The sessionk at highs. S p 500 of by nearly 1 . Dow up by. 8 . Nasdaq by. 7 . We are digesting the news on betterthanexpected u. S. Consumer sentiment. As well as the expected surprise drawdown in the u. S. Oil inventories on the order of about 5. 9 Million Barrels last week. With all of this, lets look at the s p year to date. Take a look at this. S puld like to have the year to date, if you can possibly get that up. Up 1 on the intraday. I want to bring the year to date because we are. 1 away from flipping into the green. It will be four years in a row of gains. 1 away from the positive december. If we do see that maybe we will see this rally. Dox so much of that had to with the surprise drawdown in u. S. Oil inventories. We have seen oil and stocks someone moved together, Energy Stocks taking off. Ramy definitely in tandem. Lets look at the nymex crude. The biggest jump in the past two days. 30 day of gains in a row. Up by 3. 7 . We saw the highest spike earlier when the number came
I dont now. If anyone in my family or anybody you know where shopping this year it sure sounds like it were at nike. They killed it yesterday. Lets start with the first word. Vonnie thank you so much, human Rights Groups russia could be guilty of more crimes in syria. They are dropping unguided weapons on densely populated areas. The group says hundreds of civilians have been killed. Government troops are fighting Islamic State forces. He was spokesperson says and a rocky victory is inevitable but once the greg or easy. American drivers up at 1. 6 billion back into their wallets during the holidays this year and it is all thanks to cheap gas. Prices are under two dollars a gallon. Bloomberg newss power 24 hours a day in more than 150 markets around the world. Firste a look at off futures. Up across the board. Back again back to sticking off the week. Could this be day three . 0. 2 . Ht now dow jones up about a third of one percent. Upe a look right now at wti, for a third day. Big gain
When the options are done, everyone is done. Ready for christmas. Traffic in new york have settled down. James steelewhen will join us, we will talk to him about cold links to other commodities. Larry summers with a terrific blog, i will feature that as my morning mustread. Guy he is pretty concerned about what the fed is up to. Think you very much. What a show we have lined up. If youre sitting at home, maybe wrapping a few presents, this is the show to watch. Tom i havent started shopping, yet. Guy is that why it is so quiet over there, i think you will have an easy run of that. Vonnie i know youre both joking, you just dont want to tell me what you got me. The highranking officer asked that it will take some time for the iraqi forces to retake ramadi. They are in a battle in the center of the city. The capital was seized by the Islamic State last may. Accusing russia of killing hundreds of civilians in syria. They have conducted airstrikes since late sip timber. They say that russia
And brent, which is the global benchmark. Wti gainingpresents on brent. This chart goes back to the start of the year. We have seen the pace of that game by wti close the gap on brent. Just around the time that we saw the u. S. Government, the decision air to end the u. S. Export ban. Decision to end the u. S. Export ban. We get u. S. Crude inventories as well as an update from opec. Plenty going on in the commodity space today. Royal dutch shell, europes Largest Company largest oil company, agrees to take over bg group. Meanwhile, movies has downgraded oil ratings. Managere fund majorityowned by Carlyle Group suffered 950 million in withdrawal requests in the third quarter. Assets 85 below their peak last year. Nike shares are rising after hours after it defied concerns of chinas slowing growth and delivered good news of the u. S. Retail sector. 24 to in china was up almost 1 billion. Consumer spending in the u. S. Has risen by the most in three months. Purchases climbed 3 10 of one d
Welcome to the pulse. Plenty of exclusive interviews. Counciln the governing threatens to undermine Mario Draghis push for more stimulus. Every time, it is what is at stake for europe . There may be a little bit of governing Council Members fed up with his antics. We would be very surprised if there was not disagreement pushing the limits of Monetary Policy. Rumors, theyve been around for the last few months. They are just rumors. Mario draghi said, i know the rumors are there, but i am not going anywhere. He has a term until 2019. This is just talk. The big challenge is were still at a critical juncture. He has to do more to stimulate the economy and he needs everyone behind him. Let he will never have everyone behind him. You want the executive board. Yesterday, we talked about the report and how they sent around the style of communication, how was somehow erratic. The point of to trying to build the Balance Sheet. That is what were watching out for. The Balance Sheet, but it is also