Yesterdays negative market action. There you can see the s p, the dow and the nasdaq, all looking like we may be implied at least for a positive open. We shall see. That allimportant tenyear note deal. Interesting how rates have been moving up over in china in terms of borrowing rates. How are we doing here in the states in well take a look at the tenyear, which is still hanging right in there at that 2. 7 range well call it. Go across the atlanta to europe. Well call it a mixed picture. Is that your call . Yeah. They dont celebrate thanksgiving there. They dont have that seasonal lift like we have here. Thats true. We start with tiffany, shining just in time for the Holiday Season. Sales in asia helped to shield the outlook and the stock. Remember when jos. A. Bank withdrew its offer to buy mens wearhouse earlier this month . Now theres a twist as mens wearhouse tries to buy jos. A. Bank. Tiffanys posted better than expected results, total sales in the Asia Pacific Region were up 27 .
Apparently there are not enough people there to buy their products. Others having second thoughts about making Big Investments over in the worlds most populous country. First to sue at the new york stock exchange. We will start with the raging california wildfires. Just a few miles east of los angeles. Governor brown has just declared a drought state of emergency. More on that in just a moment. Some 1800 acres have been scorched, more than 1,000 firefighters are on the scene, and governor jerry brown is expected to speak any moment now. Heres the weather channels julie martin. Reporter the good news is the colby fire did not spread overnight. Firefighters worked around the clock to contain the fire and put out hot spots. It still stands at 1700 acres, about the size of two central parks, and as far as containment, about 30 . However, the Incident Commander on the scene tells me he does expect containment numbers to come up today, though it will still be a few days before full containme
The market. Big surprises already this year, in this young year. Gold and treasuries not acting the way anybody thought they would. Absolutely. Speaking of earnings, its a huge day for earnings today. The biggest day of the season. We get some big names after the bell that could have an impact on the market tomorrow. Amazon and google will be out with their results in just about an hours time. We will get you the numbers first. We have a ton of experts standing by ready to break it all down. These are widely held names. Gotten a lot of read through. No doubt about that. The neverending search may be ending. Our partners are reporting the microsoft search for a new ceo could be coming to an end within the next week. Who could it be . Whos behind that question mark right there . Why is it taking so long . And a reminder, heres where we stand across the major indexes right now. The dow up about 110 points. Its off session highs. The nasdaq adding 79 at this hour. The s p 500 up 21 points.
Deals, looking for some specials. Well, yes. Ill go online. Ill shop all day there. But coming out here . I will say, were finding some stores are doing a lot better than others. Yes. Its very hitandmiss. Well be talking about that over the next couple of hours here. Because thats the Real Advantage of being here, bill, the shopping mall. We should mention, as youre out across the country, you are being watched. There are analysts here. There are retailers who are measuring traffic with digital devices and just taking a look at the shopping bags. I mean, this is actually where the research happens, for people trying to figure out who the winners and losers are today. We walked around the mall before the show. We met two analysts scouting around to see what was going on. Well talk about that coming up. Meantime, weve got morally going on wall street. The dow and s p in railroad territory, up 45 points on the dow. We were up 76 earlier. Nasdaq up 32. Another 13year high there, and the s
Microsoft executive. Does he have what it takes to move the stock higher and get the Company Performing on all cylinders . Well find out and discuss it. And here it comes again. More snow coming. Two significant systems developing and targeting the eastern third of the country. Lets check in, meantime, with sue down at the new york stock exchange. Its all that pesky groundhogs fault. Stocks are higher today, up about 93 points after yesterdays big selloff. The dow higher for only the third time in 111 sessions. 94 to the upside on the dow. The s p up 15 points and the nasdaq up 44. The tenyear note, look at the yield there, its crept up just a little bit more, 2. 68 on that, because we were looking at a sub2. 6 Interest Rate yesterday. Check out the other global indices today. Japan taking a big hit, down 4 , and overnight, now down about 13 for the year as a whole. The nikkei certainly has everybodys attention and they are watching not only the nikkei but the yen as well. Up to you. T