A market in search of a narrative. Thats kind of what it feels like down here. The dow may have been in full on rally mode today if not for General Electric. Its the worst performing dow stock. Its down almost 3 , and that despite earnings that roughly met expectations. Why the selloff . Art cashin just told me the market on close orders flat right now. The dow and the s p continue to trade near alltime highs. The nasdaq is still a good distance away from his alltime high of a little over 5,000 set way back in march of 2000. 14 years ago. But youre wondering whether that could happen this year. Could we hit 5,000 and if so find out which stocks could lead the way for nasdaq to retake that magic mill lenennial mark. It would have to be a 20 move after the year we just had. It would have to be the late 90s all over again basically. Here is a look at whats happening in markets right now. Weve mentioned whats going on with the major stock markets. The dow adding 60 points up a fourth of a
Greece. Our road map begins with retailers hoping that online holiday sales click on this sibler monday. Will they make up for the thanksgiving weekend seeing shoppers spend less than a year ago. Lots of business around amazons Package Delivery via drones. Another month in the books. Well explore whether the trend is likely to continue in december. A number of wall street firms initiate cover of twitter. Well have details on the caller later in the program. First up, welcome to cyber monday, the day that online sales surge following the thanksgiving weekend. Retailers hope that makes up for the Holiday Weekend. The National Retail federation says total spending fell 2. 9 compared to a year ago, the first decline, guys, in seven years. How concerning is it . Well, look. I think that this omnichannel has taken off. I dont classic example. I dont know a lot of people went to the mall. You can say its A Groucho Marx thing. Everyone is there so they dont want to go. I went to amazon. I orde
Might help you understand where you would sit in this new world of health. If you would be eligible for a subsidy, you might be eligible for a public program. You probably were not going to receive a subsidy, but he would have a sort of choice. Its very quick. We got a lot of hits and a lot of nice media coverage. And what we found, but i believe is that we started to managed towards the public understanding that this was going to be complicated and abbas and just going to be a Straight Line to get your insurance and that was one of our objectives. We did a lot of media pieces. I did an opinion piece the twin cities major paper picked up and published on the first of september this year that had a great graphic of the pie chart and it laid out in minnesota where people get their coverage and we were able to show that a very small part of the paul i was going to be impacted by the Insurance Exchange and in effect by the Accountable Care act. We have done a lot to really manage. Then of
They dont need any fuel for because they get from russia. Even if you wanted to make an argument that they need to have a domestic supply, they dont need of bombs worth of material for that. So i think that would be another component. I think there needs to be some limitations on the number of centrifuges. David albright on nonproliferation expert incentives among the more, most careful observers of the Iranian Program has suggested an upper limit of 10,001st generation iranian centrifuges. If they 10,000, first generation iranian centrifuges. You would have to reduce the number below that. And allows it on the enrichment aside it would be important for the iranians to we implement the Additional Protocol so that the International Inspectors associate with the iaea cannot only visit declared facilities but could visit other suspected facilities in iran to ensure that they are in compliance with the agreement and not taking a secret path towards the bomb. Which we know from the past act
Talk to them. G to that is of the way it should be. There is a link between the nsa program and others. There are government surveillance issues that have come up. Let me ask. The post had an exceptional story a few weeks ago about the effect of these leak investigations on the whistleblowers. It catalogued how, going up against the mechanisms of the United States government has one person, can destroy lives, even for those for whom the prosecution fell apart. Do you think these early prosecutions that did not seem pointed towards True National security information that would damage the United States were really done to make a point to say this is what can happen to him you . We do not know that. A previous director of the National Intelligence told a reporter on record that this was his intention, to get the Justice Department to prosecute people so that it would have a Chilling Effect on others. Could you talk about the Insider Threat program . I thought your discussion about that wa