in from the pentagon from john kirby, the spokesperson there. they ve still not held a news briefing yet i want to show you the statement. we can confirm that a number of u.s. service members were killed in today s complex attack at the kabul airport. a number of others are being treated for wounds we know that a number of afghans fell victim to this heinous attack he goes on, our thoughts and prayers go out to the loved ones and teammates of all of those killed and injured we have new reporting in from the wall street journal. nbc news cannot confirm this but the wall street journal is reporting that while no group has claimed responsibility western governments did earlier this week warn of islamic states regional affiliate isis-k. the u.s. envoy in kabul, again from the wall street journal, told staff that four marines why killed and three of the injured in an attack, an american official familiar with this briefing a senior afghan help official tells the wall street
energy market time to resolve extra supply. the list of expands chinese companies it says are owned or controlled by the chinese military. shery: we have an alert on the bloomberg, we are getting south korean account numbers, widening to 11.6 $6 billion from the previous month when it came it at $10.1 billion. that was slightly revised downwards from original numbers. to 10.1s plus narrowing billion dollars in october from the previous month. all in all, the export-import makes her looks pretty strong in south korea, we are seeing a recovery, exports rising in november. we are also seeing strong demand for tech devices and gains in key markets and the current account surplus widening to $11.66 billion. let s see how markets are looking, australian online, sophie kamaruddin is in hong kong. saw a knee-jerk reaction to the news on pfizer s a more hick up, and measured reaction here in asia, the asx 200 coming online little changed. group a big drag on the benchmark, but we are
and it just got a hunl buy call. we ll debate in our call of the day. halftime report starts right now. all right, welcome. good to have you on this wednesday. our investment committee, jon and pete, anastasia is the global strategist at jpmorgan s private bank rich, one of barren s top 100 financial advisers we begin with the late e on the markets. stocks are higher again hour the dow is barely holding on to a gain as are the major averages the nasdaq did a new record even as the house stands to impeach a sitting president for the third time in the history of this country. we ll get to d.c. in a moment, but let s begin with the surge rick, you want to take a stab at the sector that keeps marching higher 70 is a new record facebook tops 200. adobe. nvidia, lamb research, all hitting new highs. every investment portfolio has to have tech stocks it s a part of the market and it s important to have them for a lot of characteristics number one, they re generating large amount
put them together, you get paidweb. we look at one of the best-performing china etf s this year. whether you embrace or fear etf s, there is no getting around their influence. of course, we want to bring in eric balchunas now to get a sense of where the money is coming and going. eric: you brought it up, it is déjà vu all over again when it comes to etf flows. december flows going from 2 billion a day to 3 billion a day. institutions have gotten back in the market because of tax reform. i can tell by the products they are using. a ton of flows. a lot of hot money excited. it is really dia that seals the deal. when we look at dia s historical flows, the last time we saw flows like this was right after the election. dia is the dow jones etf, which is largely forgotten. after trump won, we saw a lot of flows into the dow. we ve seen 1.5 billion in december. why do people like of the dow to play trump s agenda? let s look at what the dow actually looks like. it is an odd index.
manufacturing contracted for the tenth straight month, and contracting at a faster pace. and this ban on insider selling will end in a few days. china put in some circuit breakers that remind me of 87 and they didn t know how the circuit breakers would work. they encouraged selling, not discouraged it. the communist party can be late at figuring out what to do. i would not count them out in terms of their ability to manipulate the market back up. one thing is certain of 2015, in the face of bad economic data, the market did not react because the communists propped it. they have abilities to stop selling, including making it criminal prosecution. it could be criminal again to sell. that we all know that s true. could be a white collar crime once again to sell. so, the idea that you think china will be down multiple days f you re selling stocks because of that, the communist party won t let that happen. some say the manufacturing data from december was not a big surprise