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good morning and welcome to squawk alley. with me at post 9, jon fortt and brian sullivan. welcome. ? thanks. great to have you. joining us as well, henry blodget. good morning to you as welp. great to be here. our top story of course is january net yellin and the fed unanimously approving the first rate hike of the year, the second in the last year. this is the major averages cut early losses and continue to close in on dow 20,000. henry, not eve an rate hike can stall this rally, but the question is whether we re just borrowing from 2015 gains that the point. that is the question. i certainly hope things continue to go up. it s changing the mood, suddenly people are optimistic again, it s wonderful, but stepping back, the fed is raising rates. that is generally not good long term for stock prices. and as we ve talked about a lot over the last few years, stocks are very expensive on a historical basis. the defense for that is rates are super low. now rates ar ....
from the dakotas to new england. brace yourself. it s going to feel a lot more like the north pole this morning. a deep freeze chilled millions. people are running across the street to get to where they need to go. the city of portland, oregon, was brought to a virtual standstill. their first snowstorm. a new report claims vladimir putin himself directed the russian hacking during the election. no one is speaking. no one s on the record. if it is true, they re leaking it. and that s a crime. the president-elect has some guy if it s a 400 pound guy. it was a 400 pound russian guy. evacuations are under way in aleppo, syria, as a fragile cease-fire appears to be holding, at least for now. hackers have stolen personal data from more than 1 million yahoo! yusers in what s being called the largest security breach in history. if you ve got information on yahoo! you re pretty worried tonight. california has put a halt to uber s self-driving cars regul ....
exit from the eu but she is not invited to the dinner after. the remaining 27 will discuss their strategy. the u.n. says it is considering sanctions against gambia s president who refuses to step down and make room for the newcomer who won the election to replace them. him. the world s biggest cyber atattk at yahoo! with one billion accounts affected. we ll have the details in our business updatate. museum is giving visitors a rare glimpse of paintings 15,000 years old thanks to an exact replica of the prehistoric caves in the lescaux. story live from paris. we will start in aleppo. it s an offer for those who want to take it up. who are in people eastern aleppo given that there is a cease-fire will be able to stay. they may be able to stay with family, relatives. this evacuation probably primarily is going to be taken up by the families of fighters and those who may been involved in journalism, activism. tobody who may have reason concerns about crossing into govern ....
operation. how prior that our priority today s making better on the ground. brent: sanctions on russia been extended but observers are expecting nothing more than a strong statement on the recent bloodshed in syria. we will get more from our correspondent in brussels. and u.s. tech company yahoo! hit by the biggest security breach in hisistory. over onene billion e-mail accous have been hacked. what can customers do, and will the company be able to recover? brent: i am brent goff. it s good to have you with us. tonight they are finally leaving. another group of evacuees has made it out of aleppo and into rebel-held territory beyond the city. in total, over 1000 people escaped the city today under the terms of our fragile cease-fire. and and buses carried wounded and and buses carried wounded civilians and fighters to relative safety. reporter: and balances ambulances and buses arriving in aleppo s western countryside from a sign of the fragile cease-fire deal fina ....
are out from the dakotas to new england. brace yourself. it will feel a lot more like the north pole this morning. a deep chill freezes millions. people are running across the street to get to where they need to go. the city of portland, oregon was brought to a virtual standstill after a rare snowstorm. go, go! a new report claims vladimir putin, himself, directed the russian hacking during the election. why didn t they tell the e no one is speaking and no one at all on the record. if it is true they are leaking it and that is a crime. reporter: the president-elect said it could have been some guy in new jersey. if it s a 400-pound guy it was a 400-pound russian guy. in aleppo, syria, a fragile cease-fire appears holding at least no now. 1 billion yahoo! users is security breach in history. california put a halt in uber s self-driving cars. regulators ban the company until the company has a personality. amazon made its first drone delivery. i ....