Down as well. Look on your screen, theres the list. All of them bigtime to the downside. No pullback seriously, though, for stocks flat to slightly lower at the opening bell. We dont know how the market is going to close. It is facing a threeday holiday weekend, but so far that has been no sell on the news of the tax cut deal. Im going call this one a corporate bombshell, eric schmidt is out at google, this is the man who built the company at global phenomena, started google, gmail, google maps and android phones. Google says its time for the transition. Theres speculation that personal relationships were part of this departure. There are a lot of surprises this morning and Varney Company is about to begin. [laughter] stuart that was good producing. Theres no place like home for the holidays. Thats absolutely for sure. You saw them, theres the lawmakers, they are all coming down the steps. Get out of dodge, they follow and get out of dodge, ran downstairs, heading home for the holidays
Play by the rules. Dont steal our intellectual property. And then answered questions on taxes. Reform is as important as tax cuts. First to do it since reagan. Bonuses. Now its who will give the most. Repatriation. Very happy to see apple invest 350 billion in america. Overall, our president promoted america forcefully. As to what he brought to the table as president , making money, he said. Im good at it. Peculiar now disappointment this morning in the economy on the october through december period, it is growing at an annual rate of just 2. 6 . Not as strong as weve been hoping for. Yes, it could be revised later but thats a disappointing number. No complaints from investors. Stocks will open higher again this morning. We should be up about 26,400. The dow rally. I should say the trump rally has now added 8. 4 trillion to the value of all stocks. We do have two political headlines. The white house immigration plan spends 25 billion building a wall and allows 1. 8 million illegals a p
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More democrats in attendance than republicans was what he is vowing will be included in the plan and what wont. And he will be wining and dining Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi. All part of his strategy. Details and reaction from washington weighing in this hour, art laugher, and howard kurtz. A lot of good people. Dave dow driven higher by chevron, walt disney and verizon. Lets go to nicole pedallides on the stock exchange. Nicole a record day if your 401 k s and iras, Dow Jones Industrial average finishing higher by the 7 points, record across the board, dow, nasdaq and s p led by energy, lets look at apple, apple is the big story, stock is down 7 trading days, scooped up a lot of apple even though the doubled down today, big picture of the analysts very impressed with the latest developments in the iphone. We finally got it, a lot of anticipation, the iphone 10 is out and the 8 and the 8plaps and improvements to the tv and watch. And look at mcdonalds which has been under pressure th
Jobs meaning companies. We are look at the middle class and jobs. I think the wealthy will be pretty much where they are. If we can do that well do that. If they have to go higher, well go higher. We are looking at the middle class and we are look at jobs. Charles hes holding firm to that 15 corporate rate many republicans say cant be done without running up the deficit. This is not your republican grandfathers tax plan, but the question is, can it spark the economy. Chairman and the Texas Public Policy Foundation director. Ford, this remind me of what steve bannon talked about economic snation national i am. Middle class, Middle America. They come first and foremost. Ford there is a reason true tax reform has not been done in 40 years. Look at what trump is doing. Hes trying to daig a dagger out of the democrats messaging arsenal saying you are not going to slam this plan by saying the gop only panders to the relationship. Dont lose your mind yet on the details of putting people back