Sue herera is off tonight. Well, door busters for stocks on this black friday, consumer were out shopping for bargains while investors returned from thanksgiving to buy up equities. The dow, the s p 500, the nasdaq and even the small cap russell 2000 all closed at records. Extending the rally seen since election day. Stocks have risen sharply on expectations that the president elect will cut taxes, redu reduce regulations and spend heavily on infrastructure. Today, the dow industrial average rose to 19,152. The index closed at a record every trading day this week. The nasdaq added 18. S p 500 was up eight. And the major indexes saw their Third Straight week of gains. About 1 57b9. 5 . The old cliche is that the markets hate uncertain thety. Trumps election removed some of that, but the markets power fu raply since november th is built on a lot of promises and campaign intentions often improve hard to achieve, so, our stock, pricing in too much anticipation right now. Here to discuss is
Melissa back to the markets. The dow ending the day down more than 50 points. It had been down nearly double that. Todays big drag, nike, proctor gamble, apple as well. Trader Scott Shellady at the cme, watching oil and gold fall. Lori rothman is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Lori you have your eyes on two consumer stocks with doubledigit losses today. Reporter no surprise on hershey. They were doing a flirtation with mondelese, maker of cadbury eggs. Mondelez said no deal there. 125 per share. They could really not come to terms on proper valuation. So you see hersheys stock really getting slammed, interesting down below 100 a share with a 10 and 3 4 decline today. D and w, Discount Shoe retailer after disappointing earnings. Dsw disappointing numbers, down by a third. That has got to hurt. Apple is the surprise story of the day, slapped with a back tax bill of 14 1 2 billion dollars from the European Union to be paid to ireland. Apple and ireland agreed to a tax deal i
Trump efforts in full swing. Across the aisle, president obama tells donors its time to rally around hillary despite her flaws. She does not have to be authentic says the president. Bernie says hes going all the way to the convention, come what may. And here is a terrific way to start your day, the dow has regained all of the 2000 points it lost this year, better yet, its going to go up again this morning in about a half hour, you can watch your money grow right here. Varney company is about to begin. Ill be back in the high life again hey, wait, wait, i recognize that music. Pete winwood, back in the high life again. Thank you very much. Ashley confetti. Stuart oh, confetti. Look at this, and smiles the dow positive for the year. Its going up some more today. Weve erased gotten rid of a 2000 point deficit. All right, ash, if things are looking so bright, tell me the three stocks that led the way. Ashley this is interesting. Lets begin, first one up, verizon, can you hear me now . Appa
Rockefeller plaza. Reporter and good morning, everyone. Welcome to this special split edition of today on a wednesday morning. Its 7 00 on the west coast. Im here in brussels and savannah is back in studio 1a. Weve been seeing a lot of very touching sites around the city this morning. A growing memorial to the victims. This one near the belgian stock exchange. There was a moment of silence earlier this morning as the people of this city and this country and really all of europe still try to get their arms around what has been happening. By the way, savannah, we do have breaking news on the investigation. We now know the names of some, some of the suspected bombers. Two of them are brothers, khalid and ibrahim el bakraoui. Khalid blew himself up on a metro train behind me here. His brother detonated one of the bombs that went off at the airport. Now the man seen on the left in this surveillance photo has not yet been identified. The one on the report record tedly is najim laachraouilaac
Right now a security scare in times square. Streets blocked off and pedestrian plazas empty on a busy saturday night. The clues police found in a Suspicious Truck as the driver ended up in handcuffs. First, where did spring go . A triple threat of winter weather. Snow, wind, and cold could lead just when you thought the cold weather was over, Mother Nature throws us a curve ball several weeks into spring. The storm that is headed our way sent bricks flying in chicago, and in indiana, power lines toppled during the storm. What can we expect over the next few hours . Elise finch has the answers. Reporter well, cindy, we can expect damaging winds, downed trees, downed power lines, not out of the question. Its hard to tell it doesnt look that dramatic. Looks like rain and snow, but we have a clipper system a fast moving area of low pressure, and we will see the damaging winds with this system, and we are looking at the vortex satellite and radar, a little bit of rain, and not a ton of mois