Over by 250 points and this morning you are seeing green arrows for the s p 500 and nasdaq, nasdaq right now up by about 122 points in the future market and that is pretty impressive you are now talking about four days in a row that you have seen gains for the major averages all are within 5 of their 52 week highs and in fact the transports set a new alltime high yesterday too. Right now the dow futures are indicated a little down by about 61 points. Were watching a lot of things that have been happening including news with Johnson Johnson, and earnings are coming out too. And if you want to take a look at the treasury market, right now you will see that the ten year seems to be sitting just around 0. 759 . So not far from where it has been yep, earnings are supposed to take the baton from stimulus hopes, which i dont know whether those are fleeting or not. But supposedly the earnings might be pretty good yesterday kind of weird all the stay at home new age tech stuff was strong as i t
New data and uncertainty over tomorrows opec meeting. Well be leave in vienna with the latest porsche is unveiling a new model today. Ceo will be joining us in a first on cnbc interview coming up but while the dow and s p started off the session with alltime highs yet again, the nasdaq has been falling all day and Companies Like netflix, apple, amazon, theyre seeing big declines bertha combs has the news. So are the big tech cap stocks, investors calling it the great rotation today theyre taking profits on names that have run up so fast look at autodesk thats a case in point today, trading at alltime highs yesterday, tumbling on an earnings missed also announcing a 13 work force layoff, thats sending some jitters as well in tech. The biggest source of pain though overall is the sector now the Semiconductor Index has been leading the charge to alltime highs here at the nasdaq the index closing at a record high led by micron and invidia, both doubled this year invidia today seeing a chal
Is outside the white house, elon is there in washington standing by with the latest on the tax bill itself. Lets start with you, what do we know about this event coming up . Reporter theyre not actually going to do a bill signing. The sbil not ready to be signed just yet, but this is very much a Party Atmosphere here on the south lawn of the white house. We have the marine band going through a list of Christmas Carols a few moments ago theyre serving hot drinking over here. Some of the vips and dignitaries have gathered in the audience. You can see behind me, republican members of congress lined up on the steps just above the south port co. Here on the south lawn of the white house. This is a unified Republican Party right now. Theyve been through a lot of tough infighting particularly over obamacare, this is a big win. This is a moment in which youve seen the president of the United States already today handing out praise to republican leaders, some of whom hes been attacking earlier
Yes. A busy earnings day. Also awaiting whole food reports in a major board shakeup. What to do with the grocery stock. Shares fractionally lower now. And you heard, boeing halted flights of its 737 max jets because of engine issues that surfaced over the weekend. Well have breaking details and the stocks suffering as a result of that anournnouncementannounc we begin with the story the whole country is talking about, fallout from president trumps surprise dismissal of fbi director james comey last night. Eamon javers and amy on capitol hill. Eamon, you first. Sanders here at the white house finishing up a briefing within the past hour or so. She made a number of points including that the president is going to meet with the new acting director of the fbi today. The search for a successor is beginning today. She also said that the president s thinking on this began mucherer than we learned when this news officially broke last night. What she said i think its been an erosion of confidence
And welcome to power lunch, the bears are out today. The dow and s p 500 having their biggest oneday slide since the beginning of july. The s p 500 in fact falling below its 50day moving average for the first time in a month. Wall streets socalled fear index, the vix soaring hitting the high in five weeks gold meantime, hitting a twomonth high retail to blame. Macys is down 9 . Kohls and dillards also getting whacked. Jc penney being taken down here, brian. We begin with your money and investments. North korea, of course, grabbing all the headlines, but the defense stocks are mostly lower today and apple is the biggest drag on the dow. So is all the saber rattling really to blame . Live in washington with the latest on north korea, bob though at the nyc, bob, let us start with you how much are you hearing is north korea, is valuation, or maybe just a normal, healthy august pullback . You know, id say 75 is concerns about north korea, but we do have some High Expectations on the earning