Revenues for 2020 are 7. 7 higher than 2019 instead of using a heavy handed government putting long term restrictions on people, we decided to trust the people that they would be safe and secure and opened our economy if other states would like to see that type of economic recovery, maybe they should address the way they their states are being governed. I know the Federal Reserve is looking in ways of broadening the main Street Lending program, which i think we all realize need to be broadened theres some yaareas id like t see us take a look at and one of those industries that is interested in main Street Lending is specialized Consumer Finance firms which are nonbanks that purchase credit card receivables from card securing banks which enables consumers with sub prime credit to access a credit card which is some of the most vulnerable in our society right now. The ebitda rieequirements preve them from obtaining a loan would you consider modifying to allow the firms to access this prog
And is there no stopping the house of mouse another Box Office Record for disney well tell you about that and more as Worldwide Exchange rolls on right now well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching im Brian Sullivan all right. It is nasty in the new york area i dont know how else to put it. It is cold it is rainy. It is even snowy wherever you are. In fact, careful on the roads out there. The drive in this morning was a little bit slushy, little white powder on the road you have to be little careful out there. By the way, its notonly the final month of the year, final month of the decade. Wow. Futures, theyre decidedly warmer than the weather, dow futures up 100 points right now, up 128 gaining little momentum as early as it is. Do you remember what happened last december . Remember all year pretty much higher on the year heading into the month only to have the worst december since 1931. That sent stocks lower on
Thousands others are injured after gaza terrorist group had hamas launched the most severe attack on israel in years over the weekend, propelling the state of israel into war. Israeli defense minister ordering a complete siege on gaza this morning, saying authorities would cut electricity and block the entry of fuel and food. The wall street journal and many sources reporting that iran is behind hamas attack of israel. They are consistent filling islamic retch revolutionary guae been working since august on the plans. After the white house freed up 6 billion to iran in a prisoner swap, the administration has been defending the decision all weekend, saying the money is being used for humanitarian purposes, not for supporting terrorist groups like hamas. Heres arkansas senator tom cotton with me yesterday on sunday morning futures. Its not just the 6 billion that was re released from sanctn controls last month, its 10 billion that was released from iraq into iran, its looking the other w
Percent. Shanghai stocks down by close to 1 a decline of more than nine tenths in europe there have been some green arrows the dax is up by. 2 the cac is up by a quarter percentage points. Stocks up in italy, spain and london crude oil prices which ended last week just shy of 59 a barrel, check this out right now, down by about 44 cents. Still, wti trading above 58 at 58. 51 a barrel. Now this morning the big news of the day. Publisher meredith buying time, inc. , for2. 8 billion thats the price meredith will pay 18. 50 for time, inc. It publishes wellknown magazines such as time, peopl people. Meredith received 650 million a lot of people raising questions about what this means. Raising 650 million in backing from the billionaire Koch Brothers, charles and david koch are widely known for supporting conservative causes. They say the magazine business is a good investment in the press release koch industry says it will not have any seat on merediths board and will have no influence or e
After yesterdays strong rally following on the heels of wednesdays strong rally, were up about 1 on the dow. I dont like to talk about the dow but unless the s p stronger. China did all right. Shanghai up 1. 8 . Shenzhen up, and nikkei at a 3 gain. We were below 2 at one point on monday in the craziness, but now were hovering in the 1. 2. Crude had its best day in many years. Well above 40 again. Monday, we fell below 40. It has been, to say the least, a volatile week in many markets. Lets get to our road map this morning, and it starts with the last trading day of this wild week. The dow coming off its biggest twoday point gain ever, not percentage but point gain. Equity futures, slipping. Carl icahn has his next target. Why commodities . Why now . Well talk about a company weve talked a lot about and mr. Akahcarl icahn himself, and the takeover continues. Pa perrigo is saying were not interested. Ill have more on what to expect as the Companies Battle it out. Futures moving to the do