translate into market turmoil. we have only had two, 1% or more and,ffs at all this year most are selling off in a single day, and most, two months. it has been quite unusual to see this kind of market action. ares as investors reassessing the trump administration and republicans oncongress, their chances getting through their agenda, among other things. droppingones up the, double the upper averages other averages. it is down 2.5%. many of the rails are down today as well. cs x as well. came when the story first crossed and if you look in the s&p 500, it has been making a couple of attempts at balances and has not been succeeded in at those bounces. continuing is indeed as the s&p 500 has been making new lows. is worst-performing stock advanced micro devices which the out with outlook last night. analysts said they were disappointed in it and disappointed that amd did not confirm a story that it had signed a new graphic chips deal with intel. today, andare up big it down i
technology that could be causing concern. we got the details. this is the sixth most expensive piece of artwork sold at auction. the amount of money is called, quote, mind blowing, $110 million and change. we ll tell you all right, i just told you how much it cost. well, we ll tell you the exact number of, but it will also tell you about the guy who shelled out the money. what a character. that s coming pup. sure is. hordesing nation. americans have nearly $2 trillion in checking accounts. the highest in the u.s. history. is this a warning sign for the consumer, perhaps? i don t think people realize it s you know, retiring everybody s saving, and it s the accum anyway, we ll get into it. the market rally today. stocks now seeing the biggest gains of the month, and just really picked up steam throughout the session. closing bell exchange, finding out more about it. gran it investment advisers, and kevin and next to him is john, and our own rick santelli. john, wh
controversies behind him with a very busy schedule, he will meet with pope francis, emmanuel macron and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, but the political drama of the big topic of conversation is just that. here in las vegas at the annual hedge fund conference as we ve seen celebrated in gains this week, a powerful lineup to discuss all of the news. former u.s. ambassador to saudi arabia robert jordan. billionaire real estate investor sam zell how he thinks the trump presidency could affect the economy and the worrisome warning sign in real estate. lifestyles of the rich and famous host robin leach is here live, he ll share thoughts where and how the wealthy are investing and spending. living in luxury 2017 style. we re less than an hour to the closing bell. look at the dow, up 175. live in las vegas with the power players from wall street and beyond. let s start the countdown. breaking news capping off a week of market ups and downs and political highs and l
sharply yesterday. today a knock on gains, ftse mib leading higher in italy, 0.89%. the german dax up 0.3%. the ftse 100 up 0.50%. it s maybe a focus on brazil, argentina coming into the discussion of late. here s crude, up about 1% on wti, 49.84. brent up to 53 bucks. nat gas up 0.2%. the ten-year note at 2.118% has moved up nicely. now 2.247. you ll take it in this kind of environment. and the dollar which has weakened substantially over the past couple of weeks hanging around 97 1/2. it s down about 0.4% this morning. finally gold. see how the yellow metal is doing. when will we add bitcoin to the board. there s gold, down about 0.10%. good question what color is bitcoin? i think it s gold. i have no idea. i thought it was an image of a gold coin. an image. it doesn t really have a color. it s a virtual there s all these other coins, there s icos now. instead of buying a share of a company, you can buy a share of a currency from one of these cryptocurrencies. w
it looks like we are not getting back to those levels today. we once again have a tight trading range. all three major averages are in the red. the dow is the big laggard. the nasdaq has been consistently the upper former. the upper former. this looks at the daily trading range of the s&p 500. friday s trading range was the tightest of the year. at 5.8 points.e certainly in the top five tightest trading range as we ve seen this year. stocks utilities benefiting from an upgrade over a jpmorgan tech. energy and financials are big laggards as we see rates fall today. let s start with energy crude oil prices have come act from their lows of the session. come back from their lows of the session. we still have weakness and energy that is persisting here. are the worst performing energy stocks in the s&p 500. telecoms are the best performing stocks today. rison and at&t are both higher, getting an upgrade from a telco analyst verizon and at&t are both higher. less bearish