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Lets look at what else you talked about, retail. It is black friday. The Holiday Shopping season for 2017 is officially off. Reports are suggesting it is very strong. Macys, kohls, gap seeing gains for all retailers. Reports relative to yesterday, strong as of 5 00 p. M. Yesterday. Spending on a yearoveryear basis of 17 . 1. 52 billionght, has been spent ahead of black friday even starting. A very solid start for the Holiday Shopping season. Some are saying the best in three years. Now taking into the weekly moves, lets look at a chart in the bloomberg. 5917. Are we are looking at the weekly moves to the major averages, and an orange the russell 2000. We had a long stretch of weekly gains for the dow and the s p 500, eight in a row. Russell 2000, smallcap index and awards have been down a little bit. Thinly actually have the major averages down on a weekly basis for two weeks in a row. The dow and s p 500, the first time that happened since august. We have a tech heavy nasdaq up. Highe
Yes. A busy earnings day. Also awaiting whole food reports in a major board shakeup. What to do with the grocery stock. Shares fractionally lower now. And you heard, boeing halted flights of its 737 max jets because of engine issues that surfaced over the weekend. Well have breaking details and the stocks suffering as a result of that anournnouncementannounc we begin with the story the whole country is talking about, fallout from president trumps surprise dismissal of fbi director james comey last night. Eamon javers and amy on capitol hill. Eamon, you first. Sanders here at the white house finishing up a briefing within the past hour or so. She made a number of points including that the president is going to meet with the new acting director of the fbi today. The search for a successor is beginning today. She also said that the president s thinking on this began mucherer than we learned when this news officially broke last night. What she said i think its been an erosion of confidence
Reported slowing sales growth and said that wont change much this year. Profit at the dow component continued to come under pressure as a result of multibillion dollar investments in worker wages and ecommerce. Investors were hoping to see those investments start to pay off in better results. Apparently it hasnt happened yet. And that weighed on the stock which fell 3 , making walmart the worstperforming member of the dow blue chip index today. Morgan brennan has more on walmarts gloomy outlook. Reporter as walmart continues to bank on a turnaround, it played out in Holiday Season earnings. Investors disappointed after key sales metrics fell short of estimates. U. S. Comparable store sales grew modestly, marking the sixth straight quarterly increase. Nonetheless were weaker than expected. Comp sales. 6, street was looking for 1 , that was a disappointment. Traffic growth slowed down a little bit. Traffic growth was about. 7. This is a deescalation. So the fixation is on Comp Store Sale