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the cameras inside, very candid, very transparent, urging both sides to come to a deal on dreamers. how the president is working to bridge the gap between parties. plus claims of major breakthroughs, north and south korea sitting down for historic meeting. we have details on what came out of the countries first talks in two years. die an black, chairman of the house budget committee. retired four-star general jack keane. jim jordan, house judiciary committee. we have howard kurtz on ground breaking meeting. neil: it was historic. speaking of the market, historic today. the dow posting fourth record close of the new year and its 75th under president trump. nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. open the bottles of champagne, here we go again. is 2018 going to be like 2017? why not. it has been a lot of fun. you mentioned great stats. how about the 92nd record close since election day when we were hovering around 18,300. here we are at 25,386 today ....
points overnight in asia, the nikkei hitting 26-year highs during the trading session. market ended up by over a half percentage point to 23,849 in europe this morning green arrows there the dax up is up by 0.2% in france, the cac is up the ftse up over 0.1%. yesterday the yield on the treasury closing at 2.48%. this morning the ten-year is yielding all the way up, almost 2.496% stocks to watch today. samsung is forecasting a 64% rise in fourth quarter profits on continued demand for memory chips but that guidance is below analyst estimates. the strong yuan and year-end bonuses hit results. samsung will report detailed earnings at the end of the month. shares of altice are higher after the company announced plans to spin off u.s. operations the telecom provider will pay a $1.5 billion cash dividend prior to separation and launch a $2 billion buyback of u.s. shares after the spinoff. british american tobacco says the new u.s. tax rules will boost earnings by 6% in ....
nasdaq the dow also closing at a record high it looks like we ll open sharply lower. the dow losing 124 points right now, the s&p down 13 nasdaq down about 44 what was weighing on the markets yesterday and probably today, the yield on the ten-year note 2.584% right now that s the highest since march 15th a big move in the ten-year treasury yield that s challenging the equity rally today. the yen continuing its strength after the boj said it would continue its bond strengthening services the hang seng up by 0.20%. over in europe, right now at hope the dax down by 0. % cac down by 0.6% looking at the price of crude oil, highest level since 2014. wti, 63.43 breaking news this morning. let s get to becky quick live in omaha. good morning good morning. there s breaking news from berkshire hathaway the company out with a statement saying that it s going to be increasing its board of directors by two members to include two key members of its operations team who people have ....
have stocks moving on that that will bring you up to date and we aredebating whether big change in interest rates is about to affect the stock market we ve seen rumblings of and we ll get to that important story coming up, but we begin with breaking news, a report that canada is increasingly convinced that president trump will pull out of the north american free trade agreement. don chu joins us now with more on how that could affect the market. that tracks some of the biggest companies in canada and in mexico. the biggest companies in canada. you can see that s pretty good stock down about one and a quarter percent. on the chart just when those headlines came out with regard to whether or not canada thinks that the u.s. is going to withdraw from nafta. that move there exacerbated by those headlines. also the ishares mexico capped etf, this is another one that tracks the biggest mexican companies. same kind of situation that chart on the right hand side, right when ....
live from new york where business never sleeps, this is squawk box. good morning welcome to snark box. and what s new about that andrew is off today sitting in with us for the hour is peter boockvar, editor of the boock report very clever. well done. boock report yes i like it also a cnbc cribber we have a lot to talk about. let s start with the u.s. equity futures. rattled rattled. dow was down by 16. the s&p was off by 3 nasdaq down by 10. it s the first time the nasdaq and the s&p have fallen in 2018 it had a six-day winning streak up to that point we ll watch things this morning. right now modest advances with the dow futures indicated up by 20 points. s&p up by 4. nasdaq up by 7 we ll see. still early in the session we ll see as we head towards that opening bell what will happen overnight in asia, stocks in hong kong closing higher for the 13th day in a row, extending the record rining stre inwinning st index. shanghai up by 3.2 the dax is t ....