Won, i want the gold i watched a couple hours of it unbelievable, right . Im still trying to understand you try to get it in the center thing or not you want to new york the other guy out. Whats the hammer if you have the hammer. I dont know the terminology come on i know we won by knocking them out those guys are intense. This guy has been there for several olympics when the guys get what is he called . Who does the pushing . Yeah. They score. Hes like 9 or something. When the guy on the other side is holding the brush i think theyre getting rid of the friction in between to make sure it goes the right direction. I know, but the guy at the other end, he is not moving, theyre aiming it . Theres a lot more skill involved than we have given them credit for yeah. And what if theyre running down and a foot hits is that a technical they have to be careful it is slippery theres a deal breaking not a curling deal. General mills buying blue buffalo for 8 billion in cash or 40 a share. Blue buf
You can see that the stoxx 600 was up about 1 3 of 1 on the day and the ftse was higher as well. The german dax was up 30 . Cac 40 up as well so the final trading of the year is showing some gains. If you are trading british pounds and buying the ftse, you would have done well. Looking at currency movements, this is related to the u. S. Dollar. These other currencies that did well. Versus the u. S. Dollar. Went 21 lian real higher on the South African rand and some of the asian currencies are doing well. The Canadian Dollar appreciated 3 as well. The british pound was the laggards of this year, down almost 70 . The mexican peso as well down almost 17 . We also had safety trades. Many strategists say there is much more there. This is the 12 month outlook. Its the final trading day in the u. S. Abigail doolittle has your market news. Looking at small the kleins for u. S. Stocks on se last day of trading small declines for u. S. Stocks on the last day of trading. The dow is on pace for hi
Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Charles Schwab report before the bell. And well hear from netflix after the close on the day. We should tell you that squawk has an extension today, because we have interviews with jamie dimon who will be with us later on sidewalk on the street, and loyal blankfein will be with us later as well. Dont miss that. When nbc has a saturday game, its thursday night football a lot of times on saturday. It may be in the 9 00 or 10 00 hour back on the east coast, but its still squawk box. Were just extending this. Yeah. Extending the programming. Lets not confuse anyone at home. Normally we have the futures in the red. Rarely do we get the thermometer in the red. Its actually minus below zero. Is it right now . Minus 3 celsius or fahrenheit . No, minus 3 fahrenheit. But sunny and beautiful. Tobey cosgrove in the sun. Look. Hes glowing. Lets turn now you cant see him. Youll see him in a moment. Turning now to the agenda, which is on capitol hill. Just two days away f
Pruitt, who is the designate for the Environmental Protection agency, the Oklahoma Attorney general, who will also be who is also on the hill for his confirmation hearing today. Very, very busy week as we lead up to the inauguration on friday. Yep. Not just this, the president s going to speak, his final News Conference at 2 00. Janet yellen in San Francisco at 3 00. So its a packed afternoon as well as a packed morning. Lets get to john harwood in washington and see what youre seeing. Hey, john. Reporter carl, first of all, weve got 48 hours left before this inauguration, and donald trump is still trying to develop some political momentum heading into that day, pushing back this morning against reporting by nbc news, among others, that suggested that some of the job announcements that have come recently have been already planned by the Companies Involved general motors, hyundai, walmart, and not because of trump. He tweeted out this morning, no, it was because of me and complained of
Mostly clear skies with one exception right along the coastline tracking a little bit of fog. The subtle changes coming our way. Fairfield reports a light breeze. Most of us are calm at this point because of the calm conditions. Its a cooler start for many of us. Sfo reporting an on shore breeze at 9 miles an hour. As we get into the second half of the day the on shore breeze will cool down the coast in addition to help bring back the low clouds and fog. By 9 00, 10 00 notice partly cloudy. Just off the coastline. We have that fog bank right there. Down into areas like santa cruz. This is primarily along the west coast here where we have areas like point rays, steven son beach. But notice as we go inland temperatures warming way back into the 70s. A lot of 70s out there. A lot of yellow on the screen. Even a few pockets of low 80s in the forecast. You go toward the coast we have upper 50s to low 60s. This is what i do expect for us today. When i come back,ly put numbers on their screen