We are just 43 days away from the most wonderful time of year. We found out today that the rally will continue into next year setting a year end target of 4300. The question tonight, is santa claus really coming to town or will the grinch steal christmas, guy . With you folks with kids in the room, i will give you a fut secon few seconds to have them lead. I am in the grinch box that was a great tune that bobby helms sang all of the great things, the market is still expensive. In terms of market cap gdp north of 175 which is by any metric the far end of the curve i dont see it getting there i have been wrong before and probably will began. But the vix cant correct all of the things going into january of next year. I am in the grinch camp but bore l Boris Karloff did a good job. Technology finished the day strong we saw a comeback of the trade that looked like it was unwinding. Yeah, may the winter war lock, the heat miser, snow miser, hear it, santa is coming. Its opposite day today re
Watching R T International coming to you straight from moscow 247 welcome to the program this hour. We start this hour with the latest reaction from the kremlin on aleksey it not by any means its spokesperson says moscow fails to understand what prompted berlin to claim that the russian Opposition Leader was poisoned by a nerve agent Dimitri Peskov also revealed that the russian president and german chancellor havent discussed the issue. There are verjee joins me live now from the german capital peter what else have we been hearing from the russian side. Oh. Well moscow isnt happy with the way germany has handled the announcement in saying this to legs again of on the was poisoned using a novacek nerve agent the statement was made before the Russian Ambassador and being called into the Foreign Ministry to discuss it and. Said when he was in that meeting no facts were put forward by the german side the kremlin spokesperson demitted press corps has said that its essential they cant comme
The hill, we also have ashley gold of the information and Alexandra Levine of politico. Ms. Levine, first question to you. Facebook has seen a lot of attention in this town the last couple of months. Do we expect what is going on with that case and do we expect further attention . Thank you for having me. Great to be here but 5 million settlement with facebook was a combination of this long privacy probe by the Cambridge Analytic data scandal was in washington so on one hand you have republicans and Industry Groups saying that the 5 billiondollar fine because its the largest go down in history of the agency that it meant facebook was being held accountable. On the other side you have democrats in Consumer Privacy advocates blasting the ftcs track record on enforcement and saying that because of facebooks size and how much money it has it will not deter facebook from bad behavior in the future but right now in washington we are sort of in this wait and see mode with facebook where faceb
Lisa but interestingly, they also took down their loan loss estimate, so that basically speaks to the strong consumer. The question is if wall street revenues dont pick up and trading volumes dont pick up, will it be enough to have a strong consumer to drive Bank Earnings Going Forward . David it is not just jp morgan. It is also Johnson Johnson. We got earnings from them, and they beat on earningspershare and revenue. 2. 58,spershare was revenue was 22 billion. It was driven by pharmaceuticals, but most of the queries will be about the legal complications from opioids and talchis asbestos in allegation. Lisa it will be interesting how they frame that. David we will have more on j js earnings later this hour with joseph wolk, Johnson Johnsons cfo. Climbing a little bit. The dollar getting a bid, and to year yields up just a basis point. David at 7 30 this morning, Goldman Sachs reports secondquarter earnings, followed by wells fargo at 8 00. At 8 30, the u. S. Releases retail Sales Num
Nor the people of new york more and remain open to dialogue. But let us be clear, if an attack were to bonds are taken against us, but it will not be the welcome to park. Some people seem to think g r i are you from here that are emission is not to confiscate power. I also reaffirm already and is to engage in any dialogue as long as it takes into account the orientations desired by the proud and resilient people of new year. Thousands of residents in western canada had been forced to evacuate. Their homes is 2 separate wild, 5 inch close to 5. 5 is a using a tank, isnt helicopters to build the yellow and i find northwest territories. And the mcdougall file in British Columbia as well. No one islands of mount research and recovery teams that continuing the grim task of finding the remains of wild 5 victims cruise from Washington State and california using cut out the dogs to search for hundreds of people who are missing off the wild finds, raised much of the Historic Town of the honda,