Good thursday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john fortt. Julia boorstin joins us for the hour at post 9 sara eisen is off. A lot to watch today the dow breaking through 24,000, now up, intraday record and strong day for the nasdaq, too getting news john mccain is on board regarding the Senate Tax Bill of course, it is the last trading day of the month joining us, dan morgan, senior Portfolio Manager. Before that, elon with more on mccain senator john mccain is a yes on the tax reform bill he had been one of the key undecided votes on the republican tax plan, but he said in a Statement Today that though this is not perfect legislation, he does believe that it will grow the economy and add more money to the pockets of middle class families this is key for republicans. They also got a boost when Lisa Murkowski of alaska said she would support the bill, as well, so the only two vocal holdouts appear to be senator ron johnson and senator susan collins, so it look
Heading our way in an hour and crude inventories not long after that new record at the open but the selloff for tech stocks continues to weigh on the nasdaq and s p. Jack ma, the push to brick and mortar and why jeff bezos struggled in the Chinese Market. A turning point for snap, a key 2018 outlook upgrade shares are up in the premarket. Futures are pointing to a higher open after the record setting day for the dow and s p offset by the sell offin Technology Microsoft and amazon had the biggest impact on the nasdaq and optimism surrounding tax reform. We did manage to get the vote in the house to go to conference with a little bit of drama last night. Jim, you said the reversal yesterday, doesnt bode well well, look, i was doing my show and you posted a little squib about reversal and i did not realize how serious reversal was obviously its more serious for the but i find reversals catch people out of position when youre out of position, you scramble and start reaching for things you
And a special guest, cnbc senior contributor larry kudlow your money update very quickly right now. The big cap indexes of your fractionally, not a whole lot. Smaller cap names, visavis the russell 2000 are down very slightly just quickly before we get to larry, John Najarian and the overall markets, starting to see a couple of trader notes suggesting maybe this rally might pause a little bit heading into the new year for a few different reasons. Your thought on the macro markets. Sure. You could see that pause that refreshes, brian, and indeed it might be just that but i think a lot of people are very happy with the year they have got so the likelihood they will more or less keep the hands in the boat rather than reaching for something out there, that could be happening here. And obviously what were going to be talking about with mr. Kudlow regarding the tax bill implications, weve already heard a little bit from some corporations saying how much its going to impact them. Obviously pe
Housing startswere pretty soli this morning roadmap begins with that record run for the markets. The dow has now closed at a record 70 times this year. Will the rally push through year end amid turmoil in d. C. Speaking of records, the nasdaq breaks through 7,000 for the first time were going to take a look at the names driving that index higher. And downgrade for apple has the stock down slightly and hot holiday item that is sold out. Weve got the latest first up, futures are on the rise after another historic day for stocks, including the dow posting the record close of the year the house is expected to vote on the tax reform bill later on today. Looks like pretty clear sailing and Senate Begins a mandatory debate but pretty much with colins and corker and lee, this thing will get done. I think that people are driven by estimates. And i had United Rentals last night. United rentals immediately gets more cash. What are they going to do . Put more people to work, buy back more stock. W
And sunday at 2 00 p. M. On American History tv on cspan3. Working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. This week on q and a, New York Times staff photographer, doug mills. Mr. Mills talks about covering President Trump and discusses some of the photos he took during and after the 2016 president ial election. New york times photographer, doug mills, your last visit back in 2013, you were photographing a lot of barack obama. What has changed in your life since then . President we have a who is not a politician in the white house and American People elected somebody who is a for us. It is a lot of work. We work nonstop. The president drives a new cycle hourly. Therefore it affects us everyday. The white house is quite an exciting place to work right now. Host how is it different . Doug from a photographer standpoint, we havent let more access to the president. I see have more on a daily basis and we did with barack obama. Sometimes three or four times per day. Sometimes five