Happy new year. Nicole happy new year. To folks at home kicking it off. Yesterday the first trading day of the year not a great one. Good if you want the markets to go down and give you are a blow yesterday were disappointed when it dropped 147 points the day mixed bag, the dow gaining 122 points of its earlier highs when it was up 70 points, the nasdaq index in the downside and seeing the s p just fractionally lower, not even one point sellers shows the unchanged line. We do a lot of year end stuff and looking at the first trading day of the year but here is a look at the one week chart, the s p and the dow, sundown arrows and the like and the names weighing on the Dow Jones Industrials, verizon, microsoft, cocacola, intel coming under pressure today. Ashley Oil Prices Falling sharply to fresh one month lows below 95 a barrel even as todays weekly inventory report showed crude supplies at the lowest level in three months. Fox business contributor phil flynn of Price Futures Group in t
This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist in for matt along side Natalie Morales and dylan dreyer. Our lead story this morning, despite everything you saw there, Savannah Guthrie turns 29 years old. Happy birthday savannah, again. Thank you so much. Turned 29, oh, 13 years ago i think. 29 and holding. Natalie just mentioned im the oldest person sitting at this table. By six months. Youre right on my trail. Meanwhile, willie has the gift that keeps on giving. Willie has the stomach flu this morning. I do. A lot of leaning in all directions this morning. We have the bucket and the purel right here. I would watch the full show this morning. Theres no telling whats going to happen. Lets get to todays top story. The effort to rescue dozens of people stranded on a ship to antarctica. They have been there since tuesday and the first ice breaking
The slopes of north korea. And a whale of a day ahead for football fans everywhere. It is wednesday, january 1. Early today starts right now. And good morning to you on this first day of 2014. Im richard lui. From massive firework displays to solemn ceremonies, people around the world ringing in this new year in a variety of ways that did not disappoint. Stephanie elam takes a look. Reporter midnight in new zealand brought fireworks over the sky tower. In sydney harbor, more than 1 Million People ushering in the new year with firework that is lit up the iconic opera house and bridge. It was temple bells in japan ringing the customary 108 times. A solemn, dignified tradition bringing in the new year. 2014 was welcomed with a bang by the chinese. From the great wall to shanghai. And if that wasnt spectacular enough, dubais new year celebration was one for the record books, literally. The worlds tallest Building Center stage for an attempt at the Worlds Largest display. And at the same ti
Him endorsement dollars. Thethis is great news for new york yankees. Good morning, welcome to Market Makers. Monday in new york city, i am Erik Schatzker. Ruhle, itephanie suspect you were up late watching the Golden Globes. Not. Yes, my wife and daughters were watching it. Some funny moments. Poehler,ey and amy there were less women nominees than men, the women rocked the show. They put on a great show. Lets bring in another woman on Market Makers. A big takeover and the liquor industry. Offering 16ngs billion for an iconic american brand, beam. Our own deals reporter loves drinking you said Market Makers whiskey. Our own brand of burden bourbon. Erik got my favorite brand of bourgbon for christmas. Off easily, suntory is very big in japan. Drinks, iliquor, soft was telling erik this, you cannot go a day in japan without running into centauri into suntory. This is their attempts to go against giants like the agio, they are trying to hedge bets. Even if they are not going to get growth
Melissa got some breaking news were watching right now. Norad investigating what is being called an unresponsive aircraft. It has entered now cuban airspace. F15 fighter jets had been following this tbm 700 over the atlantic before it broke towards cuba. The utility aircraft departed from raw chesser to new york to land in naples, florida. But did not respond to attempts to communicate. The fighter jets are International Airspace monitoring the flight path. Our very own top sullivan will join us with his take. Were keeping close eye on the situation. Well keep you updated on it. President obama appears to have his coalition but timetable dealing with isis is very much in doubt. The president revealing a plan for Immediate Response if a nato member is attacked, but also stressed the need for slow and gradual strategy against isis. Listen. In terms of timetable, we are working deliberately. It is not going to happen overnight but we are steadily moving in the right direction, and were go