And bob pisani at the New York Stock Exchange hey, robert. Hello there, old friend narrow trading range were down second day in a row, but a small trading range. 16 points in the s p 500, maybe 200 points in the Dow Jones Industrial average the nasdaq, though, is eking out small gains. The dow gainers for the month, theyre still the gainers for the day. Look at apple, look at nike, look at sisco, all up on the month. The laggards, its interesting, the ones that are down in the month of december also down today. Boeing had a tough month even disney. They topped out the beginning of december, 153 now, 143. Visa ending down today a little bit here that was a big mover all throughout the end of december the one sector i would point out to you is the Energy Sector. Oil exploration product up again today. And you know all of those really beaten up small Exploration Production companies, witing, southwestern, all terrible year, terrible three or four years since the tax law selling seemed to
Right this hour, where there is still here one hour left of it. Good to have you with us here for closing bell. Im Contessa Brewer in for sara eisen today. It has been a big year for stocks the dow, the s p, the nasdaq all on pace to close the year higher by more than 20 well tell you which names have seen the biggest gains and with tech up by nearly 50 this year, well have an exclusive interview with Tech Hedge Fund giant, dan niles. Hell give you a peek into his 2020 playbook. Also, we didnt answer bills question lets do it what is your drink . Whatever gets put in front of me great answer. Very good answer, indeed mine might be an Old Fashioned tonight. We shall see but we have to get back to the show lets take a look at whats driving the show 59 minutes left. Were down 40 points on the dow. A little bit of rebalancing as investors get ready for the new year President Trump tweeting today he will sign the phase i deal with china on january 15 and Consumer Confidence data out this mo
And another indicator is simply the fact since these iranian strikes last night in iraq, we have not seen a u. S. Military response remember, the president in his warnings to the iranians before the strikes suggested he had 52 sites targeted and ready to go if the iranians took any action. The president has not pulled the trigger on that option since the iranians took their action last night. That may indicate hes in sort of a strategic pause kind of a mindset. We will see. Its hard to read in anything to what the president might be doing here because theyve either been very careful not to give us any indication of whats in these remarks coming up i have been texting and pulling officials aside in the hallway in the west wing trying to get an indication and they simply wont tell us what the president s tone is going to be or any of the content of these remarks. This will be as fresh to all of us as it is to everyone around the world when the president delivers it. But i think those two
We want europe to take some of necessary prisoners, they came from several countries well, none from greece, so far. Good. Youre lucky youre lucky we have a lot of people right now in prison, isis fighters, that are tough fighters, and they are where they should be. I think we have done a fantastic job, but eventually, we want to be able to let iraq run its own affairs. Thats very important. At some point we want to get out, but this isnt the point. If we do get out, weve spent a tremendous amount of money on building airports, one of the largest embassies we have in the world, mike, and we want to be reimbursed for the various costs weve had. Well work something out i talk sanctions, but im only talking sanctions if were not treated with respect we have to be treated with respect. Ill tell you what, with what we did excuse me, wait wait wait one second with what we did with isis, and this was done during my administration, because it was a mess before we got here with what we did with
Vonnie gasoline inventories, that showed a build of 3. 3 Million Barrels. Is thaty the headline crude Oil Inventories showed a 1. 1 5wn last week of Million Barrels. It has been a risk off tone. Energy companies are benefiting from the spike in oil prices on both sides of the pond. Decline500 is showing a of 0. 75 . It is following the other indexes lower as well. Analysts showing stocks higher. Some of the Security Companies like Lockheed Martin is up 3. 4 . Guy european stocks are down. They are off their lows. The ftse 100 is now positive. The ftse 100 has lots of oil stocks in it. The dax is underperforming in europe. The aviation sector under pressure today. The bond market is catching a bid, moving six basis points on a german tenyear. Brent crude elevated. You would expect brent to be a little more aggressive of a move in the middle east rather than wti. The ism number today not exactly great, plus this story out of the middle east. Vonnie this will be all of the talk at the Ame