economic data. will the numbers push the dow past the 20,000 milestone? >>> and the trump transition. the president-elect calls on carl icahn to combat excessive regulation. it's thursday december 22, 2016, "worldwide exchange" begins right now. ♪ >> good morning. welcome to "worldwide exchange" on cnbc, i'm sara eisen here with dominic chu in for wilfred frost today. >> good to be here again. >> throwback thursday, of course we throw back with holiday classics. >> mariah carey. >> let's check in on the global markets this morning after stocks took a pause yesterday on the march to 20,000. pulled back a bit. not much. the dow futures now down six. s&p down two. nasdaq futures down seven. >> much like it was yesterday at this time. >> the losses were fractional. >> we were at 40-point trading range for the dow? 50 trading points? >> tight ranges, lower volumes, holiday lull. just when you thought we would get up to the 20,000 number. not that far away. >> we're not that far away. 20,000 >>> good morn

saying look not believing that the economy was any good, believing economic data was wrong and now main endorse saying trillion dollars in holiday sales was somehow a good thing not government data. >> the truth is can any president take credit for an economy. so much had to do with the fed policy, zero interest rates. >> however when you come in saying we think we can get the economy growing 4% to 5% tremendous dollar value growth you have to deliver. >> a lot say it's overly optimistic. if we see this package of fiscal policy that's done in the right way to the right place, if everything goes right, if corporate tax reform. get that down 20% that could boost earnings significantly. bring $2 trillion back from overseas to the u.s.. >> key word is sustained. >> what happens on trade? what happens to geopolitics. how does that interfere. up next we'll talk to steven wieting. thinks thoughts on the dow's pursuit of the 20,000 level p. >>> our viewer question this morning, what do you think is the top market story of 2016? trump winning the election. we finally have a businessman running t

but even if that 100,000, i think it would be ok because a string of economic data, not just labor marketata, suggesting the market is doing fine, one rate hike with a market fully priced will not derail that recovery. >> miles bradshaw, head of global aggregate fixed income, thanks for joining us on the program. vonnie: news coming out of caterpillar now. julie has all of the details. julie: thank you. comments are made in a presentation caterpillar will be giving at a conference before credit suites the shares have just resumed trading just as you came to me here. it looks like they are heading lower. i am not sure if we have a chart of that but i will pull it up on the bloomberg. down in thehares wake of the headlines coming up. let me bring specific headlines to you. the company said the consensus estimate of 325 in earnings per share for 2017 is too optimistic. the head -- headlines on sales is too confusing. it says the $38 billion revenue forecast is a reasonable mid point expectation. the company says oil prices remain volatile on a macro side and that oil prices are not high enou

ramy: what can we expect in terms of economic data? get scrutiny because the fed has put us on a faster track for rate hikes. rosefiscal spending likely , americans appear to have kicked off holiday spending in good form, and it is expecting to show improved incomes as well. another report, home sales, new and existing homes, and big-ticket items. fedex, earnings, nike and on the 20th reporting second-quarter earnings. we will hear from janet yellen and president-elect donald trump, what will we here? putin will get his annual press address and moscow, but it is in the context of accusations swirling and the u.s. of perhaps involvement in the hacking incident that u.s. intelligence agencies have said putin was involved in. we will get into that later in the show. trump also preparing for his inauguration.t be natio also, how trump's comments about the drone situation play out. yvonne: thank you. looking ahead to janet yellen speaking in baltimore on monday about the labor market. more andalk about this what we can expect to learn about

we've seen loot of good economic data.en credit market based repair all the damage all the year. of last that result is the fed is willing to imagine doing as much in 2017 doing in 2016 and a year ago. talk course, we got to about not just the fed but central banks. the bank of england meeting today. look at what's going on overseas, what we found no one asked janet yellen about international development. as if it doesn't exist. fromt seems to have faded the headlines. we haven't seen the negative impact on the u.s. economy. inside the bloomberg, the data this week on u.k. unemployment was disappointing. the decline is small. this could be the reflection point. shows how economic data has been surprising to the downside. allen ofree with scotia bank. >> economic data bounces around. i did no believe the u.s. asnomy will decelerate outcome of the brexit vote. you still have very generous conditions. that might come at some point in time. may put some decisions on hold. i don't believe there's been any u.k. economy.e >> one

