The country became the first in the world in which more than 20 million vehicles sold in any given year. As you know, production in the rather, are at 16 million. China has three times as many as americans. 20 million vehicles in a single year is staggering. Lets move to economic data. We will have jobless claims they. At 9 45, the comfort index will give us an idea of what is going on in the economy. German Industrial Production is a good economic data. That is a back shop. We are entering earnings season. We have Family Dollar and supervalu. After the bell, we will have alcoa. We look at stocks, bonds, commodities. 18. 38 on the s p 500. The euro was weaker yesterday. A rebound today. Nymex crude slides down. We will talk to vince later on about inflation and deflation. On to the two year yield windows week canada become a big deal for you . Currency is already a big deal. 1. 08. Is that ken dryden was talking about how parity is making canadian teams competitive again. . 63 dollar.
And eddie van halen, one of rocks greatest guitarists, dies of cancer. Long time friend and fellow music legend gene simmons pays his own tribute. You grab the nearest generation x or z, or whatever the hell theyre calling themselves, or a millennal, grab them by the ear and take them away from the stuff that is being played and let them hear van halen so they understand what greatness is. I will welcome to the programme. A warm welcome to the programme. Covid i9 is spreading further among those close to President Trump, with white house advisor Stephen Miller and a senior military official infected. Mr miller, who has been self isolating for the past five days, confirmed he had contracted coronavirus on tuesday. Top us general mark milley and other military leaders are also quarantining after coast guard official admiral charles ray tested positive. Other officials are self isolating out of an abundance of caution. Our north america correspondent peter bowesjoins me now. The numbers a
Connell markets now begins with the news that is breaking. Charlie gasparino joins us from the newsroom. Charlie the little bit bored. It may happen. It is about 4000 people combined. Mergers are never easy. There are always synergies to be found. Publicly, they have said nothing. Spokespeople will not comment. In past segments, they have talked about synergies. Spitzer is contemplating fairly significant cuts. The numbers he is going around are pretty significant. Clearly, job cuts are in the air over there. This is pretty interesting. The New York Stock Exchange keeps a pretty large workforce. Ice is pretty thin. The New York Stock Exchange has a lot of duplication. Twenty lawyers doing the same thing. It is that duplication that he tends to take out as this merger progresses. It is set to close in the fall. After it closes, that is when you can see these job cuts. Large cuts, largely done at the New York Stock Exchange side. The combined cuts could be about 30 of the 4000 people at
Countdown to the counterdown. Large and in charge, the bulls have taken the dow to a series of record highs, four in just the last week. Does that mean dow 15,000 is just around the corner . Famed wharton finance professor jeremy segal lays out his dow targets for 2013 and beyond. Is oil about to become an oily mess . Why one chart watcher says oil is about to be dead money, plus his contrarian call on gold. And jcpenney stripped in billions of market caps as the stock plunges in to fouryear lows. A ratings rumble on jcpenney. Countdown to the closing bell starts right now. Liz good afternoon, everybody, im liz claman on monday, its the last hour of trading. Money just keeps pouring into the blue chips but, okay, ill be the one to ask, are we getting set up for a stock bubble to pop, or does this thing just keep charging through record after record . Today the dow is on track to hit its fifth record in a row. Right now weve got it up about 37 points, high this session about 45 points.
First we are watching several developments in the effort to prevent ebola from spreading. In new jersey, a sick passenger who arrived on an International Flight is now being examined by officials from the centers for disease cjjy in dallas, ebola victim Thomas Duncan was told hes taken a turn for the worse. Now in Critical Condition there. This as his family remainj under quarantine in a private home as their apartment where duncan stayed has been stripped and sanitized. We have Live Team Coverage with peter doocy in washington with the very latest from the federal government. First lets go to bryan llenas about what happened on flight 998. Reporter 35yearold male passenger and his daughter are now at a hospital in newark. The man was vomiting on Board United Airlines Flight 998 from brussels, belgium. The plane landed at 12 15 p. M. And was put on lockdown at the gate as the cdc responded. Escorted the sick man and his daughter off of the plane. This photo from passengers shows immigr