Bailout bill has gotten underway in the last hour. A vote on that bill is due within the hour. Michelle carusocabrera standing by there where its 10 00 p. M. Local time in athens. And youve got a busy night ahead of you, michelle. Reporter yes, we sure do, bill. So yes, lets get everybody up to speed. There are crowds back in front of the parliament. Things are much calmer than they were about 15 minutes ago. The last ten minutes of president obamas discussion with reporters is when we started to hear explosions outside. Thats when we saw molotov cocktails being thrown. We werent surprised because we had seen some of the protesters show up dressed in black, wearing hoods, some of them carrying gas masks. Seemed to be a very, very small group. And we havent seen any violence up until now. We thought maybe tonight it could has been. And, indeed it did. You can see from the video were showing you, a round of fires lasted about 10 or 15 minutes. Right away. The tear gas came out right away
Good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im sara isner and im wilfred frost well get the latest on irma in just a moment, but first, lets check on global markets. Apple led the nasdaq higher ahead of its big iphone unveil today. 11 out of 11 sectors on the s p were higher led by the banks reverse ago 3 decline last week for the Financial Sector that was mainly because of yields rising. Also reinsurancers got a big boost on the back of irma. They did, indeed. We also had news on barclays at the conference, Goldman Sachs and wells fargo in the spotlight. We look set for another positive day on wall street ten heavy year treasury note was key yesterday, as i said yesterday we touched below 0. 5 moving close to 2. 15 yesterday and we remain around that level. So a big move, higher in yields yields it pushed the dollar higher, it pushed the equities higher, as well and the move continues in asia overnight the japanese nikkei after a 1. 4 day the day before higher, another 1 gain over
The s p up by 3 and nasdaq up by 15 this comes after all the markets looks looked very strong yesterday. The dow was up by 260 points s p was up by 26 it was a record close for the s p 500 and thats its first since august 7th the dow closed at a onemonth high take a look at whats been happening in europe this morning. The gains we saw yesterday as concerns about irma faded a bit and, again, some concerns about north korea not quite as potent as they had been as we headed into the weekend this morning, it looks like a bit of a mixed picture in europe most of the major bourses are higher with the dax up by. 5 and a similar gain in france the ftse is down by about. 2 . Lets flip the charts and see what happens overnight in asia youll see when it comes to asia, there were some closes actually, lets go excavate to the currency check it looks like the dollar is down a little bit against the euro today. Below 120 for the first time if in several days. 1. 196. Dollar is up against the yen, 109
Good day, everybody. Welcome to power lunch. Im tyler mathisen. Glad you could join us another daily and more records for the equity markets. The dow, s p, russell, nasdaq, you name it theyre reaching historic highs. The emerging markets rallying two, the etf that tracks them, on pace for its best day since september 11th. The airline pushing the dow transports to new highs as well jet blew, delta, united leading the way there. Lennar up about 3 . The home builder beating earn ares estimates. Now making a bit of a come back as you see theyre up 1. 2 . The electric car maker missing those model three goals more on this ahead. Im melissa lee. The National Retail federation expecting holiday sales to increase between 3. 5 and 4 this year. The u. S. Ordering 15 Cuban Embassy officials to leave. This comes after sonic attacks against american diplomats in cuba. Three nobel prices for scientists after breaking gravitational waves. We begin this hour in puerto rico. The president touching dow
We are inches away from the record. Futures steady as we wait for the fed at 2 00. Tech titans will meet with donald trump today at trump tower. Were going live to midtown manhattan, watch them as they walk in. Two new names officially announced to take a spot in goldman. More on the changes. First, 89 points, thats how much it will take for the dow to hit 20k. The blue chips coming off their 16th record closing high. S p and nasdaq hitting record territory. All aed head of the feds rate announcement at 2 00. Live coverage will begin right here on cnbc at that time. We will get the forecast. Well get the dot plots and the q a. I have to tell you that Interest Rates are down today. You can see how this market is changed. Oil is not up. Interest rates are down. The futures are not higher. The banks have a lot of people feel like that the banks are the ones for this rate hike. Even the rate hike is now baked in or maybe feel that some people feel the economy has peaked out for the moment.