You saw most of the major averages yesterday sitting at new highs. The dow was off by 3 points. This morning green arrows across the board. Dow looks to open up another 60 points s p up by 3. 5. The nasdaq up by a half point. Overnight in asia, look at what was happening there. The nikkei was down. It slipped by 0. 8 the hang seng and the shanghai were stronger. Shanghai up 0. 4 if you look at whats happening in the european equities market. At this point it looks like markets are flat across the board. Ftse is down by a quarter percentage point treasury yields, lets look at that market. Oil prices, dont mow if you saw this yesterday Oil Prices Surging yesterday that will be something to watch. Highest levels in quite awhile check out the tenyear note which at this point is yielding 2. 634 lets tell you about some big stories were watching the biggest here in davos, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin making headlines at a News Conference he said the United States welcomed a weaker dollar
Sanctions will remain until an agreement is reached. John boldon is the former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a fox news contributor. Lets go back to a couple of months in january when a president had another tweet about north korea saying north Korean Leader kim jongun said that the Nuclear Buttons on his desk all of the time. Will someone from his depleted regime please inform him that i too have a Nuclear Button but its much more powerful and bigger than his and mine works. After that we had an outcry from the media and the establishment saying oh my god what has trump done. Well never have another meeting from the North Koreans. Now we have this. Clearly they were dead wrong. This is diplomatic shock and awe. I think its important to understand why jim jongun probably made that proposal and why President Trump accepted it. Probably surprising kim jongun. I thinks no think its not the. North korea knows how close it is to achieving the objective of delivering Nuclear Wea
And this is on top of white house staff secretary rob porters resignation earlier this week and criticism of the president s response to that departure, saying nothing about porters accusers or anything about Domestic Abuse. This, as the president just yesterday obviously tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the white house. And we hope he has a wonderful career and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of him. But it was very sad when we heard about it and certainly hes also very sad now. He also, as you probably know, he says hes innocent, and i think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that hes innocent. So youll have to talk to him about that. But we absolutely wish him well. Lets get straight to cnns abby phillips. She is live for us right now at the white house. What more from the president today . Well, good morning, fred. The president is at home today on a rainy day in the white house. Hes tweeting about the allegations that ha