Nasdaq features are pointing higher. Stock coming off of that two week losing streak. Recoveringmed to be with a steep selloff last week. Moderately higher in china. Tech names seeing some dip by. Take a look at what we when it comes to currencies. We are focusing on the euro strength, paired with the weakness. Not really doing a lot. 682. Ng around about the Central Banks autonomy. We are watching the yields, pretty much flat. Yields are moving lower in the likes of australia. , probably brings us back to the highest that we saw in 2019 with home prices increasing and retail sales as well. Positive sentiment. Outstanding gains. Lets get to the first word gains. We start with the global coronavirus case is nearing 29 million. Canpe is now becoming a turn again. France also reporting more than 17,000 cases over the weekend. , Oxford University and astrazeneca have restarted trials of the vaccine after they were halted over the unexplained illness. Says ale, the ceo had similar timeline
To 55 cents a barrel. Lauren stunned by the death after walmart and best buy may set the tone. Dow futures up 60 points. Train to europe stocks to pick that the lower fractionally. Cac down higher pay one half of 1 . Lauren stocks rebounding. The nikkei in japan racing when put by and the cost in south korea chaining half of 1 . Turn into a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci smashes all previous record and goes to an unknown buyer for 450 million. Most expensive piece of art ever sold. Fbn am starts right now. Lauren 5 01 a. M. In new york. Good morning. I went in the navy. Drink your way gabriel and four Cheryl Casone. Lauren on to know who drive past a billion dollars on a piece of art this morning. House republicans are expected to pass their tax reform bill today and President Trump is to speak ahead of the vote. 240 seats in the house. Democrats have 194. Democratic leaders holding a family against the republican plan. They throw a scrap to the middle class, provided banquet to the wea
For a second time this year. We have world coverage here on daybreak asia. We will be live in tokyo later in the program to talk with Japan Airline accepting bitcoin as a payment method. Of course, we are watching the fed decision. The other story out of the capital was the shooting of a congressman during baseball practice. We will have a live report a little later in this program. This is daybreak asia, live and asiambergs u. S. Headquarters. I am betty liu, in new york where it is after 7 00 p. M. It is after 7 00 a. M. Here in hong kong, i am shery ahn. We have seen the fourth rate hike after the financial crisis. Expected. H not surprisingly did not get a huge reaction from the market. Betty not a huge reaction at all. We made up some of those losses right after that said decision. Of course now there will be lots leaf reading on when the next set hike will be and when it will unwind their Balance Sheet. That will be the topic that dominates the conversation around the fed. I want
Captioning sponsored by wpbt this is n. B. R. Susie good evening, everyone. Im susie gharib. Its the first major storm to hit the northeast since Hurricane Sandy and it could be one for the record books. Residents and businesses spent the day preparing for the worst. Tom im tom hudson. The u. S. Trade gap narrows as the world buys more made in america products and the u. S. Buys less foreign oil. Susie and with gas prices rising, chevy hopes its new diesel chevy cruze will attract buyers looking for more miles per gallon. Tom that and more tonight on n. B. R. Susie millions of people are bracing tonight for a powerful snow storm that could cripple the east coast. Some forecasters say this could be the blizzard of the century with record amounts of snow and extremely strong winds. In parts of the northeast, transportation was shut down. The governors of massachusetts and connecticut declared a state of emergency and banned car travel, Train Service and cancelled flights in and out of bo
Tons of salt on hand. Reporter according to the long island power authority, the storm has the potential to cause Power Outages for 100,000 customers on long island. And for the first time ever, lipa is deferring storm operations and response to its subcontractor, national grid. But in manhattan today, it was mostly business as usual, although many workers did try to leave early to beat the snow. And if the snowfall is anywhere close to the storm of 78, youll see the impact in Economic Data in the weeks ahead. Usually major storms cause increased volatility in Economic Data. So, that jobless claims jump significantly in the beginning as government offices close, because of the storm. And they surge back up after the offices reopened. Reporter if theres a Silver Lining in this storm, its the timing. The heaviest snowfall will happen over the weekend. And the cleanup is expected well before valentines day, which contributes 18 billion to the economy. Erika miller, n. B. R. , new york. Su