Wednesday. Until the end. 8 1 2 pounds, youre ready. Thats a good, healthy weight. Anyway, we wish becky the best. Well be talking to becky im sure a lot. Hopefully well see becky, but probably not for a little while. A little boy and a girl. Its totally rounded out. In the meantime, we have so much to talk about. Well start with u. S. Equity futures and well get to the debates in just a second. Take a look at this, the dow jones up 77 points after last nights performance. The nasdaq up 21 points and the s p 500 up ten points higher. The asian markets in hong kong and japan are close d for the holiday. Youre looking at the european equities right now. As we flip the board around, were seeing everything up pretty much across the board. Finally, well take a quick look at crude, wti right now this morning. Youre looking at 49. 60. Yeah. So down about a half percent. It was down on friday. Pierced 50 for the First Time Since june last week. Well watch the saudis comments on that. Well get
And the nasdaq. The dow is up about 100 points. The nasdaq 100 hitting a new record high. Your midcap names, jan bradys of the investing world, big standouts. Energy stocks a big part of that, led higher by names like denver, resources, sm energy and energen. Im michelle carusocabrera. Cleanup efforts from North Carolina to florida following hurricane matthew. 19 deaths have been reported here in the United States due to that storm. Samsung suspending production of its galaxy note 7 phones following reports that they catch fire. Oil prices are moving higher after Vladimir Putin said russia is ready to join opecs efforts to cap oil output. Begin with politics and new polls showing that donald trump is in deepening trouble. John harwood live in washington with the numbers. This one is, what, nbc news and wall street journal, john . Yes, this is a wall street journal nbc News National live interview telephone poll that was it is important for me to point this out, this is not reflecting a
So we will have to still talk about yesterdays state of the union address. We are 20 hours later from that speech. Did you think it was a great state of the union or the greatest . Serious question. Is a obama speech playing political dividends thus far gekko . Obviously less than a day but im keen to say yes. This very effective speech is working. First of all, the press. The press was riding off the president and seeing him as a lame duck. Now the press is interested in his next moves. That helps the white house a lot when the press is curious and sees you a sees you a dominant player. Joe biden on the morning shows was very confident. You and i both trust his politics. He was talking about senators. Republicans focused on the middle class, improving economy. If joe biden thinks things are going well, i generally think they are going well. Finally the president is confident. You know he went into the speech last night confident. He comes out of it to be confident. A confident barack
And 56 odd minutes away from the 2016 state of the union. The white house is not release the excerpt of that speech yet so we will have to still talk about yesterdays state of the union address. We are 20 hours later from that speech. Did you think it was a great state of the union or the greatest . Serious question. Is a obama speech playing political dividends thus far . Obviously less than a day but im keen to say yes. This very effective speech is working. First of all, the press. The press was riding off the president and seeing him as a lame duck. Now the press is interested in his next moves. That helps the white house a lot when the press is curious and sees you a sees you a dominant player. Joe biden on the morning shows was very confident. You and i both trust his politics. He was talking about senators. Republicans focused on the middle class, improving economy. If joe biden thinks things are going well, i generally think they are going well. Finally, the president is confid
Considered the sexiest of them all. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart check the big board. Nothing to laugh about. A private joke with kt. The Dow Jones Industrial average down 80 points. Chinese imports down 20 . Not good for the worlds second largest economy. Greece plays hardball with germany. Are they leaving the eurozone . Maybe well get a decision fairly soon. Markets down on all this news. Price of oil is still moving higher. It gained 7 last week. And its now up another 1. 52. You know what that means. Gas prices keep going on. 2. 17 a gallon now. Twelve cents higher than last week. The 1 dollar club, thats the average within a state is below 2 a gallon theres only five members. Far cry from january 26, when the 1 dollar club peaked at 28 states. We do this every day. And we have the cheapest gas in the land. 1. 55 in idaho. Silver country. Come on in with gas buddy. Everyone wants to know this one. Why has gas gone up so far so fast . Whats behind that rise . I hate to