Us can see but is a danger to us all. We are live as well in cuba as the dust settles there after yesterdays historymaking announcement to normalize relations. So whats business like there now . Michelle carusocabrera has gone in search of answers. First, though, lets go check in with sue at the nyse. Hi, sue. Hi, ty. And were at the highs of the day, as you said. A huge rally on wall street today. And basically its been two days that have taken us up about 3 , 600 points. We are at the high of the day. And bob pisani joins me here on the floor of the new york Stock Exchange. Santa claus is coming a little early. Why are we up 300 points . I dont know, i asked you. Thats why im here. Thank you. They pay me to do this. Number one, oil is trying to stabilize. Thats the most important thing. Number two, the fed is perceived to be sympathetic to the stock market or helpful to the stock market. And finally all in on the u. S. On the part of the europeans. The germans bought heavily this mor
More fallout and reaction to our exclusive interview with billionaire investor Stan Druckenmiller. His critical comments about ibm prompting bill miller another famed investor to take to twitter in defense of big blue. We will show you what both said and hash out who may be right. Two very smart guys two very different opinions on ibm. And later today weve got tony robbins, his first book is out in nearly 20 years. Its all about money and gaining Financial Freedom, which by the way, coincidentally the same thing cnbc and this show is all about, but tony robbins will be here at the New York Stock Exchange later on closing bell. A lot coming up. Here is where we stand. An hour to go to the close. The dow is off 89 points. Weak session across the board. Earlier today it looked like a mirror image of the gains we saw yesterday. A couple of differing reasons as to why that may be going on. Maybe just some profit taking. A banner day yesterday with the nasdaq closing above 5,000. Today at th
Countdown to the closing bell starts right now. Fetus the robot and bob greifeld. What more can we want . I am liz claman, live at the Nasdaq Market place in the heart of times square where we are awaiting a huge Earnings Reports to get to you. Google and amazon coming out in an hour from now, widely held stocks, you may air and on your portfolio but also will barometers for what is going on in technology and also ringing the closing bell with some very wellknown superstar nfl faces and our fox sports robot cletus. The last hour of trading, a rally on our hands and you might call todays rally the facebook affect. We should tell you Mark Zuckerberg and social networking giant hitting it out of the park with the Earnings Report yesterday and now getting 63 of its ad revenue from mobile. That is absolutely few. Market watchers and analysts took stuff on fire today, up 15 . It also had a brand new alltime high of 62. 50 a share. As impressive as those numbers are we cannot give facebook al
Any ground in their budget battle which has partially shut down the government. Speaker boehner says republicans are still demanding changes in the president S Health Care plan. Billionaire carl icahn backed away from a final legal battle over the value of his shares from the pcmaker which is going private. Icahn says there is better uses for the 2 billion invested in bell. Cheryl sothebys adopted a poison pill to make it more difficult for a buyer to acquire the company. The auction house is trying to fend off activist investor dan lobe, who raised his stake in that firm. David says he has better artistic sense than the current management. Nasdaq ceo bob greifeld visiting twitter San Francisco headquarters today. Apparently making a lastditch Charm Offensive to get twitter to list on the nasdaq and the upcoming ipo. Cheryl next big question for them. Microsoft outgoing ceo Steve Ballmer receive ad smaller than projected bone for the second year in a row. Following disappointing sales
A year ago. A little bit of perspective. Home prices rose a modest just under 1 . What does that suggest . May be a slowdown in the works. Everyone has wondered about that. Housing is not the only bright spot. A handful of Retail Stocks touching an alltime. Nicole petallides on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to talk about sparkling retailers. Reporter the day after thanksgiving. Amazon already started their black friday deals. Every ten minutes they have some sort of deal. That is really what theyre going to see with the holiday season. In the meantime, stocks are doing so well. Moving some highs. Macys, tiffany, and walmart as well as limited brands. But you look at these names doing well and touching highs. But also outperforming the s p 500. But they are still a performers with amazon of over 50 year today. Limited branson 38 . Tiffanys up 54 . Doing so well not only here at home, but also abroad so much so that they raise their fullyear numbers. Japan and china. Ninetysev