And the nasdaq. The dow is up about 100 points. The nasdaq 100 hitting a new record high. Your midcap names, jan bradys of the investing world, big standouts. Energy stocks a big part of that, led higher by names like denver, resources, sm energy and energen. Im michelle carusocabrera. Cleanup efforts from North Carolina to florida following hurricane matthew. 19 deaths have been reported here in the United States due to that storm. Samsung suspending production of its galaxy note 7 phones following reports that they catch fire. Oil prices are moving higher after Vladimir Putin said russia is ready to join opecs efforts to cap oil output. Begin with politics and new polls showing that donald trump is in deepening trouble. John harwood live in washington with the numbers. This one is, what, nbc news and wall street journal, john . Yes, this is a wall street journal nbc News National live interview telephone poll that was it is important for me to point this out, this is not reflecting a
Volatility and various assets as investors try to figure out what to make of the data. Number was worse in terms of the number of jobs added but we also saw some wage growth and we have heard a little bit of mixed reaction to this number. Stocks are down at the moment but there are a number of different factors driving them. The nasdaq is the underperformer, down 6 10 of 1 . Look at the s p 500, we have had a lot of bouncing around even athlete got the number. That even after we got the number. We saw futures recover to some degree and confusion being reflected during the course of the session. We are seeing similar reaction in terms of the bouncing around in other assets. The dollar, for example, a lot of zigzagging in the wake of this report. We saw it go higher and it has been bouncing around since. Seeing aar note also lot of bouncing around between gains and losses. Saw a sharp decline in yield after the number was announced but it has since recovered. It is only up one basis poin
Bell remotely from beijing. Well get that in about a half hour. Tim farley of the nyse on the left there. Mcdonalds wrapping up its investor day yesterday laying out a performance day for last year saying it expects a pick up in sales. Shares of mcdonalds hit an alltime high yesterday. Joining us at post nine is Steve Easterbrook, ceo of mcdonalds. Great to have you here. Great to be here. Street liked what you said. You said the words gaining traction. Analysts trying to pin you down on whether were building in q4 versus q3. You didnt go there. The analysts are persistent. Ill give them credit for that. We moved away from Monthly Sales reporting at the end of june to now quarterly. It was tempting to give everyone the inner detail. We will stick to the quarterly reporting. We signaled we could see sales growth across all four segments around the world through quarter four which is what we achieved in quarter three as well. We could reinforce that. I did say octobers trading and the fi
Exclusive deal to debut a film of the pop stars world tour. Good morning, everyone. Were roughly 1 15 into the trading session and this is what youre seeing. Youre actually seeing green. I guess very few people had expected this after the poor showing that we got after the asian trading after the big dropoff from u. Is the dropoff on friday. The dow was off 3. 3 . The dow off 4. 1 for the week. The ftse 100 off of. 5 . The xetra dax up the same. The cac 40 up even higher at 0. 9 . This week we saw it in asia and the junk bonds and the oil route. In asia the shanghai comp is up 2 . The Macro Economic data was up better than we expected. The fixed Asset Investment is at least in line. The anything kay is also off by 1. 8 . Meantime, the yuan has hit a fresh year low. The trifecta in china. U. S. Futures, pretty tough week for wall street. Markets slumping. All big three indices falling more than 3 . We saw the biggest single daily decline for the Dow Jones Industrials and the s p 500 sin
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