Crown the world from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with all this mornings top stories. We begin in china, where the government signals a cash injection is on the way to ensure a strong start in 2020. At a meeting in china, the premier said the resiliency is continuing. The chinese economy is resilient. The Chinese Market is huge. We are determined to open up further. We will reach a winwin relationship with other countries, especially with our neighbors. Alix joining me on the phone is sharon chen, the beijing bureau chief. What have we learned from his speech . Give us a backup of the bilateral meeting. Sharon it basically signaled there are going to be product cuts with the amount of cash the banks have to keep as a reserve. Lending to the private sector is a huge part of the economy that china needs to shore up. It accounts for nine out of 10 jobs every year, and it comes after china already promised wideranging set of initiatives that will boost the n
Such a streak. U. S. Equities close at 1 00 eastern. Road map begins with the santa rally. Nasdaq with nine consecutive record closes, longest streak since 1998. Retailers bracing for that last minute rush on this final shopping day before christmas. But Delivery Companies also under pressure from the late push. And weworks cofounder may have big reasons to smile this Holiday Season a report says his 1. 6 billion exit package could get sweeter well fill you in. With markets in record territory, investors are in a better mood. The 2018 Christmas Eve period saw the dow tumble 653 points. S p down 27. Nasdaq 140 drop. Since then, those stocks have surged the nasdaq leading the major indices with a 44 gain since then we forget, december 26 we came in the day after christmas, and the dow and the s p rallied 5 it was wild a year ago. I remember vividly sitting on Christmas Eve, watching this show and i probably shouldnt have been doing that on Christmas Eve. I was, and it was plungingsinki t
By and by down by the sleigh well wander, sweethearts you and i wait til the sunshines, nelly, by and by terrific. Merry christmas, everybody and one of the traditions is to bring children and grandchildren down on the floor. Theres a number of them here today. Tell me your name. Shannon youre the daughter of a retired member, right . Yes. His name . Michael spidaro do you know why the New York Stock Exchange is important . It makes new companies and businesses thats the right answer thanks mike, one of the big traders for gts does all of the Retail Stocks your work through the year, keeping the markets moving and keeping liquidity in the market. Thank you, bob. Merry christmas. Art cashin, 55 years, started almost this day, 1964. Thats correct. In the same book as John D Rockefeller and jpmorgan they were just a touch older than i am. Lets hope youll outlive them all by a long way thanks very much Merry Christmas. Thank you all for coming down for a great tradition that goes back 150
Wework. Biggest bets, a drop in ad sales and what that means for streaming. First, our top story, the challenge to tmobiles sprint merger in a courtroom on monday. States and the district of columbia suing to stop the deal. But the latest, jennifer read, who was in the courtroom. Takeaway what is your big take away . Jennifer it started with a surprise because the judge said, we are not going to have opening statements. I read to the pretrial memoranda , lets go straight to the witnesses. The judges really intent on getting this done in two weeks. This was part of that, getting things moving quickly. We cut right into the first witness, basically got through 2. 5 for the day. Overall, the witnesses were pretty good. Documents some bad introduced with the first witness. Ands only two witnesses part of the third but overall, i think the day was pretty good for the companies. Taylor we got a headline that sprints chief marketing officer said in 2016 that he thought this merger would raise
Lets get to our market reporters. What are we watching . The index watching cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and either. If we look at a chart of the global strength indicator, we can see it flashed a buy signal with the index getting it percent since tuesday. That is good news for crypto fans who have seen crypto come under pressure in the last few months. Your look at bitcoins performance, we can see it rose 277 through june, lost half of we valley since then, but have some analysts coming out and saying 2020 be better for crypto prices. Say bitcoin could rise as much as 10,000 in 2020. That would be quite the rise for bitcoin appeared on the rise this year, the s p 500 up really 29 . Santana clearly visiting stocks this year with the s p 500 climbing that wallow worry. The official santa claus rally pens on january 3. Lets look at a chart that may give some clues. Lets take a look at a threemonth chart of the s p 500 and the dollar. A risk on period with dollar yen and the s p 500