This state wasnt just recently named the top state for business in america. So many huge businesses are down here, including Delta Air Lines. Ceo Richard Anderson joining us exclusively in just a moment. Also, georgia governor nathan diehl is going to join us. Well ask him how hes going to be tops on the business lid list next year. Fed president Dennis Lockhart will join us after the bell in a newsmaking interview. And the person rumored to be home depots next ceo, craig menear, also here exclusively and gives us a peek into some of the major changes theyre making to their distribution network, bill. Yeah, the economys doing okay in georgia there, and its contributing a great degree to whats going on on the east coast here, so weve got a lot to talk about in that regard. The european economy is struggling, though, and the european markets were down today. The german dax was down enough to make it into correction territory today. It has since bounced back a little bit, but those europe
Sharply on the yield, of course, as the yield goes up, price goes down. The differential has not been larger in a very long time. Interesting state. Yeah. Glad you put that up. People talk about why rates are low versus europe. Good point. Talking europe, there it is, largely in the green. European central bank, by the way, leaving rates unchange as you see, largely a positive picture. They will not be closed for the july fourth weekend. No. They will be trading. We will be, starting with the jobs number on a thursday. The u. S. Economy added 288,000 jobs in june, ahead of estimate, and Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 1 , the lowest number since september of 2008. Remember that month . Yeah. All this pushing futures, as you saw, slightly higher, dow closer to 17,000 having that impact, as i said, on the yield, on the tenyear note. A look here, my friend had a great summary, which sometimes i use, thank you, peter. 194,000 for 2013, Household Survey up by 107,000. Talking about the up empl
209,000 job in july. We will debate whether the job creation this makes i believe the sixth months in a row of above 200,000 being added to the economy. What it might mean for fed policy. First lets check in at a very busy New York Stock Exchange with sue herera. Absolutely. It really is the big story today. This hour the markets. Just told you the dow was down. It was worst. Down 89s points. Also getting the hit, the nasdaq, down just under a full once again, the nasdaq down 34. S p 500 down the russell 2000 down almost a . Now, in terms of. Gold market, were up. Remember yesterday we were down about 13 bucks, we basically gained it all back. Crude oil is down 91 cents, and the yield on the tenyear note broke below the 2. 5 mark. For the european markets, it was another very bad day. We have the ftse over in london, the dax, and the French Market as well. Well start here with impossible. Hello. It a little disappointment. Its not been able to stick. We did rally a bit going into the o
France and italy are positive. The dax in germany lower by a fraction of 1 . In asia, major markets are mixed at this hour among the headlines out of the region. Growth in Chinese Services sector slipping to a sixmonth low in july. The nonmanufacturing pmi showed new orders rose at the weakest rate in at least a year. Brian, the nikkei is down slightly but the rest of the major averages across asia are slightly higher. Kayla, thank you very much. Folks do think its a slow summer week. You better think again because another big round of earnings are coming your way. Among the Companies Set to post numbers this week, aig, disney, time warner, aol, fox, cbs, wendys and hundreds more. The wall street journal reporting overall revenue in s p 500 companies seat to rise 4. 3 from last years second quarter. And that, folks, marks the fastest growth since the Fourth Quarter of 2013. The article also notes other companies that have already reported their earnings. Twothirds have beat the sales t
Election night headquarters here in new york where a little over 24 hours from now we will begin getting the very first results. Well start to see the very first trends emerging from across the country. The republicans believe they are on the verge of taking over power in the u. S. Senate. And as is often the case with a sitting president , the democrats are preparing to see evidence of the president s unpopularity at the polls. And today we started hearing that several big races have perhaps tightened. We begin all of it tonight with our political director, moderator of meet the press, chuck todd. Thats what we want to change. Reporter as candidates around the country rush to make their final push, control of the senate hangs in the balance. And voters are conflicted. If i say washington, what do you say right now . Fighting and poor performance. Just a plain mess. Absolute mess. Reporter that feeling is why eight of the most Competitive Senate races are within four points. And a whop