Im kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. Im bill griffith. Doesnt look like third times going to be a charm. The financials, which had done so well, bank of america yesterday with a stellar report that pushed it higher. Today, Goldman Sachs and citi disappointed with their earnings and the financials are lagging this market and leading it lower. President dow was down 105 points at the low. Now were doing 68. Thats right. We have goldman down about 2 at last check. Citigroup off about 4 . Some of the regional financials its a little bit more mixed. We have pnc up despite analysts saying this maybe isnt necessarily a performance they can repeat. While some of the others are lower, even though commercial real estate, commercial and industrial loans, there is growth there. And then theres retail. Best buy. Worst buy. Horrible day for best buy shareholders, which well get to coming up in a little while here. Yeah, thats right. The Market Action wont stop. When the closing bell rings
Of best buy plummeting in the premarket down 30 after reporting u. S. Comps for the Holiday Season fell 0. 9 percent. Jcpenney cutting Underperforming Stores and cut 2,000 jobs to save 65 million a year. Citi results were short of estimates and goldman beats on earnings and revenue. And United Health Beat Estimates by one cent a share, increase in enrollments helping there and cms missed by one cent a share. Best buy tumbling after reporting u. S. Comps for the Holiday Season down 0. 9. Citing intense discounting by rivals and supply constraints for key products and significant declines in traffic and what it calls a disappointing mobile phone market. Best buy saying it sees Fourth Quarter operating margin coming in below yearago levels. We know what a high flier it was last year guys, but to lose a 30year value before the market and many millions of shares trading before the bell. This was a case we were joking about it, remember when one after another after another analyst was upgrad
To materialize. I think thats whats behind many of the movements in todays terrific session. The s p climbed and the nasdaq jumped up. Lets start with the most salient positive that was a negative, the banks. Heres a group thats a largest part of the s p 500, the financials that is not supposed to be going higher. They always seem to have some number, statistics, some government investigation that just hammers the heck out of them, crushes them beyond recognition after they report and we end up resenting that we owned them. Last week i highlighted bank of america as a potential breakout using the work from technician extraordinary tim collins. Do you know what kind of flak i took for that . On twitter i think i caught holy hell for this. I have a whole chapter devoted to them in get rich carefully but ive never seen such a negative response to my decision to highlight it. With all the talk of tapering and the chatter of the Housing Market it was natural to think this would be a year th
Much needed project. And we also have Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker joining us live tonight. Well ask him about the big fiscal turn around in his state thanks to his free market policies and are perry and walker run for president in 2016. All those stories and much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everyone. Im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. Were live here 7 00 p. M. Eastern, 4 00 p. M. Pacific. Now information on the Chris Christie bridge scandal. Does it tell us anything definitive about what the governor knew and when he knew it. Lets go to john harwood. Reporter good evening the answer to your question is no, but it is troublesome for Chris Christie. What we saw this evening is that David Wildstein his former classmate who oversaw the lane closures at the George Washington bridge hes been seeking reimbursement for lawyer spends and he countered by putting out a statement from his lawyer saying he has evidence contradicting christies
In perhaps, germany and spain, some more muted declines. U. S. Equity futures are looking a little bit better this morning. At this point, the dow futures are up by about 46 points above fair value. But i dont think how much faith you put in these implied opens at this point. What is indicated now is not necessarily how the day ends up, but it is certainly something to watch and see. The fed did decide to trim bond purchases. It was the Central Banks first unanimous vote on policy since june 2011. The fed made no reference to the selloff in emerging markets. They didnt talk about that, they didnt mention the cold weather. But the fed stood pat and this is an enormonormous decision. Joe, you are looking righter and righter on that call. And im not happy about it. I dont want the globe to slowdown. No, no, no. I just did the math. 75 divided by 1850. Were at the s p were at 1774. So its down from 1850. So 7. 5 divided by 1850 is exactly 4 . When you put it in those terms, a decline of 4