Because the Senate Just Passed another 500 billion bailout. Bailout, lets say of the last bailout. As we quickly ran out of money thats why the dow surged 457 points s p soared 2. 29 nasdaq 2. 81 house of pleasure Payroll Protection Program was supposed to be for Small Business, right . In the end a ton of that money ended up going too big businesses, Public Companies that was a back rub and sing i feel like a chump. I guess i should be more cynical about politics, just trying to help Small Business. However, if you ask me, that wasnt really the big story of whats going on. See, theres something bubbling underneath right now under the surface. And if anything, it makes me want to be less cynical about corporate america. Thats right corporate america. See, this market is rewarding businesses that have foresight and originality and most importantly, heart i dont want to sound too sappy, i dont know how else to put it. The stocks of good corporate citizens are thriving here mark benioff,
Street. Im Carl Quintanilla a strong close with buffett on squawk. Fed chair pal on the squawk tomorrow we begin with futures pointing to a sharply higher open on the twoweek rally and buffetts advice for the longterm investor despite volatility, buy equity, not bonds. Ge is planning to restate three new candidates to a streamlined board of director. And the chip war continues over qualcomm urging broadcom to engage in direct talks for a takeover deal. Buffett is one of the big stories of the deal saying Berkshire Hathaway received the new tax law. Heres what becky said earlier on squawk. We had about 100 billion of unrealized gain in equities. Now, when they are sold, you pay tax on that. And previously when the tax was 35 , we would have had a 35 billion reserve for taxes against that as a liability. That would drop to about 21 billion. So 14 billion roughly that was a reduction in the amount of tax that when we saw those securities, we will pay. It wasnt cash now, but it reduced the
The border tax is dead. This was one of the Critical Issues in tax reform. This was about trying to keep tax reform revenue neutral. One of the ways was a border adjusted tax. About thisn talking 20 tax rate on Companies Domestic sales and imports. Staunch opposition to this. Paul ryan is telling republicans that border tax is dead. The question is, if thats the case, how are they going to finance tax cuts . Are they going to be just shortterm, not permanent . Otherwise, youre not going to be able to keep it. Scarlet thats the big question mark. This was predicated on replacing obamacare. Thats not forthcoming at the moment. We have bloomberg reporting that steve bannon has proposed increasing taxes on the highest earners. Perhaps thats another way of doing it. That is something paul ryan loved. Wasa a trillion dollars it supposed to raise. Try finding that somewhere else. Scarlet its a tricky one. Look under the covers. Julia we will bring you further headlines on that as we get them.
The border tax is dead. This was one of the Critical Issues in tax reform. This was about trying to keep tax reform revenue neutral. One of the ways was a border adjusted tax. About thisn talking 20 tax rate on Companies Domestic sales and imports. Staunch opposition to this. Paul ryan is telling republicans that border tax is dead. The question is, if thats the case, how are they going to finance tax cuts . Are they going to be just shortterm, not permanent . Otherwise, youre not going to be able to keep it. Scarlet thats the big question mark. This was predicated on replacing obamacare. Thats not forthcoming at the moment. We have bloomberg reporting that steve bannon has proposed increasing taxes on the highest earners. Perhaps thats another way of doing it. That is something paul ryan loved. Wasa a trillion dollars it supposed to raise. Try finding that somewhere else. Scarlet its a tricky one. Look under the covers. Julia we will bring you further headlines on that as we get them.
Board here to europe, except the ftse. Look at the trade in crude. Wti and brent trading slightly lower. Here are the big stories were watching today. The tunisian man suspected of committing the berlin Christmas Market truck attack was killed in a shootout in a suburb of milan. Italys interior minister said there was no doubt the man killed was the suspect, anise amri. At home, shares of Lockheed Martin are falling after president elect trump tweeted about the f35 program. Trump said based on the cost and cost overruns of the f35, he asked boeing to price out a comparable f18 super hornet. Lockheed did not comment on the tweet. In a statement boeing said we have committed to working with the president elect and his administration to deliver the best capability, deliverability and affordability. A comparable f18 is tough. The super hornet doesnt have vertical capabilities, its traditional why are you looking at us like that. I get kind of turned on its kind of cool you know this stuff