economic data continuing to -- >> why do we think that's going to stop? >> and investing into those themes. >> sure. >> i think that's a good idea. and the other thing that i'll say is if you diversified this year and if you took advantage of volatility, specifically early in the year or in midsummer and you rebalanced and you added to what was getting hit the most and maybe you took some gains out of things like long-term bonds that had been flying at the time, you had a really good year this year. i mean, it was really hard to mess up strategic asset allocation this year. people have gotten themselves into trouble was on the tack technical side thinking that some of the powerful moves involved directions were going to keep going, and it didn't work out that way. we talked earlier in the show about retations from group to group. that's another look at where i look at the 40 act funds that are doing sector rotation, one disaster after another. buying at the end of a month where semis were the biggest winner, selling health care right before that recovery.

flurry of economic data. will the numbers push the dow past the 20,000 milestone? >>> and the trump transition. the president-elect calls on carl icahn to combat excessive regulation. it's thursday december 22, 2016, "worldwide exchange" begins right now.

you will have an opportunity to of theirthe impact policies and rely on the same economic data and metricsou see now to see how their approaches worked. as you sit here in the future, in the seat you find yourself, we ask you to join your conclusions based on the data and facts. i will turn it over to the chairman with all the data you need to sound smart your holiday parties and to value the next administration. you all for coming here. we are very proud of the 71st economic report of the question. i apologize to all of you come of the longest one ever, but it took 594 pages to document both what has happened in the last eight years, and to try to understand the direct role the president's policies have played , and what has happened. i understood there would be five, can you advance the flight for me? this is the point we made many times before. i remember sitting in the transition office eight years ago when we were losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month. the estimates underestimated what we currently learn to be 800,000 jobs per month. then, we saw a record streak of job creation

chinese economic data breaking overnight. vember retail sales and factory output data both coming in stronger than expected and that helped lift markets overall in asia. hong kong finishing higher by .06%. shanghai up about half a percent. in europe uk inflation overshooting estimates hitting the highest level since october of 2014. european equities green this morning. the german dax up is a little more than half a percent there. looking at the ftse and mib in italy surging 1.4%. and spain up .9%. this is the concern there would be higher inflation with low growth as a result of the sharp slide in the british pounds after brexit. >> inflation number wasn't way awade of expectations is po1.2%. china data, that data was pretty strong. fixed asset investment, retail sales, industrial production, all encouraging. shanghai not responding too much to the data. that brings you back to the bearish arguments which is that it could mean there's less stimulus since stimulus is the factor that people felt kept the economy going. shanghai

probably because of this morning's economic data. it was all better than forecast.had the case of the home price index. also, take a look at commodities. it is a good day for most commodities. let's check in on first word news. >> turkey is pledging to work for a cease-fire in syria. authorities say they will facilitate contact between the syrian government and the war.ition in a civil turkey, russia and iran have agreed to seek a truce with syria. in colombia and investigation blames a series of human errors for the crash of a jet that killed most of the players of a brazilian soccer team. it ran out of fuel. authorities say neither of the that's neither the airline nor the pilot should have let the plane take off. -- has been fired as finance minister. he was on the job just for one year. they had disagreements over economic policy. president obama says had he been allowed to run again he would have beaten donald trump. he spoke with his former adviser david axelrod. >> i am confident in this vision icause i am confident that if had run again and articulated it, i

heavy economic data day, but is anyone around to traded, abigail? action, not a lot of the dow and s&p 500 and nasdaq in small declines. the volumes similar to yesterday. we arrived out of the gate and looks similar to yesterday. low volume and not a lot of trading but we will be here to watch and see whether or not the averages can creep higher and we may see dow at 20,000, time will tell. we will happen to the bloomberg and take a look at the imap, a look at what is happening sector wise, we see lots of red. most sectors lower. one is consumer discretionary and a stock within the consumer discretionary state that is dropping, bed bath & beyond on a disappointing third-quarter, missing top and bottom line estimates and reiterating the low end of the annual forecast, so scherzer plunging. also, red hat trading shares lower on the disappointing low quarter. the worst and 11 quarters, but winner, micron trading higher, the most since june 2015, some more than one year with a better-than-expected first-quarter and they also dive into first-quarter sale

