Lets see what happened overnight in asia. The flnikkeiclosed down. Hang seng down by 5 points the shanghai composite up by a third of a percentage point. In europe in some early trading, looks like the dax is up by a third of a percentage point. The cac is up bay half py a half percentage point finally check out crude Oil Prices Crude Oil yesterday down by 1. 4 on some questions about u. S. Supply and also doubts about whether russia is going to be cutting output whether it will stick with that. This morning down 1 couple big stories were watching japans softbank offering to purchase shares of uber at a valuation of only 28 billio 4 . Thats a huge drop of the most recent valuation of 68 billion. Ubers board approved the investment in october. It would expand the board and cut the influence of founder travis kalanick. Big question about whether people will tend near this offer. The consortium is led by softbank, and they plan to take a stake of 14 in uber if they dont get it at this pri
Have ever seen tweet us your thoughts welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Wall street carving out some nice gains the dow and wall street pushing to highs s p, zi oons and jpmorgan author industry, the recreational vehicle ceo speaks with jim cramer tonight on mad money. Check out unilever it is going higher no final decision has been made yet. Emerson electric up more than 2. 5 the company withdrawing its 225 per share offer to buy Rockwell Automation rockwell, also higher. Thank you very much welcome. Im Tyler Mathisen here is what else is happening at this hour i get the what else . Otherwise known as the thanksgiving leftovers home prices gaining momentum, rising more than 6 year over year that is the fastest annual rate since 2014 seattle reporting the biggest jump home prices there soaring 13 from a year ago. Potential new problems from wells fargo. Foreign exchange bankers at the company were overcharging clients and albertsons striking a deal with instacart. Michelle we beg
Investors eyed events in washington like tax reform and comments from the fed chair nominee. The gains were broad. The closing numbers attention getting. The Dow Jones Industrial ave climbed 255 points to 23,836. The nasdaq added 33. The s p 500 gained 25. Investors were glued to three stories tonight out of our nations capital. We begin with ylan mui on the advancement of the senates tax reform proposal. Reporter the Senate Budget committee voted to move the republican tax plan to the floor today. And that means the gop is on track for a final vote by the end of the week. This was a critical step because there are still several republican senators who are on the fence over this bill. Senator ron johnson of wisconsin says he wants bigger tax cuts for passthrough businesses and senator bob corker of tennessee is worried about the impact on the deficit although he did tell reporters that a broad agreement with gop leadership to ensure that his concerns are addressed. Now, the debate over
Not the way most people talk about it instead, youve got a market of stocks thats an important distinction, particularly in carmerica. Stocks are like snowflakes, no two are the same sure Everybody Loves index funds as a lowcost way to get ebbs posure to the whole asset class. Im one of them. I please guilty. Including today where the dow and s p both notched new alltime highs former fall of 119 points. S p gained 1. 5 . Nasdaq dipped 0. 19 as the rotation continues but i think the totality is a lot less illuminating than looking at individual companies and what actually drives them. For example, just last week, we did a twopart interview from the New York Stock Exchange with boeings Ceo Dennis Muilenberg where he told us that his company is having an extraordinary year maybe told us in seven or eight different ways its spewing cash and he made it pretty clear that this is the healthiest boeings ever been. So he wants to reward you, the shareholder. Sure enough today, boeing boosted it
Reasonable, but i dont buy it i i cant plug in the same numbers that they are plugging in but these are really smart people over at mkm, mel. You and i both respect their work a lot, but i think were going to see apple top 1 trillion long before alibaba does, and then i think it will be another American Company that comes right on their heels you mentioned facebook and microsoft. They are both close, and i think boast those could also beat alibaba. In terms of the numbers mkm makes the argument that the 720 multiple by 720 and heres the kicker, they point out, pete, that alibaba has hauls blown away consensus forecasts and thats why they seetrillion fo them first. And i tend to agree with jon. I think apple actually gets there first but i think alibaba is right on their heels. I think they are second, and they have a great opportunity. When you look at the Growth Numbers that you just cited and some of the ideas of what they have done in terms of acquisitions of late, including in the