Sara eisen happy monday. Happy monday to you the Global Market picture pointing higher off the back of a nice end to the week on friday we saw about 0. 5 of gains for the dow and s p, on. 4 for the nasdaq, meaning the nasdaq ended just negative for the week the dow and s p gained 0. 4 for the week and financials the best up today up 35 for the dow, the nasdaq is up 4, the s p up 3 tenyear treasury, we saw a riskon move, closer to 2. 4 again, 2. 37 , but in general, not much happening there last week on the yield front. Bitcoin futures going live last night and cryptocurrencies took another leg higher. Well have more on the latest move coming up, but as you can see, the latest price, 17,600, up 13 on the cboe exchange. They started at 6 00 p. M. Last night. There were a few outages, but ultimately, the price remained well supported with this liquidity event which is a positive, at least in the short term. It will be interesting to see how this goes. Then weve got the cme futures launchi
0 voted 144 of them, to keep the government shut down. the same people who have no problem holding our nation hostage when it comes to the debt limit. more for the ledger. the same people who voted to cut food stamps by $40 billion over the next ten years. the same people who have blocked every single jobs bill that democrats have brought forward. and the list goes on and on and on. i don t even have time to get to all the nominees that they don t want around. and after this list, it s unbelievable that the democrats can step up and have trust for the republicans to do the right thing, because it s [ whistling ] it s going to be a new year. they re going to be a different crowd, those republicans. meanwhile, there is some good news. i want to give credit to the 32 house democrats who voted against the budget. to me, that s the tough vote. and it was a tough vote for the democrats. but i believe it was the morally correct vote, considering there s no ledger. dealing with boehner. thes