Yes, it seems like. A brandnew day. Cheryl and good morning. It is the day after christmas, everybody. Welcome back to fbn a. M. And good morning. Im cheryl casone. Tracee good morning, cheryl. Good morning, everybody. Im Tracee Carrasco in for lauren. Cheryl how was your christmas . Tracee it was great. How about you . Cheryl i watched the numbers go up over my vacation and i loved it. Right now weve got another green start to your markets. We have four trading sessions left for the year, the dow is up 34, s p up 5, the nasdaq, look at this, unbelievable, now of course, we were closed yesterday but the nasdaq hit the ninth record close. Unbelievable. The nasdaq is up a fraction right now. Lauren. Tracee lets take a lot stocks in asia right now, edging higher this morning. The hang seng is closed for the christmas holiday. Good news over there, though. Cheryl mor. Cheryl more gree. In europe, all of the markets are closed. The top story this morning, President Trump is not taking a bre
Concerns over production of the 737 max jet. And positive news on the housing front, as home builder confidence jumps to its highest level in two decades coming up next hour, former treasury secretary jack lew will join us to discuss trade and the economy. You do not want to miss that and with us for the whole first hour of theshow, dan nathan from risk reversal advisers. Dan, good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. Great to be here. More optimism on trade or whatever you want to put it down to is a lot of this news not already out there . Are you surprised to see ongoing rallies to new highs yet again at the end of the day, you like to see followthroughs. So friday, we had a muted react. A lot of investors expected some kind of surge, similar to what we had at the end of 2017 after the big tax cut. A lot of this was priced in. I think the continuation of last weeks rally into this week is obviously pretty establibullish. Also fairly seasonal as we are looking down the barrel of a week
Spotlight. Some are calling the most interesting summit in years. Our own Brian Sullivan is on the ground there call it an amazing turn of events as steve cohen is reportedly heading to queens as Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning and welcome to the show we have breaking news out of the European Union Joumanna Bercetche is live from london with those numbers. Good morning so this is the third reading weve had for the eurozone Third Quarter gdp. 0. 2 versus quarter two year on year we have the retail Sales Numbers for euro eurozone at 1. 4 versus expectations of 1. 2 the picture for europe has been some what dimmed by weaker retail and the Global Trading environment. One of the economies we are looking at closely is germany. The numbers there, exports have been moving in lock step with global trade you may remember in the Third Quarter, germany managed to skirt a recession coming in at 0. 1 with an expectation of 0. 2 for this time being eurozone is averting a recession n
Political deadlock in lebanon its widening the sectarian divide and leading toward riots and violence politicians of failed to form a government in the position of Prime Minister remain state so who can lead the country out of crisis this is inside story. And welcome to the program. Now they had been more than 40 days of largely peaceful protests and lebanon but as the political stalemate continues the country is sliding into town while and in recent days the demonstrations attend more violence on sunday supporters of the 2 main shia groups attacked protesters in beirut and then unrest followed in other parts of lebanon with various sectarian backgrounds sunni leader and caretaker Prime Minister saad hariri says hes not going to form the next government heres an example of what can happen when rival groups meet in the street hustle him better come through what happened yesterday is what people from the Amal Movement in his pillow were protesting we didnt talk to them or anything when w
If she becomes president mornings with maria beginsing right now. All right weve got a big show this morning joining the conversation Mitch Rochelle is here and president and pat centers the author of persuasion lee carter is here and entrepreneur great to see you thanks so much for joining us. Good to have you back. Kevin we want to talk about growth stories this morning but we have to kib this hour office on violence overnight police clashing with protesters at the Hong Kong Polytechnical University authority have tried to storm the campus. But were stopped by firessed a entrance. Police surrounded disool firing tears gas arresting those trying to leave. This is Hong Kong Court rules mask ban is unconstitutional. Joining me right now is found or of next digital and the advocate of democracy, jimmy advocate thanks very much for joining me this morning had. Good morning. Can you tell what you say went with on overnight a sense of what the scene look like today and whats happening in ho