We are waiting for a 10 45 press meeting with the signatory of state the secretary of state. Guy that is going to be fascinating. We have an emergency meeting of european Foreign Ministers as well today, but that story in washington is one to watch. Im sure the crude market will be. European stocks up a little bit today. We saw a little bit of action around the payrolls number, but not much. Saw our way back from earlier highs. The dollar continues to push on up. I am going to show you some charts later on talking about some of the Technical Levels the. Ollar is facing now to the upside. 1. 11 now. A little bit of movement in the bond market. We are looking for next weekend the signing of the phase one trade deal. How good could that be for europe, and what is already priced in . Vonnie sticking with jobs, the u. S. Labor market closed the year with a little less momentum. Nonfarm payrolls rising hundred 45,000, compared with a median estimate higher than that. Unemployment held steady
Additional sanctions against any individual owning, operating, trading with or assisting sectors of the iranian economy including construction, manufacturing, textiles, and mining. Primary ande both secondary sanctions. The eo also allows us to designate other sectors in the as secretary pompeo and me think is appropriate. 17ond, we are announcing specific sanctions against irans largest steel and iron a vesselrers and involved in the transfer of products. As a result of these actions, we will cut off billions of dollars of support to the Iranian Regime , and we will continue our enforcement of other entities. Third, we are taking action against h Senior Iranian officials who advance eight Senior Iranian officials advancing destabilization and who were involved in the strike. Secretary pompeo will comment more on this. Today sanctions are part of our commitment to stop the rain in regimes global terrorist activities. Globalian regimes terrorist activities. The president has been clear.
Additional sanctions against the Iranian Regime as a result of attacks on u. S. And allied troops. First, the president is issuing an executive order authorizing additional sanctions against any individual owning, operating, trading with or assisting sectors of the iranian economy including construction, manufacturing, textiles, and mining. Primary ande both secondary sanctions. The eo also allows us to designate other sectors in the as secretary pompeo and me think is appropriate. 17ond, we are announcing specific sanctions against irans largest steel and iron a vesselrers and involved in the transfer of products. As a result of these actions, we will cut off billions of dollars of support to the Iranian Regime , and we will continue our enforcement of other entities. Third, we are taking action against h Senior Iranian officials who advance eight Senior Iranian officials advancing destabilization and who were involved in the strike. Secretary pompeo will comment more on this. Today s
Road map begins with records, records and more records the dow within striking distance of 29k for the first time. Plus hiring did cool in december but unemployment is at a 50year low and job gains extended for a record ten straight years, so whats it going to mean for the growth in 2020 plus these damning documents newly revealed boeing messages reveal efforts to manipulate 737 max regulators todays december payrolls number means 2. 1 million jobs were added last year, a slowdown from about 2. 7 million in 2018, coming in at 2. 9 year on year threemonth average, jim, 184 now and we got some milder visions down to october and november one of the things thats missing that makes this difficult for me is boeing boeing is such a big part of the gdp and i dont know which part, manufacturing little changed in december, how much that is boeing because everything has to be asterisked i think thats how big boeing is for the economy. It doesnt reflect this. I mean, youve got the wrong areas gett
Growth. Late on the program, ill be asking larry kudlow why is this happening in a fullyemployed economy. Thats jobs and now the markets. Here it comes, 29,000, the dow may hit that mark today. Yes, the astonishing market rally has taken us up 11,000 points on the dow, since the election, of donald j. Trump and the value of American Business has gone up 12. 8 trillion since he was elected. A few minutes from now the market opens and well see the dow go up just a little bit more , maybe 20 points up, s p up maybe 6 and a 30 point gain for the nasdac composite. One more story and its dramatic satellite and intelligence reports show the plane that crashed into iran was taken down by a missile. It was not mechanical failure or engine trouble. The plane was shot down. Canadas trudeau says it may have been done accidentally. 63 canadians were on board. Varney company, the friday edition, is about to begin. President trump when im thrilled to hold the first rally of 2020 right here, in the gr