Have ever seen tweet us your thoughts welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Wall street carving out some nice gains the dow and wall street pushing to highs s p, zi oons and jpmorgan author industry, the recreational vehicle ceo speaks with jim cramer tonight on mad money. Check out unilever it is going higher no final decision has been made yet. Emerson electric up more than 2. 5 the company withdrawing its 225 per share offer to buy Rockwell Automation rockwell, also higher. Thank you very much welcome. Im Tyler Mathisen here is what else is happening at this hour i get the what else . Otherwise known as the thanksgiving leftovers home prices gaining momentum, rising more than 6 year over year that is the fastest annual rate since 2014 seattle reporting the biggest jump home prices there soaring 13 from a year ago. Potential new problems from wells fargo. Foreign exchange bankers at the company were overcharging clients and albertsons striking a deal with instacart. Michelle we beg
Lifetime we debate it power lunch starts right now we have to rename the show bitcoin lunch. Im Brian Sullivan stocks are steady this hour. The nasdaq higher fueled by a rebound in some big tech names like ebay and electronic arts. After a few days of weakness, technology, the Top Performing sector today Semiconductor Stocks like micron doing pretty well. Some other companies you need to keep an eye on, whole brothers having one of its worst days in a long time. Its a case of good not being good enough. Investors wanted more. Coffee is hot. Dunkin brands hitting intraday alltime highs, up almost 220 from its ipo in july of 2011 and 21st century fox up, disney down the two are getting closer the a potential 60 billion deal that could come as early as next week thank you very much welcome, everybody we begin as we have so often in this eventful year in d. C. President trump meeting right now with the Republican Leaders of the senate. He spoke to the media just moments ago. Lets get to ea
The dow, the s p both on pace to close it, new record highs. I feel like im a broken record, telling you that every day. 24,301 on the dow. Congress passing a shortterm spending bill to avoid a Government Shutdown as they head for the final stretch of tax reform. Can they get it done by the end of the year . Allstar panel is weighing in. And as Lawmakers Debate policy, the Sexual Harassment allegation keep coming. Now republican congressman trent franks will resign after he asked female staffers if they would consider surrogacy. Whats going on down there in d. C. . Weve got more straight ahead. To our top story, another strong jobs report, i love telling you this news, how the economy is doing just great. Our own adam shapiro has the details for you. Adam . Reporter the numbers do not lie. Lets recap, 228,000 jobs added in november, which beat the estimates, remember, some of the estimates coming in below 200,000, and the private sector on fire, 221,000 of the jobs are private sector p
A headline in the guardian asked the question why are americas farmers killing themselves in record numbers yes according to a study conducted last year the centers for Disease Control and prevention found that the suicide rate for Agricultural Workers in seventeen states was nearly five times higher when compared to the general population but now experts fear the c. D. C. Is numbers may actually be wrong the suicide numbers may and back be higher because the original study left out some major agricultural states like iowa for example and its been revealed that an unknown number of farmers have been disguising their suicides as farm accidents in order to collect insurance payouts i looked at the bill salesman. Two distinctly different segments of the population one a little city one a Little Country but both are suffering an awful lot this is the reality that many of the current political leaders of the United States continue to ignore in their never ending quest to appease big money c
So disturbing as you sad about the boston the boston papers is that this report the color of wealth in boston sound that the median net worth for whites was two hundred forty seven about five hundred dollars or so forty seven thousand dollars for whites thats a person thats our network but eight dollars eight dollars for a black bostonian which is. Yeah and it was part of a five state so this wasnt just about one one place and boss and that study was done through five cities but at the end of the day the wealth disparity among communities of color were the worst in boston i mean this is like looking at it you look at milwaukee and you look at places like boston as these are not good places to live if you are a black person exactly and the data was determined just sort of stand what you know that you know the net worth determination that median were. How than you can about a lot of people know the difference between you know you make this much whats a more than let me youre more than we