To work out too well for the farmers. Liz well, as the washington, d. C. Beltway swirls to talk about steve bannon, a book, and russia, President Trump put all of that aside and took his talk of his policies, his agenda to the heartland, to his base. Farmers in nashville, tennessee to those men and women he called today the forgotten crowd hurt by the dc swamp. Telling them quote you are not forgotten anymore and the tax cut agenda, you heard it right there. He said, oh, are you happy you voted for me . This is the first time in 25 years the sitting president has spoken to the America Farm Bureau federation and almost all of the other networks did not take his speech live. We got the live updates on the president s speech tonight. Plus, a lot of people to react to it. And to the deep state probe at the fbi, banks finally handing over fusion gps bank records to the house intelligence panel. Fusion is a firm behind the antitrump file. The new documents could possibly show things like whe
Im seema mody in for sara eisen. Good morning. The big story that has everyone buzzing, alabamas dramatic overtile win ovove overtime win in georgia. More on that story coming up but congratulations to them. Commiserations to the losing side first, lets get back to the market picture we did have plenty of record highs intraday yesterday but not all record closes. The dow did close slightly lower for the day. The s p and the nasdaq were slightly higher. The nasdaq led the charge, up 0. 3 gains were slight but they were broad, 9 out of 11 s p sectors were higher. Utilities were the best performing of them and that highlights the boring fle ing n the outperformance tenyear treasury note for you, yields rose yesterday as they were towards the end of last week we have crossed 2. 5 the elusive barrier out of the 2. 4s 2. 5 bangon this morning the shorter end of the curve has been rising fast yields up which supported the dollar but the shorter end leading the charge higher. In asia, mostly p
Points overnight in asia, the nikkei hitting 26year highs during the trading session. Market ended up by over a half percentage point to 23,849 in europe this morning green arrows there the dax up is up by 0. 2 in france, the cac is up the ftse up over 0. 1 . Yesterday the yield on the treasury closing at 2. 48 . This morning the tenyear is yielding all the way up, almost 2. 496 stocks to watch today. Samsung is forecasting a 64 rise in Fourth Quarter profits on continued demand for memory chips but that guidance is below analyst estimates. The strong yuan and yearend bonuses hit results. Samsung will report detailed earnings at the end of the month. Shares of altice are higher after the Company Announced plans to spin off u. S. Operations the Telecom Provider will pay a 1. 5 billion Cash Dividend prior to separation and launch a 2 billion buyback of u. S. Shares after the spinoff. British American Tobacco says the new u. S. Tax rules will boost earnings by 6 in 2018 the changes will a
Wall street set to extend the rally across the open. Fang stocks to the all time highs and amazon getting a key upgrade. And target boosts its outlook, shares are popping 4 in premarket, reporting stronger than expected sales for the Holiday Season. And looking out for kids, apple responding to activist pressure, the iphone maker promises new features to make the devices safer for children. Stocks are looking to ramp up the gains for the new year and the s p and nasdaq in the midst of a five section win streak all indexes did hit record interday highs and new higher high for fang this time yesterday. What can i tell you were having now that fang the different components are outrunning the price targets now the analysts have a new reason to say im raising my price target amazon and its going up because of the holiday p shopping this is all that relative high spirits game little dangerous candidly because when does it end when someones price target is finally reached. Right now were in t
Coming up. We do have quite a rally with the dow in particular. The transports continue higher all the major averages are in record territory. We also have big calls on the Airline Sectors today and the banks as financials get set to report. Were heading into earnings season well have you up to date on those. Lets start on the floor of the new york stock exchange, mr. Robert pisani joining us with a recap of whats going on as we get ready for earnings, right . Yeah, a lot at stake here, but sixday winning streak, just six days in a row since december 17th p nasdaq has the best sixday winning streak since the end of january 2016. Were starting earnings on friday, there are very High Expectations thats my theme. A shortterm risk. The markets. Just on earnings, analysts are much more optimistic we hardly got any last quarter here were expecting bigger beats, not by a penny or two pennies but more than that if youre disappointed youre going to get hit more. Also, we have guidance here. Now