With north korea are getting worse . Absolutely. The situation is is important and that present need to speak to the allies and advisers in an open forum where hes not going to have that information in those conversations leaked into the newspaper and on the media. This situation is dangerous and i think these ever come that are inside the government that are leaking this will have a patriotic question for them. Do they care more about obstructing the president in undoing the selection that they care about the safety of americans that are living in guam. These weeks someone needs to be arrested and walked for the cameras and made an example of or it wont stop. We are seeing many more now, the weve ever seen before. President obama had to go after the lakers but the leaking situation has reached a level that is unprecedented. I agree that is dangerous. The transcripts of the present phone calls with other World Leaders were leaked last week which is calls into question whether four lead
Lets give you a look at futures on this opening of the day of the week. Most european markets also back from the holiday break, although i believe the uk closed for a bank holiday. There you see the markets that were open. More or less in the green this morning. The tenyear note yield, price was down a bit if i recall. There we are on the yield there, around 2. 56 with crude up yet again. Weve also got some breaking economic data. The latest s p case showing home price reports out. Prices registering 5. 6 yearoveryear gain and that was up from a 5. 4 gain in september. So sequentially an increase there. Lets get to our road map. And it begins with the march to dow 20,000. With just four trading sessions left, will the dow hit the milestone by the end of the year . And president elect donald trump announcing plans to dissolve the Trump Foundation ahead of inauguration day, plus tweeting about the market rally and holiday spending. Well give you all the latest. Plus retailers bracing for
After shaking up his cabinet without consultation. 5 0000 and the emirates, in london. Just a day in hong kong. A strong day across the asian markets. We are seeing the benchmark gaining with some of the margin markets leading. Goal function the on bloomberg, you can see these gains in the equity market. The south korean won also leading. Although, there is caution on the won and a taiwan dollar as having depreciated to quickly. On friday, we saw a rally after the new york fed president s had there is no urgency to raise rates. We are seeing sovereign bond markets in asia also gaining ground. This is the trading picture. Just under two hours away from the opening of the emirates markets. 10 00 local time in dubai. Energy and industrials were bright spot in the equation. We are seeing pressure on telcos. First day of trade driving abu dhabi momentum. Bank, makingbi gains up to 1. 5 . Low volumes on the whole in q atar and egypt. Assets forhing some you. Take a look at that. Gold, 1248.
Publicity stunt and the Republican Leadership were looking at all of their options talking to the parliamentarian and the sergeant at arms. What rules are they talking about and what kind of rules were potentially broken by the democrats during this . Said in . During this set in . There are rules and that you cannot disrupt. Other rules are weaker. You cannot take photos. Or videos of action on the floor. All of that happened during the sit in. Late. Ally speaker has said he is looking into what can be done. I am not quite sure what can be than forcing them off the floor, arresting them perhaps. At the notion of arresting civil rights icon like john lewis on tv in front of the millions of americans is something they do not want to have ingrained going into the november elections. I am sure that Speaker Paul Ryan does not want that forever imprinted on a 2020 Campaign Effort for president if he mounts one. I do know that republicans have advised them, they had their own Conference Call
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