breaking economic data. a new read on eurozone growth straight ahead. >>> italy's instability today brings more uncertainty as renzi's resignation has been delayed. >>> and the united technologies ceo who went head to head with the president-elect said there was no quid pro quo for carrier. it's tuesday december 6, 2016. "worldwide exchange" begins right now. ♪ >> good morning. welcome to "worldwide exchange" on cnbc. i'm sara eisen. >> welcome back. >> thank you. >> feels like a long week. >> did you miss me? >> i did a little bit. that's it for december now. >> i he was disappointed to miss the latest european -- >> you're here until christmas? >> for the rest of the year, all the way. new zealand, dollar move, i missed all of it. >> that was a bit niche, not for you, i suppose, but a bit under the radar. >> political instability over there as well. >> i'm wilfred frost. let's check in on the markets at this hour. >> u.s. equity futures after another rally yesterday where the dow closed up about 40-somethi

we've got some economic data crossing the tape. let's go to diana olick for those numbers. >> sara, home builders sentiment in september spiked seven points to 70 on the national association of home builders monthly index. the street was looking for flat. that is the highest level on this index since the middle of 2005 before the housing crash. it's the first read since the election. and the builders say it's all about trump. quote, a post election bounce as builders are hopeful that president-elect trump will follow through on his pledge to cut burdensome regulations that are harming small businesses and housing affordability. that from nahb chairman ed brady. this survey is weighted towards smaller custom builders, not the big public. the seven-point move is the largest one-month gain in 20 years. last year at this time the index was ten points lower. of the index's three components, current sales conditions increase seven points to 76. sales expectations in the next six months jumped nine points to 78. and buyer traffic rose six points to 53. and that's the first time bu

now, economic data suggests there is no reasons for you, too. >> franked weir in moscow for u. thank you for that insight. >> i want to go back to hans nicolls. are you still with me again? >> sorry, throw me the question again. >> these two facilities that are being shut down. what are they and how significant are they? >> we don't know and that's what we are trying to figure out. there maybe some footage and all we know from the state department and -- they are facilities owned by the russian government. we know the russians bought a resort come papound. that's the one that the state department is talking about. what are they doing with these kpo compounds? >> so to have services for their citizens. a lot of times you don't want to make them go downtown to the actual embassy. the u.s. does that as well. it is not all house in the embassy. the one resort they bout in and out the eastern sore and they may brought back -- we'll get more on that. >> hans, as you are speaking there. we manage to get some pictures there. i believe this is a live look at one of these compounds in ma

lots of economic data in the u.s. before the opening bell.ll break it down with a preview, next. from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ jon: now for today's agenda -- u.s. third-quarter gdp, initial jobless claims drop at a club 30 a.m. eastern time. -- 8:30 a.m. eastern time. carl riccadonna joins us now. great to have you with us. these data points will not be pretty. karl: the gdp numbers will be pretty. this is the third print on the third quarter. a bit of old news. durable goods orders come economist are expect a big pay back. we will watch for something on the order of a four or 5% decline. we have jobless claims. that will be passing news. jobless claims will get more attention over the next couple of weeks because the auto manufacturers have announced that they are ramping up layoffs and pulling back on production heading into 2017. jon: it will not look like this anymore. carl: it cannot go down much further. it's been trending sideways to lower. we did see some drift higher in january. this isnot to say that the beginning of a deterio

small- and medium-sized fleets anticipating bigtime business, we're seeing it anecdotally, hard economic data, something is stirring in the corporate c-suites and main street. you don't get that all the time. trish: we cover the markets day in and day out. talking in the business community, everybody is optimistic. the cover of "time" magazine pointing out we for a divided country, saying he is the president of the divided states. how do you unleash the optimism for everyone, right? you know, there are people that are still reluctant, et cetera. >> it's always going to be good. and that's healthy to have critics. the fact of the matter is the economy starting to improve, and that's why the market's moved up and some of the value stocks and we for a lot of heavy industry stocks, but the transition team, i think is fantastic. i reached out -- trish: you like all the business people, you like all the generals in there. >> i really do. trish: people who have done something. >> i reached out to one of our directors, a lobbyist and well-known lobbyist and said i want to speak about the labor war, a

