Negative and s p is back in the black for 2015. Show you what is happening in europe where you see european stock extending their december losses. European stocks are down 4. 5 for the month. Red arrows across the screen with germany down 1 . Germany is closed tomorrow for the you new year holiday. Treasuries selling off, yields sharply higher in light trading. Big story has been in the two year bond yield where weve seen the highest level since back in 2010. Crude oil under pressure, that is hurting stocks. Wti just back over 37 a barrel. Drench t brent actually trading high. We begin with amazon and google hitting alltime highs. Will the s p be able to close in the green for 2015 . Its another win for carl icahn. Bridge stone says it will not counter his off for pep boys. And apple will settle for failing to pay taxes between you 2008 and 2013. So stocks poised to open lower. Data from American Petroleum institute indicate supplies building in crude supply. Report due out in about 90
For the nikkei in japan. Half a percent loss in honk song. The biggest move in oil. Crude died almost a buck a barrel. We will head to the cme to find out what is driving the trade. New concerns over nsa spying could not impact our relationship with israel. The washington journal of reporting agency targeted israeli theaters even after president obama announced he would cut back on monitoring friendly heads of state. Also reporting surveillance picked up private communications with u. S. Lawmakers. More on this coming out. Philadelphia eagles need a new coach. Chip kelley fired yesterday after nearly three seasons. The season was 2621, lost five of the seven games. One can left in the regular season and kelley is out of there. Hoverboards in the meantime a popular gift this Holiday Season. Plenty of People Struggle to master riding them, including mike tyson. Mike tyson posted that video of himself on his program, including the hash tag, i am too old for this. This is me making fun of
Stocks declining. They are alike lower on oil prices. Tom lots to talk about, not only the markets, but look just across the bloomberg hd screen, francine. European unemployment coming bon stocks declining. They are alike lower in, and that was off that german unemployment. Its a shift from challenged markets with a good economy. Francine yeah, pretty good. Maybe pretty good is too optimistic, but the overall jobless rate decreased. So it is a little better than expected. Well itake it. Lets get to the first word. Vonnie thank you. The first test of the president ial campaign ended up with surprising results. Ted cruz won the republican vote while Hillary Clinton edged out Bernie Sanders. Cruz upset donald trump 20 to 24 , and marco rubio did better than expected with 23 . Victory for the grassroots. [applause] tonight is a victory for courageous conservatives across iowa and all across this great nation. Caroline meanwhile vonnie meanwhile, Hillary Clinton failed to get a decisive vic
Euro zone, where they stake their claim to rapid expansion on the continent. Hello. Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. And i am an edwards. And i am manus cranny. 6 30 here in london, a guest will join us. And we have a chinese theme. It has been a torrid day, the shanghai composite falling by more than 6 today, and the reason is the suspension of three firms. They are controlling margin investing due to a concern that a recent stern show search in stock prices could have a negative effect. Cutting back on the brokerages is their money. That is right. They are trying to curb people from buying into this rally this ultra bull rally, and it was up 60 last year until todays fall. We are talking 290 billion dollars of market cap has just been wiped out in just one day not a great day in the shanghai composite. It is the steepest drop, the most in five years again after the three biggest brokerages were stopped from adding more margin trading accounts, and they were suspended for three
Weakness in asia but again it looks like germany and france are turning things around at this point. Okay. Well talk about ebola this morning. The first case of a person contracting ebola on u. S. Soil has been confirmed. A Health Care Worker treating Thomas Eric Duncan who died last week contracted the deadly disease. We are joined this morning from dallas by meg tirrell. Meg . Reporter thats right. Good morning. This Health Care Worker was taking care of Thomas Eric Duncan. On friday she started to feel ill, went to the hospital to be assessed on saturday and tested positive. Yesterday the cdc confirmed it was ebola. Now we know that as of yesterday her condition was stable. One of her contacts has been proactively placed into isolation. The cdc director tom frieden said it is unknown exactly how the Health Care Worker was exposed. We dont know what occurred in the care of the index patient, the original patient in dallas. But at some point there was a breach of protocol and that bre