Strength and technology overall. For the moment, we are not seeing an improvement in stocks based on these numbers. Im going to take a look at the bloomberg, as well. A looks like we are not updating the dow. Ticking very slightly into the green, actually. It is up by about two points. The s p is up off by about 0. 5 points. Still a little changed. Still of 0. 25 on the nasdaq. 0. 25 on the nasdaq. The focus continues to be on retailer. Strengthen some of the Retail Stocks yesterday and today, we are going decidedly in the opposite direction. Consumer discretionary down only 0. 25 . There is strength in media stocks. Real estate is one of the worst performing groups today because some of the mall wreaths are trading lower. Individually, macys and kohls are leading the declines. Kohls is down 17. 5 . As theys down 13 announced plans to cut another 6200 jobs, bringing total cuts to around nearly 10,000. They already talked about plans to shut 100 stores. Saw a decline on a samestore basi
Claims this morning that the russians have damaging information on mr. Trump and that his lawyer met with russian officials and said Cash Payments to them. The lawyer says totally untrue. Trump angrily calls it a political witch hunt and fake news. The russians say they have no compromising material, but its all over the media. It will come up at the tillerson hearing and it wil be center stage at the News Conference. So, here is the state of political play. The left continues its full court press to discredit and undermine the trump presidency. They are in attack mode. You will see how trump responds. Varney company is about to begin. Exxonmobil chief Rex Tillersons confirmation is about to be gavelled to order. Youll expect questions, hostile questions from democrats on russia and Climate Change. We have liz peek. Judge andrew napolitano, spokesman rick grinell, Ashley Webster and liz macdonald. Well quote him on a couple tweets. Russia said the unverified report by political opponen
Three months. Nothing has happened. Good people have filled in. Quiet in the news cycle. New studio. I noticed. New president. Yeah. New vice president. What else is new . You have a baby. I have a baby. Thats new. This week. Lets get you caught up on the markets. Weve been watching this march towards 20,000 for the dow. This morning you can see the futures under pressure. Dow futures down by 41 points. S p futures down by six. Nasdaq down by 13. Lets look at whats happening in europe in the early trading there. Or well start with asia. The nikkei down by 1 . Shanghai was down by a half percent. As was the hang seng. If you check out things in europe, early trading there. Look and youll see never mind, well skip to energy. Never mind, well go to europe. The dax, down by a half percent. Modest declines with most of the other markets. The spain ibex is up slightly. If you check out the oil market, this was interesting. Wti rallying despite the idea that some supplies came in bigger than
Here for some time, because we just hear how extraordinary it is. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley today as america honors slain civil rights sleeter dr. Martin luther king, jr. , kings oldest son met with president elect donald trump. And Vice President elect mike pence visited the king memorial in washington. But more democratic members of Congress Said they will boycott the inauguration on friday. They are angered over mr. Trumps attack on civil rights legend congressman john lewis. It all started friday when lewis said the Trump Presidency is not legitimate because russian hacking of the Democratic Party helped him get elected. Heres Major Garrett. I stood up. I spoke up. I spoke out. And i got arrested. Reporter Georgia Democratic congressman john lewis, beaten and bloodied in the Voting Rights march from selma thealabama, today marked the Martin Luther king holiday without mentioning president elect donald trump or his own declaration, the soontobe 45th pres
King jr. Today, the personal recordings tonight on her role and away from the spotlight, her one wish. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on this Martin Luther king jr. Day, and we have a lot to get to. We begin with the major winter storm across more than a dozen states. Coating highways in ice, turning driving deadly. This fiery crash after two trucks colliding on i80 in nebraska. The drivers did survive. Tonight as you can see, up to an inch of ice in oklahoma, bringing down tree limbs everywhere, and this evening, at least three reported tornadoes now. This one crossing i45 near houston. 16 states are on alert from colorado to maine. A difficult night ahead for millions traveling this holiday. Abcs alex perez is in chicago tonight. Reporter tonight, from colorado all the way to maine, mess. In cedar rapids, this truck sliding off the road and into an icy lake. Everyone is okay. Ice snapping trees, and knocking out power to thousands in several states on a weekend