Getting back to work versus the Public Health interests here billions upon billions of new debt has been issued, as companies try to fortress their cash hoards. Well talk about the big debt bomb that may be looming and later, the cleveland fed president horror retrloretta me join us to talk recovery and whether the rates are really on the table or not cannot wait for it. Tyler, thanks. Its the financials and the Energy Sectors which are leading the declines again today for more on the selloff, lets get to Robert Pisani hi, bob. Hello, there. And two buckets here this is about the reopening and its about questions on the valuation of the market and the big rally weve had. 60 of the losses weve regained here thats whats going on here. And you can see it in the sectors. Tylers absolutely right banks just having a horrible week were down like 13 for the banks this woke. This week the russell 2000 is getting clobbered. Retail has been drifting lower as well. Energy down about 8 or 9 , resum
Impacts on housing the states where it may be time to put up the for sale sign. Power lunch starts now im Brian Sullivan a great year for investments keeps Getting Better if you just owned the s p 500 this year, you made more than 25 . If you owned bitcoin to start the year, you made a lot more. Bitcoin up 1664 , but thats nothing. Ethereum, a bitcoin competitor, up more than 7 600 this year. Light coin up 88 today. Mattel is taking a hit, two weeks before christmas the toymaker warning about its holiday quarter. Disney and 21st century fox higher an announcement on their deal could come thursday. Tesla higher as well getting its biggest preorder yet for its latest semiautonomous truck. Pepsi ordering 100 of them all those people could not be wrong on the cryptocurrencies, could there . Wait, theres not that many of them who said shopping malls in america are dead europes biggest Property Company making a big bet theyre alive and well, 16 billion for westfield. Amazon expanding its clo
Coming up. We do have quite a rally with the dow in particular. The transports continue higher all the major averages are in record territory. We also have big calls on the Airline Sectors today and the banks as financials get set to report. Were heading into earnings season well have you up to date on those. Lets start on the floor of the new york stock exchange, mr. Robert pisani joining us with a recap of whats going on as we get ready for earnings, right . Yeah, a lot at stake here, but sixday winning streak, just six days in a row since december 17th p nasdaq has the best sixday winning streak since the end of january 2016. Were starting earnings on friday, there are very High Expectations thats my theme. A shortterm risk. The markets. Just on earnings, analysts are much more optimistic we hardly got any last quarter here were expecting bigger beats, not by a penny or two pennies but more than that if youre disappointed youre going to get hit more. Also, we have guidance here. Now
Are actually seeing the euro turning lower here. Looking at crude, the picture in crude, wti down by 0. 4. Date to for brent crude. Heres big stories that we are watching today. Another wild trading session for the worlds oldest bank. Shares of monte dei paschi tell 7 in early trading after the embattled lender admitted there are no anchor investors taking up its share sale. A state bailout is expected with any losses forced on to bond holders. The president elect is tapping carl icahn as a special adviser. The billionaire investor will work on rescinding what he calls excessive regulation on u. S. Businesses. The Transition Team says icahn will not be a federal employee, and he will not take a salary. Another well known face to cnbc viewers is getting a job in the Trump Administration. The president elect is hiring economist Peter Navarro to run a newly formed National Trade council. Navarro is the author of death by china. He backs a hard line approach towards relations with beijing.
This change of environment has occurred, and today the United States government considers the government of afghanistan a really reliable partner. Commitments that are made are considerable. And the funding proposal of supporting Afghan Security forces by 2017 and it has reached to 4. 1 billion. Its nothing less. Its a significant issue. Its a very important issue, and also yesterday there was a new framework of our Economic Cooperation was laid out according to which 800 million were made a commitment were made, those will be spent through the afghan budget but most importantly is the flexibility that has been shown in the area of Security Cooperation, and this flexibility is going to ensure and provide confidence to our Security Forces and our people and also is going to send a very strong message to the region that this cooperation is not short term but is enduring and long term. Our Strategic Partnership is based on a very simple principle. We want the Afghan People through their S