Good morning weve got a big show this morning joining the conversation fox business megyn mcdowell and tom bevin and pollster of partners author of persuasion lee carter the great to see you. A lot of news to talk about today actually first lets talk about futures in china. Because markets are up this morning pointing higher this morning, a gain of start of trading gets because of some optimism over potential deal with china. China said it is going to raise penalties. On i. P. Theft surveillances major point of the negotiations with states and continue trade talk last week this has to be a positive. I think a lot of people are feeling this. But do we believe this . That china is, in fact, going to enforce this that ip theft is against the law . This is not even a trust that verify situation because we dont have any trust with china baked into their Business Model with i. P. And you know theyll have to prove themselves i think before anybody believes theyre going follow through on this.
11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart alongside my friends and colleagues ana cabrera here in new york and Andrea Mitchell live from washington. And just in the last hour, the contentious Battle For The White House came to a close. Donald trump is the partys presumptive nominee. It comes as former u. N. Ambassador nikki haley suspended her president ial bid just this morning after trump dominated on Super Tuesday. It is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And i hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people. This is now his time for choosing. Haley ended her Historic Campaign as the first woman in republican primary contest in the gops history. But she only managed to win two races, vermont and washington, d. C. , after failing to bid a coalition large enough to overcome Donald Trumps massiv
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Lets get to the Global Market picture. Lets look at a start to the year which has been the best start to the s p since 2003. The first nine trading days of the year up 4. 2 on friday the dow was up 0. 9 the other two indices up 0. 7 . Week to date about 1. 5 to 2 of gains. This morning, as you can see, resoundingly positive start in the premarket. Dow up 271 points. The s p up just 14 the nasdaq up 38 very much the dow surging higher this morning tenyear treasury note for you which has been in focus, last week yields rose in lieu of international yields rising at the start of the week, but then gave up some of that gain towards the back half of last week were at 2. 53 we got very close to 2. 6 early part of last week. Look at the mood in asia the nikkei at a fresh 27year high, up 1 in todays trade hang seng closing actually at a record high, 31,904. Stocks there up 1. 8 the shanghai composite up 0. 8 south korea seeing gains of a similar amount the key Economic Data in asia will be chi