Largecap tech is lagging the overall market gains. We see the dow perform the best. One of the reasons the dow is performing so well today is indeed walmart. Seeing a gain of 5 on that forecast for ecommerce sales to rise 40 in the next fiscal year in the united states. Walmart has been making investments in ecommerce for years and it looks like now they are finally starting to pay off. At the expense of amazon. Amazon seen as a big competitor walmart and analysts im putting alibaba up here as well. Those shares also rising today. Amazon the market cap of versus alibaba. We last saw alibaba as larger than amazon market cap wise in mid2016. Alibaba with larger than amazon market cap. We will keep an i on this metric to see if that trend is continue. We are watching oil prices, which have been supportive of break stocks, in particular drillers. Crude oil pushing closer to 51 a barrel as we hear from the opec chair saying we see an expansion in the number of countries signing on to the Pr
Process to take a skas so to speak scalp so to speak. She is qualified and has risen up the ranks. I was out at the c. I. A. They are excited to have her. Dana Catherine Herridge joins us live. This is a pretty big deal on capitol hill. It is. The first woman nominated to be c. I. A. Director has arrived on capitol hill a short time ago to try to win over those who are the holdouts in the senate and meet with the democrats including dianne feinstein, senators heinrich and joe manchin. Senator feinstein is important because she led an investigation into the c. I. A. Program in 2014. It became so acrimonious that they started to accuse them of spying on the investigators. They told fox at the end of last week that even minimal support role in the Controversial Program of the waterboarding that included the architect of 9 11 Khalid Sheikh mohammed would disqualify her. As far as we know the senate never confirmed somebody with operational role in the use of torture. That would be a first