Taper timeline. When the fed might be getting ready to execute a new plan for the economy. In todays cover story. A look ahead at 2014, through the eyes of traders. Plus. Simple tips to investing in etfs. And. Why super bowl tickets are the hottest commodity. On wall street. Lets get down to business youre watching First Business financial news, analysis, and todays investment ideas. Good morning its wednesday, december 18th. Im angela miles. In todays first look stocks stall ahead of the Rate Decision and potential taper talk from the fed today. The dow, nasdaq and s p remained close to unchanged for the day. Gold shed 13 dollars and oil 38 cents. Amc raises the curtain on its ipo. The stock begins trading today, alternatives after pricing in 17, 18,19, 20,21 the ticker is amc. Triple aaa predicts 94. 5 Million People will travel during the holidays. Making it the 5th Straight Year of an increase of americans hitting the road and taking to the skies. And today is Free Shipping day mor
Performance that its seen in about two months. Energy and Technology Companies led the decline, many of 2013s strongest performers were down for the day. If youre taking a look this morning, youll see equities are indicated higher. Dow futures up by 26 points above fair value. S p up by close to two points. Oil looks to be a major market story. Yesterday there was a late day swoon triggered by the death cross. Thats when something you see the 50day average moving below the 200 day moving average. Its viewed as a bearish sign and you did see a big selloff. We saw wti crude falling all the way back down to 95 and change. This morning on, it is still down there, down another 17 cents to 95. 27. Had been close to 100 a barrel before. Also worth watching today, the 10 30 eastern report on natural gas inventories. Then we have the latest oil decline coming about a half hour later. On the economic agenda, we have the major automakers reporting. The number of vehicles that they sold in decembe
Thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] live next to the u. S. Chamber of commerce in washington with german chancellor Angela Merkel focusing on u. S. German relations and the importance of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership. Which is getting attention on capitol hill. A survey released by pew Research Showing 53 of americans regard a trade agreement as a good thing. Been at theor has white house meeting with president obama on a number of issues. In particular on sanctions against russia over the intervention in ukraine. The ap saying that the president says violence escalating in Eastern Ukraine is making it obvious to the world that prorussian militants are not peaceful protesters. He voiced his support for the Ukrainian Government on the day of its first major offensive aimed at driving out the insurgents occupying government buildings across the east of ukraine. We will hear from t
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