Getting a nice boost from earnings well talk to the ceo in a cnbc exclusive, coming up another day, another record for bitcoin. The cryptocurrency surpassing 15,000 for the First Time Ever bitcoin has more than doubled in the past month its moving in thousanddollar increments now every day at this pace, the journal this morning says the it would end the year above 2 million, at this pace. Well, i think that people have to recognize that bitcoin is not created in huge amounts you can mine bitcoin using some nvidia chips or some advanced microchips but theres just not a lot of supply almost minimal at the same time, i have never seen a level of discipline of the buyers you obviously cant they must be afraid to short this thing. But the buyers are not letting things go. I mean, typically, you bring out sellers when you have this kind of parabolic move. Where are the sellers . I dont know. If were going to continue to have the same conversation every day, i think you and i and were going t
Refusing to concede this morning saying the recount may be in order. Jones victory come in as republicans make a final push for tax reform. President trump set to deliver a major push on capitol hill urging lawmakers to get the deal done as the house and senate moved closer to a compromise lining up for a possible vote next week. The quest for tax reform coming out. Janet yellen set to deliver a final News Conference as head of the central bank. The Federal Reserve expected to raise Interest Rates for the third time this year. Markets like this going into the meeting was in gains across the board. Dow industrials up 14 points. S p 500 the fraction of those at this point throughout the morning. A look at the european indices than we do see gains for the ft 100. The cac in the dax powered by a fraction. Age overnight bus to age overnight mostly high with the exception of japan trading down one half to 1 . Hang seng in hong kong up 1. 5 . Antitrump tirade outrage after fbi agent who worke
We, after kind of mixed not much going on yesterday. News of course a bit slow in some ways, european markets were open yesterday, many closed for both the christmas and boxing day holiday. You can see a mixed bag in europe, asia overnight also somewhat mixed. Lets get to the 10year note yield on crude oil and how were doing on both of those important market barometers. And you see wti down lets get to the road map this morning. It starts with the tax effect. More Companies Including barclays and shell outlining major tax linked changes to the bottom lines in the first quarter. The race is on for fed vice chair former bush era advisers reportedly in the running. Tesla t is in a direct challenging a tesla pickup could hit the road but does tesla already have model 3 problems . Stocks look to rebound from yesterdays decline. A number of companies reacting to tax reform. Barclays expects a writedown of 1. 3 billion on the annual post tax profits. Royal dutch shell sees a charge of 2. 5 bi
Those markets are doing today. Its a red day for the most part, spain is in the green. 10year note yield were always watching that and that is at 2. 42 boy, its a big start to the year for crude well talk a lot about that. Crude over 60 bucks even though its ticking slightly lower today along with brent and wti and brent at the bottom of the screen the roadmap starts with the new year and new rally futures rising as we said as wall street shrugs over geopolitical concerns and the tax effect bp taking a major q2 earnings set but bullish on the tax laws long term impact apples mea culpa, looking to quickly make amends with angry customers. Stocks coming off the best yearly performance since 2013, including 71 record closes for the dow, 72 for the nasdaq and 62 for the s p the dow posting a 25 gain for 2017 and s p up 19 . The nasdaq leading the three major indexes up 28 jim, happy new year to you. Happy new year. Thank you very much. It would certainly seem as though we entered a new yea
Are already baked into the market how many times did the chattering classes tell us the moves been made youd be a fool to start buy now. After another good day where the dow gained 99 points and the s p climbed 4. 64 and the new highs across the board, who looks foolish now . Baked in my derriere. Clean this up a little were all going to die look, every morning i peruse every morning i peruse the Research Published by major wall street firms you get a mixture of ten upgrades and five downgrades and most often you get a price target boost because the stock has overrun the projections. Thats about as bullish as it normally gets. Today, though, today, i counted 29 upgrades of significance and two downgrades, two baked in baked in are you kidding me baked in i am done with that i am done with hearing about baked in this is the official bakedin cake, and i am taking care of it right now. Thank you steady cam producer for my boeing knife. Why are we getting these upgrades oh, im on a diet im