Cramer at the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks set to open the highs of the year with a nice wrup side surprise. Upside. And oil up. Tenyear remained huddled around 2 . The market alltime highs. S p within striking distance. And dow, 18,000 yes, back within reach. American food giants getting hit this morning, well have more on kraft, kellogg, conagra and campbell soup. And jack ma fired up his employees with quote, we havent been that satisfied with our results. The dow looking to bounce back to 18,000 s p is within striking distance of that record closing high. The Economic Growth in the eurozone it accelerate in the fourth quarter. German gameday up 2. 7 on an annual basis. Athens is up 4 . The highest since december jim, were going to get this done . Oh yeah it will be done. A stretchout. First about six points and then lengthen ma turitymaturity. You could say its kick the can down the road. Spain, i like the turn there. The doubledigit gains in europe. Of the cisco talked about do
Star state reporting on the impact of low oil on jobs and the economy in the great state of texas. First, lets get to bob in the heart of all the action down at the nyc. I can hear smashing in the background. All those records being smashed again today. I believe its been the best twoweek gain for the s p in three months and im just looking at the leaders here. Energy and materials are on fire. Once again. At that level this will be a new historic closing high. Well see if we get there here. Intraday inteks for new highs, theres a bunch of them. The s p 500 is an at intraday by semiconductor index, i mentioned this all week its been at historic highs. Midcaps have been historic highs. The nasdaq is at a 15year high. The russell is close to new highs as well. Well be keeping an eye on that. Leading the charge as mandy mentioned is energy and will we see brent up very strong this morning and close west texas intermediate. We get some of the more volatile names up. Danbury, halliburton, b
Of cargo. A labor deal was reached late friday to end a month long dispute between Dock Workers Union and shippers. We think we have good news with greece. It seems like its sort of good. Who knows. Thomas perez was part of the talks. Hes going to join us at 8 30 eastern and drivers theyre paying more at the pump. Gas prices jumping 13 cents in the past two weeks. 26 cents in the last month. The average price now at 2. 33 among the reasons for the increase. The largest u. S. Refinery strike in 35 years and an explosion at an exxon plant in california. Corporate news valiant has a 5 tax rate i think. And still using that to leverage itself in buying u. S. Companies. Its buying castro drug maker salix for 158 a share and about 10. 1 billion. After valeant lost a take over fight for last year. Apple announcing plan to build two data centers in europe for about 2 billion. They will Power Services including the itunes storage application store. Imessage maps and siri for customers across eu
Targets chief Financial Officer. The cfo will be joining us in a power lunch exclusive to give us his financial forecast. We begin now with the health of the American House housing market, and new numbers on home sales as we begin to gear up for that spring selling season. Fingers crossed it comes. Youve got dr horton and toll. All moving to the down side. Lets get to diana who is live in washington. Hi diana. Hi mandy. After a disappointing report on january sales of existing home sales of newly built homes out today a bit more heartening but you have to keep them in perspective. Take a look. January sales came in at an annualized rate of 4,1,000. Thats flat from december but december had seen a huge 11 monthly jump, and we didnt give any of that back. Thats good. The 30year average for new home sales is over 700,000 a were. We still have a long way to go. Sales of new homes priced under 150,000 are onethird of what they were a year ago. That is why luxury home builder Toll Brothers i
2 . Road map begins with earnings from hp a big hit from the stronger dollar. An exclusive interview with meg whitman in a minute. Beat from lowes and from target. Those stocks both higher in the premarket. Hawkish or dovish . Janet yellen day two, heads to the house for her second day of congressional testimony. First up, the dow and the s p coming off record closing highs. The nasdaq aiming for an 11th consecutive day of gains. Better than expected results from retailers, target and lowe and yellen back to the hill for testimony, before the House Financial Services committee. Jim, three sessions left in february. Weve had records on the dow, the s p, the mid caps the russell, the dax, the ftse. Whats left . It all makes sense. When youre in a Conference Call like i was, listened to the amazing cfo from home depot, really is the dean of cfos, and shes tracing out a story which says, you know what people are spending much more on their home and we have homes coming off of renting and b