And is there no stopping the house of mouse another Box Office Record for disney well tell you about that and more as Worldwide Exchange rolls on right now well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching im Brian Sullivan all right. It is nasty in the new york area i dont know how else to put it. It is cold it is rainy. It is even snowy wherever you are. In fact, careful on the roads out there. The drive in this morning was a little bit slushy, little white powder on the road you have to be little careful out there. By the way, its notonly the final month of the year, final month of the decade. Wow. Futures, theyre decidedly warmer than the weather, dow futures up 100 points right now, up 128 gaining little momentum as early as it is. Do you remember what happened last december . Remember all year pretty much higher on the year heading into the month only to have the worst december since 1931. That sent stocks lower on
Of december and november was a very strong month for stocks, even though you did see some declines on black friday youre looking at the best returns we saw since june for all of the major averages. Last week again, you did see some big gains too right now the dow, s p and nasdaq are still less than 1 to 2 of the intraday highs with these gains, youll see them challenging that as tom mentioned. Although, i also remember last the first trading day of december last year. Not quite as much fun. I still have some night mares about that. Would not be the only one with scars leftover from that. I think the dow was down 15 at one point in december last year we were having a great year. Markets were up, not up like they are this year. Bottomed on christmas eve, december 24th and saw things take off from there. Its been a very strong year. Will a santa claus rally power the s p 500 and dow to their best year in a generation . Could happen. Were up a lot. What will that take to get there, 5 . Pro
Hour of trade, barry knapp back. Certainly the tone feels better. Do you think its fundamental with the trade tensions or some month end rebalancing stuff . I suspect theres a bit of month end rebalancing going on i think its too early to tell whether the Macro Economic fallout from the latest negative Business Confidence shock has what degree of effect its had next weeks ism on tuesday, payrolls on friday, will be much more important bempl marks to see whether were over the hump sort to speak on this i tend to be cautious and not chase the move today. On the big stories that we are watching today, kayla has the story. Josh lipton is tracking tariff concerns for apple kayla . The hope began when chinese officials said there was some Effective Communication of the two countries and it continued this morning when President Trump said in a radio interview theres a conversation scheduled today. I have talked scheduled theres a talk scheduled for today at a different level and yeah, they ha
Resolve. The region welcomed the offer of conciliation just last week the u. S. State department to tear down that it prefers to stay out of the dispute but says korean protests against japan have increased at the Japanese Embassy in seoul a demonstrator wearing a mask depicting japanese Prime Minister shinzo was symbolically slapped in the face. And large supermarket chains have removed japanese products from their shelves the conflict threatens to develop into an emotional costly economic war that affects more than just the electronics industry. Joining me now in the studio is 5 democrats maher hes our correspondent in south korea currently on a brief visit to berlin welcome to you now if i mean this is a historical conflict with very current consequences could you tell us what it is that the 2 countries actually want so if you to understand that conflict we have to go back to the 5 minutes when both countries not with ice their diplomatic relations and japan at that time paid financ
The dow was dragged lower in part because of boeing, which reported a massive loss for the Second Quarter. It also warned about something that no shareholder wants to hearabout, that itay have to halt production of its 737 max if the grounng of the jet liner drags on much longer. That pushed the stock 3lower in todays trade. Phil lebeau is on the story for us tonight. Reporter with the 737 max grounded for months, boeing ceo Dennis Muilenburg says his company could shut down the max Assembly Line if the current plan for recertifying the plane this fall is pushed back even further. If any of the timeline assumptions change significantly from start of the Fourth Quarter return to service, then we will have to evaluate alternatives, and those alternatives could include different production rate they could include a temporary shutdown of the line. Not something we want to do, but an alternative that we have to prepare for. Reporter stocting pron could mean temporarily laying off thousands