Mission critical, rise above d. C. And we do welcome you to closing bell. Im Bill Griffith here at the new york stock exchange. Hey, maria. Hey there, bill. Big rally where you are. Im bartiromo coming today from the white house for our special coverage. Stocks rallying on the on the missile that perhaps we are nearing a fiscal cliff deal. Coming up well, find out from key lawmakers in the fiscal cliff negotiations how we can actually get a deal done before the deadline. Representative Chris Van Hollen, lynn jenkins and Javier Becerra as well as sore orrin hatch with us. Well hear from former treasury secretary altman and jeff greenfield. Bill . Stocks are trading off the highs of the day with less than an hour to go. Final hour, really from the getgo. Optimism about the cliff talks and senator harry reid made some comments this afternoon that put a damper on that real. Weve lost about 30 points. In that time. Up 74 on the dow at 13,244. The nasdaq is doing well today, up 32 points. Mo
Although, its off the lows of the day now at 3,002. The s p 500 is down oh, theres nasdaq down 14 points. Did we see the s p . Im following the apple story. S p down 15. Check out shares of apple. This is part of whats going tonight in nasdaq. Stock taking a hit today even though apple announced the ipad mini. The company surprising a lot by announcing a new version of its fullsized ipad tablet. Two new products on the docket here. Well talk more about that. Really, why investors are not buying into this news. Coming down 1. 5 on apple. Its a big part of the s p 500. Its a big part of the nasdaq. 20 of the nasdaq 100. As apple goes, the market is seeing that as a pressure. Plenty of that coming up. Meantime, a flurry of weak earnings setting the stage for the selloff today. A lot more results ahead, too, for investors to chew on. The question is, will it be more bad news for the bulls . In todays Closing Bell Exchange thats what were talking about. Gentlemen, good to have you on with u
Lets end it on a happy note. Have a great weekend, everybody. Thanks for watching street signs. Closing bell is coming up next. See you monday. Hi, everybody. Happy friday. Welcome to the closing bell. Final stretch for the week. Im Maria Bartiromo at the New York Stock Exchange. S p 500 today struggles to close at the fiveyear high it hit yesterday. Final hour of trading decides what happens. Nice to see you again, maria. Im scott wapner in for bill griffith. Back on monday. We are tracking the market. Also following several other big stories at this hour. Forget pay day. This is tax hike day for america. Uhoh. Nearly every working american saw the government take more money out of their paychecks today. How that fallout could shape the debate on spending cuts versus higher taxes. Then wells fargo kicking off the banks and this earning season. Its cfo here to talk to us first, and the business of the fluff as it sweeps across america. Running low on vaccines and tamiflu. The Dow Jones
Hedge fund manager. He said it is wrong. It is easy to borrow herbalife shares right now and the cost to carry is not that bad. So was icahn wrong on the short . One Hedge Fund Manager says perhaps he was. Meaning ackman wrong . No. Icahn was wrong on the short talking about how to short the stock and whether it is too difficult. This guy says i could find it right now. Great job. Thank you. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend. Thanks for watching street signs. Closing bell with bill and mandy now. Happy friday everybody. Welcome to closing bell. Well revisit the ackman icahn brawl weve been talking about in the last few hours. Were also on top of the markets that just wont stop right now. Take a look at where we are right now on the dow. And the alltime high from 2007. We get ever closer to that number. Were not that far away at all. Absolutely right. Hello everybody once again. Im mandy drury of course. And weve got more huge interviews including bill gates, right, bill, would
Closing bell is coming up next, everybody. See you tomorrow. Hi, everybody. We enter the final stretch. Welcome to the closing bell. Im Maria Bartiromo at the new york stock exchange. Hi, bill. How you doing, maria . Im bill griffith. Did facebook overpromise and underdeliver . Now what we know what its big mystery announcement is, investors unimpressed. Stock down on record volume today. This may be the day apple closes behind 500. It will be the first time thats happened in 11 months. Herb greenberg is here on why he thinks he could get worse for apple. And the always colorful senator alan simpson is with us, no bigger advocate of getting americas debt and deficit under control, but does he think the debt ceiling is the leverage that republicans should use to get that done . Hell join us exclusively, and i know youre going to ask him about that. Absolutely. Lets check out the action on the street right here. Heres how things are shaping up with less than an hour to go. The Dow Jones