Overnight in shanghai down almost 4 as the yuan sits near a sixmonth low. The roadmap begins with the markets, the s p starting off shy of the fresh record high and the nasdaq beginning from right around its highest level in 14 years. Home depot is posting quarterly profit above expectations and boosted dividend. Different story with macys and shares slipping after same store sales came in below expectations. And jpmorgan expected to announce job cuts in its mortgage and consumer business. The bulls off to a good start, the dow jumped more than 100 points and closed at 16,207 and the s p hit 1858 before pulling back and closing at 1847. Thats a point away from its alltime closing high. And as we said, the nasdaq reaching a 14year high before closing off its best levels. Jim, you said last night you would try to play the role of the skeptic. I do not like to see the nasdaq at a 14year high. I took to heart some of the comments we said on yesterdays show which is when you Start Talking w
Over a half an hour. This was cass and i have big birthdays comes up. Hers is this friday. Shes going to turn 20. I cant believe it. There we are sitting in one of the most beautiful places in the world. Where is that exactly . Thats villa deste in lake como. We went looking for george clooney. Does he have a place right on the lake . Right ive never been. Italy is one of my Favorite Places in the world. Theres georges house. Yes, he didnt even invite us over. I mean, how rude. Did you see him . We did not. I thought he was not there until the last day and we discovered that he had been there our first night that we arrived, but he was at a different you always want to be outside when youre in italy. Where was he . He was in an inside restaurant called the grill. I know. Does everyone talk about where he is . Yeah. Apparently hes just beloved. Everybody adores him. I went to california first. Yes. I did kris jenners, cohosted with her, her new talk show. Then i was out walking with a g
2013. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on monday morning. I am Savannah Guthrie. Carson you said you were a morning person. You filled in hoda all last week. Thats a whole other ball game by the way. No alcohol here. Youre sober right now. I am. Ready to work. You all have good news cred. Im going to try and keep that intact. We have a lot to cover. The dangerous storm system claimed at least two lives. Dave gutierrez is following this story just outside of florida where flooding is a big concern today. Gabe, morning to you. Good morning, savannah. Fortunately the rain has stopped, but all that rain from over the weekend is rushing downstream. There are plenty of sandbags behind me and thats because the nearby river crested overnight about seven feet above flood stage. North carolina just the first stop for a major storm system moving up the east coast this morning. The state begi
One more solid month of summer and thats it. But thats okay because why . Because simon cowell is going to be a daddy. Daddio. Good news and bad news. He has i guess is the way you say it. Both new york papers. The interesting thing isnt so much that he was with a girl and shes pregnant. Its that the girl happens to be one of one of his friends wives. And apparently theyre separated and have been separated for a while. Did you hear that or no . I hear some people are saying they have been separated for a while. Other people saying no, they just recently separated when the husband found out. Thats andrew silverman, her Real Estate Developer husband. So i dont know which is true, hoda. I just work here. Of course you do. But you know the news. Whats weird is they all went on vacation together, which is always i have done that many times, hoda, and not come back pregnant with somebody elses baby. It is possible, even in todays world. Sources told u. S. Weekly us weekly. Oh, yeah. In the u
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