Of people working. And throughout the week, our trade guys will be meeting their chinese counterparts in shanghai. Add all of this up, it looks positive for your money as we kick off the new week. The two democrat debates will dominate the week in politics. Tuesday and wednesday nights, cnn hosts. That should be interesting. Don lemon, a trump hater, is inexplicablejy a moderator. Stay there, please. Congressman nadler calls the president disgusting and racist. Its a big show. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart we got the video. Violent protests, more violent protests over the weekend in hong kong. The residents angry over the citys autonomy. Take me through it. Susan this is an escalation in the confrontation, first backtoback we have seen since they started these protests started in june of this year. The police are taking more aggressive tactics, firing tear gas, rubber bullets. Also, the protesters are taking it more seriously as well. They have started what they are calling
Is that the great bill helping the middle class . Absolutely not. Dagen the house will vote on the bill later today, likely sending it to the president side or derisive procedurals not that his force the second vote. The snag over in the senate. Following the passage in the Senate Current futures are showing this happening in the markets. Slight pullback in the dow up 37 points. We are seeing possibly new alltime highs for all your major market gauges. Either way, you have highs on the transports earlier in the week. Literally every Single Market in the u. S. Has been moving in sync on the optimism from the tax reform package. Check in on england, france and germany, all the slave markets down two tenths of a percent. Asia overnight stocks mostly lower as well. The nikkei in japan up ever so slightly. I suspect in america the terror Group Warning of the new years eve attack as new York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces heightened security measures for the holidays. Uber dull people in eu
Barrel. 60. 12 a barrel. Lauren in europe this is how stocks are trading this friday morning. Mixed bag. Cac down 4 in paris. Markets were close nod south korea, nikkei lower by just fractionally. Lauren too little too late the socalled fix apple is calling for your iphone. Fbn am starts right now. Lauren it is 5 01 a. M. In new york on friday, december 29th, good morning, im lauren simonetti. Lea good morning, lauren, im Lea Gabrielle in for Cheryl Casone this morning. Last show of the year. It is, indeed. Lauren lets begin with strong words from the oval office, President Trump is criticizing north korea and china after the country reportedly and here is the image spotted illegally selling oil to north korea obviously in defiance of un sanctions against the north, trump spoke to New York Times, he says his position on trade with china has been soft and hopes the country would help end north koreans Nuclear Program but now trump says, quote, oil going into north korea, that wasnt my d