On cnbc. Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me as well. Happy pancake day. Happy pancake day. Fat tuesday. I didnt know it was pancake day. Fat tuesday, that is an unflattering name. Getting rid of all the food. And you eat pancakes. We eat pancakes. They actually made a pancake at the end of street signs. I like them with chocolate chips. You guys just eat food . All food . Our slender floor manager said every tuesday is fat tuesday for me. Either way, we just eat. I want pancakes. We have to check in on the Global Markets. We did notch a 12th record close for the dow. Wilfred is not impressed unless we get a 500 point rally, but either way this is the longest string of gains i am impressed. I am impressed. You said, eh, less than a percent. 0. 04 we gained yesterday. Doesnt take much. I need to offset it is incredible. It is. The dow is up almost 5 for the month. The nasdaq and s p up 4 . That clearly is highlighting that this rally picked up again after decemb
In germany, things are relatively flat there. Lets look at crude oil. Looks like right now wti is down by 8 cents to 53. 96. Couple big stories were watching. A crucial cabinet vote last night in the senate. Wilbur ross was confirmed as commerce secretary after a vote of 2727. Ross is key to the administrations plan to overall trade deals like nafta. The white house will hold a swearing in ceremony for ross today. On the economic agenda. Second estimate on Fourth Quarter gdp at 8 30 a. M. Growth forecast to be revised up from 1. 9 to 2. 1 . 9 00 a. M. , the monthly caseshiller home price index and chicago pmi at 9 45. Consumer confidence numbers at 10 00 a. M. San francisco fed president John Williams and st. Louis fed president James Bullard will speak today. Rob kaplan will be speaking with us at 7 30 a. M. Eastern time. Apple will hold its annual Shareholder Meeting at its cupertino offices. Investors will be asked to vote on nine proposals, including one to rope in a third party on
Live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm at the United Nations in new york where, addressing north koreas recent Missile Tests, the Us Ambassador nikki haley delivered a blunt message to north korea. Flanked by representatives from both japan and south korea, Ambassador Haley warned that all options are on the table when it came to americas response. She also had this to say about the countrys leader kim jong un. We are not dealing with a rational person, if this was any other country we would be talking about that and this wouldnt be an issue, this is not a rational person who has not had rational axe and who is not thinking clearly. What i can tell you as the stance of the us is we are real value in how we can handle north korea Going Forward and we are making those decisions now and we will act accordingly. Malaysia is having its own problems with north korea. The two nations have banned each othe
Live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm at the United Nations in new york where, addressing north koreas recent Missile Tests, the Us Ambassador nikki haley delivered a blunt message to north korea. Flanked by representatives from both japan and south korea, Ambassador Haley warned that all options are on the table when it came to americas response. She also had this to say about the countrys leader kim jong un. We are not dealing with a rational person, if this was any other country we would be talking about that and this wouldnt be an issue, this is not a rational person who has not had rational axe and who is not thinking clearly. What i can tell you as the stance of the us is we are real value in how we can handle north korea Going Forward and we are making those decisions now and we will act accordingly. Malaysia is having its own problems with north korea. The two nations have banned each othe
And we go through brexit, what is next. Lets check on your data and your markets. We have seen a little bit of an easing of the rout we saw on government debt. Treasuries steadying after a long slide. The kospi, south koreas benchmark rising after the president was. Removed from office. The other thing i wanted to show you which is on the data screen oil climbing from a threemonth low but remains below 50 a barrel. We will get plenty more on the markets throughout the hour, but lets get to bloomberg first word news. Nejra there has been violence south koreas president became the first democratically elected leader to be forced out of office. Icourt upheld parliaments decision to impeach her over a rolen a corruption scandal. It opens the door for park to face jail time and triggers a president ial election within 60 days. Police in germany have arrested a 36yearold man who injured seven people with an ax at duesseldorfs main train station. It happened before 9 p. M. Last night. The sus