Good morning, warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost coming to you live from our studios in london today. Lets have a quick look in on futures this morning coming off a day of slight declines yesterday the dow down 0. 2 . The s p down 0. 3 . It comes off a couple of strong days today were pointing higher. 91 points or so for the dow. Nasdaq up 22 s p up 8 points. Well have more on the markets in a moment. First breaking news out of washington the Senate Passing a landmark tax reform bill early this morning. The measure heads back to the house for a final vote President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law later today. Lets get straight to cnbcs ylan mui with the latest from washington good morning good morning. Victory in the senate and a doover in the House Republicans in the senate cleared the tax bill just about four hours ago the final vote was 5148 no democrats voted for it. There were no gop defections Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell characterized the
Decline by a less than a percent for the hang seng and shanghai down a quarter percentage point. In early trading in europe, there are red arrows across the board. The dax is down by a tenth of a percent. Same thing with the ftse cac is down by slightly more than that. Declines also in italy and spain. Looking at crude oil prices, you will see that crude oil is up about 18 cents to 57. 74 lets look at the tenyear yesterday the tenyear topping 2. 4 well look at that in a bit. Here it comes. Yep 2. 455 . Slightly lower than yesterday, but still above 2. 4 this is past the point that Rick Santelli told us to watch for a breakout i read that all of the money not spent on its not true, but all the money not spent on taxes is going to Debt Services as rates go up yeah. Some of it will be. As rates go up, yeah. I was thinking about that this morning as they talk about the government funding needed for the projects i think it was the new york city subway i think what happens as Interest Rates
Approach the federal reserves decision today, to do nothing, keep rates low because theres still not much growth or inflation. You can jump up and down, screaming that the fed has to raise rates and Start Talking about the november or the december meetings, or you can just get on with your life darn it and start buying the stocks in companies that do have growth. Either way were now past the big, bad event, and that almost always brings in buyers which is what happened today. The dow rallied 164 points. S p gained 1. 09 , and the nasdaq climbed 1. 03 . I say you got to say to yourself, how come im not upset about the feds decision to do nothing . Because like janet yellen, i see little inflation and low growth on the horizon, which means raising rates would be kind of a stupid idea. Why does the fed need to tighten with inflation tamed and retail sales weak, manufacturing turning more negative . Whats the point . To appease the critics . To make it so the commentators that come on tv a
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