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
Up 49 on the dow. Caterpillar beat earnings expectations, merck, united technologies, travelers, ge also trading to the upside as you can see on your screen right there. But we did get some news on the Economy Today i want to bring you. Sales of Single Family new homes fell more than expected in december. Many economists blaming the slump on the cold weather. The Commerce Department saying new home sales fell 7 to 414,000 units. Home sales usually dip in the winter, but the extremely low temperatures may be causing a more substantial drag. Take a look at hovnanian, kb holmes, all of these Companies Trading do the downside except for pollty, bucking the trend. But the rest of your home builders, actually, are trading to the downside. Wanted to show you those. Big news on the economy. Also this, remember the winklevoss twins made famous by the facebook movie about Mark Zuckerberg . U. S. Agents arrested the ceo of the Bitcoin Exchange bitinstant on Money Laundering charges in connection
What happens when pigs fly . This woman just found out the hard way. That is a pig. And she is in an airport. Fox friends begins right now. This is why i get out of bed in the morning. Its time for fox friends. [rooster crowing] legitimate. We are going to dive more into the pork at the airport coming up. Rick reichmuth is sitting in this morning in for tucker. Nice to he see you. Here for weather and tucker duty. Today i have to do weather. That maria is not here. Cold and people werent out on the street but it seems they have returned. Protesters clash with police. Demonstrators shutting down crowded malls on the busiest shopping day of the year. [chanting] that thanksgiving calm gave way to this. Garrett joins us this morning. That peace sure didnt last very long. 1150 protesters gathered here outside the Ferguson Police department. And at one point police, they were filling the streets, they asked the crowd to disperse. When they refused to leave, the Police Rushed into the crowd,
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