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
To mention it because were definitely seeing a reaction in the stock. Fresh market now surging. The shares now up by 22 . Kroger in the meantime is also moving. We saw its shares take a bit of leg down. N about 8 . did the clients we continue to see across the board, once again, Global Growth worries. Ack of confidence that the Central Banks will be able to alleviate the pressure we have seen. Yellen doing nothing to alleviate the pressure. Gas lower at the open, had been bumping along the bottom ever since. Arecan see what stocks moving the most in that average and what is weighing the most. The single biggest drag here is boeing knocking 71 points off the dow today. The Securities Exchange commission is investigating the way that boeing was doing accounting for a couple of its airplanes. All of this helping to increase volatility. Not just for boeing, but across the board. David how does this affect bonds . Julie we are seeing people by bonds. The movement has been pretty remarkable.
On wall street. Squawk alley is live. Good morning, and welcome to squawk alley on this new years eve. Im kayla. With me simon hobbs. Good morning. Joining us from one market in San Francisco, founder and editor in chief at the information, also a cnbc contributor, jessica lessin. Good friday to you. Or good thursday to you, rather. Its not quite new years yet, but soon. Its a short week, so its easy to get a little bit confused. First, jessica, microsoft says it will now inform customers if Government Agencies are trying to hack into their accounts. It comes after a reuters report that the company chose not to tell thousands of hot mail users that their accounts were hacked by the chinese government. Reports say microsoft found evidence of these attacks back in 2011, but, rather than informing users, it simply asked them to change their password. It was reuters that reported this originally and reached out to the company for comment. Is there precedent for Something Like this . How do
You have average Hourly Earnings rise by. 3 . This could be the 12th straight month of job gains above 200,000 which would be the longest such streak since 1994 and that has people saying the fed is behind the curve and other people say when you look around the world to see whats happening with the strong dollar he they would be crazy to be raising rates but its a source of continued debate the do you is up more than 4 over the last four days nasdaq is up for the year. The index is on track for the best week since december of 2011 and right now the futures ahead of the report are basically unchanged waiting to see what happens with this s p futures off by over a point and nasdaq down by two. People are now saying can you take the january effect and move it to february and is that what happens for the year . Sometimes it gets the end of the year. None of these things work all the time. Gave up on the super bowl. Afc is bad. Here are the other big stories were watching today. German chan
Over single Sex Education. Im antonio mora. Here is more on whats ahead. Vladimir putin says russia will respect the outcome of the election. We trust deeds no not words. Near violence is growing in Eastern Ukraine. The republic says it will not threat vote go on. Were heading 211 now. Faa is investigating. Two airlines almost collided over hawaii. Over newark airport. Stop decline. Stop decline. The rest of my life in here as a tradeoff for my familys life . No matter what happens, if you fire a gun, 20 years. Ferthe person who murdered or daughter, had he gotten the mandatory 20 years, he would have been out today. Claiming putin has lied about russias role in stoking conflict in ukraine. Who is he to judge . Who is he to judge seriously. Why doesnt he get a job and fight somewhere . Putins remarks at an International Business forum came as Eastern Ukraine saw more bloodshed, seven People Killed friday, thursday was the zedliest day for ukrainian deadliest day, 18 sold engineers were