Hang seng index was weaker down 0. 8 . The shanghai was flat. European equities this morning, if you want to look and see whats happening in early trade, green arrows across the board. The ftse is flat the cac is up by a half percent. The dax is up by 0. 2 . Crude oil prices which were up once again yesterday, weve seen at least six sessions in a row of gains, up to 45. 28. Here are the big stories. Good morning Tesla Ceo Elon musk tweeting again. When asked about speculation on the release date for the model 3, musk tweeted news on sunday the model 3 is teslas highly anticipated socalled affordable model. Starts at 35,000. Musk says the production version of the model 3 will be unveiled in july, but still no official release date tlaes has taken in more than 400,000 preorders for the car. James bullard is retreating further from his formerly hawkish stance on rates. He said weak data undermined the feds plan and the central bank should take a more reactionary approach, if and when it
Were left undelivered. It is a half day close for the markets today. Germany closed today. Other european markets are having shortened sessions. Take a look at futures right now and see how the market is setting itself up for this Christmas Eve market session. Dow jones would open higher, about 43 points higher. Nasdaq up 10 points and the s p 500 up a little over 5 points. Weekly jobless claims, were going to get that at 8 30 eastern time. Economists are looking for 290,000 first time filings for unemployment benefits. Then weve got Corporate News to tell you about. Takatas president is stepping down amid the scandal over that massive air bag recall. The companys grandson will assume that role. Everybody is wearing red. Merry christmas. Merry christmas, everybody. Among the biggest buzz stories this morning, south korea now indicting i thought we were talking about north korea. This is south korea. Ubers ceo. The Ride Sharing Services governing a law involving public transport. This i
All of the new years losses and more on hopes for more stimulus measures in the euro zone and encouraging data here at home about jobs. Just one day ahead of the december jobs report from the labor department. So heres how the markets looked at the closing bell. The dow surging 323 points today with all 30 dow components making gains. The nasdaq gained 85 and the s p up by 36 points with all ten sectors ending higher. More on the good news about jobs. Labor department reporting first time jobless claims fell by 4,000 last kweek. Now cover near 13 year lows. Even though there were nearly 30,000 planned corporate payoffs in december, the Outplacement Firm Challenger Gray and christmas, overall, 2014 had the fewest number of announced job cuts since 1997. Well the december unemployment report is due out tomorrow and expected to be strong. According to dow jones, economists expect to see job gains of about 240,000 and the Unemployment Rate forecasted to fall to 5. 7 . Stewart hawkman joini
More on hopes for more stimulus measures in the euro zone and encouraging data here at home about jobs. Just one day ahead of the december jobs report from the labor department. So heres how the markets looked at the closing bell. The dow surging 323 points today with all 30 dow components making gains. The nasdaq gained 85 and the s p up by 36 points with all ten sectors ending higher. More on the good news about jobs. Labor department reporting first time jobless claims fell by 4,000 last kweek. Now cover near 13 year lows. Even though there were nearly 30,000 planned corporate payoffs in december, the Outplacement Firm Challenger Gray and christmas, overall, 2014 had the fewest number of announced job cuts since 1997. Well the december unemployment report is due out tomorrow and expected to be strong. According to dow jones, economists expect to see job gains of about 240,000 and the Unemployment Rate forecasted to fall to 5. 7 . Stewart hawkman joining us now for a preview and more
All of the new years losses and more on hopes for more stimulus measures in the euro zone and encouraging data here at home about jobs. Just one day ahead of the december jobs report from the labor department. So heres how the markets looked at the closing bell. The dow surging 323 points today with all 30 dow components making gains. The nasdaq gained 85 and the s p up by 36 points with all ten sectors ending higher. More on the good news about jobs. Labor department reporting first time jobless claims fell by 4,000 last kweek. Now cover near 13 year lows. Even though there wereho nearly 30,000 planned corporate payoffs in december, the Outplacement Firm Challenger Gray and christmas, overall, 2014 had the fewest number of announced job cuts since 1997. Well the december unemployment report is due out tomorrow and expected to be strong. According to dow jones, economists expect to see job gains of about 240,000 and the Unemployment Rate forecasted to fall to 5. 7 . Stewart hawkman joi