We start with black friday. The annual shopping binge after the thanksgiving holiday is now a global phenomenon, with retailers around the world offering discounts on everything from Kitchen Appliances to tvs to clothing. But its also becoming the focus of concerns about the environmental cost of consumerism. Spending in the us, the home of black friday, is forecast to hit more than 29 billion over the next four days. Theres an added incentive this year us retailers want to do as much business as possible ahead of a new 15 import tax due to hit chinese made goods later this month. It would affect 160 billion worth of goods, including popular gifts like smartphones, toys and clothes. Dont expect the frantic scenes in the shops of black fridays past though its increasingly being done online. Thats where more than three quarters of us are looking for bargains here in the uk, according to pwc, and the trend is the same around europe and the us. But are more of us growing uncomfortable with
Austin, texas and carl icahn out with a new bet against some place i bet we all hung out as teenagers. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening im Brian Sullivan if there is a president cook some day, you can say you heard it here first. That song as annoying as it is gives us a big theme today that is retail yesterdays slam of home depot and kohl sending shock wave through the world. That one, ouch, Urban Outfitters down 16 first, lets go to the macromarkets and stock futures are down again they are in the red today. Off 1. 07 right now technology continues to power on yet another record for the nasdaq and nasdaq 100. The nasdaq 100, if you are not paying attention, please do, its soaring on pace for the best year in a decade year to date. We are up almost 32 because we always like to make you a little bit smarter here. Listen to this, 49 of the 100 stocks are up 45 this year. Two of them, semiconductors lam research and amd have doubled. In the bond market, not moving too much down
We asked you if you plan to shop in a physical store, go to the store today, and were revealing the results as Worldwide Exchange begins right now perfect. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching it is friday, november 29th. Hope everybody had a wonderful thanksgiving to the rest of you, i hope you had a good thursday. Im Brian Sullivan before we get started into the show, we got a mystery chart for you. That is your chart of the day. Now, this retail stock is the best performing retail stock in the past three months. Past 90 days it is a rather unlikely name well reveal it in todays rbi, random but interesting, thats it keep it here for the answer. The stock markets here close at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time the bond market closes at 2 00 eastern time today how generous of them stock futures, theyre down 50 points on the nose right now, again. This will be a very thin day but with lighter volume can often come bigger pricing swings
And this weeks tv pictures may look like apocalypse now, but climate Scientists Say these fires and floods are just the start. So how are politicians framing their message on averting apocalypse ahead . My guests today chinese writer diane weiliang, american broadcaster jef mcallister, Stefanie Bolzen of german newspaper die welt, portugese writer eunice goes. Thank you for coming in. For most politicians it would have been a day to hide. A former ambassador gave startling evidence against his administration and a former close adviser was convicted on counts of lying to congress, obstruction and witness tampering. But this is donald trump and instead of hiding, the us president took to twitter to undermine the former ambassador to ukraine even as she delivered her testimony in congress. So is trump still teflon with his supporters or will his enemies succeed in tarnishing modern president ial over the course of these impeachment hearings . Jef, start us off. I think it is useful to sta
Shopping day than black friday or cyber monday. Half a billion shoppers or more taking part in a singles day a consumer alert for you this morning why giving out your cell phone number could put you and your private information at risk. And on this veterans day, the inspiring story of two marines on a mission their friendship reaching a new height early today starts right now good morning im cori coffin. Im phillip mena. More than 200 million americans need to bundle up if theyre going outside today. An arctic blast is moving east and causing temperatures to plunge to lows that are 20 to 30 degrees colder than what wed normally see this time of year over the next few days, we could see cold temperatures break nearly 200 records that have been set for decades many areas in the midwest and great lakes have already seen their first snowfall this could be a preview of whats to come for dozens of states nbc meteorologist janessa webb is here following all of that for us this morning. Good m