. >>> the dow hitting a record high as a solid economic data offset kshs in the wake of the no vote. raising to 19,216. nasdaq up 53 to 5308. back to you. >> thank you so much. >>> it is 5:27. it was a solemn scene this morning, the body of a new jersey state trooper was esco escorted from the hospital. we'll update you on what we're learning about the victim. >>> also, drowsy driving, hear how much sleep you need to be safe behind the wheel and why missing just an hour or two puts you and those near you at greater risk. he gets a lot of compliments. he wears his army hat, walks around with his army shirt looking all nice. and then people just say, "thank you for serving our country" and i'm like, that's my dad. male vo: no one deserves a warmer welcome home. that's why we're hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. i'm very proud of him. male vo: comcast. tncht

no economic data today but look for home sales, durable goods, personal income and gdp. tocks slipping friday with the dow off 8 points nasdaq down 19. a training website is notifying years of data breach of password of 55,000 accounts. the passwords were encrypted to prevent access. it ilinkedin is warning customers. >>> walmart offered prices as incentives to get shoppers to put money away in savings account. it does involve the prepaid, reloadable debit card. savers are given one entry for a monthly drawing for every dollar they put into the vault to cash prizes of $20,000. >> saving and spending. thank you very much. >>> next, the millennial tower in san francisco is sinking and leaning, but is it affecting the price of the condos in the building? they are pricey. a penthouse sold -- we'll tell you how much it went for. >>> first, happening right now, you can track the freezing temperatures with our nbc bay area app. once you download it, you can get weather notifications delivered to your smart phone. >>> you may need to make whipped cream the old fashioned way. th

economic data coming out tomorrow, including gdp.. ♪ courtney: you are watching bloomberg technology. let's start with a check of your first word news. authorities are offering a reward of $100,000 for the the suspect. he should be considered armed and dangerous and he has used various aliases. germany says it rejected an asylum request for him in july. the president-elect declared a aadly truck assault was attack on humanity. peter navarro has been chosen to lead the national trade council for the incoming administration. navarro was an economic adviser to mr. trump during the campaign . carl icahn will be special advisor to trump on issues related to regulatory reform. and will play a role in the selection of the next head of the sec. aleppo, evacuations have resumed. a dispute had delayed the final round

investors cheering economic data showing consumer confidence at a 15-year high and donald trump taking credit for that increase. in a tweet posted last week, thanks, donald. last year's surge in spending may have offset a slow start to the holiday shopping season. sales at brick and mortar stores rose 6% after having fallen for most of december. master card said the strong demand for furniture, home furnishings and men's apparel pushed it up 4%. >>> apple wants to encourage you to keep your new year's resolution. it's rolling out an update to apple watch users. they'll be greeted by the ring in the new year. get all of the watches for a full week. couple more days. >> you don't have it yet? i'm going with weight, the standard one considering i literally gained six pounds over christmas. >> i think i ate enough for the both of us. i'll be in the gym with you. >> coming up, why the internet is begging 2016 to leave betty white alone. we'll tell you why next. don't let sinus symptoms bring you down now! because you've got a lot of cheering to do! get fast sinus relief...with vicks sinex.

is positing economic data. unemployment dropped to the lowest level since 2007.t is in line with expectations from wall street. the current jobless rate is what most economists consider full employment. it is interesting if the federal rate -- federal reserve will hike. carmakers have been spoiled with consistently growing demand from china, but a new tax for luxury vehicles and other factors could reduce sales in the future. in germany, the industry is optimistic as the chinese are pushing forward a new market segment, electric mobility. reporter: on chinese roads like this one, you find more and more german cars. automakers like bmw and volkswagen sold over 23 million bottles this year, an increase of 15%. might not last. china will slap an extra tax on luxury cars. in cities, there is a limit on how many new cars can be registered. that is why the german auto association is cautious about future sales in china. >> we can't expect to see 15% growth in the chinese market every year as we have in 2016. at the beginning, we were conscious with productions -- proje

