Be in tomorrows debate, 19 in poll, hes on the vegas stage, he bought his way in over 400 million of Campaign Spending so far, item two that poll pulls Bernie Sanders way out front, 31 , hes now the clear leader. Item 3, more taper tape emerges and black and latino males dont know how to behave in the workplace, ouch, what a day, what a week to come, 3 trump rallies, by the way. Varney company is about to begin enormous cohort of black and latino males age lets says 6 to 25 that dont have jobs, dont have any prospects, dont know how the find jobs, dont know what their skill sets are, dont know how to behave in the workplace. Stuart last the latest Mike Bloomberg tape to emerge. Joining us james freeman, those kinds of comments and hes made several of them, thats not the way to go in politics, youre insulting population, hes going to be in the debate, he will be a target. I think what we will talk about the debate is results, he will talk about the thousands of young minority lives that
34 days out now until the Iowa Caucuses who will emerge from a crowded group of candidates . A lot of people asking that. Were also of course following the developing news out of baghdad. Hundreds of protesters storming the u. S. Embassy there and they are protesting recent air strike against an iranbacked malitia were following that story. Were also expecting more protests out of hang kong, they are now just two hours away from ringing in the new year, and mass demonstrations are planned as well. Well take you there. Im Ashley Webster in today for stuart, Varney Company about to begin. Ashley and on this last day of 2019 why not start with breaking Economic News for you right now, were getting the latest numbers on home prices. Especially when its positive right to end this decade this year, so were up monthovermonth 1 for the year for the last year were up over 2 and weve been talking all year long about slow down taking places in housing especially with existing home sales which rep
It right here live. And we are looking for more market records today. The dow and s p and the nasdaq, all expected to make records. It was a year ago today that the market was in freefall. Remember that . It was about 6,000 points lower on the dow. That is very much not the case today. Varney company is about to begin. David and there is news overseas. We are watching hong kong this morning. Monthslong protests are flaring up once again. Riot police fired tear gas at protesters this morning. We are going to be monitoring this throughout the morning right here. But lets focus on some positive news at home. A brand new sales record, Super Saturday sales hit 34. 4 billion, the biggest single day of retail sales in u. S. History. The figures coming from Customer Growth partners. Joining us is retail watcher michael zacore. Ive got to think this is all about the economy. We have fatter wallets because people are making more. Weve had increase in wages and we have jobs galore. Is that why pe
Tough. In a few minutes, mr. Trump meets face to face with e man yale Marrone Emanuel macron, the president of france. Later he meets the queen at Buckingham Palace. Oh, to be a fly on the wall. The president s negotiating from a position of economic strength. We can wait, chinas in trouble, but investors do not like it. The dows going to be down another 250, 260, maybe 280 points. That would be better than 1 . Same loss or almost the same loss on the s p, down about 27. Nasdaq taking it on the chin to a tune of a 1. 1 . Big deal, big selloff. Another big show on its way. Varney company is about to begin. Well see what happens, but im doing very well if i want to make a deal. I dont know that i want to make it, youre going to find out pretty soon. In some ways its better to wait until after the election with china. But im not going to say that, i just think that. I just tell you in some ways i like the idea of waiting til a after the election for the china deal. But they want to make a
This calendar year 2019, the nasdaq composite has gone up a shocking 27 , that reflects the money flowing into americas giant Technology Companies that dominate worldwide. The average gains of the s ps 500 companies this year, 23 , the 500 Biggest Companies with an average stock price gained 23 in less then 11 months. Look at how stocks open this tuesday morning. The dow will be up 40 points, it will be up much more than that if it were not for home depot which is a dow stock, down sharply. The s p up another 7 points. Look at the nasdaq up 27 for the year going up another 1 2 , 35 points higher. What a day, what i year. Make no mistake, we think the enrichment of america is more important than the charade called impeachment and todays show will reflect that. We are asking dow 30,000, lets get on with it. Varney and company is about to begin. Lets get to home depot. It will drag on the dow today. It is a dow stock, reported its earnings earlier and the stock freemarket down 8, 3 . Ashl