As shares fall to its lowest since middecember. One of our traders says the company is ripe for an activist to take a stand in the stock what theyre looking for and what it could mean for the tech giants investors. Im melissa lee, coming to you live from studio b at the nasdaq. On the desk tonight steve grasso, karen finerman, guy adami, and dan suzuki. Bitcoin now at its best level in more than two years, just off its alltime high. The recent rally prompting a rush of retail trader activity into the space. Crypto platformcoinbase reporting trouble handling the volume with some users reporting zero dollar balances in their account. Ceo Brian Armstrong responding to the issues on x, saying, we are dealing with a large, in all caps, large surge of traffic. Apologies for any issues you e counter. The team is working to reimmreme remediate. Is the fear of missing out setting traders up for pain or can this really keep riding higher . Guy . Well, bk, who is with us in a few minutes, hell ex
records at mar-a-lago. according to the new york times, one of trump s attorneys signed a statement back in june, telling the doj that all sensitive material at mar-a-lago had been returned. that is according to four sources with knowledge of the document, which nbc has not reviewed. on monday, the fbi seized 11 sets of classified documents from trump s post presidency home, including records with the highest levels of security clearance. the search warrant on friday reveals the doj is in the throes of investigating possible obstruction of justice and violations of the espionage act. one potential charge carries a punishment of up to 20 years in prison. i want to be clear here. when it comes to potential violations of the espionage act, despite its name, it comprises much more than actual spying, including to refuse to return classified documents. breaking news from capitol hill, short time ago, the chairs of the house oversight and intelligence committees, requesting a damag
4. 651 . Taking a look at crude prices and how they are digesting in the middle east. Wti is down. 50 . 85 a barrel. Brent is tame this morning at 89. 75. A check on bitcoin days ahead of the halving. We are down fractionally. 63,352. New data from china overnight. First quarter gdp grew 5. 3 year on year beating the estimate of 4 growth. Export volumes rose 14 from a year ago. Back here at home, United Health is out with Quarterly Results. Bertha coombs is here with more. Everybody is looking at the medical loss ratio from the cyber attack there. The change cyber attack is being looked at or accounted for in two buckets. United Health Revenue coming in at 99. 8 billion. Beating estimates. It is unclear if the adjusted 6. 91 per share is comparable to the consensus number. It includes 25 Cents Per Share impact for business disruption costs from the change cyber attack in february. It excludes the costs of advanced payments and interestfree loans due to the o outage which amounts to 6 b
Investors remain upbeat about the economy and confident that it will continue to pick up steam. So here are the final numbers. The dow pulled backdroping 12 points. The nasdaq gained 20 and the s p 500 gained four. With a string of record runs in 2018 some may start to think this bull market is shaping up to be one of the strongest ever. Mike santoli picks it up from here. Rep the bull market set to reach its ninth anniversary ever which means investo who expect generous gains from here over the coming years are betting this bull run can become the greatest of all time. In terms of market gains, valuation, and the public exposure to stocks only the final years of the 1990s surge are higher than the climb that began in march of 2009. It might sound scary for those who remember the 90s market and the wealth destruction that followed but the comforting news is while todays market ranks number two it is quite a distance from the excesses of the one that closed the 20th century. The s p gai
And ive always said this. Its nice to have kids because you need to live to watch them grow up, right i guess time is passing, they cant grow up. Did you have a nice day we did. I i dont know, i thought i had a free rain ein to imbibe. You cant tell what youre doing until its too late. So i have a picture we had a cake when we got home. I was laying on the couch and they took a picture of me because i wouldnt sit up to eat the cake you need those glasses that we had stounounds like a good birth we went in the big city it was fun. Happy belated birthday. Thank you. Folks, lets check out the u. S. Equity futures. The second trading week of the year green arrows dow was up by 577 points gain of 2. 3 nasdaq up by even more 3. 4 just in the first four trading days looks like there are green arrows across the board. Dow futures up comes after big gains up tonight in asia. Nikkei up by. 9. Hang seng up by a quarter of a percent. Shanghai up. Early trading in europe this morning you will see t