Our Political Panel tells us if her highpowered standin can stop trump and the cringeful colin powell emails that just came out. The dow fumbled a significant gain, wed be lower if it werent for the sweet sales and rocking review of the iphone. The dow is down 11 points, lets start the countdown. Breaking news here, the market pendulum is swing all over the place at this hour. From the sea of red, 24 hours ago, that the very moment to a field of green and kind of a wild time for investors. Where will stocks land today . With less than an hour for the closing bell, the dow is struggling to hold onto gains, the s p and the nasdaq are in the green barely. The s p up 1 1 2 points. As i said the dow down 10, the nasdaq better by 25. We have to blame oil for all of this. The crude benchmark is tumbling for the second day in a row. Right now down 3 in the aftermarketed session. What happened . As we always get on wednesdays, a huge build not in crude but distillates, that is diesel, heating o
Recession. The euroat a nine month low, and the dax with a 10 correction. No deals, fox withdrawing the bid to acquire time warner, sprint abandoning the bid to acquire tmobile. Giving back mondays gains, shares of ralph lauren lower despite beating estimates. Well explain why. And disney beat despite lower profit at the Cable Networks. Two big deals fell apart. 20th century fox withdraws the bid for time warner saying they refused to engage the highly compelling offer and sprint abandons the bid to buy tmobile, and they plan to replace the ceo. I guess a name well have to get used to, a billionaire entrepreneur. Someone who i think you get along better with. Well, we have to get david the problem is that dan has independ, and dan, wish him the best of luck, turned that company around, he was not necessarily the right guy for soft bank. The right guy for the troops, left after a good quarter, but jars for those that know hes a guy who was the godfather of the industry in the phase, wis
And likely to go even lower now that opec has decided to keep production at current levels. And thats sent prices down again today. Walmart is basically a lot of the reason why we are still under the range of 50 to 60 points. The dow transportation index,ic look at broadly. As long as you are not trying to move crude oil. A lot to talk about. Hope you can join us here for the next couple of hours as we gauge this important day for the retail world. And we also follow the markets. We stand to close higher today. For the dow and s p right now it will be record highs for the year. Its also been a very good november by the way for these markets. It is amazing to think just at the speed and breadth of the rallying since october 15th. We have to look at the impact oil is having. European yields again hitting new lows overnight. And lets talk to some of these savvy shoppers. Did you get these at the door busters this morning . What time did you get to the mall. 7 00. Very early this morning.
In just a few hours. As for europe, some green arrows, despite a miss in the eurozone in production this morning. The road map starts this morning with, of course, the fed. Expectations for revamped bond buying program. What will the Economic Forecast say about next year and what to make of the wall street journal story that says academics are driving Monetary Policy at secret dinners in switzer land. More counteroffers in the debt negotiations. It looks like Corporate Taxes are part of the deductions. Costco beats by 2 cents, better sales and better sales and membership fees. Some more reports about apple tv today. The journal said its designing a high new highresolution set. Microsoft trying to widen the list of retailers that will carry the surface tablet. The fed is going to wrap up its twoday meeting. A watch is on to see if ben bernanke and policy makers make a decision about the Interest Rates. Later on, the chairman will hold a News Conference, and of course, cnbc, will bring i
Coach you. Call me at 1800743cnbc. You can blame the democrats for their inability to offer any cuts for spending. You can blame the republicans for not even wanting to consider tax increases. But dont you dear blame ben bernanke for not being willing to take bold action to get this economy hiring and moving again even if his statements about economic weakness ultimately caused the averages to stumble from some pretty lofty levels. Dow only declining ability 3 points s p inching up 4. 4 . Close in positive territory. Nasdaq giving up 2. 8 . When you look at what ben bernanke did ntoday the republicans themselves refuse to get specific on spending until they see something from the white house. The elected portion of our government is not helping this economy at all. Their failure to rise above politics to reach a compromise is now really starting to hurt u. S. Economy. In this vacuum, the fed has decided to keep rates low. They stepped in saying listen, business. We are not going to get