This is the song. If theyre going to pick a song, im glad its mariah ca y carey. My wife would agree welcome in to Worldwide Exchange. Good morning, everyone. Its throwback thursday, were taking you back with some holiday classics, like Mariah Careys all i want for christmas is you. A quick check on futures we are seeing at least a bit of market stability for now if you look at futures picture, the s p indicated to open up by two points dow jones up by 2. 5, the nasdaq off by 5 or 6. Weve seen a run up over the last couple of days on the hopes of tax legislation passing through Congress Everything going on there. A big deal for the markets for this morning, a bit of a pause after that bullish action. Well see what happens. On that note, lets look at our top story. Tax reform and Congress Giving final approval for a 1 1. 5 trillion tax cut tracie potts is live in washington with the latest good morning reporter good morning, everyone it looks like that may be shortlived, the victory lap
David time for our daybreak first take. We discussed the top three stories of the morning. First up, equities on the rebound. Second, the outflows from the bond funds. Rd, dreamers did not third, dreamers. They did not get to an agreement in the senate. Michael mckee, we want to start with u. S. Stocks. We are back where we started the year, despite the turmoil. U. S. Stocks are where they started the year. Much. An stocks, not so they have lagged behind. Are we in the midst of a rate hike tantrum. We had seen a thin reaction. There are two points here. Performance in five years, that is silly. We went down, we went up. If you are looking at this, you the to see, not so much absolute level, but what kinds of things are being bought and what is being sold. Other assets are highly risky. Did come in and clean out the safelyso you can more move up. Make the case that equities can still rise. What happened the last couple of weeks, was it a tantrum or did weeks the constructive moves . Has
Possibility of a renegotiation. Why does the stock market love that idea apparently with the dow up 255 points . Blake burman has the latest from the white house, he was right there. Someone whod like to also see tpp revived, former undersecretary of commerce for International Trade stephane selig. He was the guy who helped put the tpp together. Hell tell us why team trump should reconsider having tossed aside his hard work on this plan. Plus, the Trump Administration cracking down hard on north korea. Lieutenant colonel ralph peters explains the big sanction move to stop certain ships. And i want to show you this, look at this. Colonel peters gets frontpage status in todays New York Post. His surprising opinion on what america should do to stop mass murder shootings. Colonel peters joins us next. Were live and less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the countdown. Liz okay. Stocks were already up, but they are now jumping considerably higher at this hour with gains accelerat
A warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Lets get to the market picture. As we said in the open, the nasdaq and s p closing at record alltime highs the nasdaq up 0. 7 the s p up 0. 2 the dow was negative, but fractionally this morning pointing to a higher open for the dow and the s p. Just slightly for the nasdaq we got to the 2. 6 level in terms of yields. Just pulled back the last couple of days from that level, but rising again today 2. 63 the yield on the tenyear holding nicely above the 2. 6 level. Dollar board for you, we lost about 0. 2 yesterday the dollar is sliding significantly today. Steven mnuchin did say on the ground in davos that a weak dollar is good for u. S. Exports. Its partly that, but really just a continuation of the trend of a weak dollar weve seen recently in europe, weve got about a third of a percent move higher for the euro we had some composite pmi numbers that came out, 58. 6 ahead of forecasts of 57. 9 the highest level in 139 month
Dow down 37 points and the s p nudging back up towards the flat line at 2066 and change and nasdaq in Percentage Points the big lieutenantser, down twothirds of a point. Seven of the sectors are low for the year including staples, i. T. , financial, industrials, utilities and energy rounding out the bottom of the pack. Both down more than 9 year to date. Oil getting hit hard again today before staging a bit of a comeback. There you see its got modest losses right now. West texas intermediate at 51. 97. Ice brent crude at 56. 43, down 11 cents or about a fifth of 1 . And then ty yield falling enough that were starting to hear about lower mortgage rates. The tenyear right now earning 2. 221 . Euro Group Leaders meantime emergeing from a crucial summit on greece about one hour ago. The result nothing, according to reuters. Another meeting set for tomorrow. The eurozone summit is under way now. Yields meantime skyrocketing on the greek twoyear bond at 49. 5 . The etf that tracks greece all