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The averages passed a major number on tuesday, the nasdaq passed 7,000. On wednesday, tyesterday the do hitting 25,000 for the first time ever. This morning the dow futures are indicated up by 75 points s p futures up by 7 1 2. Nasdaq up by 30. The first trading week of the year on that time we are talking about some strong days the best threeday winning streak to start the year for the nasdaq since 2006, for the s p since 2010 of course we always talk about what happens in january often indicat...

Three billboards cleaning up at the Golden Globes it was the women at hollywood taking the spotlight bringing the me too Movement Center stage. Well have a full wrapup coming up i actually saw three billboards we watched it christmas day. I kind of slept through it not because it wasnt a great movie. I had eaten too much. Food coma. I didnt understand it. Ill see it again. There you go. Lets check in on the Global Markets this morning futures are still a mix. The dow and nasdaq up 0. 7, 0. 8 the...

And ive always said this. Its nice to have kids because you need to live to watch them grow up, right i guess time is passing, they cant grow up. Did you have a nice day we did. I i dont know, i thought i had a free rain ein to imbibe. You cant tell what youre doing until its too late. So i have a picture we had a cake when we got home. I was laying on the couch and they took a picture of me because i wouldnt sit up to eat the cake you need those glasses that we had stounounds like a good birth ...

Im seema mody in for sara eisen. Good morning. The big story that has everyone buzzing, alabamas dramatic overtile win ovove overtime win in georgia. More on that story coming up but congratulations to them. Commiserations to the losing side first, lets get back to the market picture we did have plenty of record highs intraday yesterday but not all record closes. The dow did close slightly lower for the day. The s p and the nasdaq were slightly higher. The nasdaq led the charge, up 0. 3 gains we...

Points overnight in asia, the nikkei hitting 26year highs during the trading session. Market ended up by over a half percentage point to 23,849 in europe this morning green arrows there the dax up is up by 0. 2 in france, the cac is up the ftse up over 0. 1 . Yesterday the yield on the treasury closing at 2. 48 . This morning the tenyear is yielding all the way up, almost 2. 496 stocks to watch today. Samsung is forecasting a 64 rise in Fourth Quarter profits on continued demand for memory chips...

Coming up. We do have quite a rally with the dow in particular. The transports continue higher all the major averages are in record territory. We also have big calls on the Airline Sectors today and the banks as financials get set to report. Were heading into earnings season well have you up to date on those. Lets start on the floor of the new york stock exchange, mr. Robert pisani joining us with a recap of whats going on as we get ready for earnings, right . Yeah, a lot at stake here, but sixd...

Picture. Comes off a day of record closes once again the gains were relatively slight they did come off the highs during the course of the feenl few ho final few hours of the session the Telecom Sector was the worst. Healthcare was the best. The nasdaq was the laggard of the three. Oil hitting a threeyear high thanks to ongoing production cuts led by opec gained about 2 yesterday. Up another 0. 7 . 63. 4, so a great start to the year for oil prices. That continued not just a strong year but a st...

Nasdaq the dow also closing at a record high it looks like well open sharply lower. The dow losing 124 points right now, the s p down 13 nasdaq down about 44 what was weighing on the markets yesterday and probably today, the yield on the tenyear note 2. 584 right now thats the highest since march 15th a big move in the tenyear treasury yield thats challenging the equity rally today. The yen continuing its strength after the boj said it would continue its bond strengthening services the hang seng...

Have stocks moving on that that will bring you up to date and we aredebating whether big change in Interest Rates is about to affect the stock market weve seen rumblings of and well get to that important story coming up, but we begin with breaking news, a report that canada is increasingly convinced that President Trump will pull out of the north American Free trade agreement. Don chu joins us now with more on how that could affect the market. That tracks some of the Biggest Companies in canada ...

Cool our road map begins with walmarts minimum wage hike. Raising starting wages to 11, handing out some onetime cash bonuses. Plus, bitcoin tumbles one of the worlds biggest cryptocurrency markets is considering a trading ban. And deltas tax boost the airline raising Earnings Guidance by 20 . First up, though, walmarts making moves in the wake of tax reform the Company Announcing it will increase its starting wage for hourly workers in the u. S. To 11 an hour beginning next month and pay a onet...