On behalf of the board i want to welcome the new student delegate for the 201617 year. [applause] ms. Maria zaragoza from june jordan and ms. Jessica came from Lowell High School. We are very happy to have the week with us at your first meeting and excited to serve with you and learn from you and were honored to have you here representing students here on our board. Welcome and its quantity very enjoyable and fun year for you so thank you for serving. It has been announced at the last few Board Meetings, if you want to address the board of education, please fill out a speaker card prior to the item being called and if you please give that speaker card to our board assistant ms. Casco. Item a approval of board minutes. Of the regular meeting of june 28 26 and get a motion and second . Moved and seconded. Corrections . Nine fewer aye mendozamcdonnell norton aye wynns aye haney aye six aye item b superintendents report. Superintendent carranza thank you president mcelhaney and good evenin
Lets get to bob pisani on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. This is what it sounds like when doves fly. Very good. That was a good song. The important thing about it is since yesterday, were up 1. 5 . The s p 500, we turn positive for the year. Lets look at what the markets are doing in the middle of the day. Brian is right. Were in a bullish situation now. Two to one advancing declining stocks. New highs are expanding 200 at the nyse. Volume is on the moderate side. Volatility, well, the vix is at new lows for the year essentially. So lets take a look at the s p 500, we are at highs for the year and, yes, thats only about up 1 . Well take that and most of those gains for the year have come just in the last 24 hours. Big caps, new highs, i mentioned some expansion of new highs and we have ge and coke and johnson and johnson, all names you know at new highs. United health. We track that on an intraday basis. Travelers also on the upside here. So most of the new highs recently ha
All right. Happy new year, rick, to you and everybody at the chicago merc. We have some serious breaking news from dubai in a scary situation. Here again is sue herera. Absolutely, brian. Here is what we know. A fires a engulfed the address hotel located in downtown dubai. These pictures are coming to us from the Associated Press. This fire broke out just a few hours before dubais massive fireworks display was set to go off. It is in the address hotel. It has engulfed at least 20 floors according to the Associated Press. We dont know the cause of that fire. We dont have any word on casualties. We do know that First Responders are on the scene. Once again, it is a massive fire in a tightly populated area of dubai in a very popular area of dubai im told, and, brian, i think you also stayed at that hotel, have you not z . I have been to that hotel, i have not stayed there. I have been to that region. That is the premiere shopping and recreation and dining destination in dudubai. I dont wa
More fallout and reaction to our exclusive interview with billionaire investor Stan Druckenmiller. His critical comments about ibm prompting bill miller another famed investor to take to twitter in defense of big blue. We will show you what both said and hash out who may be right. Two very smart guys two very different opinions on ibm. And later today weve got tony robbins, his first book is out in nearly 20 years. Its all about money and gaining Financial Freedom, which by the way, coincidentally the same thing cnbc and this show is all about, but tony robbins will be here at the New York Stock Exchange later on closing bell. A lot coming up. Here is where we stand. An hour to go to the close. The dow is off 89 points. Weak session across the board. Earlier today it looked like a mirror image of the gains we saw yesterday. A couple of differing reasons as to why that may be going on. Maybe just some profit taking. A banner day yesterday with the nasdaq closing above 5,000. Today at th
But john boltons publisher,shut to the mattresses for him. They fought tooth and nail they defied the white house bluster and threats. They fought every legal action and they got that thing out. And, you know, simon and shuster has the First Amendment on their side and they were righteously and effectively standing up for the First Amendment rights of themselves and their author, for sure to be honest, though, Simon Shuster also knew it was really important that the bolton book hit bookstores because they knew it would sell a gajillion copies and it did the bolton book has been a huge bestseller, Something Like 800,000 copies in its first week that was a record for Simon Shuster. Until today when the same publisher Just Announced that marys trump new book about her uncle, the president , her account of her life in the trump family and what she came to learn about her uncle, what she describes as his manifest unfitness for office, we learn the today her book didnt sell 800,000 copies in