Cofounder, welcome to you busy day, good day to have roger on the set another record setting day on the street biggest gain for stocks on tuesday. Rally being driven a lot by tax reform optimism. Bitcoin stealing some part of the story surpassing 11 k less than 24 hours after breaking 10 k. It has backed off that price were learning nasdaq is reportedly planning to launch Bitcoin Futures in the first half of next year. Thats according to dow jones. There is a lot to tackle roger, bitcoin news rortation between sectors as people watch this tax bill advance. Whats the lead for you. To me the bitcoin thing is a phenomenon at this point its really hard to know what to say. What do you do when the thing is going up 10 a day, whole asset class going up 10 a day, youre obviously not doing this on fundamentals theres a lot of enthusiasm here to me what really matters is where does it land what role is it going to play in the economy going forth, because its clearly worked brilliantly as a trad
On their ashes tour. Its just been revealed why batsman ben duckett was been dropped from englands ashes tour match today it follows an incident in a perth bar. In sharp contrast here more snow and ice are on the way with freezing temperatures likely to cause travel disruption. Stav will have the latest for us. A few snow showers and the potential of some significant snow. Join me laterfor the details. Good morning. First, our main story. The foreign secretary, borisjohnson, has arrived in iran shortly, where he will express what he describes as grave concerns over the imprisonment of the british iranian woman, Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe. The aid worker has been held prisoner in the country since april 2016, accused of trying to overthrow the iranian government a charge she denies. Mrjohnson is also expected to discuss britains wider relations with iran. Heres our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins. Boris johnsons first visit to iran could hardly be more sensitive. Last month he was
Mark police say the driver is an Australian Citizen of afghan descent who has a known history of drug use and Mental Health issues. U. S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says he doesnt expect the chamber to take up changes on the welfare system in 2018. He addressed the issue at an axials event in washington. I think the democrats are not going to be interested in reform, so i dont expect to see that on the agenda. What the democrats are willing to do is important, because in the senate, with rare sections with rare exceptions like the tax bill, we have democratic involvement. Mark he added infrastructure is a key objective or next year and at a minimum he expects technical corrections to the bill. All remaining significant evacuation orders in areas the smoldering remnants of Southern California path huge wildfire have been canceled after a new round of winds cause activity. Warnings of high fire risk were canceled for Santa Barbara county. In ventura county, firefighters attac
591,000 barrels last week. Rise compared to the estimate of 1. 3 Million Barrels that was expected to rise last week. Rise compared to thealso, a much smaller rise compared to the previous week of december 15, but still, a seventh week of gains for gasoline inventories. For reaction, lets bring in alix steel. The inventories in line with estimates, a bit of a bigger drawdown, but gasoline inventories rose less than expected. Alix that is the bearish tilt in the report. Refineries were working overtime, utilization of one 1. 6 , butent up the actual crude inventory is looking solid. We saw that with natural gas as well. The inventory is lower than expected, particularly when it comes to oil. It depends how you measure it. If you look at the fiveyear average globally, we are above that level, but when you look at demand covered versus how much you need to meet demand rather than a average an average stockpile, we are close. Slightly,rts were up so even more impressive that we were able t
Weakness in italy and spain. When it comes to the treasury yields, this is what were watching closely, the tenyear is trading at 2. 433 should we be doing a Weather Board . Like a freezing cold Weather Board . I saw this morning that 90 of the United States is freezing or below a third of the continental United States, the lower 48, are actually below zero. As was predicted. Its cold because its warm. Dont do this as a Global Warming thing. No, no, because only weather that proves Global Warming like every brush fire is Global Warming. Every drought. Every flood. Thats all Global Warming. You didnt see the day after tomorrow. It got freezing. If the atmosphere traps more heat, you would think it would not be as cold you know what sorkin, dont act like you studied this i have studied this what i have as it happens, i have. Sorkin, if it was 40 degrees, and it was a very warm winter, would that be indicative of Global Warming or just answer that question. If it was unseasonably warm, wou