Made on thursday. Welcome to daybreak asia. Im paul allen. Im betty liu in new york. Story in thejor markets. In the very early morning, leading up to the meeting and digesting everything janet yellen was saying. He bump up in growth. This forecast and Economic Growth here. The job market is still continuing to kind of slug along percenting that three forecast for 2018. A lot of scratching the heads as well. We have strong broad jobs growth. And theres Janet Yellens legacy to think about as well. I have a wonderful piece of trivia for you here. Finalll have the lowest Unemployment Rate of any fed chair since William Martin of 1970. We can have a newfound knowledge of said history. Fed history. I found that out from someone else, by the way. Weve been trading for a couple hours now. Slightly weaker, up. 2 , the kiwi dollar breaking above . 70. Trading in australia just getting underway. It is difficult to get a gauge on how the asx is performing because we have the staggered open here.
South african politics members of the governing anc begin to vote on a new leader who will likely become president in next years election. A very positive morning across europe so far when we look at equity training. The stocks at 600 up nearly 1 right now a lot of green across the board. Lets take a look at the specific markets action across the continent. The foots see up 1. 5 . The cac ka rant in paris up and lets take a look at the specific sectors that are driving that positive movement this morning we can see from across the entire country the sectors, lets take a look at the numbers as they come through coming very shortly. Waiting for that foots see action there very slightlyup more than half a percent. Lets talk about whats going on in the United States so talking of taxes, President Trump has defended the 1. 5 trillion expected in cuts that could stem from the new tax reform bill. He said the economy, meanwhile, is going to, quote, start to rock the bill will create jobs and
Which is many ways one of our worst nightmares. No additional known incidents at this time. Isis sent a message two weeks ago saying we will see you in new york for christmas soon. Thank god the perpetrator did not achieve his ultimate goal. This is the most resilient place on earth, weve proven it over and over again. We proved it on 9 11 and prove it again today. We are new yorkers, we dont live in fear. Adam new york city is on high alert after this chilling christmas threat was followed by the attack on Port Authority earlier this month that left four people injured. Isis is releasing this gruesome propaganda promising to kill people who are drunk celebrating new years eve and this is ominous new york city is beefing up security at the highprofile event that is expected to draw nearly 2 Million People this year and millions more on Television Watching the celebration. Note, there are currently no Credible Threats to new york city or boston. Now with the latest on the times square n
Jonathans belter is the president and ceo of a trade association called u. S. Telethon. He is our guest on the communicators. Could you represent . I represent americas broadband providers, companies both large and small who are coming from every part of the nation, almost every state and we are all found by a simple set of principles. We want to be able to deliver the best quality, highest Speed Broadband to all americans regardless of where they are. Theres work to do because there are still americans who dont have broadband. We are aligned to make sure we can provide ubiquitous access for all americans. Was the companies you represent. This month i was able to fly out to alaska. I flew down to western new mexico and both were focused on Rural Communities and extending nextgeneration Broadband Services to them. All the way up to companies that are national in scope and at t and verizon and century link and consolidated frontier, windstream, its a consortium of companies who are very
Dow surging 00 points breaking through a key record before taking a reversal. Ayman jaggers is a of the the white house with all the information. Reporter they are trying to get steve bannon on camera to answer a mystery, did he answer questions of the House Intelligence Committee or not . We know he was there, arrived earlier this morning there are reports he was asked by the white house to not answer questions pertaining to the white house. Of course, the most interesting questions that the Intelligence Committee will have for steve bannon relate to the white house. The question is, did he or did he not answer those questions. Later on this afternoon, the white house put out a statement not exactly denying that they asked bannon not to talk and Sarah Huckabee sanders, the White House Press secretary, was asked about why the white house wouldnt want steve bannon to talk, even though she would not specifically say that they asked him not to talk. Heres how Sarah Huckabee sanders answer