Sessions wrapping up this afternoon. Cory booker a senator testifying against sessions. The first time a sitting senator has gone after one of his own. And president elect donald trump using his First Press Conference since winning the election to denounce reports that russia has compromising information on him. He announced plans to cut all ties with his businesses. But it was this exchange thats getting all the headlines. Can you give us a question . Mr. President elect, mr. Esidentelect, since you were attacking no, not you. Not you. You are attacking our news organization. Can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir . Go ahead. Quiet. Quiet. David for the president elect silencing a cnn reporter. We have Team Coverage bringinguses the very latest details on that and all on todays big events. Melissa first up Rex Tillerson where he admitted earlier he and the president elect have not discussed Russian Foreign policy in great detail. I assume to some degree that youve had some di
Third. Hang seng down 0. 2. European equities, heres a look across the board. Seeing red, that is bleeding over into our markets. The ftse 100 the worst performer, down three quarters of a percent. The german dax, relative outperformer, down 0. 1 there. As we keep an eye on the trading in that session. Crude, obviously continuing to be important for the market. Kind of hovering around these levels here. 51. 52. Wti, brent both up a bit. Nat gas making a move as well. It has been whipsawed around the last couple of weeks. Ecb holding its first policy meeting of the year. President mario draghi will hold his normal News Conference at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Last month they decided to extend the Bond Buying Program until late 2017. Look at the euro. We are trading 1. 06 versus the dollar, the yen, 114, and against the pound, 1. 23. In the u. S. Today, fed chair janet yellen will deliver another speech. This time in stanford, she will take questions from the audience. In remarks yesterday, a h
Good morning. Happy friday. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me as well. A great tune to bring us in. Lets look at the Global Markets this morning after stocks lost early gains in yesterdays session. The dow down about 15 points. It was in a tight range all day. The post fed celebration wore off. Healthcare was a laggard, technology and financials did end higher for the day. As for futures. S p lower by a full point. Dow down 1. Nasdaq barely positive. As for the tenyear treasury note yield, 2. 53. We really have seen yields back off lower. We have. But this is a decent move up today. We were down immediately 2. 5 , but ending the week picking up a bit. The story of the week as a whole, a flattening of the yield curve. The tenyear and the 30year moving down, the twoyear moving up. 2. 53 for the tenyear. For the whole, stocks are higher given the fedinspired mini rally in the middle of the week. Up a half percent for the we
All three major indexes taking a big hit. First intraday drop of more than 1 for the s p 500 in 64 days. That happened earlier today. That kind of call market has not gone back happening to all the way back to the 1960s. Nasdaq, intraday high at the open. It has now pulled back also more than 1 . Melissa said it, financials feeling the most pain. Beyond yields moving as well. Small caps are have thing the russell of all. Russell 2000 down the most of all the major indexes. Tyler . Im tyler mathisen. Second day of confirmation hearings under way for president Trumps Supreme Court pick, neil gorsuch. Preet bharara will join nyu law as a distinguished scholar in residence, he was fired as the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of manhattan earlier this month. And days of heavy rains triggering the worst flooding peru has seen in decades. Look at that amazing video. A man washed away, as tries to drive cross, ill advisedly, obviously, a flooded road. More than 70 floodrelated deaths
Drop 20 i said take all the gray out, this is what happened. High and tight. Certainly cheat the wind if you go out on a motorcycle. Man, no drag whatsoever. How come you didnt mention this until we went on air. No jacket, youre happy with that at least. Im happy with that. The whole look is clean today. Good. Good. You didnt answer my question, are you ready for baseball sunday night . Have you focussed on im focused on saturday night. Basketball . Yeah. Is it saturday or friday . Its saturday, isnt it. Not tonight. Saturday, both games. Yeah. I still have North Carolina. Good. Then im hoping South Carolina beats gonzaga, so all the people who have gonzaga do not win the bracket. Then its a North Carolina and South Carolina so youre rooting for yourself and against everybody else. In life and in the brackets, yes. It is the last trading day of the quarter. Right now it looks like the futures are indicating a lower open. Dow futures down by 41 points. S p 500 is off by five. Nasdaq dow