key economic data came out before the markets opened. consumer price index for november fell for a ninth consecutive month. down 0.4%. the jobless rate rose to 3.1%. now to individual stocks, toshiba was a stand out stock. it tumbled today after the news of the company may post a huge loss of billions of dollars from its nuclear power operations in the u.s., down 11.62%. but shares of ono pharmaceutical surged on a report the company plans to sell its cancer drug to treat stomach cancer. ininvestors anticicipating trad to be thin in this last trading week of the year, but will continue to monitor any surprise moves. >>> now so south korea. lawmakers have been distancing themselves from scandal hit president park geun-hye. now others from her party are quitting. >> translator: we've dedecideto leave the partrty. president park loyalisists have forgotten the true values of conservatism, therefore they have lost the people's trust. >> the 29 legislators are expected to join a new party next monthth. more lawmakers are expected to join. for

small- and medium-sized fleets anticipating bigtime business, we're seeing it anecdotally, hard economic data, something is stirring in the corporate c-suites and main street. you don't get that all the time. trish: we cover the markets day in and day out. talking in the business community, everybody is optimistic. the cover of "time" magazine pointing out we for a divided country, saying he is the president of the divided states. how do you unleash the optimism for everyone, right? you know, there are people that are still reluctant, et cetera. >> it's always going to be good. and that's healthy to have critics. the fact of the matter is the economy starting to improve, and that's why the market's moved up and some of the value stocks and we for a lot of heavy industry stocks, but the transition team, i think is fantastic. i reached out -- trish: you like all the business people, you like all the generals in there. >> i really do. trish: people who have done something. >> i reached out to one of our directors, a lobbyist and well-known lobbyist and said i want to speak about the labor war, a

you want to look for economic data today on the housing market. the dow rising.daq up 26 to 5483. tracy, back over to you. >> we'll see if it happens today. landon dowdy at cnbc. >>> taking the former president to court over the sandusky sex abuse case. >>> also we're hearing new details about the man accused of planting bombs in new jersey and new york. we'll tell you what he did in court. >>> right now on

you'll look for economic data today on the housing market. the dow rising 91 points to 19,974, nasdaq up 23 to 5,483. >>> a live audio broadcast in your news feed, the new option in the live video plug-in allows publishers to publish content directly. for now facebook is testing the feature with a few partners including harper collins and the bbc. hundred lucky person on read it got a special secret santa, bill gates. she says she was flabbergasted when she got a package from the microsoft co-founder, including a special edition xbox, dvds and a framed picture of her photo shopped with gates. read it has had an annual exchange since 2009 and gates have been involved pour the past couple years. >>> thank you very much, landon. appreciate that. >>> a one-time livermore lab researcher is going to serve 18 months in prison for receiving false reports to receive federal funding. darian kenyon pleaded guilty in june. he received millions over four years to develop quantum computer units. he didn't do the work. he submitted fraudulent documents and

investors cheering economic data showing consumer confidence rising to a 15-year high this month. donald trump taking credit for the increase in a tweet posted last night. we get a report today on pending home sales. the dow rising 11 points to 19,945. the nasdaq up 24 to 5,487. a last-minute surge in spending may offset a slow start to the holiday season. sales at brick and mortar stars rose more than 6% after having fallen for most of december. master card says strong demand for furniture, home furnishings and men's apparel push holiday sales up 4%. apple wants to encourage you to keep your new year's resolutions. it's rolling up an update to apple watch users. they'll be greeted by the ring in the new year challenge which kicks off on january 2nd. it it's looking to make this a slr social event. sam and kira, back over to you. >> how many of those goals, do you think, have to do with running, working out, getting in shape? all of them? >> all of them i would assume. >> landon dowdy, thank you very much. >>> speaking of apple watch goals, our fellow apple watch wearer kari hall,

economic data is good, corporate data is good.eople are worried things are getting frothy, yeah there are some animal spirits out there finally seeing pro growth policy potential, but the underlying fundamentals are good. that will push us forward. there's always risks. always risks out there. if you wait for the dust to settle you will never invest. if we see good data today, we could hit that milestone. >> yeah. doesn't have to be congress either, doesn't have to be legislation. could be deregulation. i wonder whether there's that much risk to whether these things happen. one thing will happen, on january 20th, there will be like a czar, we already heard about carl icahn. in terms of what you could clean up from the private sector with these regulations still being put on in the 12th hour of this presidency. there is no risk of whether it gets passed. they'll do that with a pen. don't you think? >> i agree. a lot of that can be rolled back by way of executive order. we know that surveys taken of businesses from ceos of large com

