Of ours. Actually 10 00 we are looking up on all the major averages i guess, yeah, looks like we are. European markets, you ask, we answer what are they doing jim . We trade with the good ones now. Whats that we trade with the good ones. All positive. Other than spain 10 year note right around look at that over 58 this morning our road map as well it starts broadly with stocks on track to open higher boeing boosting its dividend shares rising premarket. The plan maker setting a new 18 billion stock buyback plan and a mega mall merger. Buying the World Trade Center mall and new jerseys nearly 16 billion overall. What . We should have 3m just preannounced. Lets get to that too. Remember the other day a fellow was telling you to sort it it was ill advised. You were on him. I was all over him like a cheap kmart suit. Those are cheap. That was my first thing that i wore to goldman. They said get out of that corduroy suit. A day in which the fed will hold its final policy meeting of the year
Good buy into early end and maybe beyond. But lets start with todays rally. Joining our exchange today is jim kahn, sarge gilfoy, and Rick Santelli at the cme. Rick, im going to start with you if i may ahead of the fed meeting tomorrow weve got a bit of a stealth rally in the pound the pound. The dollar over the last week or so including a little bit today how many rate hikes over the next 13 months are priced in you know, i dont know that much of the dollar activity that were seeing today is necessarily predicated on what investors think about 2018 whether its two, three, some are saying four. I really think its more of a function of the u. S. Market kind of bucking the trends of europe, the spreads of our treasuries especially the long end is distancing itself from the yields of the long end of europe and as that occurs, if you were to put that on a chart, the differential at 210 basis points seems to be one of the factors that could be dragging the dollar up a bit. More in a yearend
13 points. The nikkei was down. Closed down by a half percentage point. You did see that stocks were higher in china. Hang seng up by 1. 5 then this morning in early trading in europe, take a look things are mixed stocks are slightly low ner germager lower in germany and france. Stocks in italy down by 0. 6 then you have crude oil. Crude Oil Yesterday ended up down back below 58. This morning its up, but still below 58, trading at 57. 57 to the story of the morning the closely watched senate race in alabama, Democrat Doug Jones is the apparent winner there, though republican roy moore is not conceding just yet john harwood joins us from birmingham he has that story. Good morning good morning. This was a very big victory for the Democratic Party first time they won a United States senate race in alabama in 25 years a big defeat for President Trump and his party. Look at the numbers. Twopoint lead for doug jones. Roy moore has not yet conceded he said gods in control were still waiting f
Bob iger is about to join us as disney buys a big chunk of 21st century fox. Retail sales up 0. 8. But we know what the lead is today. Yep, we finally got the deal weve been talking about now for more than a month, of course disney buying those fox assets that weve detailed time and again over this last, lets call it, five weeks or so since we first brought the story to you of the talks between the two it is a large deal, to say the least. Depends on how you want to value the equity right now, at current prices, and if you take into the considerations that minority interests, its about 55 billion in equity. Some 515 million shares of disney will be exchanged for the fox businesses that are going to be sold to disney. Were talking about a deal with an enterprise value of 69 billion. Theyll take on 14 billion worth of debt. Tax liability which i finally got clarity on, 8. 5 billion to fox. That is the spinco, could come down as a result of tax reform, the lower tax rate and that will hav
60 points after the dow closed at a record level yesterday. The s p closed lower yesterday all the major averages moved off the highs of the session this morning the s p is indicated up by 5 points the nasdaq up by 10. This came after the feds decision and after if looked clear that Republican Leaders reached an agreement, at least in principle, on where theyre headed with the tax bill well talk more about that green arrows across the board this morning in asia, the nikkei looked like it was down by a quarter percentage point similar declines for the hang seng and shanghai. This morning in europe, with some of the early trading, you will see that there are some declines across the board. The biggest loser is the dax down by a half percentage point. Cac in france is down by 0. 4 . We have the bank of england and the ecb going to be releasing some policy statements today check out crude oil prices which were lower yesterday crude oil at 56. 59 couple of big economic reports on the agenda