Mixed, kind of nothing actually. Isnt that funny. All minimal moves. Lets call it a complex more or less in europe flat at this point. 10year note yield, we had the big employment number on friday. Didnt really see that Much Movement though, did we . Its funny, i spent a lot of time talking about the bonds on friday on mad money, the old days what it would have been been like and it would have been selffulfilling and were we have a great economy so you know rates have to go up immediately. It did not occur and its a different pattern but weve seen for the past 30 years. Lets get to our road map this morning, well get back to the bond market in a bit breaking news in new york city, an explosion near the Port Authority bus terminal during the morning rush hour. There is one suspect now in custody. Plus, the bitcoin boom, the futures on their first day of trading, they are surging. And well also have an update on qualcomm and broadcom and importantly shots fired from elliott this morning
Out. A little bit of brinksmanship, or brinkmanship, i should say, as joe corrected me. Less is more there are a couple more brinks, a couple senators youve got to wonder about. Okay, then. What happens with Susan Collins, what happens with lee from utah, who said hes undecided lee who mike lee . Oh, mike lee. Who wanted got two first names its confusing i dont trust people with two first names. Do you yes, generally. You do . Yeah. I think its confusing. Well youve got three, youre fine. Ive got three, three names some people say andrew ross, two first names, even though no, im talking about when your last name is a first name. Chris christie . Theres a lot of them, bill george, ted david. I just made that one up. I dont really think there is a person by that name. All right, lets look at what else has been happening in the markets. The tenyear note, one weve been paying attention to, too. Earlier this week you saw the tenyear pushing above 2. 4 , but now were back below 2. 36 . A cou
We are looking at industrial metals, the first down day in nine sessions. The emerging markets index climbed for the highest and about three weeks. Euro strengthening against the u. S. Dollar despite the likely passage of the tax reform plan. Gold gaining. 1 . David lets find out whats going on outside the Business World and for that we turn to emma chandra. Emma today, Congress Begins the final step toward the biggest inrite of u. S. Tax laws three decades. House republicans are expected to easily pass the tax bill and the senate is likely to follow later today or tomorrow. The measure permanently slashes the top rate of tax for business to 20 1 . O 31 35 in washington state, federal investigators say an amtrak train was speeding before a fatal the realm and. According to the data, it was going 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30 mile per hour zone. At least 30 people three people were killed and several others treated at the hospital. The train was making its first run along a new route. A tou
But cannot markets after the holiday weekend, feature showing it lower to flat opening for the market. Premarket s p flood down more than eight. European markets remain closer to asia overnight. Gains in the shanghai, the hang seng was closed. But then again, the crib to a currency bounces back whether it can retain its shine. Well talk about it. Controversy over it congresswoman seed in the air. United apologizing after booting a firstclass passenger for Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson lee. Airline response to the growing outrage over that move. The retail rebound weve seen christmas shoppers give pretty married this Holiday Season. All the numbers became pretty darn good. Their rush to a trillion, while baron says apple could hit the number in 2018. Jumanji sings into the Christmas Box office. We will see whether its enough to force the last jedi off the top spot. All of that coming up through the former Lieutenant Governor of new york. Betsy mccaughey is here, former fbi joint Terror
You can see were set up for what would typically be what weve seen most days higher, european markets this morning as well. Well look at right now and they are as you see largely in the red. No major moves the uk has come to light here in the last couple of trading days, though, making up perhaps some of the gap with the other markets. The 10year note yield hanging around the 2. 4 level where its been and earlier this week we saw wti cross above 60 and it is there again. That has actually been a quietly big story you might argue. That just happened last night, right we did earlier this week and now were back above Natural Gas Prices you might expect also moving up a legal bit, recently given our kitchen pipe froze. Oh, no. Yeah. Welcome to homeowners. These are the joys. But a quick Public Service announcement, you take a hair dryer on the pipe and we got it going again. Then you let it trickle all day and hopefully well be able to make dinner tonight. If not, you let us know. Im comin