Bloomberg surveillance. Get initial jobless claims and personal consumption and secondquarter gdp. Second looks at the Second Quarter. There are three looks. We keep revising it. The media puts huge look stress on the first look. This is the in between. The Bloomberg Consumer index will for drop. Earnings before the bell, abercrombie. Dollar general. K, aill take a look at splun Data Analysis firm. National bowtie day. We are going to rip up the script. National bowtie day. Is your bowtie cloudbased . Im celebrating National Bowtie Day in protest. We have breaking news i want to get to. The World Health Organization saying that more than 20,000 people may be effected infected with ebola virus before the outbreak is controlled. Of the infections are happening within the past 21 days. There has been a change in tone over the last 24 hours. If this outbreak were happening in the u. S. , this would be controllable. It does not spread in an uncontrollable way. The problem is not the disease
Another deal to tell you about. Hasbro and talks to buy dreamworks animation. That is according to people familiar with matter. A premium of 34 over yesterdays closing price. Thirdquarter earnings Beat Estimates at walmart. Was to buy the increase in sales and its newest stores. Adding more smaller Format Stores to boost revenue. Overseas, another outbreak of widespread fighting in ukraine. Nato says Russian Troops and tanks have been flowing into eastern ukraine. Areu. S. And European Union deciding whether to impose more sanctions on russia. Heres the u. S. Ambassador to the united nations. Russia has negotiated a peace plan and then systematically undermined it and every step. They talk of peace, but keep fueling war. For more than two months, ukraine and the rebels agreed to a ceasefire. The controversial Keystone Pipeline. Monthve an impact on next runup election louisiana. They both want keystone approved. Landrieu has been trailing in the polls. The information weve gotten is th
Im stephanie ruhle. Eric was under the weather this week. Im happy to be back. Breaking news about the housing market. Home sales for december are out. Scarlet fu is in the newsroom. Unexpected decline in the number of contracts to buy previously owned homes. It comes from the National Association of realtors. A drop of 3. 7 for the month of december. That is the biggest decline in the the year. On a yearoveryear basis, pending home sales increased 8. 5 . That a small at the what economists were looking for. They were into speeding an increase of 10. 5 . S p 500, paring it is extending losses following the news. We have the 10 year yield pretty much where it was. We will continue to monitor all of this. The fed has said it is data dependent. This shows the housing industrys recovery is still on even. That a scarlet fu with the latest. Lets take you to the bulletin. Top is the stories. Shares of alibaba are getting beat up today. The stock fell as much as 7 after the Chinese Ecommerce C
Lucy put the football up and Charlie Brown is ready to kick it again he thinks. I thought thats what you meant by here we go again. The fact that every time we come on air it feels like the market has been losing altitude. Today does that become the theme or will we be able to retest these highs, maybe break out above it as art cashin put it earlier, well need a close above that high for the bulls here. You know eventually traders will become impatient enough they will just throw in the towel. Well see what happens here. And well also get a read of the market, economy, and Banking Industry with two heavy hitters on deck. Gord nixon will join us exclusively along with investing legend john calamos. See where he finds investment opportunities. These shocking photographs from one of the richest towns in california, weve obviously blurred a few things. Athert atherton, residents have included meg whit man, eric schmidt. They have been vandalized with antiwealth graffiti on various homes an
The yield us up at i think 2. 73 , 2. 74 . In europe now the major averages are all higher as well. See right now that the cac is up in franch by 1. 8 . J nermny the dax higher by 2. 2 . Ftse up by better than 1 as well. A lot of green arrows as we begin things on this monday. Andrew, over to you. Hey, beck. Nice way to start the week off. As joe was mentioning that little bit of news this morning, Thompson Reuters now saying its going to be suspending the Early Release of its Reuters University of Michigan Consumer sentiment data at the request of the new York Attorney general. The news of the Information Company has agreements to allow some of its clients to receive that data two seconds before other clients. You might remember this news was broken by eamon javers about two weeks ago. Investment group Perry Capital filing a lawsuit against the Treasury Department over the bailout terms for mortgage firms fannie mae and freddie mac. Saying they violated a 2008 law that put the two Mor