Later this month. Lets show you the details. Figures from the us Labor Department Show prices rose at an annual rate of 2. 5 percent in august. Down from 2. 9 injuly. If we look at Core Inflation though which strips out volatile elements such as Food And Fuel prices were rising at a more aggressive 3. 2 percent. Our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupta is in new york. A cut by the fed has been all but promised by them already at their meeting next week. I guess the only outstanding question is by how much. Indeed, as you mentioned in your introduction overall this was a solid report on information monitoring. Annually at 2. 5 , that is the lowest in three years and that is why you will see the White House touting this as it went for the current administration and for the Election Campaign for Vice President kamala harris, and makes it must certain the federal reserve will cut Interest Rates when it meets next week, but for the markets it is a different story and you see th
And the u. S. Adding two Key Chinese Companies to its defense black list o and everybody just chill, the ceo of warner media down playing news that sent Movie Theater stocks cratering yesterday it is friday, december 4, and this is worldwide exchange. Jolene, jolene, please dont take my man good afternoon, and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching. Happy friday, folks. We made it lets jump right into the markets and your money because friday futures where looking pretty good. Dow futures are up 113 points. Up once again for the week the nasdaq 100 higher by nearly 2 to kick off the month of december technology back in command and this could be the number of the day. 47 no, that is not the number of days that were in march this year, that is how many times the nasdaq 100 has hit a record high this year and well see if we can make it a steady 48. For the dow, boeing has been the star rising 6 again yesterday and accounting for pretty much all the dows gains. This af
Jimmy li will join me this hour in this exclusive interview. Markets on the upswing to begin futures. Take a look at dow industrials 344 points. Nasdaq up 109. Thats almost 1 . S p higher by 9 points. The dow posting best month since 1987 with gain of almost 12 , other averages also higher by 12 and 11 all this as we await key testimony from federal jay powell and jimmy mnuchin today and unused covid relief funding. Return to high seas, we are taking you on a port on how they are getting ready. Another missing monolith moved. Making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria all right, european markets meanwhile look like this as rally is underway on wall street. European markets higher across the board. Ftse up 123 points. Almost 2 , cac quarante up 62 and dax index up 135. British factories reporting fastest growth in 3 years. Purchasing Managers Index rising to 55. 6 in the month of november. In asia overnight green across the board. Chinas manufacturing pmi54. 9
Welcome to squawk alley. The at Home Technology story continues to deliver big you can see there sonos up 26 this morning after strong earnings want to talk to the ceo in a minute and nvidia also delivered solid results on pc and Data Center Demand beating on both earnings and revenue. Sales up 57 from the same period last year though its lower this morning on modest guidance second biggest gainer on the s p 500 year to date though. Julia, its really interesting how, you know, stay at home stocks maybe suffering a bit but some of the Underlying Technology driving some of that action doing quite well well, jon, one stay at home stock that is not suffering today is roku. That stock up over 6 . Driven in part by the circulation of reports saying that roku could be near a deal with at t to have an agreement for hbo max to be included on roku which would be a big deal and speaking of hbo max, i have to mention that news that wonder woman 1984, the big wonder woman sequel that was scheduled
Investors are shrugging that off as stocks look to rally at the open. One name that may not rally is zoom. Shares of zoom are sinking yeah, in the premarket, work from home stock taking a hit from a rising free user base and increasing cloud costs and we have vaccine optimism, moderna and pfizer filing for emergency use and Vice President pence says vaccine rollout expected to begin in two weeks carl all right jim, i guess the question of the morning is whether that rotation, that worked historically well in the month of november, still applies. I think were running out of gas in terms of the oil and gas and focusing on exxon. Stock may not go down, giving the dividend, it says, look, were at wits end and the big Exploration Development period for exxon, market leader, u. S. Leader, is i think now over. We are following were following europe and japan and i think that we forget that you come in today, and you look for all sorts of reasons why were up and up strongly except we dont look