Estimates in macau. Will this be another golden week for operators . Betty a lot of investors making their bets as well the u. S. Markets will continue higher. We saw that today. Might see this chart. I want to pull up g btv 1516, which shows you the Credit Suisse stop hedging index, otherwise known as the fear gauge. The lowest since february. Imagine that. This might geopolitical tensions coming upise what is from the headlines on tax reform, it looks like investors are pretty optimistic about the markets. They are not fearful at all, and you see the msci all country world index continuing to push higher. You saw that in the equity markets after the manufacturing numbers came out better than expected. Let us pull up the boards on that. Another record, up. 4 . The dow adding on 152 points. The nasdaq gaining ground,. 3 . No stopping this bull market, yvonne. Case. seems like the the big question is whether investors are pricing in more about reflation and the trump trade on tax reform
Hello im Barbara Starr and this is al jazeera live from london and also coming up. More than two hundred russian opposition supporters arrested is they mark putins sixty fifth birthday with protests around the country the u. N. Chief surveys relief efforts in and and for a beauty he tells about Hurricane Irma has turned the islands from a paradise into hell and new orleans braces for harakah nato as it heads for the u. S. Gulf coast after killing twenty five people in Central America. Spains Prime Minister has ruled out mediation with catalan officials to resolve the crisis over last weekends secession vote thats this fight tens of thousands of people gathering in barcelona and madrid to call for talks to end the standoff catalonians leaders say they have a mandate to push for independence even the madrid insists sundays referendum was illegal join a whole reports from barcelona. Its all in the hands apparently at a demonstration in barcelona the fluttering gestures of openness and pea
Benchmark yield at 2. 34. The treasurys warning for washington and wall street pass tax reform or markets will fall. Ibm shares on the move after better than expected earnings despite 22 quarters of declining revenue. Big blue up 6 in the premarket. Dorsey vowing to make a more aggressive stance to crack down on hate speech and Sexual Harassment not only has the dow surpassed 23 k but up 25 since the prds was elected. On a political podcast the treasury secretary did warn failure to pass tax we form could derail the rally. Theres no question that the rally in the stock market has based into it reasonably High Expectations of us getting tax cuts and tax reform done it also has based into it optimism on regulatory relief, which theyve begun to see and theres expectations so i think to the extent we get the tax deal done, the stock market will go up higher but theres no question in my mind if we dont get it done, youre going to see a reversal to the significant amount of these gains. Weve
Winner, is scared they would make her disappear. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. What message do you have for james comey ahead of his testimony. I wish him well. Thank you, everybody. Washington braces for comeys testimony. Its possible trump is going to be sitting there live tweeting this event. It seems like its the super bowl in washington. Every time you tweet, it makes it harder on all of us trying to help you. Dont get in the way of an investigation that could clear you. Russian and the diplomatic crisis between qatar and others in the persian gulf. President trump appeared to take credit for the crisis. Whats your response to the president of the united states. It speaks for itself. Deadly attacks if the capital of iran. Of course, the iran parliament, the second at the khamenei shrine. She once called him an orange fascist on twitter. What she told me was that she was terrified. She was afraid they were going to make her disappear. P
Another financial crisis in our lifetime. We have the world covered on daybreak asia. We go to San Francisco and the followed from the cyber fallout from the cyber attack. We go to shanghai on the growth of the internet of things. Asia. S daybreak im in new york, where it is just after 7 00 p. M. We are in for some central bank speak. What an eventful tuesday, right . First it was mario draghi a bit more hawkish when it came to inflation. Then the selloff fueled by janet yellen talking about rich valuations in the market. Betty you used to not be able to get anything out of these central bank chiefs, but now they wont shut up. Particularly janet yellen and her talk about valuations getting more rich. That also sent some of these tech stocks tumbling, dragging down the nasdaq. We will talk about that in a few moments. Yvonne that is right. A lot of jitters when it came to tech. Alphabet slapped with a record fine from the eu. We will look at the cybersecurity attack we have seen that ha