Oil lower and baker hughes. Searching for some green on the board, which we always do here on countdown to the closing bell. Technology for once the only s p sector today moving higher. Its been a a real downer over the past couple of months but right now apple is charging forward, up nearly 3 as anticipation for the mini ipad because you know, we all upgraded to the ipad 3, which youre not supposed to call the ipad 3. Now we need the mini ipad. The anticipation continues to build this week. When will they unveil it . Wwll it be the day they come out with earnings . Thats thursday. Lets get right to the floor show. Traders at the new york stock exchange, cme group and the nymex. Kenny, friday you and i talked about how what might we see this week. We see this follow through with the losses today but with the nasdaq down just 3 points, im thinking it was down 67 points on friday, how worried are you about tomorrow . What do you think . Heres what i think this morning and i said it to yo
We will also hear from president obama, who signed the deficit reduction measure into law, part of the deal to raise the debt ceiling. First, Senate Majority leader harry reid and republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell will talk on the senate floor about the january fiscal deadline. Since our country voted to return president obama to the white house, i have spoken often about compromise. I remain optimistic that, when it comes to our economy, when it comes to protecting middleclass families from a whopping tax hike, republicans and democrats will be able to find common ground. President dwight eisenhower, a republican, once said, people talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all usable space. So said white house and higher. Dwight eisenhower. Too often, we face off, not realizing that the solution rests somewhere in the middle. I remind everyone of one fact. This congress is one vote away from avoid
Attorney general declined to comment. An mit grad student thought it would be neat to show where every Single Person lives in the u. S. On a map. He created this unbelievable picture. Each one of these dots represents one person. 341 million dots. The map allows you to zoom into the local level to see where everybody lives. Wow. Dangerous, i think. Thats it for me. Cnn newsroom continues with don lemon. Hey, don. You just heard the militarys aboutface, but you are about to see how women are training to face every soldiers worst nightmare. Rolling. The story keeps changing as the twists get more bizarre. Who is sat fault in the manti teo saga . Chilling new details about a teens alleged plot targeting walmart and now his uncle said even your owner reporter got several facts wrong. Intimate new pictures of jfk and his famous family. Welcome. Im don lemon. Game on. The battle over gun control is kicking into high gear. Dianne feinstein stood near this wall of guns flanked by Police Office
First, lets go to the nyse where sue herera is standing by. The markets improving a little bit right now. Well off of our worst levels of the trading session. Still in the red, however. The markets right now show the Dow Jones Industrial average off 71 points onts trading day. The s p 500 is down about 6 3 4. Nasdaq composite down better than 1 1 2 points. Meantime our top story, that change of leadership at securities and exchange commission. Mary shapiro is stepping down as head of the s. E. C. And president obama is designating Commission Member elise walter as her replacement. Eamon javers is in washington with the details. Reporter this is a bit of a surprise announcement. A lot of other names had been speculated over the past couple of days here on who might succeed mary shapiro over at s. E. C. But the tap goes to elise walter today. She is a sitting s. E. C. Commissioner now. That means that the president will not have to face a bruising confirmation battle up on capitol hill f
Numbers look out as we kick off cybermonday. Which retailers crushed it and which ones were crushed . If you were keeping track, the dow added 421 points last week and bulls argue it could add even more if european leaders settle this dispute over greek aid. Well discuss the potential impact as they meet in brussels right now. A big day for analyst upgrades. Research in motion, facebook, yahoo well go over those and see why citi needs three analysts to initiate coverage of apple. Well begin with retail sales picture from this past weekend. 139 Million Consumers shopped during black friday weekend. Thats up from 132 million last year. Total spending up to 59. 1 billion to 54. 4 a year ago. Average Holiday Shopper spending 434 over the weekend. Sales on black friday fell 1. 8 from the same day a year ago setting the stage for today known as cybermonday. American shoppers will spend 1. 5 billion online today up from 1. 25 billion a year ago. The papers have it. Usa today retailers hail. J