Quit. A industrial spoken of 30 points. Nasdaq up 11 points. Major indices look like this. The ft 100 up a fraction but the cac and dax and germany down a fraction. Asia overnight markets higher across the board. Nikkei average in japan as well as the hang seng in hong kong that two thirds of 1 . Kospi up one and two thirds of a percent. New details in a deadly Las Vegas Massacre. Mandalay bay Security Guard was shot six minutes before the gunman began his rampage. Have a new Development Changes the timeline for investigators and what that means now in the investigation. North korea threat on the rise. Secretary of defense jim mattis joined the u. S. Army to stand ready. The latest on the escalating tensions. Many in hollywood remained silent over Sexual Harassment allegations against harvey one team. One major name for the fashion world coming to his defense. By donna karan is speaking out on behalf of the embattled. Jemele hill and how it landed her in hot water. Jedis rejoice. Hes a
U. S. Equity futures have been indicated higher after the markets were down yesterday. The first time in seven sessions that the dow and nasdaq were down this morning a rebound from that these were modest declines yesterday and this morning s p futures indicated up by three. The nasdaq indicated up by 2. 5 overnight in asia, we have seen some gains in some asian markets. The nikkei up by a half percent. How many winning streaks is that 16 in a row that weve seen for the nikkei now trading at 21,805. Hang seng closed down bay half p percentage point in europe, as you look at some of the early trading, you will see green arrows across the board. Modest advances. Ftse up by 0. 4 . The cac is up by a quarter percentage point the dax up by 0. 2 look at crude oil prices looks like crude this morning is up wti up by 444 ce cents, brent u 57 cents. News out of Chinas Communist Party congress, members confirm president xi jinpings status as the most powerful leader since mao by writing his name
But really and meeting. Opening up society. What we were talking about just now, we met all sorts of women who were saying ive owned a car for a decade but i have a driver who takes me to and from work and i cant wait to learn how to drive lot are starting to learn how to drive but in terms of how the culture is moving. Saying publicly they are looking to are a more moderate society essentially. By the way more moderate form of islam this is not without controversy though im sure. There is a huge other side. Hes pushing through, trying to push through this transformation and theres economic, by the way the entire driving industry, you talk about drivers, because all the women most professional women have drivers every day what happens to the drivers . But theres a whole thing going on with all of it but that whole 500 billion Economic Zone theyre going to create, the whole new city in the middle of the desert with klaus. With klaus its amazing we should all go there in ten years from n
Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley, joining me is jon fortt and sara eisen. Also joining me walter eisen and a lot to get to with walt this morning. Among it, apple, as berkshires Warren Buffett nearly triples his stake in the company to more than 19 billion. Stock hit yet another alltime high this morning. Walter, lets take a quick listen to what buffet said amid all of his mea culpas of miss in amazon and missing alphabet why he is increasing his stake in apple. The shares when we bought them were much more reasonable in relation to current earnings. Apple didnt have to do a lot better in the future than they were doing at the current time. When you get into a google or amazon, you are paying for the future more. The future may be more than justified. So, walter, here we have a very smart man who laments missing a big chapter in tech, doubling down on this one. What does that tell us . Well, it tells us that apple is a very secure, stable, good company because Warren Buffe
Wind down. The ten year is still stuck around 2. 24. Opec is trying to deliver some more cuts at the meeting on thursday. Our road map begins with a major shakeup in the auto business. Ford firing ceo mark fields amid investor ease about the stock performance. Plus, middle east deal maker in chief President Trump is in israel this morning. This after signing a record arms deal with saudi arabia. Boeing, black stone and ge among the big winners. And the path to 1 trillion. Rbc saying that apple has the potential to become a trillion Dollar Company within 18 months. First up though, changes at ford, the automaker announced that mark fields is out as ceo and that fields has chosen to retire. Hell be replaced by jim hackett, the chairman of Ford Smart Mobility division. Hackett has developed a reputation as a turn around specialist. And shares of ford have fallen more than 35 . The company has scheduled a News Conference for 9 45 a. M. Eastern time. Being called a retirement, but we can re