Hour the major averages have been Holding Steady on light trading. It is a holiday shortened week the dow transport setting another record high. Oil moving big crude and brent crude. Apple shares taking a hit down more than 2 thats the biggest drag on the dow. Reports of iphone x sales are slowing. Mallinckrodt up. Intel down intel will lose the crown as the number one chip maker for the first time in 21 years to samsung. Amazon saying it had its biggest season ever. The echo dot the top selling product across the categories and many factors we begin with retail the day after christmas is one of the biggest for returns. Kate rodgers checking out all the deals in west nyack, new york reporter retailers definitely have something to cheer about. New data out from master card showing that retail sales from november 1 gs through Christmas Eve were up 5 that is the fastest pace since 2011 ecommerce grew by around 18 overall the National Retail Federation Said sales are set to be around 682 b
Where the donations to the Clinton Foundation are coming from. Russian jets firing on rebels in syria as state Department Officials are pushing for more military action. Reporter stocks sinking more red than green. Merck , apple and visa are among the biggest laggards. And ibm on the plus side. It has been a wild week for the markets. Lets buckle up. Next week we could see a lot more volatility as we approach that all important vote in the u. K. On whether to leave the european union. Shares of gun stocks spiking as Congress Debates gun control laws. Watching the action in the oil and gold market from the cme. Oil we understand its more oil rigs looking for oil, and thats had an impact on the price. It did. We saw the biggest jump in rigs. But we are still down almost 297 rigs from where we were a year ago. Initially after that report came out Oil Prices Went back down. But because we were down so much on the week and concerns about the risk to supply over the weekend, the market rebou
Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im Savannah Guthrie in for lester. Hillary clinton minced no words and took no prisoners today in a speech built as a major Foreign Policy address she dropped the hammer on donald trump sometimes mocking, sometimes pummelling the nominee for position she says endangers the country, frighten allies and embolden enemies. Clinton still faces a democratic primary opponent with diehard supporters not ready to give up and a razor tight primary race in california but tonight in san diego, she had her eye on the general election and her sights trained on trump. Nbcs Andrea Mitchell was there. Andrea, good evening. Reporter good evening, savannah. Hillary clinton unleashing h on Donald Trumps qualifications to be commander in chief and she didnt hold anything back. It was a 33minute takedown of donald trump. Donald trumps ideas arent just different, they are dangerously in
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World powerser heading to all industry an capital aimed at ending the syrian conflict. For the first time iran will take part. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry said the talks are for the best hope yet to chart a course out of hell in syria. Reporter elite Iranian Forces have been training, fighting and dieing alongside syrian troops since at least 2012. Thats proof, according to the Obama Administration, that teheran is trying to keep press Bashar Alassad in power. But now, World Leaders are about to meet in vienna in search of an end to the civil war. And irans foreign minister mohamed gentleman receive will be among them. The u. S. Has finally agreed iran should be at the table. The challenge that we face in syria today is nothing less than to chart a course out of hell. Reporter u. S. Secretary of state john kerry has long accused iran of destabilizing syria. But in light of the waves of syrian families trying to escape the civil war, and isils take over the key northern territor