. >>> china has released economic data for retail sales and industrial output in november. the national bureau of statistics says retail sales were up $11% from a year earlie. analysts attribute the result to strong sales of electrical home appliances and cosmetics. both are popular in online discount sales. there was also a rush on small cars. many people are buying them before tax breaks expire at the end of the year. the bureau said industrial output rose by slightly more than 6% year on year. that's up by 0.1 of a percentage point from october. >> translator: china's economy has been maintaining stable growth under the government's policy of moderately expanding demand. >> yet one expert on china's economy said the outlook for domestic demand is uncertain as many companies are investing less in equipment. >>> turning to the markets, shares in tokyo finished higher, extending the nikkei's winning streak to six days. phoeoebe amoroso has more from e tokyo stock exchange. >> the nikkei 225 added half a percent. the index reached a one-year high, but the gains were capped b

economic data are also showing an increase in personal consumption as employment and household income continue to improve. >> kuroda also commented on the recent rapid depreciation of the yen against the dollar. he said he doesn't think the weakening yen poses a problem. he said its current value should not come as a surprise. >>> checking the markets, tokyo stocks ended higher after the bank of japan's decision even though there was no surprise regarding monetary policy. tokyo's nikkei average finished at its highest level in a year. here's more from the tokyo stock exchange. >> the boj's decision to stick with monetary easing came as no surprise to many, but investors were encouraged by the boj's economic assessment. so let's take a look at the closing levels for this tuesday, december 20th. the nikkei 225 was up more than half a percent to finish at 19,494. the broader topix gained 0.2%. looking at individual stocks, domestic demand related shares led the gains this tuesday. asahi group holdings, west japan railway, and s heroic ionogi all showed strong gains. softbank announced it

solid economic data out of the u.s. is driving the dollar higher. the adp private payroll report in november came in stronger than expected. all right. let's take a look at other markets open at this hour. we are seeing a mixed picture. seoul just a touch in the negative. australia higher by half a percent. china will open in just under half an hour. >>> the u.s. federal reserve says in a report the economy has continued to expand in most regions. financial market players widely expect the fed will decide on its first rate hike in a year at a policy meeting this month. the fed has released its latest beige book based on surveys on business conducted. that's business conducted in its 12 districts. the report says a majority of the districts reported tighter labor markets and higher retail sales, especially for apparel and furniture from early october to mid-november. businesspeople in some districts said they are worried that the stronger dollar will hurt exports. still, the economic outlook was mainly positive. that's the latest from me this hour. i

stocks rising yesterday with a dow hitting a record high, solid economic data with concerns about europe in the wake of sunday's no vote in italy's referendum. you want to look -- dow to 19,216. nasdaq up 53 to 5,308. >>> sales of the apple watch set a record, the best ever for the device. cook was responding to a report estimating apple watch sales are down 71% from last year, although cook would not give specific sales numbers for the watch. >>> facebook may be asking users to rate the quality of news. facebook has been in trouble recently for failing to stop the spread of fake news, especially relating to the election. back to you. >> facebook looking for some do it yourself fact checking. 4:49 on your tuesday morning. president-elect trump's thank you tour is continuing in north carolina this morning. we're expecting the official announcement of something that we essentially already know. his official nomination for secretary of defense. trump has said mad dog mattis is his unofficial choice for defense secretary. his latest cabinet appointment, dr. ben carson as hud secretary is dra

no economic data but look for reports on home sales, durable goods. stocks slipping friday with the dow off 8 points. the nasdaq down 19 to 5437. back over to you. >> courtney reagan with cnbc. courtney, thanks. >>> and after a weekend that included snow, ice, rain and 60 degree temperatures, we're back to reality. chilly start out there and the winds still picking up a bit with this live look outside, but conditions do get better. just stay cold. we'll have the details coming up and in traffic. >>> thanks, krystal. 422. cameras around 29. no big problems or delays. an easy commute. more updates for you when i come back at 5:30. >>> plus with new calls to investigate russia possibly influencing the presidential election, hear why a republican leader is calling the whole thing a spin job.

