And ringing in 2020. Parts of the world are already ushering in the new year as the final Worldwide Exchange of 2019 begins right now. A very good morning to all and welcome to the last day of 2019 a very happy early new year. Im in for brian sullivan. Here is how your money and the markets are showing up this morning. Showing the markets will open slightly higher. The s p 500, the dow and the nasdaq all on track for strong gains. Nasdaq could finish the year with gains of nearly 35 turning to the bond market currently trading at 1. 903 . In asia, the markets in japan. Remember they were closed today. Japan notching gains of 18 for the year the shanghai composite finishing up about 0. 33 and the hang seng is up about 10 , which is less than a lot of the other benchmarks lets look at what is happening in early trade in europe and Joumanna Bercetche joins us now. Thank you in line with other markets activity volumes are down about 40 to 50 . Not all european markets are open today the pi
Were going to go into closed session. We need a motion to do that and ill ask for Public Comment after that. I move we go into closed session. Moved and seconded. Is there any Public Comment . When we come back into to Public Session ill review the Public Comment rules. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed first item is to report out of closed session. We need a motion. I make a motion. Second. Is there Public Comment . All those in favor say aye. Aye. Rules of Public Comment are the standard rules. Well limit testimony to three minutes on any item people may want to talk about. Please read the rules that are posted with the agenda in case you are not familiar. To start with Public Comment i will recognize mr. Winier. He called me wiener. My apologized. I wish to mention the passing of peter ash, who was the former commissioner on this board. In honor of his memory in the marine core Heritage Museum because of the service in the United States army. I simply was to mention his memory. I t
The Halftime Report started right now. Welcome. Good to have you this thursday jim lav leventhal, the brothers najarian, we have a big show first we want to get to Steve Liesman who has just sat down at the table with what the fed may do in the weeks ahead. Yeah, scott i think the story has to do with that a pause is coming and the question becomes when its coming i think theres an oddson bet that the fed is likely to cut in october. But its a massive cut and if they cut in october, is the market thinking about that the fact that there would be some kind of pause and powell has signaled this several times publicly hes talked about the 1998 cutting regime three times this will be the third time. I will tell you, the comment yesterday from charlie evans, a guy who has been massively in favor of rate cuts, he said i dont push any cuts the rest of the year match that from tweets of others, too. And kaplan said said im agnostic about additional rate cuts and there was a speech by powell, ev
A major setback for boeing to get the 737 max back on the air. A trader took depositions on the stock. Halftime reports starts now. Hey everybody, it is good to have you with us on this tuesday. Good to be here. Your investment committee. And your special guest, Asset Management and forbes top 100 financial county, in the country. Wow hes walking off right now. It is going to be a great show i am done. Here is the percentages stocks they are sliding down dow is down 300 points right now. More than 1 concerned of trade talks and s p as you heard rick talks about breaking key support and struggling to stay above 2900 s p 2902 rob, i will start with you my friend here is one of the top in the county. A rich county one of the top in the county. Here is my question. At what point does the trade fight becomes trade. What i mean by that is this has been going on for two years. We keep on waiting for it to end. At what point do we think of the market and structuring our portfolio. Maybe this i
Musk and ford, a rough road ahead for the automaker. Those shares head for a lower open today well tell you why all this earnings news plus an ecb meeting. The European Central bank expected to lay out the ground work for policy easing down the road and this could put more pressure on fed chair Jerome Powell to do the same. Its thursday, july 25th Worldwide Exchange on cnbc begins right now good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan the dow looks to be hovering around flat at the open. We would open up around 24 points for the dow if these futures gains hold into the start of regular cash trading. The nasdaq and the s p 500 coming off alltime intraday record highs and closes. The dow is less than a percentage point away from joining that alltime high club as well. On the bond market side of things, were watching yields as we do every morning here a tick lower tenyear note yields moving to 2. 3 thats a sharp move to the down side the twoyear note yi