Pandemic while Health Care Workers may strike next week. All of this with big implications for inflation and the economy. How are markets digesting it . We start with dom chu and the latest on that. A little indigestion as we progress through the day. We were solidly in the mean at one point today, but we are trading at session lows. The dow down about one half of 1 , 136 points down. The s p 500 now below the 4300 mark. 4292, down about six points, the session low. We were up roughly 34 points at the highs of the decision. So down six right now, down about 1 10th of 1 . Even the tech trade, up north of today for the nasdaq composite, is up 1 3 of 1 , up 39 points, 13,249. One place thats interesting in the marketplace right now is energy. Specifically between socalled new energy, solar, that sort of thing, versus Traditional Oil and gas, fossil fuels. If you take a look over the course of this year, the Energy Sector spider, oil and gas type companies, up 3. 5 . The solar etf that att
The cleanup and the fire was put out an hour ago and the power has been cut not only to the Goodyear Building but also looks like maybe one of the other adjacent buildings too. P 100 firefighters responded here 2 30 in the morning and quickly went to second alarm there were 20 hunts units on the scene. So Goodyear Building here is very large building it goes back almost entire block and the fire were told surprise believed started in far back corner. There was a Company Called phoenix restoration sounds like they do some historical preservation, restoration work an windows, doors, architectural things and is that the where preliminary fire investigators believe the fire began and theres a storage area and large on spaces in the roof and fire and smoke then traversed entire building. Otheries about in here as well are impacted it fortunately nobody was inside. So we did not have to worry about injuries on that end. However one firefighter was taken to the hospital for evaluation for pos
Vw shares plunges. They halt the sales of certain diesel cars as an investigation is launched into whether it cheated on emissions tests. No longer unhackable. Apple admits to a rare attack on some of its most popular apps in china as president xi jinping prepares to meet president obama to discuss Cyber Security. Fed fallout. President John Williams says a 2015 rate hike is still in the cards after last weeks, quote, close call. Well be hearing from his colleague James Bullard in just under 2 hours. The gamble pays off. Alexis tsipras emerges to secure 35 of the vote. Lets talk auto shares. Volkswagen nearly 20 dragging the rest of the european auto set below. V w21 its now down. Porsche, down 22 . Renault down 5 . Lets talk about the accusations. The u. S. E. P. A. Accusing vw of fitting half a mill vehicles with these december devices to. It could have a penalty of 18 billion. That comes to 38,000 or so per vehicle. The ceo has been talking about this. Hes issued an apology. That ca
And the end of an era. You never say thank you thats what the money is for the hit series mad men preparing for its final episodes, and were getting an exclusive sneak peek from the cast as they join us live in studio 1a today, monday, march 23, 2015. From nbc news this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. It may only be two full days into spring but 596 days until election day. By the way, did you have ted cruz in your bracket . Got it. First one in. Perfect. And hes going to set the stage for what happens after this. It is our top story. The first puzzle piece now falling into place for the 2016 president ial race. Texas republican senator, ted cruz throwing his hat in the ring overnight with that tweet right there. Hes making it official at an event in virginia this morning. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is there. Kelly, its texas senator ted cruz. Why virginia . Reporter wel
Lucrative business career. We will explain. First, lets get the headlines from carol massar. Reported Fourth Quarter Fourth Quarter process alcoa reported fourthquarter profit that missed estimates. Heres falling by as much as 21 in late hours trading after casting a fourthquarter loss. Of sac capitalen was one of the biggest winners today. Is shutting down its Investment Advisory business after pleading guilty to securities fraud. The hedge fund owned almost one million intercept chairs as of november 7, translating to an intraday gain of more than 200 million if the state is unchanged. And a look also back to you, pimm. Those are the headlines. I know, you were going to go there. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie apologized for a traffic jam that was triggered by an eight as an act of political revenge. As an act of political revenge. I believe that all the people affected by this conduct were deserve this apology and that is why im giving it to them. I also need to apologize to the