Your books are praised by oprah, president obama and you win the poets with the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . Before we take the pain away, this book is taken off and away unexpected and startling and wonderful and i thank my lucky stars and they sleep a little better and that her mood generally and try to enjoy despite my best efforts. What is up doing a better mood. I been writing for 20 something years doing fiction for 20 something years temperature write a book and people to get and no one typically cares and it disappears so i had the pride and think it i did a good job from the book and the bonus of other people reading it as well. Host your first book was about elevator repairs, people, how do you sell a book like that. Guest exactly. With that book i wrote a description and i said to my agent you dig in the concept of elevators inspectors or you dont. Youre either along for the ride in the description or not indefinitely when i was writing it was my s
Good morning, im in today for Brian Sullivan lets start off with our your money and the Global Markets are shaping up on this monday morning. The dow will be higher by around 90 or some points. Gaining some ground in the past few minutes. You can see the s p higher by 4 points and the nasdaq rarely an underperformer now you can see implied open lower by 16 points now this is coming after solid gains for the major indices last week more on that in one moment here. Turning to the bond market as well, the yield on the benchmark ten year Government Note or just around 56 basis points the two year note yield about 13 basis points and the 30 yearlong bond a hair below 1. 24 or 124 basis points taking a quick look at the price of gold as well, remember, hovering around the record highs. That key one to watch, the last trade there, gold futures up about three quarters of 1 lets go worldwide karen is in london in the newsroom what can you tell us about the trading there. Seeing those u. S. Futu
2020 fresh economic stimulus from beijing adding to the optimism but under the surface the russell 2000 seeing its worse day in a month and we got some mixed labor market data here in the u. S. Earlier in the session. We are up 235 points on the dow, near highs on the session for all three major averages joining us paul hickey cofounder of the spoke Investment Group very good afternoon to you happy new year to you. Where do you stan in terms of whether this bullishness is justified. Is it easy to pick bullish or bearish as we stand . When you look where things stand out, you look at the equity pros and cons which we look at on a regular basis, the pros are balanced with the cons. That doesnt suggest you should be taking a cautious view or just a neutral view implies average returns for the market Going Forward. And when we look whats going on in the market now, whats happening now, brett hits new high nasdaq hitting new highs what we follow closer than any other group is semiconductors
Cable up by. 3 . Hit sofutures, tech got hard yesterday, we are getting a bit of that back. David oil traders around the world are heartbroken. You have thrown them over for going. It is all jonathans fault. Ok, parliament is debating President Trumps controversial tweet. The president was wrong to retweet antimuslim videos from a far right group, britain first. Earlier, the president tweeted that Prime Minister theresa mays focus should not be on him but on the threat posed by islamic terrorism. The synod is moving toward a final vote on the massive tax overhaul bill as early as today. Lawmakers voted along party lines to begin the debate. That doesnt necessarily signal that Republican Leaders have the authority votes they need. Theenate republicans passed tax bill, they still have to hammer out differences with the house version. Oil prices are edging higher hours after opec meets. The cartel and russia are ready to extend production curbs until the end of next year. The goal is to f