Two if by sea. Jane wells covering the problems out at the ports. She is live between the ports of l. A. And long beach, and, diana olich is on the land. Surf and turf here. Shes on the land in washington. Interest rates rising. Home Sales Numbers not. Diana, youre first. Well tyler, look spring housing is not getting off to the best start. Higher Interest Rates in a pitful supply of homes for sale are squeezing potential buyers. Now, Weekly Mortgage applications showed just how sensitive todays buyers are. Rates rose to their highest levels since early january. 30year fixed at 3. 93 . Its still under 4 . Even at that historically low level, applications to purchase a home dropped 7 for the week. They are barely 1 higher than one year ago. Rates moved even higher where heed. Does that mean real cash money . Well a borrower taking out a 200,000 mortgage today would have to pay just 42 more a month than they would have if they had bought on january 1st. Now, that might seem like chump ch
Win streak. Data coming out as well. Ibm kicking off its investor day. Ceo ginny rometty. An exclusive interview. Net neutrality, the fcc taking up what has become a contentious issue. But waiting on important details for Internet Companies like google and netflix still to be determined. First up wall street digesting Economic Data ahead of the opening bell. Consumer prices down. 7. Strip out food and Energy Prices up. 2. Durables nice, above expectations, above 2. 8. Weekly jobless claims jumped to 313,000. Dow closed at record high. Nasdaq ended the tensession winning streak. Within a stones throw of 5,000. A level at which its closed only two times in history. Take it out today because theres a lot of good chatter in individual tech names. I would tell you we had a gauntlet this morning with the runthrough. When you get through a gauntlet nothing that is earth shaking, whether claims durables, inflation. Ive got nothing earth shaking. I dont feel its going to do anything other than
Its been the worst performing stock in the dow for the last two years and its underperforming the index so far in 2015. Well talk to an ibm analyst later this hour and dont miss the ceo on cnbc talking about everything that had gone on during the presentation. The senate is set to vote today on a 40 billion spending bill aimed at preventing a partial shutdown of the department of homeland securitys funding because it will expire at midnight on friday if congress doesnt take action. Take a look at a couple of stocks to watch this morning. Salesforce is raising its revenue forecast pointing to demand for its Cloud Based Software and services. Workday results were in line with estimates and theyre giving upbeat revenue guidance. Earnings in revenue beating the street but the Parent Company of victorias secret offer light Current Quarter Profit Guidance and as a result the stock is trading low they are mork. Lets get a check on the markets this morning. Yesterday the markets were essential
And it doesnt look like well see nasdaq 5,000 today. Before all of this point talk the nasdaq 5,000 was the level we were really watching. Of course, we dont know what can happen in the final minutes but we are off 22 points on the session which puts us what do you say, about 35 points away from that key level. Again, the record closing high is about 5049. Not going to get there at the end of the february. That gives us a target for march. The same day, possibly, bob that we hit that level previously in 2000. Meanwhile, the biotechs have been a leaving driver of the march to nasdaq 5k. Up nearly 300 over the last five years. Some see a bubble in the sector. We will have a debate. And word came just a short while oak aboutago about the death of Robert Benmosche. We have about an hour to go. Lets get more on what has been a huge month for stocks. Joining our Closing Bell Exchange we have. Beth ann from s p and mike mcqueen of high tower. Of course, Rick Santelli always joining us. Mike,
Likely added 193,000 private jobs last month. And then the Big Government jobs report out on friday. Sara, thanks. In Corporate News, a number of legal headlines out of the Financial Sector this morning, jpmorgan agreeing to pay 614 million in the mortgage fraud case. The late nest a string of legal claims against the bank. As part of the settlement, jpm admitted it defrauded federal agencies by underwriting mortgage loans. At issue, thousands of insured loans that were not eligible for insurance by the fha or department of veteran affairs. Morgan stanley will pay 1. 25 billion to resolve the mortgage lawsuit. Morgan will add 150 million to its legal reserve as a result of the settlement. And a new judge priding over the bank of americas proposed 8. 5 million settlement has postponed entering a final judgment in the case. The decision raises the possibility of additional rel maneuvers. The judge agreed this wouldnt take effect until at least february 19th. Andrew, what was the total of