We should also note that yield curves around the world are feeling the pressure as well we did have on friday the german bund, the 10year, falling to its lowest level ever. As for the asian markets, the nikkei down by 1. 75 hang seng also pressured by what is going on in hong kong in terms of the protests there, down 3 . Shaun hi shanghai down 1. 6 in europe, red arrows across the board. Dax is down 1. 35 . Ftse down, as well we have a stronger dollar against the major currencies weaker crude, wti down 0. 7 . Brent down 0. 75 . Couple safe haven trades working this morning, gold prices are up. They actually have been on a great run. They were under 1300 about two months ago you see them up only slightly, little less than 1 , probably because they had been so strong lately not a lot of oomph year. Bitcoin also getting a little bit of a boost right here. Obviously, a lot of capital and motion across borders. That could help the sentiment toward bitcoin you see it up 7 at 11,750 lets talk
leaders rare and public back and forth over controversial judicial reform plans. good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin this morning in kentucky, where two blackhawk helicopters crashed overnight. officials say they went down and trigg county, which is just north of the kentucky tennessee state border. the crew was flying a routine training mission at the time. the army has just confirmed several casualties. we don t have an exact number yet. this photo from wk dz radio shows flames from the crash. here s what one witness who lives about a half a mile away from the crash site saw and heard. two helicopters came over pretty low and all of a sudden, soon as i got older house, something loud banging everything shut down just all of a sudden, so we joined the truck came over here. that s what we ve found two helicopters so still waiting for more information from the army about how many people were on board ea
Whats happening with treasury yields a tz you know, the trend has been higher and that continues this morning the 10year is at 4. 63 the 2year while its in the green, its a little bit below where we were yesterday, 4. 94. Still below 5 well take a quick look at Oil Prices Data showing a drop in crude stocks, a positive sign for demand yesterday oil prices were higher, this morning giving back just about 39d . But wti is just below 30 a barrel. Meantime protests arrive ingn campus speaker johnson speaks about it. Meantime late last night columbias president providing an update, saying the school is now in talks with student protesters to clear an encampment on its west lawn. Theres a deadline tonight to dismantle or theyre consider other options to clear the area. The school now says theyre not tolerate discriminating behavior theyll put them through appropriate disciplinary processes. We will see. I know there are a whole bunch of donors watching all of this, waiting to figure out i sp
Power lunch starts right now good day, everybody. Welcome to power lunch. Im Tyler Mathisen as michelle just highlighted, the dow and s p 500 hitting records again. But we are well off those levels at this hour nasdaq basically getting slammed. Down more than 1 . Big selloff in tech. Check out what is leading that nasdaq 100 lower Lamb Research down so auto disk down 15 now applied materials, invidia also in the tank today. In fact, the whole Semi Conductor industry on pace for its worst day in almost a year more on this group coming up forget ten, folks. Lets move on to 11,000. Bitcoin breaking past 11,000 just hours after topping 10,000 for the first time ever. Everybody is talking about bitcoin. Crypto currency up more than 30 in the past week and now up well over 1,000 this year, brian. Its like an auction. Do i hear 12,000 im Brian Sullivan heres what else is happening at this hour. Tyler drilled down on bitcoins record run the nasdaq planning to launch Bitcoin Futures next year.
Year this all has been happening as treasury yields started to pick up yesterday that kicked off the concerns the twoyear treasury yesterday topping 2. 16 . That was the highest level since september 8, 2008. You can see the twoyear this morning, yields have come back down a bit 2. 108 the tenyear is where the focus was yesterday. The yield there nearing 2. 73 . That yield backed off a bit, too. We will see the last meeting of fed chair janet yellen today at the fomc nice stories about janet yellen today the finale here as jay powell gets ready to begin february 1st. Some big stories were watching this morning jpmorgan saying that jamie dimon will stay in his role for about five more years. That time frame could suggest hes not planning on running for Political Office which has been speculated about for some time we talked to him about that last week in davos on this show the bank is promoting daniel pinto and gordon smith to copresident s and coos pinto oversees Corporate Investment b