Veterans day as we thank those who served us in the past and continue to serve us today im becky quick along with joe kernen along with Andrew Ross Sorkin things are in the green once again. Looks like the dow is indicated up by about 181 points and if we were to open at these levels and hold it through the session, you would be looking at the dow closing at a record high it has been up six out of the last seven sessions. Up another 626 points yesterday. Dow futures are up, s p futures up by about 26 and then the nasdaq, which has been the weaker part over the last several sessions, down more 1 , actually indicated higher today as well. Up by about 130. The bond market today the is closed in ob sservance of veters day. Well talk with David Petraeus later this morning andrew thanks. And an important day in the United States of course. But there is also a holiday going on in china, very different kind of holiday, made up of a shopping a made up shopping holiday i should say called single
The s p down 2. 5 and the dow 2. 7 the s p dropping 4. 4 last week and lets take a look at some of the specific names in all of this falling 7. 4 netflix 6. 6 and then the one everybody is talking about tesla. That stock plunging 10. 9 . Whenever we can talk about algorithms, do you know what im saying i like it as the secret sauce, wow, i wish, you know, i wish i took a little bit more calculus or math or whatever. Do you know lets talk about it because theres so much. Youre all fired up youre tweeting about it and i dont follow you belief it or not because i like to enjoy my weekend, but someone retweeted your stuff to me and im like oh, geez anyway, youre mad because trump said he wouldnt do a partnership ever when it was microsoft and now he likes oracle i figure its because well talk all about it all right make it i know. Do you know what im going to do im going to read this and say andrew take it away. Making headlines, sources telling cnbc that oracle is set to be announced as t
To try to get there first and that sort of thing so im hopeful we will very much try to learn as much as possible from that facility and from all the other ones too we have a lot to learn here. So well certainly be trying to do that. In terms of fiscal concern, so, you know, for many years ive been before the fed i have longtime been an advocate for the need for the United States to return a sustainable path from a fiscal perspective at the federal level. We have not been on such a path for some time, which just means that the debt is growing faster than the economy this is not the time to act on those concerns this is the time to use the great fiscal power of the United States to do what we can to support the economy and try to get through this with as little damage to the longerrun productive capacity the economy has possible the time will come, again, and reasonably soon, i think, where we can think about a longterm way to get our fiscal house in order, and we absolutely need to do
Im melissa lee, coming to you live from studio b at the nasdaq. On the desk tonight tim seymour, karen finerman, steve grasso, and guy adami. We begin tonight with netflix, shares soaring, up 12 afterhours. Netflix getting a boost from subscriber growth and a new adtier subscription. Cnbcs Julia Boorstin here to take us inside the numbers. Julia . Melissa, that 12 jump of netflix shares, that all comes down to the company adding 8. 76 million subscribers. A huge subscriber beat. Three and a quarter million more subscribers more than anticipated. This in large part thanks to a successful crackdown on password sharing. The company says, quote, the cancel reaction continues to be low, exceeding our expectations. And borrower households converting to fullpaying memberships are demonstrating healthy retention. The company also saying that the adoption of its ad plan continues to grow, 30 of signups, up 70 quarter over quarter. To push more subscribers to its ad plan, netflix is keeping the
Similar big gains. Big. The dax in germany, the cac in france, up by 1. 5 . The ftse is up close to 1 . Look at the dollar. You will see in currency markets just focusing on whats happening with the dollar. The dollar is up across the board. Euro at 1. 0541. The dollar yen at 113. 62. Interest rates finally went up. 2. 42. Up from 2. 35 yesterday. 2. 42, were calling that up. Good to see someone making europe great again. You know, sara eisen told me we should focus the show on the peso. Thats not a bad idea. It is interesting, even europe. Those are big gains in europe. Lets get caught up on some of the big corporate stories. Snap inc. Expected to have the ipo after the close today. The Company Targeting a 17 to 18 range, valuing the company at 25 billion. Separately the Company Reportedly developing a drone. The New York Times saying the drone would be used to take puck chores and video. Youtube planning to launch a Live Tv Streaming Service featuring broadcast news and cable channel