The best year since 2010 with energy as the standout sector helped by a 50 jump in crude. Europe treads water amid thin holiday volumes. And Johnson Johnson considers breaking up actelion as part of its takeover plan which it values at 30 billion. Good morning. Welcome to street signs. The last trading day of 2016. This was the picture on wall street going into the last day. A bit of softness. Dow jones industrial average getting further away from that 20,000 mark. The s p 500 closing just barely in negative territory. The nasdaq composite lower by 0. 1 . Yes, these are modest losses. You must keep them in perspective because its been a rally, especially since the election results. Well take a closer look at that in a minute if we can hone in on the dow jones for the moment, year to date this index is up 13. 7 . The outperformer among the s p 500 and the nasdaq. Lets hone in on the nasdaq. Higher as well by neighborhood of 9 , just shy of that at 8. 5 . We continue to watch the big nam
Of light coming through. Very, very Good Progress on our legacy. 30 reduction on the bad bank. Going back three years, 50 of our capital was tied up to legacy assets, today thats down to 20 , a very, very good performance from the core bank. Vivendi shares sink to the bottom of the stoxx 600 on a report milan prosecutors have opened an investigation into Vincent Bollore over charges of market manipulation in the mediaset stake. China hits back after President Trump brands beijing the grand champions of currency manipulation just hours after treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin tells cnbc he is not making any snap judgments on beijing. We have a process with treasury where we go through and look at currency manipulation across the board. Well go through that process. Well do that as we have in the past. Were not making any judgments until we continue that process. Welcome. Kind of like that. Good morning and welcome, gelcome. Our European Equity markets this morning, maybe a bit of a guac b
In the last night they should o the cubs most of the cubs are really good in the indians are still preparing including trevo bauer, who is recovering from a injury, but he says no worries, is good to go as p. J. Ziegler continues team coverage. This is the moment of truth if his finger is healed after that drone accident. Is a tough act to follow after corey kluber, trevor bauer pitching for the First Time Since removal and the alcs with toronto with his bloody taking. Did have some stitches last week and perhaps we will see Danny Salazar for the first time this postseason. Trevor bauer says he knows that im not concerned about anything. They are very talented. On about the red sox were also talented. Goes out to executing game plan that is nothing i can do to change the outcome i have done everything i can to now execute to the best of my ability and what it will be. We dont know what we will get. He just a few in toronto, site we dont know which trevor baue will get. If you cannot go
In the paper, but then you can say like one person was telling me that, he was telling me that the memoranda they read, that there were not a lot of mistakes in those memoranda because nobodys going to put on paper what host carefully be, yeah. Carefully. Guest but he said that once he sat down with people id say, well, you know, youd think you might want to organize geographically the nsc this way, but we tried this, and it just didnt work, and it didnt work for the following reasons. So that was particularly important to be able to have that time, that obama appointed people early enough that they could do that. But also important was the work that steve hadley did. And so they could take those memoranda which had been passed through the intelligence community, state department, and president bush. So they could take those and ask questions about them. Those were the ones that didnt have a lot of things that had been done wrong but they were willing to be very open in their discussio
Message that you would send to hington dc, washington topics you d. C. , think washington needs to pay. Ttention to, urban voters only if you live in the eastern and central time zones, 202 7488000 and if you live in the mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. If you want to post on twitter do so, and you can also post on our facebook page. How do you define urban area . The folks of the senses department gives us some guidelines. Censuses Bureau Bureau gives us some guidelines. Least 2500 and at and 50,000 people. Frommessage to washington urban voters. Abc news took a look at exit polls and asked specifically urban areas about issues they are concerned about. Here is some of what they found from those preliminary exit interviews. About 20 say they were worse off financially than 2012. Those in the suburbs in comparison. 57 of urban voters say they rate the economy negatively compared to 63 of suburban voters. 5737respondents went percent for clinton and suburban respondents wer