Halftime report starts now. Just because were not up or down a thousand points of the dow does not mean the markets are calm in fact, the dow has been up and down tripledigits today now right now we are holding on to the strong gains, but with three hours to go, you never know what could happen risk also coming off just a bit as stocks rise volatility gauges are falling but the vix still above 20 match. Com soaring the dating site which oend owns tinder as more people sign up chipotle down and comp sales missing targets and it expects the decline to continue toward the middle of the year and wynn resorts and michael kors an and hasbro rallying and wynn, get to that story soon. Im Tyler Mathisen breaking news out of washington, Senate Leaders have announced a longterm budget deal. Kayla is on the hill with details. This is a deal in discussion since this fall. But earlier today just a few minutes ago leadership from each party in the senate took to the floor to announce they had resolve
Right now. Welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Stocks are trading in a very narrow range ahead of the fed. At the top of the next hour, the dow managing to hit another record intraday high. The nasdaq trying for its 11th gain in 12 sessions. Apple on pace for its Third Straight day of gains. It is up in the past weekment a number of big retailers also on the move walmart hitting another 52week high it is up more than 8 . Target, dollar general, the biggest winners in the s p right now. We begin this hour at the white house. Justin trudeau will arrive shortly for a meeting with President Trump. Trade, the topic eam eamon javers live. Reporter not a lot of the pomp and circumstance that you see with head of state meetings. We are waiting for Justin Trudeau to arrive any time now there has been a lot swirling around the bhit houwhite house s morning. The president woke up to an article in which thomas barrack, the real estate investor, criticized him saying the president is better tha
In europe, things have barely budged in most of the major markets. Cac is flat. Dax is up 0. 1 . The ftse up almost 0. 2 . Crude oil prices continued to climb yesterday. This morning giving back just eight cents. But there is a thought that with supplies in the United States experiencing an unexpected draw down, and with more countries looking like they may support saudi arabia in terms of continuing that production cut, we have seen prices that have stabilized well above the lows weve seen earlier this week. Wti trading at 47. 76. Some big corporate stories. Retail wreckage continues. Department store chains taking a major hit. Nordstroms posting better than expected earnings and revenue, but the stock dropped on a samestore sale miss. Theyre the latest Department Store to get hurt by a slump in clothing because of online shopping. Macy shares dropped 17 yesterday during the trading session after Quarterly Results missed. It was the worst day for macys shares since 2008. Well get anot
Far as a twitter war. We got those details. Weigh start off with a news alert, new details on what the smart money is buying. Hey, melissa, it seems like the smart money may have piled into snap during the quarter. This is based on the latest 13 sfilings. Third point added 2. 25 million shares while david pepper at appaloosa added 100,000 shares. Heres what he had to say about snap a few days after the ipo. Im not jumping through the hoops to buy the 2180. Should it go down closer to the original offer price, i would love to buy the stock there. Im a believer in the company. Its a valuation question to me. Wherein, to me, im in the nowhere land of valuation right here. We reached out to tepper and to see if they both own shares of snap and wolf completely dissolved his 1. 85 million shares he owned in apple during the quarter but added other tech names, co 4 quall koym and sales force and hewlett packard. Last quarter with the election of donald trump as president , those were more of
And welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Nasdaq barely holding on up about 2 wi8 points joining the dow and s p 500 which are negative etf that tracks, hitting yet another intraday alltime high and ivb is rally within health care it is on pace for best week of the year esperion, novocure, biggest leaders right now. Thank you we will find out right now which car company has the highest quality of anybody fi phil la boes with that news. Phil the latest survey on initial auto quality, surveying about 80,000 new vehicle buyers. This is what they found. Good news, reliability, quality, people surveyed after owning the vehicle for three months, never higher in all the years theyve been doing this survey 27 of 32 brands improved quality ratings. Top one, kia, for second straight year, ranks as best followed by genesis, which is luxury brand by hundred day and porsche were the top three bad news, people not happy with the Driver Assist sec knotechno are seeing Adaptive Cruise control, lane