But i have not. Lori i have only seen it on broadway. Stalks off to a tough start. Early numbers point to a tough season. Tracy a nice and shiny fiscal cliff. President obama cut his vacation short. We are tracking where it is headed next. We are expecting negotiations to continue tomorrow. There is talk now that that may not happen. Time to head down to the New York Stock Exchange with Nicole Petallides. Nicole Merry Christmas to everybody. The vix, the fear index, has been to the upside. Whether or not washington will solve the worries about the socalled fiscal cliff approaching quickly. Here is a look at the dow. 13,100 even. Most of the dow components are under pressure. Hewlettpackard doing well and bank of america in the financial round. It really is being laid upon by the retailers. I no adam shapiro will add on to that. There is a look at some movers. Michael cores down over 6 . Tracy i was in the balls this weekend. Lori crowded theater not like i thought it would be. Adam sha
Im toll sullivan in for neil cavuto. Epa head lisa jackson announced she is leaving. House republicans saying that jackson used an alias to use a slew of emails about epa business, they are wondering why that was necessary, they want answers, but first a member of the group who sued the administration to release the documents, myron gel is joining me now, we did contact the epa for a statement today, it did not provide one, myron, how did you find out, what led you dont this path to where there were aliases in a cloak and dagger about the way they used other outside email addresses . Tom, it was due to the persist stance of my colleague at cei, chris horner, with a series of freom of information requests, and a lawsuit. Discovered that lisa jackson was concealing the publics business under an email account in her name for that account was Richard Windsor. No freedom of information act request had until we discovered that account, had they ever searched her private email accounts that s
Your session hous lows. As we settle a little bit here. The s p off, but no industry is doing as badly as the dow jones. We will be talking to individual stocks but not a good way to end the trading. Lori it has been a tough couple of days with all of the nonsense and the fiscal cliff. We will get that in detail on this Christmas Eve. Lets zero in on the Semiconductor Names among the worst performers today with the semi etf seeing a move to the downside. Including intel, Texas Instruments and farm holdings. David the whole energy sector, names like chevron, marathon, all posting losses today. Lori retailers themselves were not all in on the holiday spirit on this Christmas Eve trading day. Back in eagle, staples among the biggest losers in the sector. David those idiots inside the beltway cannot seem to get it figured out. Dont expect one anytime soon. Lawmakers are gone for the holiday, so does the white house even want a deal by the new year, or automatic tax hikes what they want in
Feel the season begins. I am neieil cavuto and those senators heaping prae had to know of the fast proaing approaching deadline this week a heap of trouble that did not stop politicians from heaping praise on those victims. The federal government sponded promptly and decisively. Response has been robust. Thank you for being such a strong leader. I am grateful f the productive conversations we have had. Complement our e Emergency Responders they did an incredible job. Neil bidding aside the idiocy oo these remarks but the incredibly bad timing for thousands of out homes better in hotels and temporary housing. We hear th a government will take the punch bowl away when the shelter coverage ends despite their prediction from the government hself it may be months before they have a home. It seems sought on after two months it has made no contingency. Dont be surprised if the folks to get the help raise a finger in the year. Time to clear and how we stop this during the holidays with the gre
Are finishing up. Its well on the fence here as to where were going to close. The dow is lower right now. Down about 20 points. The s p 500 down just about 2 points. Nasdaq also eking out a loss, 4. 2 points and then the russell also ending the day in the red. David it was just positive, the dow just moments ago, but it is the turnaround, 150 points since the story. Also a trading day for oil, big rally in yesterdays session where it went up to 91 a barrel. Crude was unable to hold on to the gains ending lower on fears of no deals in d. C. All of that late breaking news didnt really affect where oil closed. You see a little positive jump there right now. Thats on the news that did come out of washington, but again, it closed at 2. 30 down. Shibani also moving today, currencies the yen was a big mover. The currency continuing to decline against the u. S. Dollar hitting a 27 month low against our currency. Japanese officials signalling that they would do anything basically they could to