Record high for a ninth straight day. Were up 11 points right now and if youre keeping score it would also be the dows tenth straight game. Nine records and ten games, and the s p is in record territory. The russell is not though. Hand neither is the nasdaq. But it is coming back today strong. So we are keeping a close eye on all of those and the possibility of more records being set today. All of this despite increasing tensions between the United States and north korea after the u. N. Imposed new sanctions on the rogue nation. Coming up, weve got the latest on north koreas threats and whether they could derail the rally. What it looks like from here. Yes all thats happening and, of course, the vix falls below 10 today. It takes a lot to spook the markets these days. Crazy. The sense of calm continues. And more earnings cbs highlighting todays after hours reports. Tonight, instant analysis of all of those numbers and a debate on whether you should be buying or selling what used to be
With new trade data, exports rose in july and imports up 11 . The nikkei was down by 0. 3 but you did see gains in the hang seng and shanghai composite. In europe, early trading, youre going to see right now, things are pretty flat. Harder to think of things being flatter than this. The dax, cac, and the ftse, slightly gaining crude oil prices down by 19 cents. This morning, rebounding, wti up by 50 centers. Developing overnight, mr. Wonderful called it early yesterday, google firing the engineer yesterday the engineers tenpage manifesto has asserted that women have biological differences that prevent them from being as successful as women in tech. Google did not confirm the firing Software Engineer james demore said he had been dismissed for, quote, perpetuating gender stereotypes. And yesterday, the google kraef su Ceo Sundar Pichai said that the tech crossed and uber telling the employees that Travis Kalanick is not returning theyre intending on hiring a world class leader to lead t
Getting worse. Wayfair shares are sinking concerns about the Online Furniture companys margins and its plans to increase ad spending weighing on the stock, down a little more than 5 off those record highs that it hit earlier. Not to mention potential competition from amazon. Well talk about all of this with the ceo in an exclusive interview coming up this hour. Who, by the way, does not consider himself in competition with amazon. He feels like their niche furniture cannot be replicated. So far neither do investors this has been one of the hottest stocks in the Retail Sector this year. Momentum stock. The question is what does amazon have planned . Dow component disney reports earnings well tell you what to expect and, yes, a first on cnbc interview with ceo bob iger and, of course, everybody is wringing their hands, of course, over espn lets bring you up to date on the markets here the dow down nine points we all know the dow has been up 10 consecutive days. Nine of those have been a
Google ceo says he violated company policy. He was dismissed for perpetuating gender stereotypes. Is diversity of opinion allowed . Not if your opinion strays from the company line. He is exploring legal options. Silicon valley and free speech could be headed to court. Relax, everyone, the judges that the shortly. Mary is. Just as important, your money. Will the doubt make it to 10 record in a row . If it goes up today, yes it is and reports in a row. Just the inauguration of President Trump value has gone up to . 3 trillion. Since the election for . 1 trillion. Question, while those rich democrats who hate the president , will they give it all back . Dream on. Great to be back with you all. Varney company is about to begin. Dream to north korea commit serious stuff from u. S. Spy satellite detected north korea voting to antiship cruise missiles on a patrol boat on the countrys east coast days ago. Remember north korea vowed to strike america with thousands fold revenge after the Unite
I think the president again, as commanderinchief, i think he felt it necessary to issue a very strong statement directly to north korea, but i think what what is the president was reaffirming the United States is full kay capable of defending ourselves from any attack and our allies and will do so so americans should sleep well at night. Connell sleep well at night. We have a show of force of u. S. Bombers flying over the Korean Peninsula. Group of south dakota airmen are ready to fight in guam if needed to. With that as the backdrop, lets turn to our expert. Former advisor to Vice President dick cheney, john hannah, and Hudson Institute fellow, Rebecca Heinrichs is here. The secretary of states choice of words we all should sleep well at night. What do you make of that . I think clearly the secretary is trying to tone down heated rhetoric from yesterday to reassure allies and reassure the American People but ive got to say we cant avoid the fact that this crisis is escalating. That no