He will also be joined by jim himes who serves on the intelligence committee, to get the latest from the connecticut democrat on the memos and the Russian Investigation. Good morning. It is tuesday, february 6, 2018. The senate is reconvening today, the houses meeting, and we are looking at a Government Shutdown. We will talk about where it but we begin a, day after the Dow Jones Industrial average size largest ever single day point decline. With investors anxiously eyeing the opening bell today and the democrats in Congress Already casting blame for the drop on President Trump, we want to hear what you think. Republicans can call 2027488001. With democrats calling 2027488000. ,and independents, 2027488002. You can catch up with us on social media on twitter at cspanwj, and all facebook. Com c span. Good tuesday morning. You can start calling now. We begin on the front pages of the wall street journal, the headline, a plunge in races 2018 gains. The Dow Jones Industrial average down ov
It is just past 9 00 a. M. In australia. Betty its after 5 00 p. M. In new york. Im betty liu. We have breaking news right now. Exchange,ptocurrency japans Financial Stability agency, fsa, will be issuing an improvement order to coin check on monday. This is according to the nikkei. This follows that fascinating story that arrested on friday evening wear coin check, essentially came out and said they were packed. A group of hackers took 500 million in Digital Currency out of the cryptocurrency exchange. Really, a story that highlights how risky it is to be in the cryptocurrency market. Risk in a litany of risks if you are a crypto there. It unveils how much in terms of the propulsion of cryptocurrency around the world are being stolen by hackers. This is one of the biggest heist in history. 500 million worth of digital tokens per you can argue whether that is real or not, given the rise and fall of bitcoin. Still, another risk to think about. Exactlyour money, not safe and cryptocurren
I like it watch weeks later. Its relevant yeah. The wisdom. Absolutely. Global markets report lets check in on how were coming out of the overnight session. Looking at u. S. Equity futures the dow, s p a bit lower implied for the open same for the nasdaq. Coming off records again yesterday. How about overnight in asia. Well see how they react to the feds tightening yesterday which did not phase markets. The nikkei is up 0. 2 . I believe they had an earthquake in japan overnight as well the shanghai down about a quarter of a percent european equities, seeing how the theyre continuing, green pretty much across the board. France and italy leading the way with a half percent of gains ftse just a bit higher crude is coming off a flinday win streak you know, crude for wti is over 50 a barrel brent over 56 a barrel both down a quarter of a percent. Small declines for nat gas well talk about Hurricane Maria. Just thinking, japan, mexico, maria. Think about the last 30day period i know. Normall
Win sunday. That would be a show of support for his attempts to revive a slumbering economy. Kathleen i am Kathleen Hays in new york where it is just past 7 00 p. M. Thursday. Treasuries rose and the dollar fell on reports President Trump is leaning toward Jerome Powell to be this the head of the fed. Yvonne it is looking to be more like an easy win for shinzo abe on this sunday election. The latest poll we saw, the Ruling Coalition said to have the best election outcome in decades. More than 31 years. That was facing opposition in disarray. The party had was losing hopes in the past couple weeks. Kathleen i guess that is one reason donald trump wanted to make sure everybody knew he would get this fed chair selected before he takes that very important trip to asia. He will have a lot of important business to attend to. The way the polls are looking, it looks like congratulations to abe on a victory. The question will be, what kind of momentum and support this to continueminister with m
Like celebrity apprentice. Speculation. Talking about how President Trump was meeting with janet yellen. Mike pence. Pins and needles. Kohn. , taylor, a wait and see. Donald trump has us on pins and needles. Stuck in a wait and see mode. Been treadinge water. We have seen a trickle through in the asiapacific. The anzac, 1 5 of 1 . Expecting the new zealand Prime Minister to announce a new Coalition Deal later on. This is the head of the inflation data on wednesday. 7811 for the aud. In 1988 a record we saw after that victory for shinzo abe. The yen. Ramy that slight pullback you just mentioned, taking a cue from u. S. Markets. The first time in a week, after hitting record highs last friday. The s p list down 4 10 of 1 . Tec h, some of the biggest laggards, down about 2 . , just under 52 a barrel. Sectors in the1 s p 500 index were down. Utilities were up. Microsoft,ebec, amazon, they all report next quebec, twitter, phabet,ft twitter, al microsoft, amazon all report next thursday. Pet