Good morning. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me as well. Our final show of the year. All week weve been playing the top songs of the year. Today were playing some of our personal favorites. This one is one of mine. I quite like this one as well, but im sure i didnt request it. All of my requests were shot down, so were playing saras favorites. Lets check in on the Global Markets after a quiet few days after stocks have pulled back and so has the dollar and treasury yield. Starting strong this morning. Dow futures up 40. S p futures up 6. Nasdaq futures up 12 this could end a strong month, quarter and year on a very high note. Well see what happens in the trade today. As for the tenyear treasury note yield, bonds have been bought over the last 24, 48 hours that pulled treasuries off their highs. The tenyear yield is back below 2. 50. Its not too far off from the twoyear highs that we reached in the last few weeks. There has been
Looking at early trading in european equities, in the green. The dax up by 0. 6 . Cac up by 0. 9 . Lets check out the Energy Markets. Yesterday Energy Markets traded higher. Once again as it looked like demand in china might be pushing higher. Some of the opec nations looked like they might be cutting back as they said they would be doing. This morning, wti down about 1 . Steve . Here are the big stories today. Janet yellen says she is upbeat about the shortterm economic outlook. Speaking to a group of educators in washington late yesterday, janet yellen said the labor market is looking strong, but the central bank chief is worried about longerterm issues like growing income inequality and weak growth in labor productivity. Its the busiest day of the week for economic data, retail sales out at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. This is the important december retail sales number. At 8 30, the december Producer Price index. At 10 00 a. M. , january Consumer Sentiment and november business invento inven
Do to water coming from the Sacramento Bee cherries along with high tides from the bay and the water gathers in the delta. And effect until 11 30. Were talking and yet, pittsburgh, disco bay. We have a Flash Flood Watch in effect for portions of the Sacramento County region 22 levee failure. Keeping a close eye on that and that continues through this afternoon. Out the door this morning temperatures are chilly. Our temperatures right now in the 30s near freezing and temperatures in the 40s for oakland and San Francisco. Chilly morning with fog and frost and dry with a chance of rain. Our next chance is wednesday and we talk about that coming up. A controversial speaker sparks chaos prompting organizers to pull the plug on the event. [ cheering ] that was the scene on campus last night. The cause of the uproar, Breitbart News editor rows to fully fame on a platform of hateful rhetoric. It was put in put on by the davis republicans who made the call to cancel. When people feel threatened
Me first. He is not an american citizen. I want my country back they were just upset now with both parties. The speaker of the house, turns out hes a coward. Why be here if youre not going to fight . And the anger that paved te way for a political outsider. How stupid are our leaders . His nomination was the hostile takeover of the Republican Party. I am your voice. If you wanted the exact opposite of donald trump, its barack obama. Part one of a special twopart series. Obama came on the mandate of changing washington. By his very presence, he forced more polarization and gridlock than we had seen in the eight years prior. Divided states of america frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Or
Me first. He is not an american citizen. I want my country back they were just upset now with both parties. The speaker of the house, turns out hes a coward. Why be here if youre not going to fight . And the anger that paved te way for a political outsider. How stupid are our leaders . His nomination was the hostile takeover of the Republican Party. I am your voice. If you wanted the exact opposite of donald trump, its barack obama. Part one of a special twopart series. Obama came on the mandate of changing washington. By his very presence, he forced more polarization and gridlock than we had seen in the eight years prior. Divided states of america frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Or