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Possibly the last business day before a Government Shutdown this weekend. The markets are extending gains after Technology Lead bounce draw all three embassies higher. The dow industrials up 139, the nasdaq of 98 and s p 500 higher by 20 points all ahead of the Federal Reserve preferred reading on inflation we will get the august pce index out into a half hours 8 30 a. M. Eastern this could be a market mover, investors are watching for a looming Government Shutdown. The house advanced only two of the four bills on the floor last night and speaker Kevin Mccarthy is warning without joe biden agreeing to policy changes at the southern border the government will shut down this weekend. European markets ....
Stock, futures is down sharply healthcare stocks are under pressure this morning and amazon entering the health business, pa partnering with berkshire, finding ways to cut the cost of healthcare mcdonalds reporting a major spending boost for thousands of new stores and digital upgrades. Dow and the s p 500 remains on pace for a 10 consecutive months of gain i think it is true. You come in and when you see stocks, when you read the release and the mcdonalds release in the lets just say in the cave and not look at these you would say wow. These are great numbers. The markets set up to go down you have this team up that we talk about all morning with jai jaime dimon. It is generic, yeah, it is been up a lot and i want to take profits ahead of the president whos going to take credits for a good mark. Ye market you come in and let them take credit we got thursday is National Earnings day so there is a lot of reasons to take profits ....
Seems like some old line company surprises us with good news, causing investors to buy their stocks hand over fist. Buy buy buy buy buy the resuscitation of these falling stars is whats behind a lot of the strength here the dow gaining 98 points. The s p and nasdaq advancing new records all around hallelujah let me give you some examples. Last night, att completely out of the blue, delivers a delicious upside surprise, which is why the old teleco stock could leap up like a small growth stock nearly 5 in one day. How the heck did they do it . They gained subscribers and some came in an obvious way, a merger and tiein with directv that has gone smoothly. At t is now buying time warner and they give you a hint why, beyond the need to diversify on the Conference Call, at the end of the q and a, in an answer to a question about how time warner might fit into the bundle, cfo john steffen said with regard to hbo, customers like it. Cust ....
Lets give you a look at futures on this opening of the day of the week. Most european markets also back from the holiday break, although i believe the uk closed for a bank holiday. There you see the markets that were open. More or less in the green this morning. The tenyear note yield, price was down a bit if i recall. There we are on the yield there, around 2. 56 with crude up yet again. Weve also got some breaking economic data. The latest s p case showing home price reports out. Prices registering 5. 6 yearoveryear gain and that was up from a 5. 4 gain in september. So sequentially an increase there. Lets get to our road map. And it begins with the march to dow 20,000. With just four trading sessions left, will the dow hit the milestone by the end of the year . And president elect donald trump announcing plans to dissolve the Trump Foundation ahead of inauguration day, plus tweeting about the market rally and holiday spending ....
Penalties for corruption. And the town of tadcaster in North Yorkshire will be reunified today when its only road bridge reopens, more than a year after it was destroyed by severe flooding. Good morning. Its friday 3rd february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. First to paris where there has been an attack at the Louvre Museum in the heart of the city. Its been described the french Prime MinisterBernard Cazeneuve as being of a terrorist nature. Police say a man carrying two machetes and two backpacks shouted allahu akbar and tried to enter the underground Shopping Area outside the museum. A soldier opened fire and the man was seriously wo ....