First breaking news on how the tax plan will impact you ylan mui is live on capitol hill. Reporter treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke moments ago about the administrations first step in turning the tax law into reality. Treasury department and the irs have just issued new guidance it to employers, telling them how much money to withhold from their paycheck under the new tax law. The irs will be releasing a new withholding calculator that will be vail on irs. Gov by the end of february. This will help provide individuals with certainty, so that they are neither overwithheld or underwithheld and can plan financial decisions. Reporter democrats have criticized the rollout of this process, saying that many people could actually end up paying too little in taxes. Secretary mnuchin said that claim is ridiculous, and that this process has not been politicized. Now, the white house is celebrating todays guidance as a win that will put more money in it workers paychecks but the same time t
Schumer just arrived at the white house. Reporter i caught up with chuck rounds, a republican from north dakota, who last night was a no vote and this morning changed to yes after promises from Mitch Mcconnell i asked him what was going on. He said leadership has them in a Holding Pattern for the next couple of hours as they figure out what theyre going to vote on, whether it will be the bill the house passed last night, that 30day shortterm funding bill, whether it will be Something Like four to five days which democrats and some republicans have proposed to ramp up the pressure to get a deal done on immigration whether it will be something in between. He says republicans in the rank and file dont know yet. Senator schumer and Democratic Caucus are surely meeting this afternoon to figure out next steps from their approach after that 90minute meeting with the president. As i said, when he came back to the capitol, he had little to say about the meeting, but just that it was productive
Uptick utilities is the Top Performing sector, i guess we could say it had a pullback. It did hit a nine year high today. Tech strong, Consumer Staples are strong lets begin with dominic chu wh is following the stock market. The stock market might be a little bit ways away from getting back to the highs before the selloff, we looked at the s p 500, it turns out that 93 members of the s p are 5 away from claiming those 52 week highs or better that theyve seen 81 stocks have hit highs so far in 2018 alone. And a handful, 13 of them, has hit 52 or better just this week. Some of the stocks that are a doing better job of getting back towards those record high levels, check out vf corporation, a big apparel company. Its within. 5 of record high levels northrup grumennond cne group also within 1 nike, close. A bunch of big names are doing a decent job at getting back after the losses weve seen. The big question on the minds of investors is if the rebound is wahappening too fast. Who would hav
Lunch. The crypt o hits the fan im Tyler Mathisen the dow down and off to the worst week in two years. Energy is getting walloped apple shares on pace for the worst week in more than three months bond yields, this is the story, folks of the week. Maybe the story of the year. The 30year bond yield now above 3 highest level since march. The benchmark ten year jumping to a fouryear high above 2. 8 Steve Liesman is the man and he is joining us for the hour thanks, tyler im steveliesman we begin with the market, selloff concerns about Rising Interest Rates a big reason why. Bob pisani is at the New York Stock Exchange where weve just crossed the down 400 park. We bottom but the bad news is were not rising were sitting near the bottom and paralleling the 10year yield. We hit the highs about 2. 85 that was about 10 00 eastern time and that was when the market essentially stopped going down you could see it moves sideways. Take a look at the s p 500 and weve been moving sideways since 10 00. B
Story here for stocks. We could look at a record close for the market the dow is up 63 but coming off its highs. Courtney reagan with stay closer look. The stocks falling a bit here as the dollar strengthens, like you mentioned, those comments from President Trump to joe kernen in davos. We have found some footing lets see what happens going into the final hour here not a repeat of what we saw yesterday when we saw this pretty fast fade around the european close time. Its the big m word thats being discussed as the main driver for this rally. Momentum thats taking equities higher there are commentaries coming out of the blue chip dow earnings, like caterpillar, and bellwether indicator like 3m we do have that phenomenon happening today. Caterpillar, 3m and Goldman Sachs helping to lift the Dow Jones Industrial average health care, materials, among the strongest sectors. And biotechs etfs, the hxb and bxi. The aerospace and Defense Group is hitting a new intraday alltime high today led