You've got this great take on sort of what the drivers are going for. Do you call it tire. But we are still trying to digest trade, We are still trying to think about interest rates.I think you go into what's happening with inflation, but earnings, what are we hearing from earnings to vindicate the run up that we've had of late. A looks thus far, right. I think it's fair to say that earnings have been really, really good.If you look at the performance of the HYPERSCALERS, in particular this most recent earn ...

You've got this great take on sort of what the drivers are going for. Do you call it tire. But we are still trying to digest trade, We are still trying to think about interest rates.I think you go into what's happening with inflation, but earnings, what are we hearing from earnings to vindicate the run up that we've had of late. A looks thus far, right. I think it's fair to say that earnings have been really, really good.If you look at the performance of the HYPERSCALERS, in particular this most recent earn ...

Joining us now with more is Joe Leavourney. He is counselor to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant. Joe, your expectations of that house vote tonight.>> Well, thankfully uh the Democrats, as the secretary mentioned, uh came over on our side, Brian. Uh we didn't have the votes. It wasn't our fault.Uh but the Democrats finally uh some of them uh cooler heads prevailed and they came over. The Senate passed the uh the resolution. The House will as well.Uh unfortunately there's been some damage uh done from the shu ...

Meanwhile, some movement on the housing front with demand for mortgages ticking up last week. Diana Ol has the numbers for us. Hi, Diana.>> Hey, Court. Yeah, even though we're heading smack into the slowest season for housing, home buyers seem to be making maybe one last gasp, likely because of more supply on the market and softening prices. Mortgage applications to buy a home rose 6% last week to their strongest pace since September, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.Now, volume was 31% higher ...

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Romania’s central bank held interest rates unchanged at the last policy meeting of a year in which the Black Sea nation endured a deep political crisis and market turmoil. https://t.co/WDUhmp7P1B ...

“They've gotten comfortable enough that this is an environment that they can operate in and do deals in. I don't know that they're fully comfortable that they can really forecast everything,” said Todd Dubner, a principal and deal advisory and strategy leader for industrial manufacturing at KPMG US. “But that's not dissuading them from starting down the deal path.”KPMG’s report noted that aerospace and defense deals were notably down earlier in the year, while sectors such as automotive continued to be acti ...

Romania’s policymakers are poised to keep interest rates unchanged at their last meeting of a year that was marked by a political crisis and market turbulence https://t.co/SJIZK9ky27 ...

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