Sara eisen. Good morning. Happy holidays. Happy holidays indeed getting closer to christmas morning. Thats trading on the markets. Well come in in a moment. Travel alert things slowly starting to come back online at atlantas heartsville jackson. More than 1,000 flights were delayed or canceled. The timing couldnt be worse well have more on that in just a moment first, lets get a check on the Global Markets this morning. Weve got green arrows really across the board as u. S. Equity futures point to a higher open dow futures are up by triple digits right now indicating an open at 138 points higher. S p 500 futures poised to open 14 points higher the nasdaq poised to open 51 points higher. This, of course, after record closes for all three of those indexes on friday as everybody is sort of focusing on tax reform and whether lawmakers will pass that through before christmas this week. Absolutely right. Fridays section slightly flat on the week as a whole up over 1 the s p is up less than 1
Ver, onetime Bitcoin Jesus. Hes here to tell us why this is just the beginning of the rise of bitcoin cash. And were going to switch the bug. Switch it from bitcoin to bitcoin cash the newlyadded coin has been extremely volatile since being added to the platform. Its a crazy bitcoin world out there. Were going really large tonight here on fast. First we start with the tax cut. What all of wall street has been waiting for, as both chambers of Congress Pass the bill and President Trump took a victory lap at the white house ylan mui is in d. C. With the details. Reporter melissa, it was a washington love fest there at the white house, with many people thinking that republicans wouldnt actually get this done before christmas but the party rallied around this bill. They put aside some of the infighting that had plagued the gop earlier in this year to stand behind the president its been an amazing experience i have to tell you hasnt been done in 34 years but actually really hasnt been done,
Everyone quiet but you all got quite all by yourself with no direction. My name is jason botel with the department of education. I want to welcome you and thank you very much for coming to the k12 education summit. We appreciate you all being here and looking forward to a great conversation. In just a moment secretary devos oh, but before she does just what wanted to say couple housekeeping things. We have bottled water and coffee in the back seat can feel free to partake. And there are restrooms at the ends of the holes. If you do leave the building you can come back in but you have to go through security again, so just wanted to warn you about that. Those of you who will be participating in the conversation, you have microphones in front of you, you do need to turn the von when youre about to talk. Theres a button that says talk. The red light will come on which will tell you microphone is active. When youre not speaking please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you would prob
Lets get you up to speed on these markets. European stocks. The dollar has dipped. It has transferred to a mild complexion of a dying day this thursday morning in europe. European equity markets are the lead protagonists. Pessimist guide on bloomberg for 2018 is about technology, facebook and disinformation. You can still make money as bitcoin drops. The bloomberg dollar index down. The bloomberg dollar index is looking at a fairly tortured year. Do you buy that story that it is all about adjustments . Im not so sure. Yields drop. Were down to a threeweek low. You are looking at the bloomberg dollar index. The worst year since we started collecting data in 2004. Copper is rising to a fairly big level. Fouryear high. China has halted production. We know that. Youre looking at the eighth straight quarter of gains. You could see copper trade up to 10,000. U. B. S. A little more sedate. The swriss known for their sedate approach. It has outperformed pretty much every other commodity this y
And thats a debatable statement but can you will and retain your ammeter and their thing in the sense that these things always work. And i know ive got kids who are bored with social media and most of their friends are bored with social media certainly facebooks. Gone out of fashion then people are on facebook all people parents and grandparents young people wouldnt be caught dead on facebook now the question is maybe theyll go from facebook to instagram or snap chat but at some point i think this generation of socalled Digital Natives is just going to get bored of all of these things so i think and ive been saying this for years that the real reaction to social media and technology is going to come from the Digital Natives the people who have grown up with this stuff and are just bored and disgusted when they just going to go back to the basics are they going to hear about Something Like Artificial Intelligence and connect their brains to a computer. I think what youre going to see is