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Sara eisen great to have you with us lets get straight to the markets. Extraordinary seesaw session yesterday. The dow up 300 points at one stage in the morning, around about midday lunch time, started selling off, such that the dow ended off 58 points or 0. 25 those intraday swings were similar across each of the indices. The s p ending lower the nasdaq ending down 1 . Definitely the same theme throughout the day whether we were at the peaks or troughs thats the selling of things like tech and ...

Shanghai was off by 1. 25 . If you look at whats been happening with some early trading, green arrows for the most part. But youre looking at fractional advances the dax is up, just barely cac up by a quarter percent, so is the ftse. Look at crude oil. Up by 1. 1 yesterday settling just below 58 a barrel that was the highest level in almost 32 weeks. Today were at 58. 36 that was the 67th or 68th new high yesterday of the year yeah. Could be another one tomorrow. Andrew is finally coming to the ...

Record high. Obvious question is the selling, the intense up and down swings. Is it over . Watch this show, you will find out, looking good in early going today but i have no clue how we close this friday afternoon. I have news for you on taxes, the news is watch out. Under consideration online sales taxes and that 25cent per gallon increase in the gas tax, they would pay for some of the infrastructure building but the significance here is the switch. We have cut taxes and now we are taxing what...

Those shares have been so volatile in the last several weeks. European equities, meantime, on news of this greek arrangement there, you do have red arrows mostly across the board, and perhaps not surprisingly, greece is the one thats getting the lift by 2. 25 . U. S. Equity futures at this hour . Well, after yesterdays big day breaking that sevenday losing streak, the dow would open lower by nearly 125 points. Here are the big stories were watching today. Greece and its lenders agreeing on bailo...

Yesterday you saw the nikkei ended that 16 session winning streak this morning stocks are closed higher the nikkei was up by 32 points to 21,739. Hang seng down by a third. The shanghai was up by a third of a percentage point. The early trading in europe, things are in the green across the board. Gains for germany, france and london up by a third stocks in italy and spain also higher treasury yields, check this out, yields at 2. 43 . Crude oil prices which have been above 50 comfortably for quit...

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Selloff, were implied to open lower by 87 points. The s p implied to open lower 8. The nasdaq down 27 having the worst day since brexit last june. The dollar has been in a slump. Kind of unchanged right now. 97. 50. Not long ago we were up above 100 and talking about going higher. Big reversal. The yields have been falling. I guess roiled by the stuff happening in washington. The tenyear below 2. 2 . 2. 188. How about europe. The nikkei down 1. 3 . Hang seng down 0. 2 . Shanghai down half a perc...

Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Very good morning to you from me as well. Before we check in on the markets, four Big International stories were watching. China getting hit with a credit gown grade overnight. We have the latest market reaction. The uk upping its Security Threat level to critical following monday nights terror attack. Opec about to kick off a meeting in vienna. President trump is at the vatican this hour after meeting with pope francis. More on all of those big stories straight ...

And in europe, some of the early trading, you see some modest declines there ftse is the biggest decliner, down by a quarter percentage point. Look at whats going on with the dollar the dollar which has been under pressure broadly for many months, you can see its up against the euro today at 117. 06 down against the yen at 110. This morning wti down another 7 cents to 46. 71 President Trump disbanding those two Advisory Councils, the announcement coming as one council was dissolving already the ...

Board here to europe, except the ftse. Look at the trade in crude. Wti and brent trading slightly lower. Here are the big stories were watching today. The tunisian man suspected of committing the berlin Christmas Market truck attack was killed in a shootout in a suburb of milan. Italys interior minister said there was no doubt the man killed was the suspect, anise amri. At home, shares of Lockheed Martin are falling after president elect trump tweeted about the f35 program. Trump said based on t...