Tenth Straight Record close driven by all the names that worked all winter long plus a strong read on Retail Holiday shopping numbers do not disappoint. And jobless claims fall pointing to continued strength in the labor market joining us for the hour, anastasia om row sew it is great to have you with us. Great to see you. What do we make of this its typical. We melt up into year end i mean, think about all the things that got resolved in december weve got the phase one basically a done deal between u. S. And china maybe a little bit overlooked by the usmca getting passed by the house. Weve got a lot of good enthuse. We started to see the inflection point. Whats interesting in the internals of the market is what people are buying. What do you do when the s p is up almost 30 for the year you start to look for the laggards its emerging markets, health care, energy those are the ones rallying the most to break down those areas you see opportunity over the course of the hour. For now lets
Frontiers for that sector in the new decade and facebook being called the new cigarettes for our society by the founder of salesforce. Com his critical take on the social media giant as Worldwide Exchange begins right nowe to exchange im dierdre bosa in for Brian Sullivan the second to last day of 2019, take a look at stock futures right now pretty much flat they are on track for a block buster year as i mentioned the s p on track for potentially its best year in two decades if it can squeeze out gains of nearly 30 . 29. 6 is the gain that we are looking at dow jones and the nasdaq also on track for a record year. Moving on to the bond market, the yield on the tenyear note currently 1. 912 lets go worldwide now in asia, markets were mixed in the last two days of the years investors awaiting updates on the trade deal and increasing tensions with north korea. Japan wrapping up its final trading day of 2019, down slightly, but the nikkei, that was up 18 for the year and what a turn around
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Times Peterson Foundation poll, only 14, 14, 14 of families own stocks outright. Meaning the market is creating all this wealth for the few, not the many 60 of americans dont even know that stocks are up for the year and theyve advanced 24 hallelujah so after a sedate day where the dow gained 28 points, the nasdaq climbed 0. 05 , lets talk about what the heck is going on here i think its a lot more complicated than simple ignorance. The first reason why people who can afford to own stocks are sitting on the sidelines earning very little, the disastrous bear market at the turn of the century impoverished a whole generation of individual investors who got burned by chasing, yes, the hottest stocks imaginable when the dot com crash hit, it ended the greatest love affair ever told. I was part of it i started the street. Com in 1995 immediately found hundreds of thousands of people with a thirst for any investing knowledge to level the Playing Field. Between the rich and the not so rich at
That looks maybe 34 inch amounts. This is mainly a morning event and will decrease the afternoon and evening. Then moving into Central California around San Luis Obispo. It is starting to lighten up a little bit to the west and the north, but not to the east. The sierra is getting son sun but its mainly a rainmixed level, and then 50 other times today. 7 01, where would you like to start . Starting at the bridge, then you can see the bay bridges backed up. Moving too fast, now let me move it to a 80 we will dive into the south bay commute which has its issues. We are still following developing news in the east bay. Law enforcement busy investigating crime scenes in two different cities. We have someone at one of the crime scenes, sarah, what is going on . Reporter good morning, this scene is clear here at the 711 on redwood road in Castro Valley. We talked to the clerk and they tell us someone went into the store early this morning with a gun. They stole money, cigarettes, and then ran