Low. And its projected as the population continues to age in the baby boomers retire that that ratio will continue to rise in an unsustainable fashion. So, the addition to the debt taking what is already a significant problem and making it worse is it is of concern to me, and i think it does suggest that in some future downturn, which could occur just for whatever reason, the amount of fiscal space that would exist for fiscal policy to play an active role it will be limited, it may well be limited. Sam fleming with the financial times. Couple of longer term questions, first of all, midway through the year, hot weather inflation targets might need to be raised. Obviously been a lot more debate and have had systems since then about this it may not be an imminent issue, it may be something the feds may be discussing over the coming years. Some sort of change to the inflation target second of all, the amount of stimulus tools that the fed may have at its expo sal are fairly limited. One of
And a special guest, cnbc senior contributor larry kudlow your money update very quickly right now. The big cap indexes of your fractionally, not a whole lot. Smaller cap names, visavis the russell 2000 are down very slightly just quickly before we get to larry, John Najarian and the overall markets, starting to see a couple of trader notes suggesting maybe this rally might pause a little bit heading into the new year for a few different reasons. Your thought on the macro markets. Sure. You could see that pause that refreshes, brian, and indeed it might be just that but i think a lot of people are very happy with the year they have got so the likelihood they will more or less keep the hands in the boat rather than reaching for something out there, that could be happening here. And obviously what were going to be talking about with mr. Kudlow regarding the tax bill implications, weve already heard a little bit from some corporations saying how much its going to impact them. Obviously pe
60 points after the dow closed at a record level yesterday. The s p closed lower yesterday all the major averages moved off the highs of the session this morning the s p is indicated up by 5 points the nasdaq up by 10. This came after the feds decision and after if looked clear that Republican Leaders reached an agreement, at least in principle, on where theyre headed with the tax bill well talk more about that green arrows across the board this morning in asia, the nikkei looked like it was down by a quarter percentage point similar declines for the hang seng and shanghai. This morning in europe, with some of the early trading, you will see that there are some declines across the board. The biggest loser is the dax down by a half percentage point. Cac in france is down by 0. 4 . We have the bank of england and the ecb going to be releasing some policy statements today check out crude oil prices which were lower yesterday crude oil at 56. 59 couple of big economic reports on the agenda
Welcome everybody scary situation there. The dow the s p and the nasdaq hitting new highs. If we close at another record high today it would be the 70th record close this year breaking the 1995 record for the most closing highs in any year. With the gains the dow is up more than 5,000 points this year that is obviously never happened check out the individual movers. Etf on pace for its best day since december 4th abercrombie leading the way. Best buy trading at an all time home and dr horton and berkshire hathaway, 300,000 a share and now 23 this year topping the s p 500. Wow. Lets get straight to the rally. On the floor of the nyfc. Big enthusiasm. You might have thought the tax bill was priced in but apparently not as he mentioned consumer earnings today are leading. Both benefiting from the tax bill a fairly broad rally the only thing not big is the volume more like Charlie Brown Christmas Tree size. Modest yet still shining bright. Take a look at the all time highs. 58 on the s p 5
That dow ever close above 26,000 came after eight trading sessions youve seen four days this year where you have seen the dow going up 200 points or more. It only had six days like that last year. This morning futures are relatively flat. Dow indicated up 2. 5 points. Overnight in asia, china reporting Fourth Quarter gdp of 6. 6. 8 , bringing the 2007 gdp to 6. 9 we will get china bay book data at 6 30 a. M. Eastern time, independent Data Collected from businesses from china. Check out europe, where early trading is already underwa way the dax is up. In france, trading up by 0. 10 the treasury yield which we have been watching so closely, pushing above 2. 6 for the tenyear 2. 603 so we were at 25,000 and 1,000 points in eight trading sessions 1,000 on 25,000 is 4 think about 4 . What is every person say, sell side guy say coming on here. Mid Single Digits 4 . So either its more than that or there will be a lot of reversion of the mean. We did 4 already. I get a bit annoyed because its