287 points. Tracing half of yesterdays loss. The Oil Price Crash is a problem yesterday, still his. Bankruptcies and layoffs are a near certainty in the oil patch, drillers can to make money, cant service their debt with oil in the 30 barrel range. Russia wants to meet with opec soon, to see if the price war can be resolved. Oil is back to 34 a barrel as we speak. The anxiety indicator, the 10 year treasury yields 0. 6 almost double what it yielded at the low yesterday which was 0. 31 . Big day in politics, primaries in 6 states. Im calling it bernies last stand. He needs to win big especially in michigan. He is way behind biden in two recent polls. That would be good news for investors, the threat of a socialist in the white house receives but it is not good for the democrats. Their split is obvious and toxic. Varney and company is about to begin. We are going to take care of and have been taking care of the American Public and the american economy, meeting with house republicans, Mit
Getting a sense of where the chinese economy is heading, december pmi from the private side ties shin. This is the third couple of days we have had the numbers that of the official stat bureau. 9574 on the bloomberg terminal. You can see where we have come from the dark days of 2008 when everything fell off a cliff. 51. 6. I here, that number came in and the other day. 50. 8 whiching at reflects what is going on with the small and mediumsized enterprises. Showing we have growth and it is steady as you go for the time being. Untilutes ago to go trading in hong kong and 45 minutes until the thai shin numbers came out. A late opening today because of a big ceremony going on in the korean stock exchange. Fort of news to digest those market participants. Good morning. As seoul gets back online, quite a bit for markets to consider. Kim jonguns new years eve address. We have the latest data points for south koreas showing exports rose to a 60 year high. We are seeing it gaining about one thir
Behavior by President Trump is the reason behind this decision. The white house was quick to respond. The president is focused as he went to the hill and met with republican senators to talk about tax reform that pushes legislative agendas of others that these individuals they are speaking and pretty loud volumes i think that they were not likely to be reelected and i think it shows that the support is more behind the president and it is the two individuals. Maria decisions come as the gop pushes for tax reform. The commanderinchief of made a decision on capitol hill yesterday to rally the party to get this done. Speaker of the house paul ryan also waited insisting intentions would not hurt the effort. And im hooked on wall street among the top names today. Going in cocacola today. We will bring you the analysis of numbers and tell you how they impact markets. Markets are flat right now. Features indicating a flat opening or dow industrials down for point. As you see there in europe, t
As many as 180 injured, maybe more. Americans are among the injured. What we dont know is just how many. French Police Continue to look for suspects. Police have identified one of the attackers as a French National. These attacks were incredibly coordinated. The pictures quite disturbing. We want you to warn yourselves to be very careful as you watch because some of it is quite graphic. This video shows survivors of the nightclub attack jumping from the windows to escape the carnage taking place inside. That is just behind where were standing now. It was at the bataclan, and a concert was going on at the time. Other victims rushed out of the theater. First responders literally trying to drive people to safety. Gunmen opened fire killing at least 80 people. Paris Police Say Three of the four attackers were wearing explosive belts around the same time, john there were explosions at a soccer stadium, the main soccer stadium in the northern part of paris. Explosions rang out. Video capture
James comey. Hes also known, and this is important, could be important to the investigation, for having taken copious notes for these meetings. You might expect the investigators looking into these decisions would be interested in seeing or having those notes described to him as well. In addition to Reince Priebus, which you mentioned, anderson, we also know earlier keith kaling, who briefly served when Michael Flynn was fired, hes also been interviewed now. Theres also investigation in the Senate Intelligence investigation involving carter page. Carter page hes been sort of the public face early on of this investigation because he was willing to speak publicly about his role here. Its now clear how essential carter pages role was in the campaign. President trump early Montana Campaign did name him as part of the campaign although later said he was not as close to the center as he described him. He did make many trips to moscow. He spoke in moskow during the campaign, very critical of