Cofounder, welcome to you busy day, good day to have roger on the set another record setting day on the street biggest gain for stocks on tuesday. Rally being driven a lot by tax reform optimism. Bitcoin stealing some part of the story surpassing 11 k less than 24 hours after breaking 10 k. It has backed off that price were learning nasdaq is reportedly planning to launch Bitcoin Futures in the first half of next year. Thats according to dow jones. There is a lot to tackle roger, bitcoin news rortation between sectors as people watch this tax bill advance. Whats the lead for you. To me the bitcoin thing is a phenomenon at this point its really hard to know what to say. What do you do when the thing is going up 10 a day, whole asset class going up 10 a day, youre obviously not doing this on fundamentals theres a lot of enthusiasm here to me what really matters is where does it land what role is it going to play in the economy going forth, because its clearly worked brilliantly as a trad
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
Anna Saudi Arabias Energy ministers said stockpiles will not be any less close to opecs target when the group meets in june. The secondking for half of 2018 to see where we are in terms of supply and demand, so there is no intent to revisit that. Anna good morning, everybody. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. A warm welcome to the program. Aning a little bit in market that is the pressure you get from the asia equity session. Msci asiapacific down by. 1 . The stocks got a boost on top story, going up by. 4 on the s p in the middle of the session, but we are treated have we already seen the big men up on this story . Meeting in japan. No change, essentially, to policy. The big question is about governor kuroda and how long he plans to stay. Be bringing you that in japan. The 10 year yields very much mattof the story, miller. It touched 2. 5 in yesterdays session. We had lots of conversations about what was driving that. When is President Trump going to sign the legislation . A little b
Votes . I think we have the votes. I think that rand paul actually is going to vote for the tax cuts. I think that other people you know, we had tremendous enthusiasm this time. Health care. I want to get it by the end of the year, but i would be very disappointed if it took that long. Maria we will also hear from Steve Ballmer, Martha Stuart, and leon. First of all, 2017 was easily defined by washington, d. C. And year one for new president. President trump pushed unsuccessfully on repealing and replacing obamacare right out of the gate. He had better results with tax cuts. Back in june, i asked home depots billionaire cofounder and business icon about the climate in washington. As usual, he did not hold back. Whats the state of washington today . Chaotic. Maria thats what it sounds like. Every place you look, chaotic. The wheels have come off. I understand the democrats being obstructionists. I understand the democrats seeking an identity. Right now, they want to be relevant. The bes
I think that rand paul actually is going to vote for the tax cuts. I think that other people you know, we had tremendous enthusiasm this time. Health care. I want to get it by the end of the year, but i would be very disappointed if it took that long. Maria we will also hear from Steve Ballmer, Martha Stuart, and leon. First of all, 2017 was easily defined by washington, d. C. And year one for new president. President trump pushed unsuccessfully on repealing and replacing obamacare right out of the gate. He had better results with tax cuts. Back in june, i asked home depots billionaire cofounder and business icon about the climate in washington. As usual, he did not hold back. Whats the state of washington today . Chaotic. Maria thats what it sounds like. Every place you look, chaotic. The wheels have come off. I understand the democrats being obstructionists. I understand the democrats seeking an identity. Right now, they want to be relevant. The best way they can be relevant in their