Maria joining the conversation, Dagen Mcdowell, former republican president ial candidate steve forbes. Im so happy that youre back, dagen. Dagen i was watching or trying to, i missed you immensely and i will leave it at that. Maria we will talk more about it. Maria steve, thank you so much for joining us, big day again. Consumer is still king. Maria we are wait on retail numbers, top story, markets hitting record high, futures on the way to another record at the start of trading, s p futures up 8 and nasdaq futures up 34 with a number of retailers to report quarterly earnings, home depot, kohls, tjmaxx among them. Lets get to home depot, Ashley Webster are the numbers. Ashley lets get right to it, home depot on the earnings per share coming at 2. 53 a share, that is one penny better than the estimate but revenue just a hair short, estimate for 27. 53 billion coming to 27. 2 billion, lets not forget home depot lowered guidance in last Earnings Report and reaffirming that, same store sa
But the dow is still on pace for its longest monthly winning streak in 59 years. What is driving it . We are here with allstar panel. Well look ahead into 2018 and your money. The president flatting fbi director an did i mccabe oaf ties to Hillary Clinton. Could this be the reason for his early retirement . Blake burman is at the white house live with more. Break, what will you start with . Trish, the white house, the president , making it clear the first item legislatively when it comes to 2018 is a big infrastructure package. Here at the white house, director of legislative affairs, mark short, come january the president will have a meeting at camp david with the top two republicans and there they hope to nail down some of the details. I think you will see the r c president roll out a infrastructure plan in january. The president already invited leader mcconnell and speaker ryan to camp david first weekend in january to make sure were all on the same page for the priorities of 2018.
Big news out of the United Nations, nikki haley announcing a cut in next years budget after the un voted to call for donald trump to withdraw his plans Israeli Embassy to jerusalem. Varney and company starts right now. Charles lets look at futures, under pressure all morning, fractionally better. Lets bring in zach hour. Everybody wants to know 205k in 2017. In 2017, i dont see why not, certainly lets call it by valentines day a couple points, next year will be a strong year for the stock market, the first half of next year especially. I am worried about a blow off topic for the market sometime next year but that is all the more reason. Charles you could argue this year, last year, the year before, pretty long market, people are calling for it. Prices are not crazy, prices are okay, we are introducing new money into this economy with conditions tight. What i worry about is a faster rise in Interest Rate than we expect giving more competition. The cd rates, why am i taking this risk in
Well, tha a big question a big meeting on capitol hill tomorrow may give us some answers perhaps the fist big test of the new year will come from iran. Deadly empty government protest there, least 20 people reported dead calling those protesters, quote, enemies of iran. Big day, of course, as we kick off a new year 218 is here and Varney Company is about to begin. Well, have you noticed unless you live in very southern, florida or out on west side in california it is freezing outside frigid temperatures continue to grip wide swaft of the country from pink and purples youre in deep purple youre in deep cold. Heres that weather map where windchills bundle up we mean that is obvious isnt it and snowstorm by the way, is brewing we are told off the atlantic coast. And if it it pushes east it could be a major storm up and down i95 corridor, oh boy looking forward to that. Or more for us on that, potential storm about three minuteses from now. Lets take a quick look at the stock future for yo
Im Francine Lacqua in london. We have a lot to get through today. We have quite a lot of news. Mark carney and Philip Hammond, and we will get on to brexit. First, let me show you your markets. A lot of the movement we saw in the last hour reports to what we heard from the chancellor and the boe governor. I would suggest it is really what is happening in the u. K. That many to look at. 675. Can see the pound, 1. 2 when it says market matrix, it is basically the difference between the two year gilt yield and the 30 year gilt yield. That curve is kind of flat. The u. S. Dollar, pretty much unchanged at 1197. The two year u. S. Yield, 1. 36. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Fourter barclays and former executives have been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. The u. K. Fraud office said john varley and roger jenkins, and oth faced charges, along with the bank. Barclays says it is closed considering his position in relation to the allegations. U. K. , a 47yearold man