Most optimistic theyve been in almost six years. Together these ceos lead more than 16 million employees, generate more than 7 trillion in annual revenues, and can impact investment, wages, and hiring decisions. The Business Roundtable Quarterly Survey shows that their outlook for sales and Capital Spending has improved. But despite the optimism, hiring plans eased and rising wages were cited as a top cost pressure. Our guest joins us to talk about u. S. Ceos optimistic view is echoed by him. Good to have you with us. Are you as optimistic as these ceos seem to be . Im optimistic right now. We all have the holiday spirit. Were feeling pretty good. What is it that makes you feel good as we head into 2018 . Is it tax cuts . Is it the progrowth agenda of the administration and congress . Is it just corporate profits rising . What . I think right now, you know, we have equity markets, which obviously are at near all time highs and feeling pretty good. We got tax cuts on the horizon. Were s
North Koreas Nuclear weapons are a reality and the button is on his desk. Hello, from sydney. Im haidi lun. We are one hour out from a just first major market. Happy new year. Happy new year to you. It is just past 5 p. M. In new york, still new years day. In this neck hour, we will take a look at how wall street action could play into the very first asiapacific trade date of 2018. Lets get a quick reminder of how u. S. Stocks ended last year. Ended in negative territory with the s p 500 down about half a percent. The dow about the same, losing about 100 points in the last 15, 20 minutes as traders try to close out the position for the year. Year to date through 2017, the s p,the dow, and nasdaq were up about 25 . Russell 2000, the was up about 14 year to date. Green across the board. Absolutely. Looking for fresh drivers as we go into the brandnew year, tax reform getting done. Interesting if trading does get underway in asia. It will be a truncated start because look at the markets t
Which we have not seen. Been 112 trading days since all three major averages fell by police 1 . We not quite there yet at this point. Stocks have been bouncing around a little bit in todays session on this downdraft we are seeing. Volatility is rising in stocks. But not stocks alone. This is as we see the 10 year yields reached 2. 71 . The selloff in bonds is strengthening as well. Here you have volatility months to date for stocks, the white line. Bonds, the blue line. Is the yellow. We have seen a surge in all three of them for the first time in quite a long time. We have not been seeing much volatility in this market as a general rule. Youging back to stocks, look at the landscape of what is declining today. It is a broad base selloff as you can see. Telecom and utilities are higher. Interesting those Interest Rates are higher even as we see those bond yields of those elevated levels. A are seeing as more defensive groups. On the flipside, the worst performing groups, energy, health
Who own their own home has fallen dramatically over the last 20 years. And the alarming decline in the number of orangutans on the island of borneo, one of their three main habitats. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. 13 russians and three russian organisations have been charged with interfering in the american president ial election in 2016. Three of those named have been accused of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and five have been accused of aggravated identity theft. The announcement was made by special counsel robert mueller, who is investigating alleged russian interference in the election. The indictment says the russians set up fake social media profiles to spread disinformation about Donald Trumps rivals, organised political rallies, and tried to encourage minority groups not to vote. The Deputy Attorney general of the United States, rod rowden steyn, has been outlining the allegations. In order to hide the russian origins and their activities, the defendants allegedly purc
Iran nuclear deal. We said it many times on this show. This is not a good deal and it is not in americas interests. This as there is whole lot of intrigue over President Trumps calm before the storm comment last night. Was he referring to the Iran Nuclear Deal . North korea . Something else entirely. Lieutenant colonel ralph peters sounds off in a few moments. To our own Hillary Vaughn in las vegas on latest for the search for a motive. Hillary, are they getting any closer . Trish, we dont know, because we havent heard from police in 45 hours. It is day five and police are still processing the crime scene. We have new video from above that shows festival grounds. Peoples items and belongings are scattered, random, bullets rained down from the 32nd floor from the mandalay bay hotel. Police trying to figure out why Stephen Paddock gunned down hundreds from his hotel window, we have not heard a briefing from police in almost two days. Thats a problem, because the Clark County Sheriff hims