Stocks are in the red, at least no now do you as much as check out movers, underarmour, soaring, earnings estimate were met blue apron rallying. And wayfair hitting new alltime highs. Climbsing about 6 in that time. All right. For more on the markets, le ate go to the New York Stock Exchange and check in with bob pisani bob . Tyler, 111 points in the dow, used to be big news a few weeks ago, but not anymore were starting to settle down. Im not saying its over yet advancing to declining stocks. The volume, surprising below average from what weve seen in the last few weeks, volatility is moving in a much narrower range. Trying to find some footings sectors, well, the market leaders used to be slightly to the down side. Banking are fractionally positive consumer staples, defensive group has generally been stronger all day here. Finally were following as interesting story from an anonymous whistleblower who has written a letter to the s. E. C. Alleging we dont have his name or what he does
Disease in virtually all of the countries around the world. I was just impressed as i walked through the poster sessions at aaic how many of the posters were researchers from korea, thailand, china, japan, et cetera, who were coming here to washington to share their knowledge and their perspective on the disease. Its a global disease, for sure. Its not affecting western countries. I want to throw one more question in here which is in terms of having a National Plan and harnessing all of the different groups working on this from the Research Community to big pharma to universities, government, et cetera. Three years ago, the Obama Administration released a National Plan to address alzheimers and the goal was struck me as exceedingly ambitious. By 2025, so in ten years to be able to prevent and effectively treat alzheimers disease. Does that strike you both as realistic . Ten years . The way we look at it its an aspirational goal. We absolutely want to be there by 2025, and i think the e
If Kayla Tausche is at the nyse to tell us whats happening on the floor. Stocks for the dow and s p are in the red right now. The dow having its nay rowest trading range today since august 18th. The nasdaq has been flirting with the flat line for the last hour. It is just slightly into positive territory. The dow, the s p and nasdaq though even with todays trade all remain out of correction territory. Lets get the trading action at the nyse. Bob pisani joins me on the floor. Michelles getting ready to go on vacation, a lot of other traders are and very happy to be a somewhat normal august day here. The s p 500, very narrow trading range. Only 13 points. Got a little droop in the middle of the day. Stan fischer speaking exclusively with Steve Leisman. Some interpret him to be a little more hawkish. I didnt hear it but the markets seemed to react that way. Down just a little bit. Very narrow trading range, 13, 14point bottom to the top. Volume is heavy but declining. Heavy for august but
Be more big moves next week. Oil staging another big rally today. Yesterday traders said it was mostly Short Covering. Could this be the beginning of a real rebound for the commodity . Weve got rbc commodity guru helena croft joining us live. We have bob pisani tracking the action here at the New York Stock Exchange. Kate rogers at the nasdaq and jackie d at the nymex. Finally more typical august day. There is a little fireworks in the energy space. S p 500, a narrower range, about 15 points. That would be more than normal on a typical day. Compared to what weve seen, other than a slight swoon in the middle of the day, its been fairly straight and narrow here. I want to show you what markets are doing here. Well call the trading range narrow. Volume on the heavy side. Not as heavy the prior four, five days. Heavy for a day in august. Breadth 32 advancing to declining. Thats been holding other than a droop in the middle of the day. Volatility is flat. Look at names like mid state petrol
Meddling well discuss the potential impact for facebook and for the other big tech names. Speaking of big tech names intel Ceo Brian Krzanich will be here for an exculusive interview about the companys new Autonomous Vehicle partnership with alphabets waymo unit that will be coming up a while from now. That will be very interesting. Plus, find out whether a nearly 8 billion Missile Defense deal could signal more deal making on the horizon for the Defense Industry which is enjoying alltime highs in this market today. Lets start, though, with facebook feeling more pressure from washington over those russian ad buys ahead of the election Julia Boorstin has the very latest julia . Reporter hey, kelly. Facebooks under fire for recent revelations that russians bought ads on the social network to influence the president ial election House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member adam schiff is calling on the company to testify before congress saying im distressed it has taken us this long to be