Economic data, down just a little bit in the red today, down 22 points 37 yeah, it is the first trading day of the new month. December, a strong month historically for the stocks, but theres a push and pull going on between Market Forces and the Economic Data, and were in the red across the board, relatively flat this monday morning. The data, u. S. Manufacturing activity last month lowest level since the summer of 2009, but then we got a Construction Spending report that was good. In october, it rose by the largest amounts in five months, and then we got auto sales throughout the morning, and while they were decent, gm, toyota, and chrysler missed novembers estimates, but ford beat them. Thats the data and push and pull among the markets, back to you. Lauren, thanks so much. 12995 where it ends, nobody knows. Take a gamble. Talks in a standstill, Timothy Geithner blaming republicans saying they have to raise taxes in order to avoid going over the cliff. Rich edson in washington with t
Lackluster week. Lackluster again. Mixed markets, dow and s p 500 lower than nasdaq, but holding on. We got a report contracted, showing the lowest level of activities since july of 2009. Also, taking a look at dell shares. Surging more than 6 on an upgrade at goldman sachs, actually, a 180 on the stock. Goldman had it at a sell for two years, upgraded to a buying and increasing the price target from 9 to 13. Dell is up today. Back to you. Thank you very much. The majority, believe it or not of americans, have a low opinion of the lawmakers when it comes to being honest. Just above pushers at the local car dealership. Doug shone, what do you think of this . Ive been in the profession a long time. Ive seen it. Bottom line, just one category below politicians b and politicians, and thats political consultants. People are cynical, and with justification, lori. Whats going on in washington, they cant make sense of it. Do you think its change at all . Ust a fever pitch with the cliff coming
For what happens next. In corporate news, becky, apple hold ago product event in california today. The company is expected to unveil the latest event to the companys new line. Mavericks operating system. In other tech news, nokia launching its first tablet today along with two large screen smartphones. These are among the last products the company developed to compete with apple. And samsung. Before deciding to sell its hand set business to microsoft. Microsoft, service 2 and service 2 pro tablets go on sale in 22 initial markets today, including the United States. Both are updates of the first generation surface tablets released last october. Improvements include increased battery life and higher resolution screens and camera peps joe, get your geek glasses on today. You know what, steve . I am more interested in this jobs report than the next one. I dont why . Because im not interested in what the shutdown did. Im interested in the basul level of the next two will be a mess. The expe
And then, issued a press release saying it created 40 jobs at delta. Thats just false. Mr. Anderson, let me start. Let me start by saying, someone who lives 60 miles north of he was, i love Delta Airlines. The pilots and the airline the flight attendants, you the a great job so dont hold anything i say against me today as we fly in the future. I was born at night but not last night. I didnt support reauthorization last time of xm bank because i felt that the reforms that needed to be made were not made. But today, listening to the testimony from all three of you and the doctor is gone, reforming xm bank with reforms, i think you all would support reauthorization, correct . We are forms. With reforms. With reforms. As we have been talking and i have a whole package of reforms here and weve been working on for the last six weeks, two months. 1,000 jobs in the eighth Congressional District of tennessee, my district, are support by the investment of xm bank. This is not about ive heard som
So lets try to work this out. I think we can. Again, ive got a whole list of reforms here ill be glad to talk to anybody about. Appreciate the work done, appreciate you gentlemen. Were going to work this out and make it better. Yield back. Thank you. Mr. Delanie. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I want to thank all the witnesses for joining us here today. Mr. Wilburn, captain, thank you. Mr. Anderson, i want to thank you in particular for joining us and for bringing so many of your colleagues. Delta is an important and iconic company. I think you all should be congratulated for the great work youve done positioning this airline in such a successful business. The fact that all your colleagues joined you hear today is a reflection of the good culture of the airline and your good leadership. I just want to make it clear that i think what youre doing is terrific. My question is actually more of a factual question. Perhaps unlike my colleagues i dont know the answer to my question before im asking