Of our time is whether the west has the will to survive. What did you make of the speech the president delivered this morning and how much of it is set in place for what he will be going with at the g20 . Look, i think it is very reminiscent to me of his inaugural to adjust, which people said was dark. I think todayspeech was dark. He literally questioned whether western civilization, the United States, European Union nations, what we think of as the modern west, can survive the onslaught ofterrorism and an erosion our cultural values. It is a heavy thing to open up his Second European trip trip with but it reflects a feeling that trump has that in a lot of parts of the world, things are going askew and trump offered himself today as the person to lead the west into continued greatness. Will people take him up on it . I rather doubt it but at least he put himself up there. Between President Trump and president putin, circumstances have changed. The launch of the missile a couple of day
1 . The german dax is up about two tents of a percent and the cac 40 up. It is 90 minutes into these training sessions in the u. S. Now. Abigail doolittle has the latest. Abigail we are still looking at advertise. The dow at 5500 and nasdaq all trading higher. The s p 500 and nasdaq are on pace for record closing highs. The nasdaq is sitting at an alltime high for today. It is not onar but for a record closing high. We are watching whether or not the dow can carve out 20,000. If that happens it will tie for the fastest climbing history. We have some strength in the retail sector. Up. S p 500 retail index chelsea Advisory Group says holiday sales are on track or even perhaps poised to beat estimates. We also have amazon trading higher. It is on for its best day and two weeks and amazingly, amazon shipped one billion items over the holiday season. That is amazing. Another amazing factor on ecommerce and amazon. Amazon, between november 1 and december 16 accounted for 16 of ecommerce sale
Taking on disney. Sony moviesing in and opening his second theme park. Of me know what you think todays stories by following me on twitter. Dont forget to include trendingbusiness. China and hong kong online in 30 minutes. We have a look at what is happening. It is mixed after that exuberant rally. The nikkei is not playing along. The holiday just ending in into negative territory, down. 2 . Still, emerging markets across the world are seeing huge inflows. Than 20 billion of inflows in the last 16 weeks. On a tear. Os take a look at this chart. Couldiwan Stock Exchange pass its 1 trillion mark for the First Time Since june last year. Taiwan semiconductor leading those gains. Taiwan semiconductor is an apple supplier. Record highs on the new sales of Iphone Models beat estimates. Company has an 18 weighting in taiwan. A big gain for the taiwanese market there, helped by taiwan semiconductor. 30 minutes before the open and china and hong kong. We are expecting the markets to gain slightl
Other indexes. And a new blend. Keurig Green Mountain agreeing to a buyout and those shares are absolutely soaring. Lets get straight down to the trading action this hour. Bob pisani is joining us from the flor of the new york stock exchange. How much of the stock markets drop is due to whats happening with oil and Energy Stocks . Oil and the fed are the two things motivating the market right now, but the problem is there is no trend and thats causing a lot of confusion in the last few days. Just look what the dow has been doing since thursday. Thursday the dow is down 250 points. Friday the dow is up 369 points. Today the dow is down maybe 200 points, we dont know where its going to end up but right around there. Is your head spinning . Mine is. And the Trading Community is having trouble figuring out where they want to go. Fed and oil two big things. You mentioned some big oil names. Theyre all down 2 , 3 . But were hitting a lot of new lows in some of the smaller names, particularly
Welcome to the pulse, live from london. Nikkei hasns recorded its biggest oneday gain since 2008. That came as asian stocks rose across the board amid optimism that chinese policymakers will succeed in stabilizing the mainland equity markets. Francine the chinese premier will address an evening session of the World Economic forum and discuss the state of chinas economy later this morning. To round up all the market moves, lets get to mark barton. Mark what is going on today , then . The asia pacific index rose the most since 2009 in the last two days. The shanghai composite Index Benchmark has risen by 5. 3 , all on this belief that china will stabilize its Financial Markets. It comes after all three u. S. Indices went down, their secondbiggest gain of 2015. Index hadsiapacific its biggest gains in 2009 not the most astonishing move today in asia. This is the most astonishing move yesterday, 24 hours ago, we were talking about the nikkei erasing all of this years gains. What a differen