Disney, of course, as you heard by now, buying various assets of 21st century fox in a deal worth dl more than 66 billion when you include the debt david faber broke the story weeks ago that the two companies were in talks and lo and behold, its soup now. Congratulati congratulations. Thanks. We were reminiscing about the various deals youve broken over the years. Yes, you and i go back to my first big one, British Telecom and mci. 2 22 billion deal in inflation . Exactly that got to the finish line on this one, bill a lot of talking going on between disney and fox and also our Parent Company, comcast and fox. Thats sort of where we want to begin today as we head toward the later parts of the day comcast did compete vigorously for these assets people close to the company indicate, or people close to all the companies involved, that being the people who were advising and so forth, indicate that the bid from comcast, in fact, did have a higher value than what fox accepted from disney we
Hedge Fund Managers to keep the ultralow tax rate. It is called carried interest. Really a nice pay much less than you. Forgive me if i call it a racket. We reported these tax details yesterday the market rally at the value of all stocks have gone up 623 trillion since the election. As things move forward today, stocks inching higher again with just 414 points from dow 25,000. I will say it again, ive never seen anything like this before. We have seen Government Shutdowns before and another one is looming. Congress has until next friday to fix it. This is politics. Previous shutdowns have no impact on the economy or the markets. Thursday december 14th, 11 days until christmas. Do you know where your package is . Varney company is about to begin. You know, the president was not whispering. Hes not known to speak in a low voice. We lost the audio. Tens of millions of people get an increase in their paycheck in february next year. He was talking tax cuts right here. By the way, hes readin
Wilfred frost. Lets check on Global Markets because we are on this friday seeing gains, at least on the futures side of things you can see futures pointing to a higher open, the s p up by about six points, the dow up by about 78 and the nasdaq up by about 13 points overall. Lets get a check on the fixed income markets on the treasury side specifically with the tenyear u. S. Treasury note, yields are 2. 362 , a little lower than they have been over the last couple of days. So the Interest Rate picture taking a little bit more clarity given the feds Interest Rate hike and some commentary about the future still, though, yields in focus, especially for those financials, courtney. Lets look at whats going on around the world in trading. So take a look at what happened in asia overnight. Mostly lower, as you can see the south korean kospi is the one outlier higher by about 0. 5 the hang seng was the biggest laggard, down 1 a lot of focus on whats going on here in the u. S. When it comes to o
And europes weak again, dax down for a fourth consecutive day and empire, our first december number comes in soft, raising eyebrows, a fivemonth low. Movement on tax plans, were awaiting this morning to see the combined conference bill and Details Behind which cuts and deductions survived. Plus the latest on disney and fox, including the bid the murdochs said no to. A busy morning f stocks on track to erase thursdays losses. Yesterdays worries about a setback were sparked by senator rubio saying hes a no vote unless the Child Tax Credit is expanded they are trying to find ways to pay for maybe that additional deductions, its going to cost 200 billion, perhaps they let some individual breaks expire here early well see. Its very interesting that the market went down and dow went down 70 points on worries about rubio, maybe Something Else or other senators now there really is great uncertainty and the market is going back up. The uncertainty right now is higher than it was when the market
Launching and landing a reused rocket weve got the ceo of a publicly traded Company Looking to capitalize on the increased excitement around space these days. Wonder if they call them certified preowned. Thats coming soon, im sure. Yes. After the bell, bitcoin millionaire, a young man who bought bitcoins at 12 is now worth millions good for him hell tell us whether he is selling right now and whether hes investing in ethereum, litecoin, or ripple. Or whatever the coin is. Isnt that a wine lets get to the big story out of washington right now. Republicans sprinting to pass tax reform before the holiday recess and a final version of the bill, we are told, is expected to be released in just a couple of hours. Ylan mui who has been way out in front on this story today gives us what she knows right now. Ylan reporter bill, senator marco rubio is making it official, he will be a yes on the republican tax bill as weve been reporting since earlier today. Now, hes onboard because republicans we