two days in december and the internal meeting notes have now been released are fed watcher danielle de martino booth the founder of money strong and financial columnist joins us to read the tea leaves of the fed's notes ahead of what the bank action will be in two thousand and eighteen danielle thanks for being with us the f o m c meeting took place on december twelfth and thirteenth so this was before the new tax law was approved with the one point five trillion dollars price tag i imagine that might have animated this question among fed governors what do you think. oh absolutely it did and what's interesting is that in december of two thousand and eight. the minutes could be used as as an actual tool in the monetary policy tool box after the fact that you could change the minutes if need be if they want it for the markets to react differently from the original statement and i think we saw exactly that happen with the minutes because there was so much talk about the tax reform it wouldn't have been in the minutes had it not passed the way that it was very interesting very interesting a little

teams correspondent ashley banks joins us to discuss then author and founder of money strong danielle de martino who joins us to give an insider's take on the fed now let's get to the stories topping today's financial and business headlines. pakistan and china have strengthen ties and have announced they will be using the chinese yuan instead of the u.s. dollar for all bilateral trade transactions this comes less than twenty four hours after president trump tweeted pakistan saying that the u.s. had foolishly given pakistan more than thirty three billion dollars in aid over the last fifteen years and that the nation has been a safe haven for terrorist relations between the u.s. and pakistan have been strained due to islamabad alleged support of the hockey needs militants who have ties to the afghan taliban china is also likely to see a boost to one of their one bell one road initiative which we've talked about on this program before and that road would actually go through pakistan. tesla electric car company energy storage and solar manufacturer out of palo alto held by elon musk is keeping roag

some signs that an economic correction is on the horizon we'll get into it all the more with danielle de martino booth as the f o m c wraps up. and it has been just over a year into the trumpet ministration time now for an economic report card look at year one here with a closer look at our team's nicholas o'donovan. donald trump came into office under the promise of puts in america first on every front and obviously the economy was and still is an important part of that message and we're going to start spending here we're going to start spending. and with that being said we're going to protect our country over the past year the stock market has boomed g.d.p. growth has improved and unemployment is at an almost seventeen year low good numbers that allow trump to be optimistic we're hearing numbers that nobody thought possible certainly not in this time and the numbers going up are going to me much better than anybody anticipated in fact they're going to say that trump is the opposite of an exaggerator if we take a look at the markets the dow jones has set record highs seventy times rise in five

some signs that an economic correction is on the horizon we'll get into it all to morrow with danielle de martino booth at the f o m c wraps up. and it has been just over a year into the trumpet ministration time now for an economic report card look at year one here with a closer look as our team is nicholas o'donovan. donald trump came into office under the promise of puts in america first on every front and obviously the economy was and still is an important part of that message and we're going to start spending here we're going to start spending. and with that being said we're going to protect our country over the past year the stock market has boomed g.d.p. growth has improved and unemployment is at an almost seventeen year low good numbers that allow trump to be optimistic we're heading numbers that nobody thought possible certainly not in this time and the numbers going up are going to me watch better than anybody anticipated in fact they're going to say that trump is the opposite of an exaggerator if we take a look at the markets the dow jones has set record highs seventy times rise in fiv

on the horizon we'll get into it all tomorrow with danielle de martino booth at the f o m c wraps up. and it has been just over a year into the trump administration time now for an economic report card look at year one here with a closer look as our team is nicholas o'donovan. donald trump came into office under the promise of puts in america first on every front and obviously the economy was and still is an important part of that message and we're going to start spending here we're going to start spending. and with that being said we're going to protect our country over the past year the stock market has boomed g.d.p. growth has improved and unemployment is at an almost seventeen year low good numbers that allow trump to be optimistic we're heading numbers that nobody thought possible certainly not in this time and the numbers going up are going to me watch better than anybody anticipates in fact they're going to say that trump is the opposite of an exaggerator if we take a look at the markets the dow jones has set record highs seventy times rise in five thousand points in a year for