Biggest number was online sales, addly, up 22 . Im seeing what youre doing here. Interesting there. Gaining after the bell moved higher as a result. Energy, big laggard, ironically, after the oil prices dropped, oil stocks went with it after opec extended Production Cuts another nine months, look where there may be opportunities in this particular market. Could this be opposite . Getting worse throughout the session, it feels like, with energy today. Yep. The stock that wont quit, amazon closing in at 1,000 mark per share, its at 996. A fund manager, why hes trimming positions. Fun fact, jeff bezos will be the richest in the world when amazon hits 1,000. Exceeding bill gatings at that point. Wow. Diesel pickups rigged to pass emissions tests, but shares hit, down roughly 2 on that story. We have the full story coming up in a little here. Tax reform seems to take a backseat to health care for the moment. House ways and means chair kevin brady joining us and whether he and the white hous
Singing today. At the cnbc offices. And apparently soon around the world. Karoke day in the news room at cnbc. By the way, can you shoot just look. Its fleet week as well here. Wave, everybody, guys, say hello to america. There you go. So we got Barry Manilow, fleet week, and the whoop whoop will be coming up in 30 minutes as well today. Adjust your volume. Theres other news too, though. We have to get to it this hour. Bmw and volkswagen caught in the cross hairs after President Trump slammed the german auto makers. Whats behind the harsh represent reck coming up. The ceo of netflix said its biggest competitor is sleep, remember that . Now facebook could be trying to give netflix a run for money as well. Details on that story coming up a little later. As amazon and alphabet crawl towards 1,000 a share, we begin with stocks in that prestigious 1,000 a share club, dom has theres only one stock, other than berkshire hathaway, right . Of course. The 1,000 stock club is verified, for sure.
Decline in oil prices and tumult in washington, that stocks would be at or near alltime highs, would you believe them . Thats exactly where the markets are today. The nasdaq and s p 500 pushed further into record territory. And with two trading days left in this month, it appears as if investors decided not to sell in may and go away after all. The dow finished down two points to 21,080. Nasdaq added five, thats a record. The s p is up fractions al ally thats a record. Stocks saw solid gains. Bob pisani looks at why nothing seems to be rattling this market. Reporter markets are not people, but they do have moods, and the mood right now is i dont want to hear it. On reports that former fbi director james comey had written a memo alleging that President Trump asked him to drop an investigation into michael flynn. Concerns about obstruction of justice were raised at that time. But the next day, the markets acted like it was no big deal. A week later, the s p 500 and the nasdaq rose to rec
Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody in for sara eisen today. I was thinking you do the introduce, wilfred. Sorry. I left it up to you, its great to have you with us. Good morning to you. Lets get straight to the market picture this morning. It comes off a day yesterday where we were pretty sharply down at the open. We were down about 0. 2 midday, but ended down only about 0. 2 for the dow. The nasdaq was slightly positive. Banks certainly had led the markets. They also led the rebound somewhat. Either way by the sector performance, telcos were the worst. Healthcare the best. That performance you can see in the bank index. At one point we saw significant decliners there. A couple percent for certain banks leading the index down, the market down, but they did recover by the end of the day. Yield curve had a huge impact on this. We did see a low on the tenyear note at one point yesterday of 2. 34 . Back close to 2. 38 , back near that 2. 4 level. That, of course, has had such an impact on wha
In asia, the nikkei closed up by 1 . Shanghai was down about 0. 4 . Hang seng was up by 0. 6 . In europe, some of the early trading right now, it looks like the dax is up by 0. 6 . The cac and the ftse are flat. If youve been watching the tenyear note. We fell below 2. 4 on the tenyear yield. This morning that yield is at 2. 38 4 off the lows of yesterday. If you look at crude oil prices, crude down 11 for the month. Its up 42 cents today, sitting just above 48 at 48. 16. President trump will be taking aim at former president Barack Obamas Climate Change policy by signing an executive order on Energy Independence today. The order will seek to curb the federal governments enforcement of climate regulations and focus on protecting american drives. The move expected to get legal and political pushback. The monthly s p 500 caseshiller home price index comes out at 9 00 a. M. At 10 00, march Consumer Confidence. Several fed officials speaking today, including janet yellen on Work Force Deve