The very best in the future and delighted in the knowledge that well be seeing him stauchoften. Having established and shown us how its done, on and offscreen, youre an example to us all, particularly the younger members of the onair talent like myself and courtney bill, thank you. You know, when the stakes and nerves are high, hes a mentor thats taught so much to so many of us, both directly and indirectly while his career cant be topped, bill also taught me to look at life as a threelegged fool, work, family and friends, and faith. Hopefully, weapon fi find a newc here with his new position as anchor at large. You know what he would be doing, he would be telling you that we have 59 minutes of trade, and in record close watch. Here is whats driving the action this afternoon. Stocks hitting record highs once again with the s p 500 poised for its straight fourth week of gains. Boeing weighing on the dow of troubles raise new red flags for investors. And Consumer Staples leading the char
Dow, it will be an eight straight month of gains for the dow and s p 500. Strugglest for the Technology Sector once again. Lets look at what happened overnight in asia. You will see that the nikkei ended up by close to 0. 6 points. Stocks in china under pressure the hang seng down by 1. 5 points the shanghai down by 0. 6 . In europe, in the early trading, it looks like there are green arrows across the board. Biggest gains from the major averages come out of germany where the dax is up almost by 0 0. 8, the ftse up by a quarter percentage points. Right now looking at crude oil prices opec and nonopec producers, ie russia, are expected to announce an extension of output cuts until 2018 a lot of concerns about that, whether there will be Sticking Points along the way thats why crude oil was under pressure yesterday things have picked up this morning with a gain of 1 for wti. Up 53 cents to 57. 82 well get a live report from the meeting of opec in vienna. Thats coming up at 6 30 a. M. Eas
Next a look at President Trumps priorities for congress with White House Legislative Affairs director marc short. He talked reported at the Christian Science monitor breakfast. He says tax reform and a legislative fix for the daca program or deferred action for child arrivals, are high on the list. My friend, good morning. Im dave cook from the Christian Science monitor. Thanks for coming. Our guest today is marc short. Assistant to the president and director of the office of legislative affairs. This is his first visit with our low cal Breakfast Club come home to what steve bannon called the pearl clutching mainstream media. Thanks for making time for us in your busy schedule. Marc short, a virginia native graduated from washington and lee university. He got his start in politics serving as finance director for Oliver North Senate campaign picky when on to become executive director of the Young Americas Foundation where his role included stewardship of Ronald Reagans ranch. After runn
We are getting your thoughts on the republican tax reform that was released yesterday. Phone lines President Trump what on the road to tout this plan yesterday in indianapolis, tweeting about the plan, saying democrats dont want massive tax cuts, how does that win elections . Great reviews for tax cut and reform bill. One of those good reviews coming in mornin saying, tax relief republicans must deliver now or go the way of the whigs. The gop outline is a pro growth boon but rates cant rise further. Gop flawed tax elite. Rk, aiding the another not so great review coming from the New York Times this morning. Calling it a republican tax boondoggle. We want to hear what you think. You can start calling in now or the republican, steve, good morning. Caller thank you for receiving my call. I agree with this idea of a tax cut. Im a cpa in a few states. , have been unable to find work a cpa with a masters degree, unable to find work. Even during tax season. I think something has to happen. Th
Would seem a leap. Stuart not true you in live in california, connecticut, massachusetts, illinois, you would pay more. Neil if you lift it up to a million, from 450. I havent checked out the math in reverse. That is pitch they make presumably to the president tomorrow. I dont know. Seems like an uphill fight. Stuart you have a full news day, havent you . Neil lots going on. Thank you, my friend, very, very much. Were on top of that. What it could mean, to stuarts points, were off earlier highs concerns that a top rate remains in effect that the rich could end up paying more. When the rich are unhappy they have a way of conveying that. On to more pressing life and death developments, the nypd is looking what happened in Lower Manhattan and why. Says the suspect took from isis, pretty much rules of thumb you do in an attack like this. Tracee carrasco with more in Lower Manhattan. What can you tell us . Reporter good afternoon, neil, we wrapped up the up tate from the nypd, the fdny, new