Good morning, im in today for Brian Sullivan lets start off with our your money and the Global Markets are shaping up on this monday morning. The dow will be higher by around 90 or some points. Gaining some ground in the past few minutes. You can see the s p higher by 4 points and the nasdaq rarely an underperformer now you can see implied open lower by 16 points now this is coming after solid gains for the major indices last week more on that in one moment here. Turning to the bond market as well, the yield on the benchmark ten year Government Note or just around 56 basis points the two year note yield about 13 basis points and the 30 yearlong bond a hair below 1. 24 or 124 basis points taking a quick look at the price of gold as well, remember, hovering around the record highs. That key one to watch, the last trade there, gold futures up about three quarters of 1 lets go worldwide karen is in london in the newsroom what can you tell us about the trading there. Seeing those u. S. Futu
On the forecast and it was absolutely lovely into the evening i would say. Is steve around . Okay. We have got you. The joys of broadcasting from home. Yesterday was a warm day and we will continue the warming today. Friday forecast is the warmest day for many, near 90 for some well inland and with that travis in fairfield, 50s on the temperatures and san jose is at 57, 46 at the napa airport, and there are lots of 50s including mona cricket 56 in oakland and berkeley also 57 and everything will be up and over, seattle and portland getting rain but not us. Temperatures will be well above average and we will talk about today with a lot of 80s including 87 around santa rosa. Now lets get over to Sal Castaneda , happy friday. Happy friday to you steve and mondays and fridays i have no trouble knowing what day of the week it is for some reason. Now lets go to san mateo bridge, traffic looking good heading to the highrise, with no major issues and traffic continues to look very good. No pro
Lets see what happened overnight in asia. The flnikkeiclosed down. Hang seng down by 5 points the shanghai composite up by a third of a percentage point. In europe in some early trading, looks like the dax is up by a third of a percentage point. The cac is up bay half py a half percentage point finally check out crude Oil Prices Crude Oil yesterday down by 1. 4 on some questions about u. S. Supply and also doubts about whether russia is going to be cutting output whether it will stick with that. This morning down 1 couple big stories were watching japans softbank offering to purchase shares of uber at a valuation of only 28 billio 4 . Thats a huge drop of the most recent valuation of 68 billion. Ubers board approved the investment in october. It would expand the board and cut the influence of founder travis kalanick. Big question about whether people will tend near this offer. The consortium is led by softbank, and they plan to take a stake of 14 in uber if they dont get it at this pri
Jumping into the bitcoin game wall street legend art cashin has a bitcoin prediction for 2018 well tell you what it is in a couple minutes cant wait for that. Plus the question Everyone Wants answered, will my taxes go down because of this bill . We got a Financial Adviser who breaks down the impact of the tax reform bill coming up in a little bit. We begin in washington today, lawmakers are expected t vote in a little less than two hours on the legislation to keep the government from shutting down lets get right to Kayla Tausche for the very latest right now. Kayla . Reporter bill, theyll vote on the houses version of thereat legislation that was published overnight. It would be a shortterm extension of government funding at current levels through january 19th, as well as funding for some critical programs like Childrens Health insurance. And the fisa surveillance program. In addition, the house is going to consider an 81 billion Disaster Relief bill theyve been debating that as well
We are halfway through the trading day from one of the final trading days of the year. Abigail doolittle is with us. We got a huge tax overhaul today, but the market already knew that. Abigail yes indeed. Small declines. We do have the news of the taxcut bill being signed today, put into the law of the land. On this, very small declines. Atestors are looking past it this point, having priced it into some degree already. At gains, not huge gains, but were looking at gains. This is where we are seeing bigger action, some of the alternatives, fiat currencies. Bitcoin, we cannot get away from the bitcoin story. Down 17 . Earlier today at one point come down 30 . Bear market in one day. Tremendous volatility, the worst day since 2013. Bitcoin did come into existence in 2009 as an alternative to Financial Institutions after the financial crisis. Other alternatives to be fiat currencies, gold and silver. Even though the dollar is higher typically you dont see that. Interesting to see all of t