Sara eisen. Good morning. Happy holidays. Happy holidays indeed getting closer to christmas morning. Thats trading on the markets. Well come in in a moment. Travel alert things slowly starting to come back online at atlantas heartsville jackson. More than 1,000 flights were delayed or canceled. The timing couldnt be worse well have more on that in just a moment first, lets get a check on the Global Markets this morning. Weve got green arrows really across the board as u. S. Equity futures point to a higher open dow futures are up by triple digits right now indicating an open at 138 points higher. S p 500 futures poised to open 14 points higher the nasdaq poised to open 51 points higher. This, of course, after record closes for all three of those indexes on friday as everybody is sort of focusing on tax reform and whether lawmakers will pass that through before christmas this week. Absolutely right. Fridays section slightly flat on the week as a whole up over 1 the s p is up less than 1
Gold all muted but anything goes as abuse headlines crossbreed david there are so many. The morning brief. But anything goes across of the headlines. David bank there are so many. At 2 00, the Federal Reserve will release its beige book looking at the u. S. Economy. An update of headlines outside of the Business World with taylor riggs. Taylor starting with a hurricane, the most powerful to form in the Atlantic Ocean is preparing to hit florida. Passedricane of irma over the caribbean street it could hit south florida this weekend. A worstcase scenario have it destroyed so much property that damages would surpass Hurricane Katrina a that was the most expensive Natural Disaster in u. S. History. The south korean president is seeking Vladimir Putins help for north korea and they met and not stop,rth korea is the situation could turn uncontrollable. Putin said there is no need to back a north korea in a corner. President trump has left a door open for little bit to end daca. Last night co
Week look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei eking out another gain a gain of 9 points, but thats the 14th day in a row that weve been looking at gains for the nikkei these are the highest levels weve seen in 21 years nikkei closing at 21,457 the hang seng with a gain of 1. 17 . And the shanghai up by 0. 28 the dax is up, the cac in france is up by 0. 21 spain is up, but just barely look at crude oil snapped a fourday winning streak. It is still above 50s a b s a on the wall street agenda just one piece of economic data, september existing home sales out at 10 00 eastern time. Well watch that carefully after getting some week housing numbers lately fed chair janet yellen is the keynote speaker this evening at an event at National Economists club in washington ge, honeywell, Procter Gamble, suntrust reporting results before the open. Later today an exclusive interview with ges chairman and ceo, John Flannery 10 00 a. M. Eastern, squawk on the street. Just to give explain why
Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody in for sara eisen. Lets get straight to the Global Market action great day for stocks yesterday, particularly the nasdaq. The dow up 0. 7 the s p 0. 8. The nasdaq 1. 4 . The nasdaq numbers to watch out for, 6321 is a record close. 6341 is a record intraday high so the dow is performing well. Again, having had a few days of selloff prior to that. Encouraging rebound in tech. 8 out of 11 sectors positive tech the best, energy the worst. Tenyear treasury note did edge back up ending last week about 2. 14 . At 2. 16. A mixed day in trade for asia the japanese index closing at nearly a twoyear high, but a different story for the hang seng and shanghai composite retreating ahead of what many call a highly anticipated decision from the msci today on whether the index holder will include china a shares, its considered a watershed moment for china stocks if they get the green light this would allow the u. S. Funds to get more exposure to chinese
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