this is how your markets are doing. the us futures are pointed to a higher start. investors are rekindling a bit of their risk aspect of it desk risk appetite. the dollar maintaining gains. treasuries are also pretty much study. brent at $60. coming up, we talk marcus with angie wilson, chief executive for goldman sachs asset management in europe. we also talked to william lauder of estee lauder companies. now let s get to the first word news with taylor riggs. theresa may s government had intended to prevent the parliament from trading the terms of the eu agreement, but lawmakers will not be free to vote on a series of changes to the motion. amendments could include calls for another referendum or a different deal with the eu. the bank of england will publish a financial assessment of the brexit agreement at 4 p.m. today, u.k. time. governor mark carney will hold a press conference 15 minutes afterwards. bloomberg will bring a full coverage later today. former nissan chairma
would show that companies don t always use the asset when they re repatriated to invest in manufacturing, jobs, things you gees are talking about they share buybacks and financial engineering. how do you guarantee that won t happen this time so, look, we heard that numerous times if that s our worst-case scenario that companies repatriate their money and use it for share pbuybacks and dividends, what happens? they buy back shares, issue dividends, pay the repatriation tax, we get another 20% tax on capital gains or dividends and the people who get that money back do what they reinvest it back in the economy in new investment and new capital. we re putting very enticing rules into the system that will entice people to invest capital for the next five years. we re giving people a five-year write-off that they can instantly expense. so, look, if that happens, that s fine, we know that money will get invested right back into the economy and drive jobs, drive economic growth, dr
and this morning the iea says it sees the oil glut worsening. the big reason, demand growth now is slowing while opec s out look continues to boom the ieac global market is supplied until at least the end of next year. wti with 36 and change down another 1%. even brent at 39 and natural gas, look at that, below the $2 mark. we were you messed it up yesterday. halftime report we were up like 150 or something? almost 200. almost 200. we ended up, up 80. what did you do? which guy was it do you think? were you on the show. they were both there. could have been either one. or could have been each. but, you know what i think honestly what did happen, oil got weaker and weaker and in the old days if oil went down, it was party. sit that people think it s not as slower or. what is it? the iea saying it s demand and not supply. last two weeks we decided it was all supply. every guy we had on said it was supply. maybe it s just that the shorts out there in the mark
no funk for the consumer. targeted at $6 billion, snap chat with 0 billion in revenue, raising a new height this morning. facebook s first downgrade since march of this year, and the growth will slow in 2015. for the first time, the targets open with the s&p above 2,000 coming off the 30th record close of the year and dow hit new intraday highs in tuesday session, and nasdaq at a fresh 14 and a half year high, up 4.5%. interesting action so far. we have a cease fire in gaza, meeting how the geopolitical story reversed and markets like that. lack of news is good news for the market. the bullish momentum continues. milestone after milestone, but momentum is a keyword to talk about and whether it continues the 30th record close for stocks? the action is in the currency market. overnight, the year row hit the lowest level in a year, ramped up hopes, right, simon, for more action and weak economic data fuelling the fire. i think one. most interesting barometers this mornin
hour. if you re a regular viewer, you would know that. we ll take you all the way to the close. middle of the range so far in today s trade so far. you heard the brain trust. pimco. you folks were having that last hour exclusively here on cnbc. did they convince investors to stop pulling their money out of pimco in the wake of that shocking sudden departure of bill gross last week? two money managers with skin in the game will tell us what they re doing now. that s coming up. a first on cnbc interview with nfl hall of fame joe namath announcing the creation of a neuro surgery center. plus we re getting the take on all that s been happening in the nfl, the controversy of ray rice and adrian peterson. you do not want to miss what he has to say. joe s not afraid to talk. absolutely. i m sure he will have some thoughts and opinions about all those issues and certainly a lot of buzz as you can imagine here about that on the floor of the new york stock exchange. right n