Rate. This news is helping the market today. Half an hour from now, well get another positive start. The dow going up about 100 points, despite last minute holdouts, investors do believe that the tax deal will go through on schedule. No Financial Report these days. It is complete without the bitcoin quote. Here it is. 17,782 per coin. Bitcoin futures trading starts on another exchange sunday afternoon. Politics, there is more evidence of a deep state plot to interfere with the president ial election. Fox news has found another example of the fbi changing its judgment on Hillary Clinton, to reduce her legal risk. The cap ball of trumphaters got her off the hook. Talk about a full show . Lets get on with it. Varney company is about to begin. Oh, it was inevitable, wasnt it. Classic music choice by our producers. Welldone, folks. 10 days to christmas. Yes, you are big spenders. Youre spending a lot of money. One analyst firm says, that since november the 1st, online revenue has risen 24 c
Now people are suggesting because of the weirdo incidents, cramer called them morons the vix is leading the market because people are selling to pay for positions they were in over their head on. Wouldnt be the first time the tail wags the dog. Is it the tail or the dog the answer is yes. Guys, take it away. Have a good couple hours. Thank you this is the closing bell, everybody. The final hour of trade has everybody focused on whether were going to go back and retest the lows weve seen this week. We have sort of, but is it enough thats the question. Is is it enough for the market another big selloff. The dow was down nearly 700 points at the lows midday, but we are well off those lows right now but that could change. Stick around as bill mentioned, we have higher Interest Rates. That could be one factor sparking selling another thing to keep an eye on, the u. S. Dollar hit a twoweek high earlier in the session before it gave background. Right now we have Team Coverage of this decline
The [inaudible conversations] the Committee Meets today to hear at all Mike Boettcher is. You have more titles than anybody else. The commander of the u. S. Cyber command, director of the agency and chief of the Security Service given your upcoming retirement this might be the last time you are dropping in. As the recent National Defense strategy identified renewed great power with russia and china and that kind of stands along with what the general said when he said that we are losing our qualitative and quantitative edge as we move into this 3to National Defense strategy. As we approach the eighth anniversary of the Cyber Command, we should recognize the remarkable progress made in the concept establishing the command. Later this year we anticipate the Operational Capability for 6,200 persons Labor Commission force despite the main successes, there are still significant challenges. The committee remains concerned about the hollow cyber force due to the lack of priority across the ser
Ten oil down. Europe red across the board. No surprise. In our road map this morning, european markets not alone in terms of volatility but aggressive support measures in china seem to have stemmed some of the selloff. Aetna agrees to buy humana. Well speak with both the ceos later on in the show. Currencies caught in the cross winds of global uncertainty and thats affecting kmoimd commodities. We do want to get you the latest on greece this morning, the morning after voters rejected creditors austerity demands in the referendum. We are in athens this morning with an update. Good morning. Reporter good morning. It is now a waiting game. Were waiting for so many things. The finance minister has resigned. Were waiting to see who the replacement will be. Today we are waiting for the u ecbs decision on what they will extend to the banks. No details on that. Tonight we know that merkel will meet in paris with germany, and merkel will travel to paris to discuss the discussion in grease with
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