Its on spotify right now. We aim to please. It seems like we have done this morning. Lets get into the market picture. A very rosie market picture this morning. Futures were as much as 200 points higher moments ago just shy at the moment on the dow 192. 4 to be precise. The s p higher by 14 the nasdaq up 22 markets did pull back on friday albeit only slightly closing down. 2 and the s p a little bit more that for the nasdaq for a week performance was fairly divergent. The dow was up 3 . Dow up 1. 5 the tax reform bill well discuss that passed the market late friday night. Ten year treasury note has responded as well in a risk on fashion somewhat weve seen the yield move up a little bit, 2. 39 closing on friday at 2. 36 over the weekend ticked up a bit. Crossed 2. 4 but is just below that level. More on the markets, but first to our top corporate story, cvs is buying aetna for 69 billion. Our Bertha Coombs is joining us on the cnbc news line with all of the news. Good morning, bertha. R
Bitcoin is also said to be in a bubble. The price has gone up 20 fold. Betty forget about the equity markets and bond markets, which is going to be focused on bitcoin, right . That is the big distraction for traders right now. Bitcoin futures are for the first time trading on the cboe global index them a big milestone for the financial markets. I dont see a whole lot of movement at this point. Be an appears perhaps to opening price, but i cant confirm that right now. We are watching as these traits start coming in. , brokersthe traders are saying dont expect huge movements. This may be a slow burn coming thewhere we finally for first time, have these derivatives traded on bitcoin. Yvonne it could be a welcome slow burn given the volatility in bitcoin for much of this year. Levoss mentioned, the wink twins banking on this, they are saying it could have 24 growth in the future. Morehat it has become mainstream, it could provide perhaps more stability in cryptocurrency. On the other hand,
Numbers coming out on the Holiday Shopping season. Look at those numbers today kohls now up 6 , performing well all session, the retailers. Not under armour, though the ceo reportedly telling its team 2017 sucked with the stock down 50 this year, although its up 1 today well tell you which one of planks adventures is reportedly doing well. And for some people, thats the problem, that the other ventures doing better bitcoin rebounding from fridays selloff we have a debate on whether its still worth investing in the crypto craze oh, joy. I cant wait for that. But we start with the move on apple today, again weighing on the dow and getting hit on reports that the iphone x sales are slowing. The Company Reportedly telling suppliers sales will be 30 Million Units versus the 50 Million Units previously forecast. Joining us right now, our friend russ gesht gerbeert kawasaki and matt wolf from Disruptive Technology advisers happy new year, guys welcome back. Thank you. Happy new year. Ross, i
Surveillance. What a week we had on the markets last week. This is the tension as we get onto monday. This is what im looking at in terms of stocks. They are gaining some 1. 6 . We are also seeing futures in the u. S. Pointing to a higher open. Things can reverse quite quickly and change quite quickly. Downan see the vix index some 10 and eurodollar, 1. 2276. If there is an infection beyond equities and the vix, it would be in credit markets. Also coming up, we talk markets and last weeks correction with Morgan Stanley. Later on, we talked to eric nielsen, chief economist at unicredit. Plus, we talk ecb and brexit. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Is readye u. S. Says it to engage in Nuclear Talks with north korea. Vice president mike pence dubbed the new strategy maximum pressure and engagement at the same time. The comments signal a shift in policy after they agreed to pursue a dialogue with pyongyang at the winter olympics. Budget director Mick Mulvaney has warned
President s address and the monthly jobs number. We got shares of dr. Pepper and keurig is buying the maker apple continues to move in the opposite direction of the market another report of the iphone weakness as the month heads into the home stretch, s p 500 on track for the best january since 87 busy earnings calendar including results from all, you got the president s address tomorrow night, yellens last meeting as chair of the central bank and the jobs number on friday. 271 is getting peoples attention. There is some theory that yellen is more hawkish on this run. She ought to be hawkish i look for weakness in this economy and i cannot find it consumer is strong and corporate spending i got to tell you, tax reform is working. The more ceos that i speak to or everybody in the Overall Community lets call it the more you realize, there is still not in any way full appreciation and even only a slight of appreciation at this point for what the ramifications are going to be. Many words a