we re talking about what is fueling the company s expansion. first, let s talk about where we stand as we approach the final hour on wall street. a gain of 70 points, we are losing some momentum as we enter the final hour. up 69 points on the dow. nasdaq, negative. as you can see, we have a pretty good performance early at the open. things have turned down even if we are off of the worst levels of the nasdaq. s&p 500 also bouncing off of the lows but up just about four points on the standard & poor s. with less than an hour to go, let s take a quick look at the market theme. they are surprised about the lack of deals, given the low levels of rates. earnings remain the key drivers as strength in blue ship names such as at&t and 3m helped set the tone. dow holding on to gains despite a retreat on the nasdaq as you just saw. much of that attributed to apple. it is now down ten of the past 111 trading sessions on apple. we know that it s coming off of a very strong base. it s nea
is the next 50. i say 30. some saying the poeople are there for a while and this woman at 54 she ll be there six years. six years. and remember the stan o neal, replaced john thain. one of the things, he was young if he were there longer merrill-lynch would have been out of business. he was the absolute worst ceo they ve had. and i don t like it decided by the calendar. yeah, i agree, in fact actualingly i think we ve got far too many vibrant baby boomers headed, teachers, cops and firefighters retiring at 55. what a terrible waste when we send the message to the folks, your career is over when you hit 55, 6 o65. a lot of people have a lot left to give. they want to collect the pension funds and gold plated. we can t afford. absolutely. that s unfortunate. it s unfortunate. all right, kristin?
and with charlie gasperino always rallying against. he only does that to keep making it s working. i ve got to build that addition to my house sometime. dave: but you know what? there was that element to that and listen, we know that the stock market, even though it knows better loves this kind of stuff and the market is short-term and i say short-term, looking from here to the next minute and there was some good news this week, too, the grosse pointe woods numbers and i called this rally the dirty fingernails rally and started three weeks ago and caterpillar great numbers, norfolk southern. things that tell you our economy did go double dip, but you know, to the bottom line, yes, the bailout, obviously, wall street loves them and we know that wall street loves them, but there are other good elements to the rally, too. without getting too much in the weeds. there was a technical reason you love the weeds. live there, with the wall street not, but there was
. guest: that debt, the thing i mentioned about italy not having growth for ten years, when is the last time greece had growth? neil: you are not getting into the greek italian thing? guest: i have lots of greek friends and they would rather be here than this. neil: seep you tonight on finance and and more on fox business news. and speaking of that, a more celebrated and vilified, john thain who used to run merrill lynch and the new york stock exchange will be a special guess on fox business network and old on fox business network tonight. you want proof that the french are still fried? look who they are kissing up to today. the donald is about to lose it. at adt, we get financing from ge capital.
it. today, they were just bying. here. there. everywhere. and the biggest buys? yes, banks. you guessed it, double digit gains for a sector that has seen nothing but constant hits but at the risk of raining on this parade, huge sequences are now the rules not the evening session, and, in fact, over the last month, most days. for now, the implication of this day. with our reporter on new york on the stock tear here and a report from london on more than a few doubters there, and donald trump why a lot of political leaders look like apprentices and a wall street legend on what he is worried about next. here, there, and everywhere. we begin with sandra. throw a dart at the s&p 500 and you will land on a stock that was up, 11 percent of the companies that make up the s&p 500 hitting 52-week highs in the trading session, and stocks subjected all the way into the final minutes of trading, and the dow posting the unbelievable triple digit gain a gabe of 342 points today, and, also,