Letsthings first, quickly check on your markets. First of all, i wanted to have a look at the yuan, this is on the back of what we heard from china. Stocks in europe in to be drifting sideways a touch. I think investors are trying to figure out what the next catalyst is. Draghi is due to speak today. And then, the independence claim is tomorrow. N, that thats the bloomberg dollar index, up a touch. Heres nejra cehic. Reporter donald trump claims tax reforms would be worth 4000 a year for the average american household. He asked for help so he could give the country the best christmas president of all. Today are business tax rate is 50 higher than our average economic competitor. This is a giant selfinflicted economic wound. Reporter the u. S. President has said he plans to choose from amongst five finalists to be the next Federal Reserve chairman and will make his choice soon, before he leaves for his 11 day trip on november 1. With canadawound up and mexico rejecting what they see as
The fed decision is behind us, at least this one. Now were counting down to the earnings in less than an hour, numbers from facebook, tesla, qualcomm,shake shack, and many, many more. Well tell you what to expect, break down those numbers as soon as theyre released. Here we go again its going to be a huge afternoon. The house tax bill was supposed to be released today now its expected tomorrow morning. We do have a strategist who says the best outcome for the market will be if tax reform does not get done at all. Hes doigoing to explain why shortly. We start with the dow, s p, and nasdaq hitting intraday highs earlier in the day the dow was up 140 at its peak, but all have pulled back from those highs. The dow no, nobody is in record territory lets get to our Closing Bell Exchange diane swan, robert frost at post nine, sitting next to keith bliss, and Rick Santelli checks in from the cme in chicago diane, im going to start with you. No surprise. I asked Rick Santelli yesterday if anybo
We were talking earlier about the many executive orders the president signed in the first 100 days. This is from the washington post. Take a look. Contrary to the administrations assertion, that number is not a significant milestone for the president , talking about the number of executive orders. More than half of the 29 orders issued as of thursday have merely called for reviews, Commission Report to establish panels to issue recommendations. They lay out a dizzying schedule days. 120, and 180 they hardly represent the immediate actions the president and his age heralded they would bring the washington. Aides heralded they would bring to washington. This policy and span of you rely for quite some time. We talked earlier about the Approval Ratings of the president. C. Is is from cnn or 44 approve of his handling of the presidency. 54 disapprove. That puts trump last and Approval Ratings for newly elected president s at the 100 day point since modern polling began. It runs back to dwig
We were talking earlier about the many executive orders the president signed in the first 100 days. This is from the washington post. Take a look. Contrary to the administrations assertion, that number is not a significant milestone for the president , talking about the number of executive orders. More than half of the 29 orders issued as of thursday have merely called for reviews, Commission Report to establish panels to issue recommendations. They lay out a dizzying schedule days. 120, and 180 they hardly represent the immediate actions the president and his age heralded they would bring the washington. Aides heralded they would bring to washington. This policy and span of you rely for quite some time. We talked earlier about the Approval Ratings of the president. C. Is is from cnn or 44 approve of his handling of the presidency. 54 disapprove. That puts trump last and Approval Ratings for newly elected president s at the 100 day point since modern polling began. It runs back to dwig
The temperature trend for los gatos will be in the low 60s, 73 by 3 00 today. Ill show you what to expect as we head into the long Holiday Weekend in seven minutes. Mike, youre saying the commute is building . Slowly. Its building nonetheless and we look at our Speed Sensors. The peninsula doesnt see any problems. Pleasanton towards sunol, we have a little snowing out of the Altamont Pass. A little slowing there and the bay bridge toll plaza. Of course thats the slowest spot for the bay because you have the metering lights on. We have the backup but you can watch traffic slowing through the fast track lanes so thats pretty good. Back to you. Thank you, mike. 6 01 right now. Developing this morning were learning about a second botulism death in the bay area. This latest case happened in napa county and isnt related to the botulism outbreak caused by nacho cheese in sacramento county. Pete suratos is joining us live with the symptoms you should be aware of. This is pretty frightening, pe