Shiller numbers up too the president s pick to head the central bank prepares to testify on capitol hill. Plus. Crypto coin with 10,000 in sight this morning. House ways and means chair kevin brady will join us live this hour as the final details get hashed out as stocks look to set new record highs the president s choice to succeed janet yellen heads to capitol hill this morning. The fed governor will appear before the Senate Banking committee and in his prepared testimony propgsed continuity if hes confirmed we must be prepared to respond decisively and with appropriate force to new and unexpected threats to our nations financial stabilit prosperity, well bring you live coverage a lot of questions whether he thinks qe should be a permanent tool what he thinks of asset prices and inflation and regulation. I think youre going to hear answers you would have heard from janet yellen. I think one of the things that is surprising here is that the pick itself is very neutral its not like whe
Time in history. Instead it rallies to new highs dow gaining 256 points s p climbing 1 . And while that may seem crazy, theres actually some very good explanations lets start with the negatives, though first there was this mornings tweet from the president , meeting with chuck and nancy today, of course, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi about keeping government open and working. Problem is they want Illegal Immigrants flooding into your country unchecked. Are weak on crime and want to raise taxes substantially. You know at most times the story like that about a potential Government Shutdown would have sent the stock market into a complete tailspin. Government shutdowns are synonymous with lower stock prices even if the democrats hadnt canceled their meeting the rally over this could take weeks, months secret that tends to weigh on the stock market. But not this stock market. Instead we rallied on the news why . Who knows. Maybe it signals that the republicans dont need votes to keep it fund
The nikkei closed up by a half percentage point stocks were mixed in china hang seng down by 2 if you look at whats happening in europe and the early trading, things are mixed there stocks down in london with the ftse down by 0. 6 . Stocks up across the board in the other countries. The dax in germany up by 0. 9 . A gain of a half percentage point in france. Crude prices, wti around 57. 50. We are up another 55. Yeah, market was up 255 yesterday. Think if the market was down 255. Think of what we would do with 160 point observe a down day or 190 as far as the sentiment in this market right now, if the market were to go down we take it in stride when we hit new records. Yeah, the market is going up. Maybe its powell or tax reform. Thats 300 points this morning, if we went down 300, you would be every newspaper, they would have picture traders going stock shot. Stock shot. Is that what they call those . Stock shot. Stock photos. Not about stocks. No. About something that you got on file
Productivity washington helping drive stocks lower. Bitcoin boom, the cryptocurrency surging past 12,000 for the first time ever. And the buyback trade, home depot announces a 15 billion repurchase plan as congress looks on track to pass Major Corporate tax reform mute you futures moving lower three day losing street for First Time Since august. Data from adp, the private sector added exactly 190,000 jobs that was the estimate in fact. The year to date average now, 209, which is better than last years 181 well see what friday brings. Look, i think were in one of those moments when i used to trade professionally where you would come in and say it wants to go down i was watching will and morgan this morning japan is down. I said to you on cross talk, copper had a bad day you know, theres a belief that maybe tech is slowing down, which i cant find i ask everybody there isnt a big firm where is tech slowing down, cant come up with it. But the market wants to go lower and its okay. If we ha
Streets pull back as oil prices slideand tax plan jitters target targets holiday forecast, Brian Cornell joins us exclusively. The General Electric slide, continuing to sink premarket now down more than 43 this year stocks are poised to open lower after the dow and s p posted a third negative session in the past four, concerns about slowing growth in china, weighing on Commodity Prices and crude under pressure after the International Energy agency lowers its Oil Demand Forecast jim, weve got the same jitters about high yield and then of course inflation has run hot for a couple of days. I come back and look at the bureau of labor statistics number that came out real average Hourly Earnings for all employees decreased. 1 . So i think theres a lot of faux worries here china has been okay the whole time, remains okay these wage numbers tell me were okay and oil went up on turbulence and middle east problems and goes down incredibly wrong i think were churning what matters is we keep impor