lot to cover. David westin is off today, he is flying the friendly skies. I believe he thought as we do ireland, and fact. States three of french president s push to build a coalition against islamic state. After yesterdays meeting with president obama, he talked with angela merkel. Merkel said germany is ready to strengthen its military commitments and global hotspots to relieve the french forces. Nato is urging deescalation after the turkey shot down that russian warplane. They called for further contact between turkey and russia. Meanwhile, he would new york russian and new york that american diplomats met. Russia has rejected turkeys claim that the plane flew into turkish territory. Travelers will need to have patience over the holiday. Long lines will be the theme starting today. Security has been increased in the wake of the terrorist attacks. There are no specific threats. Y
Rising more than anticipated. Of 495,000. Ce it looks a little bit better than had been anticipated and the contrast of the existing numbers they came out earlier in the week. The university of negation consumer michigan economist looking for a reading of 93. 1. Missing estimates, much like a consumer comfort number from bloomberg itself. Its own gauge of Consumer Sentiment coming up earlier today that was worse than estimated. You have the s p homebuilders etf. It looks like a little bit of a leg down. We will give it a few minutes to kind of shakeout. Erik New Hempstead home sales is not the only information out. Julie it was a veritable feast, much like matt miller eating pumpkin pie on the side of the set just a few months ago. Yes, i saw you doing that. Erik called out. Julie if the pregame for thanksgiving. You look at major averages and we are seeing a little bit of an increase. If you look at all the Economic Data this morning, its hard to get every set read. It was mixed. We h