Plus it is round two astrumps cabinet appointees are taking the hot seat on capitol hill. The hearing for interior secretary is currently underway. In just one hour, Senate Democrat are expected to grill betsy devos, trumps choice for education secretary. Fox business will be bringing that hearing from stem to stern live. Coming upjohn stossel will join on after the bell to sound off on all this. Melissa dow plunging as dollar slides to onemonth low as president elect donald trump described the currency as too strong in an interview with the wall street journal. Phil flynn, Price Futures Group is fox business contributor. Watching action on gold from floor of the cme. Lori rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Lori, start with you. What was driving the trade here. Dollars was a big theme throughout the session. What is wrong with a strong dollar . Multinationals that do a whole lot of business like nike, mcdonalds, makes it more expensive for them to do that business. Si
Antilibrary on these people. You what . I told them and i warned them beforehand that i hate libraries, and so, but, one of the striking things that i have been talking to people for weeks about, and preparing for this, and it is that people have childhood memories in particular of the libraries and when they first got, and they are the favorite moments and curious if they can start, and i have to introduce you, my goodness, and to my left, Susan Hild Rhett is the former director of the museum and library service, and Senate Appointed service, and treasurer of the American Library association, and to her left is the director of the director of the future of the center for libraries and initiative of the American Library association examining Library Innovation and the communities they serve and finally susan packer who is the Deputy University librarian at ucla where she builds University Design and serves at the the librarys chief financial officer. Susan parker, let me start with you
Erin 7 00. A lot of volume, take a look at 66, Prince William parkway, not the only air area with major congestion, big problems on 210 as well. Well take a closer look at that, allison and steve. Is starting off with headlines in california. Crews still investigating the cause of a deadly plane crash. A family of five, man, wife and three children. Authorities say three people dead, two survived. The family took off from riverside headed home to san jose after a cheerleading competition. It crashed into a residential area. Two homes were destroyed. Minor damage to other homes. Nobody on the ground hurt. Police investigating a deadly shooting. Gunshots rang out. Melanie is all over this one. Shes live for this one. Reporter what were hearing from neighbors theyre saying 30 to 40 heard. So frightened by the sound, they grabbed their family, and loved ones and just went to safety in the back of their homes, heres the ally right here and as the sun is coming up, you can see even more of t
Erin 7 00. A lot of volume, take a look at 66, Prince William parkway, not the only air area with major congestion, big problems on 210 as well. Well take a closer look at that, allison and steve. Is starting off with headlines in california. Crews still investigating the cause of a deadly plane crash. A family of five, man, wife and three children. Authorities say three people dead, two survived. The family took off from riverside headed home to san jose after a cheerleading competition. It crashed into a residential area. Two homes were destroyed. Minor damage to other homes. Nobody on the ground hurt. Police investigating a deadly shooting. Gunshots rang out. Melanie is all over this one. Shes live for this one. Reporter what were hearing from neighbors theyre saying 30 to 40 heard. So frightened by the sound, they grabbed their family, and loved ones and just went to safety in the back of their homes, heres the ally right here and as the sun is coming up, you can see even more of t
Was down slightly. Down by less than 0. 2 . Stocks in china were higher with the hang seng up wi a thiby a ta percentage point. The early trading in europe at this hour, things are mixed. The dax and ftse are slightly higher. Lets look at crude oil prices. Again, yesterday was a down day for equities. If you see another down day today, thats the first time in the first time in first backtoback losses in a month if you see things close lower today. Energy markets showing wti by 11 cents to 53. 31. Now to the agenda. Some government stuff coming out. Economic reports coming out today. The january trade deficit out at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Thats followed by january Consumer Credit numbers at 3 00 p. M. As for earnings, brownforman, the maker of jack daniels and corbel sparkling wine that company will report results before the open along with dicks sporting goods, and after the close, h r block. April 15th is coming. It is ive done nothing with my taxes. How about you. Ive received things. I