Consumer prices beat forecasts. Shery shinzo abe faces yearend pressure. His popularity is sinking to its lowest in more than a year. Japan is coming online alongside the south korea as well. Lets get straight to the Market Action with sophie. Sophie. Sophie we are in the final stretch of 2019. Japanese stocks did manage to pull through on thursday. The topix with an eight day drop. The topix hitting ground along with the nikkei 225. Today, stocks are trading exdividend today. Lets check in on the open in seoul. We are seeing downside moves for the kospi. We will see what the index can crack 2200 points. Switching it now to check in on the mood in sydney, the asx 200 gaining some ground with gold miners among the biggest advancers. Resolute leading the pack, jumping 7. 5 percent earlier with spot gold on course for the best year since 2010. Jumping into the terminal, that momentum could make for a solid 2020 for gold as traders make attempts to carve out a higher trading range after bu
Ceo Dennis Muilenburg is out effectively immediately as they struggle to get the 737 back in the air. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this monday, our Investment Committee today, joe ter nova, brenda is back, the cio of sand hill Global Advisers the end of year rally continuing boy, what a difference a year makes, joe, right . Certainly does. Remember last december . I certainly do. That stunk. It did. Not this time around. Not this time around. 30second record close of 2019 on friday, up 28. 5 yeartodate could have the best yearly performance since 2013 remarkable. We had a liquidity correction this time last year. We had a Federal Reserve that was clearly hostile. Weve seen significant pivots in that record. The earnings picture really hasnt changed in 2019 we know earnings have basically been flat. Where we sit right now looks as though the runway is pretty clear for further price appreciation were now getting participation not just from techno
Mark police say the driver is an Australian Citizen of afghan descent who has a known history of drug use and Mental Health issues. U. S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says he doesnt expect the chamber to take up changes on the welfare system in 2018. He addressed the issue at an axials event in washington. I think the democrats are not going to be interested in reform, so i dont expect to see that on the agenda. What the democrats are willing to do is important, because in the senate, with rare sections with rare exceptions like the tax bill, we have democratic involvement. Mark he added infrastructure is a key objective or next year and at a minimum he expects technical corrections to the bill. All remaining significant evacuation orders in areas the smoldering remnants of Southern California path huge wildfire have been canceled after a new round of winds cause activity. Warnings of high fire risk were canceled for Santa Barbara county. In ventura county, firefighters attac
Camera this morning. And pipe dream. The daredevil giving new meaning to riding the waves speeding across the water on his motorbike taking on 30foot high waves. What hes saying about his deathdefying stunt only on gma this morning. And good morning, america. Lets get right to those severe storms passing through the northeast overnight and early this morning. Look at that lightning over new york city. Yeah, that lightning and the thunder was just one of those mornings you wanted to stay in bed. Everyone agree but we all came in anyway and had a deluge on that way in to work. We sure did, and the storms up north deadly causing that tent collapse in New Hampshire. A father and his young daughter killed, more than 30 others injured, and abcs linzie janis is on the scene in lancaster, New Hampshire. Good morning. Reporter george, george. Families tell us that they had just sat down to watch the circus when a severe storm seemed to come out of nowhere ripping it out of the ground and sendin
To riding the waves speeding across the water on his motorbike taking on 30foot high waves. What hes saying about his deathdefying stunt only on gma this morning. And good morning, america. Lets get right to those severe storms passing through the northeast overnight and early this morning. Look at that lightning over new york city. Yeah, that lightning and the thunder was just one of those mornings you wanted to stay in bed. Everyone agree but we all came in anyway and had a deluge on the way to work. We sure did and the storms up north deadly causing that tent collapse in New Hampshire. A father and his young daughter killed. More than 30 others injured and abcs linzie janis is on the scene in lancaster, New Hampshire. Good morning. Reporter the fog is thick but behind me is where that huge tent is lying on the ground. Families say they had just sat down to watch the circus when a severe storm seemed to come out of nowhere ripping it out of the ground and sending its metal poles cras