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Brent at a threemonth high, gold at 15. 12. The year end rally, the s p biggest yearly return in seven and nearing its best gains in more than 20 years. Plus ecommerce sales hitting a record, amazon saying billions of items ordered world wide. Boeing still on watch, new documents revealing whats being called quote very disturbing revelations. As 2019 heads into the home stretch, all three major indies says are on track for a fourth straight month of gains. They have surged as last months selloff...

Of december and november was a very strong month for stocks, even though you did see some declines on black friday youre looking at the best returns we saw since june for all of the major averages. Last week again, you did see some big gains too right now the dow, s p and nasdaq are still less than 1 to 2 of the intraday highs with these gains, youll see them challenging that as tom mentioned. Although, i also remember last the first trading day of december last year. Not quite as much fun. I st...

What we had seen with the weakness last month. Overnight in asia, the nikkei actually was down almost 1 . The shanghai was up by a half percent. In europe you will see the dax is flat. So is the ftse cac is up. There are green arrows across the complex of stocks. The treasury markets this morning will be closely watched. The tenyear at this point is yielding above 2 . We want to start with some developing news. The New York Times reporting that President Trump approved military strikes on target...

And into the fryer good thursday morning welcome to squawk alley. Were at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Dow is down 91 currently the worst drop of the year so far. The big news today though, amazon announcing the finalist for the hq2. We have details. Good morning, carl. And lets go straight to a map of the 20 contenders youll see that most of the locations, they fall in the midwest, south, and east coast of the country away from amazons current home of seattle and the west coast in ...

90s by midweek before we cool slightly for the weekend. Fire danger will be on the high side for the next few days. Hot temps, high winds and low humidity have triggered a red flag warning until 5pm wednesday. Sunrise in San Francisco is at 7 00 am. Sunset is at 7 01 pm. Dont forget you can always get the latest weather updates and traffic alerts with the kron4 mark our top story this morning. Players across the nfl either kneel, sit, stretch, or pray during the National Anthem. darya they are r...

The first time ever. And it didnt take long for the dow to cross that milestone. In early august, the dow first closed above 22,000. And the index got a lift today from United Health care which reported stronger than expected profit. Mo on that in a moment. First lets give you the cheerful numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 40 points. It ended just below 23,000. Nasdaq fell ever so slightly. The s p 500 rose and was up nearly two points. Bob pisani takes a look at this major market...

Trump about how we could end up in a major, major conflict in his words. Did put some pressure, if you see the nikkei, down about 0. 3 . Same with the hang seng. In europe this morning n some early tlading, things are mixed. The ftse is down by 0. 25 . The cac is up by that much. The dax is up by 0. 10 . With crude oil prices this morning, looks like wti is still below 50. Up 27 cents. Tech stocks on the move this morning. After quarterly reports late yesterday. Lets give around up of whats goin...

Yesterday. David time for the morning brief. Apart from the all important fed a. M. Steven 8 00 mnuchin speaks at the independent Community Bankers capital summit. We will get adp Employment Data, the consensus for 185,000 jobs added last month. After the bell, it is earnings watch. Facebook and tesla will be reporting. Alix decision day for the Federal Reserve, the bloomberg surprise index starting to roll over. Sales, week core cpi, week march job numbers. Mckee. Shington, michael how does the...

State victories and macrons swearingin. Oil up on news of more Production Cuts and an Empire Manufacturing the first negative read since the election. Our road map begins with a cyber warning after hackers attack 1 50 countries over the weekend. Microsoft said it should serve as a wakeup call to governments around the world. And theres an agreement on the extension of the Oil Production cuts. The white house is hopefully to quickly pick the next fbi director. Will democrats make that possible . ...