The latest episodes of washington journal and scheduling information for cspans tv networks and cspan radio plus a variety of compelling podcasts. Cspan now is available at the apple store and google play, download it for free today. Cspan now your front row seat to washington anytime anywhere. On capitol hill, Deputy Energy secretary david turk talked about the work on science and technology with ai. This hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee is about two hours. [inaudible conversations] the meeting will come to order. Our hearing today is kicking off discussions for the following timely topic. Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and the department of energys role in ensuring our continued competitiveness and emerging technologies, over the past few years six National Labs have been working to understand challenges around ai and various issues. National laboratory in illinois, Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs in california, la sa
Party. And bitcoin. Well show you charts that will cheer those betting on a cryptocurrency crash. Betty it was quite chilly here today with that bomb cyclones blanketing the northeast. The natural Gas Producers quite warm and happy. A quick chart to show you where we are. Prices skyrocketing. Polar blast we have had today, and aiding in a winter storm. In a wintering storm. Youve really see the stress on the market. Some market paring back to the polar vortex back in 2014. How are you getting home tonight. Betty we will have to figure that out after the program. This winter blast did not keep investors away from equities. S p hitting records again. The dow adding on 150 point and nasdaq also higher as well. Tech stocks continue to rise. Onel stock down based growing concern over the security flaws in their chips. That is one we continue to watch. Yvonne stocks here on because of their best week in 6 months. New zealand kicking off flat and the kiwi at 71. 53. Australia just came under
And it did so at a record pace. It is the latest show of strength that has taken that blue chip index up more than 25 over the past year. The economy is growing. The labor market is strengthening as evidenced by todays private payroll jobs report. Corpore profits are rising. And it didnt g we broke a very, very big barrier, 25,000. And there were those who say we wouldnt break 25,000 by the end of the eighth year. We did in fact break 25,000, very substantially break it, very easily. So i g new number is 30,000. But what it means is every time you see that number go up on wall street, it means jobs, it means success, it means 401 k s that are flourishing. The dow jones industriae adv 25,075. The nasdaq added 12. The s p 50 10. Bob pisani takes a look at the first big milestone of 2018. Reporter the dow hit 25,000. It hit 20,000 almost exactly a year ago. Many are amazed that the market keeps enhancing. Its not incomprehensible. China has had gdp growth at 6. 5 . The japanese market jus
10year at 2. 44. Our roadmap begins with Unemployment Holding steady at the 17year low. Futures point to new records of the open apples chip response confirming its products are vulnerable to that security flaw and the Corporate Tax response, bonuses on the way at jetblue and billion plus q4 earnings hit over at Morgan Stanley december nonfarm payroll growth missed forecast, we still saw 2. 1 million jobs added in 17. Average hourly opens up 2. 5 from a year ago labor force, unchanged, a lot of discussion of the amazon effect, whats happening to retail. I think so, i was disappointed obviously you want more jobs and more people to be hired to get a little increase in wage. But this is whats happening i spoke to Planet Fitness yesterday, Interesting Company i i. Theres a lot more people who work at the sears and kmart than there are Planet Fitness and thats the old and new economy canting amazon and sears being wrecked by ham zon. In retail, warehousing up 30k, couriers, up 19k. Isnt it
London. Its jobs day. Eurodollar, the one thing we need to watch out for 1. 2051. That were expectations these equities would go higher. We are seeing a little bit of retrenchment out of u. S. Equities because valuations, a lot of people think, are more attractive. Kettneree if max scherze thinks the same. The u. S. Jobs number, 2. 46. We will ask him about brexit. Ask him about this rotation into bonds. In later on, we speak with will em buiter. I know he has a thing or tow to say about germany. Sebastian in the u. S. A bombshell book detailing the backstabbing in Donald Trumps administation is being published four days ahead of schedule. The white house has been defending Donald Trumps Mental Fitness for office, an i ssue raised in the book. If he was unfit, he would not have defeated the most qualified group of candidates the Republican Party has ever seen. This is an incredibly strong and good leader. Thats why we have had such a successful 2017. Sebastian north korea has agreed to