Wilfred frost. Lets check on Global Markets because we are on this friday seeing gains, at least on the futures side of things you can see futures pointing to a higher open, the s p up by about six points, the dow up by about 78 and the nasdaq up by about 13 points overall. Lets get a check on the fixed income markets on the treasury side specifically with the tenyear u. S. Treasury note, yields are 2. 362 , a little lower than they have been over the last couple of days. So the Interest Rate picture taking a little bit more clarity given the feds Interest Rate hike and some commentary about the future still, though, yields in focus, especially for those financials, courtney. Lets look at whats going on around the world in trading. So take a look at what happened in asia overnight. Mostly lower, as you can see the south korean kospi is the one outlier higher by about 0. 5 the hang seng was the biggest laggard, down 1 a lot of focus on whats going on here in the u. S. When it comes to o
Which will become more widespread as we go through the day. For many of us, a beautiful day, cloud and drizzle in the north west of scotland. Most likely to develop across central england, southern england, eastern counties, the fog could be dense enough to cause delays on the road and possibly even some of the airports in the south. Theyre that in mind if you are travelling tomorrow. Look at the extent this morning. Some freezing fog around as temperatures dipped to zero. A lot milder in the north west due to south westerly winds. Southern parts of the uk, the airports, in some places the fog will last through the afternoon, in many areas it will lift and disperse. Where it lingers, it could be around 0 degrees. Most of us wont get that. A lot of low, grey cloud. The odd spot, 14 degrees in aberdeen. This is an unusual meteorological phenomenon. We had a weather front living in tomorrow night, fog forming in some parts of the country. Wednesday is gloomy, less foggy, the wind will pic
Sara eisen. Good morning. Happy holidays. Happy holidays indeed getting closer to christmas morning. Thats trading on the markets. Well come in in a moment. Travel alert things slowly starting to come back online at atlantas heartsville jackson. More than 1,000 flights were delayed or canceled. The timing couldnt be worse well have more on that in just a moment first, lets get a check on the Global Markets this morning. Weve got green arrows really across the board as u. S. Equity futures point to a higher open dow futures are up by triple digits right now indicating an open at 138 points higher. S p 500 futures poised to open 14 points higher the nasdaq poised to open 51 points higher. This, of course, after record closes for all three of those indexes on friday as everybody is sort of focusing on tax reform and whether lawmakers will pass that through before christmas this week. Absolutely right. Fridays section slightly flat on the week as a whole up over 1 the s p is up less than 1
Im Contessa Brewer. Hope you had a fang taktastic holiday. Lets take a look at futures were shaping up to have a slight hely lower open. Implied futures down 25 points, s p up just slightly here at one point and the nasdaq off by five taking a look at the treasuries and ten year notaes Holding Steady after rising slightly on friday were up about 2. 5 yield on the day. European markets are closed today for boxing day, but taking a look at the asian equities, the nikkei is off by 0. 2 . Shanghai risen by three quarters of a and the kospi has dropped by half a percent. As for the broader markets, oil down just slightly this morning. Wti crude is off by 0. 1 brent almost 0. 2 . And nat gas up they now expect the north sea pipeline to reopen in early january. And that is just tempering somewhat the production cuts weve seen in russia and by he opec taking a look at currencies now, and the dollar is also Holding Steady this morning. Down just slightly a tenth of a percent against the euro up
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