Event with native american code talkers from world war ii. They were brought into use their native language in order that the nazis would not be able to crack codes that had important military information during world war ii that america needed to get to the brushes and other allies. During that News Conference the president has reportedly referred to them as pocahontas. We are not quite sure of the action of the actions there. The slur to some people is not going unnoticed. We are going to take you alive to the white house. We are very interested in whats going on with the tax reform plan we need to quickly check on the markets. The three major indices touching alltime highs earlier. You can see the tao is still up there. And it is standing at a brandnew record close and it is standing at a brandnew record close we need to see a close of 23,000 the s p flat just barely turned positive. The nasdaq has been higher. Now its been down seven and threequarter points. They are shopping for s
Averages have put in an alltime high. Strong reports there but we had this big rally. Withlidating some of those small moves. Verizon, amazon, ups. The Internet Provider up 1 on this cyber monday. Some are expecting amazon to take 50 of the sales on the cyber monday. And ups for that other 50 that does not have amazons shipping company. Amazon has done something for ceo jeff bezos. That has made him the worlds wealthiest person. That happened a while ago on the Company Thirdquarter report. Jeff bezos is worth 100 billion. Ago both Warren Buffett and bill gates would be well above the 100 billion market if they havent given so much of their money away. Turning to another to another sg well for the holiday 2017, we are taking a look at gamestop. There were huge lines at some of the victoria secrets. This after putting up a Strong Quarter gaining 3. 5 . In fight in fact it is being called a thanksgiving feast at the box. Here we have stocks rallying. And a confirmation hearing, how will t
Squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john fortt. Retails are stories once again, with Online Shopping soaring to a record 5. 3 billion on black friday alone cyber monday is set to possibly become the biggest internet shopping day in history. For more on that we send it out to our Courtney Reagan whos at Amazon Warehouse in robbinsville, new jersey hi again, court. Good morning to you, carl cyber monday has always been a really big day for amazon, but now that they have the prime day, they are going to have to beat their own record in order for it to be the biggest day of the year for amazon. You can see were in this Fulfillment Center in new jersey and its just one of 75 of amazons Fulfillment Centers like this in the country here it covers a million square feet there are 14 miles of conveyer belts running 24 7 thousands of both human employees, as well as robots fulfilling those cyber monday orders last year amazon said 64 million items were ordered on its website. They are not givi
Has made it at the top of my board. 10,000. Jonathan im not an idiot and i am not trying to call the top. Alix it will be a topic of conversation. David there are some things going on inside the business emma chandra is here with first word news. Emma it is the Biggest Online shopping day of the year in the u. S. Ecommerce is expected to rise almost 17 from the year ago to 6. 6 billion. Online spending across the Holiday Season is projected to rise 11 , the most ever. Germany is edging closer to getting a new government. Chancellor Angela Merkel has began negotiating with the social democrats over a potential partnership. She says any Coalition Partner would have to support a balanced budget and probusiness policies. And there will be Royal Wedding bells in the u. K. Next spring. Prince harry is engaged to american actress meghan markle. The announcement came when his father, prince charles, puts him fifth in line for the british throne. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by over 270
Check things out today because we have now seen already 69 record closes for the dow this year if there is another record close today, as you would indicate if you see these gains again, this would be the most record closes weve ever seen in any year for the dow. Last record watts set in 1995 and that was a record of 69. The s p is already in record territory. Weve seen 61 record closes for the s p and thats compared to 18. The dow indicates almost 24,800. You see what im looking for. I cant see your screen. Its a map of south america because the train the sorkin train was oh. No, no. You said san paulo. I was down in san paulo where am i now youre down across from the falklands. The train is. Youre still here youre here i missed the train, as you know youre still in jersey, i think, camden or something not even. I havent left the island of manhattan. Seriously. Im stig thinking im like just hanging outside of penn station. The sad thing is, i had to look to figure out which one i knew