Ill admit, im just the same as i was. Now, dont you understand. That im never changing who i am. Cheryl we are here, welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning everyone. Im cheryl. Lauren good morning. Welcome. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl all right. Lets take a look at how your money is doing this morning. Lets take another look at futures. Its been a week, right. Another loss for the dow and s p yesterday, both down five days in a row. Right now, we do have more red arrows. The dow was down 400 overnight. This is an improvement. The dow is down 133, s p down 16, nasdaq is down 42. By the way, a lot of retailers reporting before the bell. We have best buy, jc penney to mix it up today. Lauren its a coronavirus driven market. The price of oil is at 47, 93. Down almost 2 right now. Gold of course flight to safety, at 1648 an ounce, a gain of 5. Goldman sachs sees gold topping 1800 in the next three months. Cheryl we have seen a flight to safety into treasuries. Right now the yield is actually dow
34 days out now until the Iowa Caucuses who will emerge from a crowded group of candidates . A lot of people asking that. Were also of course following the developing news out of baghdad. Hundreds of protesters storming the u. S. Embassy there and they are protesting recent air strike against an iranbacked malitia were following that story. Were also expecting more protests out of hang kong, they are now just two hours away from ringing in the new year, and mass demonstrations are planned as well. Well take you there. Im Ashley Webster in today for stuart, Varney Company about to begin. Ashley and on this last day of 2019 why not start with breaking Economic News for you right now, were getting the latest numbers on home prices. Especially when its positive right to end this decade this year, so were up monthovermonth 1 for the year for the last year were up over 2 and weve been talking all year long about slow down taking places in housing especially with existing home sales which rep
Growth. Late on the program, ill be asking larry kudlow why is this happening in a fullyemployed economy. Thats jobs and now the markets. Here it comes, 29,000, the dow may hit that mark today. Yes, the astonishing market rally has taken us up 11,000 points on the dow, since the election, of donald j. Trump and the value of American Business has gone up 12. 8 trillion since he was elected. A few minutes from now the market opens and well see the dow go up just a little bit more , maybe 20 points up, s p up maybe 6 and a 30 point gain for the nasdac composite. One more story and its dramatic satellite and intelligence reports show the plane that crashed into iran was taken down by a missile. It was not mechanical failure or engine trouble. The plane was shot down. Canadas trudeau says it may have been done accidentally. 63 canadians were on board. Varney company, the friday edition, is about to begin. President trump when im thrilled to hold the first rally of 2020 right here, in the gr
Im on the edge of glory. And im hanging on a moment of truth. Im on the edge of glory. And im hanging on a moment with you. Ill on the edge. The edge. Lauren happy friday. Welcome to fbn a. M. Im lauren simonetti. Tracee im tracee carrasco, in for cheryl casone. Lauren it feels like a tri. Tracee . Tracee a friday. Tracee . Lauren we have all three major averages up significantly, a quarter percent a across the board, ill all three major averages did close at record highs yesterday and are up at least one andahalf percent on the week. Tracee lets take a look at how things are moving in asia right now. Asian shares rising as data did come out showing that chinas economy grew as expected, that was 6. 1 . Lauren and investors in europe responding to two major trade deals with china and mexico and canada yesterday, so green on the board here. The big outperformer is the cac in france, up 1 today. We start with a fox business alert and that is just moments ago irans Supreme Leader praising
Playoffs. Good evening, i am julie haener. The highlights of the amazing regularseason finale. Spent i am still shaking my head. Heres the bottom line. The road to the super bowl. Now goes through San Francisco. That is what was at stake here. They have to win two more home winds and that is all that separates the 49ers from a trip to super bowl liv after the white knuckle, sweaty palm battle in seattle. The 49ers had not won their sins Christmas Eve of 2011. That is eight straight losses in seattle. 49er fans are feeling it. Fast forward, lynch came out of retirement and he had one signature move. Four minutes later, zooms in from 13 yards out and the 14ers are up 2614. After a seattle touchdown, the seahawks moved the ball to the field. And sue wilson and he is tackled by williams. Up and over again and they get a delay of penalty and moved it back and after two incompletions , it is wilson to hollister us live from ive from seattle. This is going to be one of those ones where you sa