The transports to record highs again today. Plus the grocery wars are heating up again. This time walmart is making a newing a b decision to go after amaz amazon very interesting a lot of people in new york city are very excited about it. Well explain coming up in a little bit. Good for brooklyn. We start with our top story right now, executives from two scandalridden companies have been meeting facetoface with lawmakers on capitol hill today. Cnbc cnbcs wilfred frost has the highlights of the wells fargo hearing, about millions of unauthorized accounts opened by that company and aditi roy has the latest on the exequifaxs ceo, the attack that compromised the data after more than 145 million milliamericans. Aditi, start us off. Reporter former equifax ceo Richard Smith was grilled for close to three hours by about two dozen lawmakers. As he headed out of the hearing, i asked him about the breach he remained tight lipped eped a walked past our cameras. Gave an eight page remark before he
Steadier rain that will be moving in this morning and heavier downpours as nate weakens, no longer a hurricane, a Tropical Storm, but drenching rain moving north. It will come to us tomorrow. Autumn still on hold. Were in the 70s. Unseasonably warm and will warm into the 80s. Right now im tracking light showers moving through wilmington into Burlington County and bucks county in pennsylvania and in the Lehigh Valley were some light showers as well. But heres the main band of rain. You can see how quickly its moved across pennsylvania due in this morning. And well get a break this afternoon. Then this is going to be with us tomorrow. Later tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon whats left of nate will be rolling in to our area. Nate is weakening, still a Tropical Storm. It will likely weaken to a depression later today. The temperatures starting off warm this morning in the 70s will be warmer this afternoon in spite of mostly cloudy skies. Not going to see a lot of sunshine today. More li
U. S. Equity futures this hour, lets show you whats going on, suggesting a flat open s p opening lower 1 1 2 points, the dow slightly lower and the nasdaq lower by four overnight in asia, quiet session around the world, generally. Hang seng higher over 1. 5 , but t shanghai was lower european equities. The dax is higher by 0. 25 france and the ftse slightly lower. Italys higher by a third and spain is lower by 0. 25 . Their yields are backing up over there once again that has resumed take a look at crude wtis lower by 20 cents, a decline of 0. 5 , 44. 15. If youd like crude delivered in august pepsico just out with Quarterly Results. Sara eisen has the numbers 10 cents above on earnings, i see, sara. Sure looks like a big beat. Eps 1. 50, versus the 1. 40 expected it includes a 6cent gain from a sale, but its an estimate, so its unclear whether that factored into the analyst forecast, but either way, a beat on the profit line, a beat on revenues as well for pepsico, 15. 7 billion. The
You see behind us, it is cooled off a bit. The dow is down about 15 points. But keep in mind, folks, we have seen huge moves in stocks, bonds and the dollar. Just since the election. And watch out for oil. Crude oil hitting a new threemonth low. Well have more on what is driving oil prices down straight ahead. Tyler . Thank you very much, brian. Tyler mathisen here. Here is what else is happening at this hour. Strong after shocks continue to rock new zealand following sundays 7. 8 magnitude earthquake. U. P. S. , air maintenance workers, voting to strike as contract negotiations stall. And the Transportation Department is setting new rules requiring electric and hybrid cars to emit sounds by 2018. So they cant sneak up on you anymore. We got a busy two hours ahead and we kick it off with the market, the dow, as brian mentioned, briefly hitting a record high at the open. It has since pulled back a bit. Despite the pullback, there are some notable standouts, often are, almost always are.
Its obviously a report that was somewhat shocking for wall streets economists. But i would say if you look at the reaction in stocks today, its fairly muted. Dollar down about a percent and a half. Gold is up 2. 4 . But its kind of sloppy. That charts all over the place. But then you take a look at equities themselves. And pretty clearly you can see the nasdaq, after being up seven days in a row, is down 0. 7. Small caps down a little bit more than 1 . S p, large cap nams are really down barely. Yeah, because because the market believes that june is now off the table. Isnt that the because a weakening dollar is not a negative for whats been ailing the market in a positive. Q4 and q3 of this year were going to lap what went on last year with that dallas racing higher, wrecking the earnings of the commodities. A plunging dollar but a weakening dollar is being viewed as constructive. Liesman, what happened today . You know, im looking at you. You got your hair all together. Your suit is w