. >>> investors seem to be shrugging off the economic data and rather drawing support from wall streethich charged ahead overnight. dow jones industrial average and s&p 500 both closing as record highs. tokyo shares surged at the open. they're still up. nikkei up by just about 1%. 18,680. investors are buying a wide variety of shares, but the pharmaceutical sector is lagging. let's take a look at currencies. the dollar is slightly weaker against the yen, trading now below 114. 113.73-81. in the month since donald trump's election victory, though, the u.s. currency has rallied more than 12%. the euro, ground against -- after, rather, after its recent rally, it's now trading at $1.07. that's before the european central bank's policy meeting later on thursday. let's take a look at other markets open at the moment in the asia pacific. we're seeing others jumping, too. seoul's kospi and australia's s&p asx 200 both up by 1.25%. china markets will open in just under half an hour. >>> the top trade official for the european uniyuunion says ja and the eu will likely soon wrap up their talks ov

look for economic data on home prices and example confidence. the dow rose 13 points 2019,333 while the nasdaq was up. the national retail federation says about 10% of holiday gifts are returned with the majority made at brick and mortar stores. that gives retailers a chance to clear unsold inventory. analysts say the week after christmas could account for 14% of total holiday sales. >>> the strength of "rogue one" is helping push the box office to a recovered. hollywood projected to take in more than $11 billion. "rogue one" topping the competition with $96 million, seeing the animated film from illumination entertainment which is owned by nbc universal opening in second place with $53. back over to you. >>> full disclosure. kate rogers from new york, thank you very much. >>> if you're in the market for a new car, now is a great time to shop. buyers have more bargaining power to hit sales targets before the new year. the year-end push says deal rs are more likely to to offer rebates. >> that year-end push never works for me because my lease is

gotten significantly weaker, it has not really been a major talking point, so when you look to the economic datay, the weakening of the currency, correspond to what you see on the economic side, or is one out is in the other? is a big economy, the second largest in the world. of course, there are companies affected by the weaker wone. here are financial firms affected by capital outflows, but what matters is internal chinese policy. i'm not seeing the depreciation affecting most firms. there's too much construction. manufacturing sector serving the chinese market is huge. jenny consumers are relied upon by a lot of the world, maybe unwisely. so depreciation matters. the balance of payments matters. when you're talking about internal china, it is really their own policy, their own debt situation, not the currency. anchor: we start to speculate on what the going to do in his administration, talk about tariffs, putting up blocks for trade, and emerging-market around the world and other countries are going to fall way behind. i guess, if the u.s. is growing at a gdp that is above what we have seen c

julie: right out of the gate, breaking economic data on durable goods orders and factory orders. both for the month of october. looks like durable goods orders have a gain of 4.6% in october, higher than the 3.4% initial read here. rising.orders and revision higher in september. looks like -- these numbers coming in our sort of in line with what we have seen on the economic front, with much of the data coming in ahead of estimates. durable goods orders coming in at four point 6%. meantime, we are about 30 minutes into the trading day in the u.s. abigail doolittle has the latest. kind of a sideways trade. abigail: as you mentioned, pausing. not a lot of action in the u.s. major averages. the nasdaq modestly higher. the dow and s&p trading a little lower. they all opened up just slightly. the energy sector is weighing down markets. it will be interesting to see how the day trades at. as for two of the big laggers, boeing and nike. , while a downgrade boeing is lower after the president-elect tweeted that "costs are out of control for the new boeing air force 1." " cancel the order.

look for economic data this morning on home prices and consumer confidence. 'tis the season for making returns. about 10% of holiday gifts are actually returned, with the majority made at brick and mortar stores. that gives retailers a chance to sell customers more items and clear unsold inventory. >> this week after christmas could account for 14% of total holiday sales. a lot of fitbit trackers were probably unwrapped on christmas day. the pit fitbitt app was the top app downloaded on sunday, suggesting a lot of fitness devices were given as gifts. amazon's oako was also popular. back over to you. >> thank you so much for that. >> and just ahead, sarah michelle gellar's '80s icon mix-up that has the internet in an uproar. >> plus, how one generous man is putting his racked-up air miles to good use. we're rapidly losing credibility as handymen. mom washed our clothes. one wash with tide pods and we're right back where we started. we look like catalogue models! who trusts a clean handyman anyway? we can't look this good! dinge is the dirt the bargain detergen