Share for the first time in almost a year. The dow up 27 points. Thats the first hour of the closing bell. Heres the second hour now with maria. Ill see you tomorrow. And it is 4 00 on wall street. Do you know where your money is . Welcome back to the closing bell. Im Maria Bartiromo on the floor of the new york stock exchange. The Dow Jones Industrial average closing higher today for a fifth session in a row. Take a look at how were settling out on the street tonight and the market does close at the highs of the afternoon and the dow is down 61 points earlier today. At the close, up 27 points. About a quarter of a percent higher at 13,534. Nasdaq close but no cigar. Down 6. 75 points on nasdaq but it, too, had been worse off. 3110 last trade on the nasdaq. S p 500 close to where it began the session with a gain on the day of 1. 66 points. First, breaking news out of washington right now. We go to john harwood. Reporter maria, get used to drip, drip, drip. Small Development News like t
Anyone who still needs to do christmas shopping. A week from now you know Christmas Eve is a week from today. Just so you know. Eight days till christmas. Are the best deals yet to come and how late can you order online kelly, and still get it on time . We have your crucial retail details and stocks that are moving on all of this news this holiday season. Are you telling me youre done, that youre already finished . Im 90 done. Also coming up the whos who of the Tech Industry descending on the white house today. The president said he wanted to talk about how to improve healthcare. Gov but the tech titans wanted to talk about the nsa and demands on their company. Would loved to have been a fly on the wall. Hes a sitting judge, familiar to most on wall street he has presided over wall street financial cases for year but judge jed rakoff has written an essay asking why have no highlevel executives been prosecuted . Is that appropriate for a judge to write and will this ramp up pressure to
He will talk about his earnings and the outlook for the company. In a few minutes, the ceo of aetna will be back with us, mark bertolini, aetna is on the front lines dealing with healthcare, and they are in highprofile fashion pulled out of the state of california. Well talk about that. Talk about that and the impact that the Affordable Care act mandate is pushed out. Also, investing icon is with us. He has two stocks he will name. He says theres money to be made with both of the companies. Hell be along telling us about that. Plus the market may have speed bumps ahead. Hell tell us what to watch for. Hes apparently already started talking. By the way, have you seen facebook today . Oh, my god, back to the ipo front. Almost. Were almost there. 38 is when what it came out at and never saw that price again. Its very close right now. It is knocking on that door. Another big move today after last weeks huge move. Since they reported earnings last week, Facebook Stock is up 40 . And much of
Streak. The nasdaq, a 14day win streak. But both are on the line at this hour. The s ps down 7 points, the nasdaq down 14. We want to show you the dow. A rather ironic twist here. The dow was down 68 points at the low around midday. And then, with some fed speak coming out, you had Kansas City Fed president , Esther George, one of the great hawks on the fed, came out with her hawkish comments, and it was around that time that the market came back. So were down 41 points right now. Well see if we can continue that trend higher as we head toward the close here, maria. Bill, volatility is back in the game. In a half hour, my exclusive interview with Mary Jo White, former u. S. Attorney for new york Southern District, making waves in her new role as she serves notice to the banks it will not be business as usual. What does she mean by that exactly . Well ask her about that and a lot more coming up, Mary Jo White joining me. Also, about an hour from a widely anticipated Earnings Report from
Tapering of the quantitative easing by the fed is likely to start in september. That was the headline. Then you read the whole story, and he says, or maybe it wont. So its the same story youve been hearing, but the market chose to listen to that part of the story. In just a bit, marias special interview with actor and Technology Investor Ashton Kutcher. He, of course, is portraying apple cofounder steve jobs in the major Motion Picture that opens next week. Well get his take on jobs. Its truly fascinating. Plus, were going to talk about his very successful run as a Technology Investor. Get this. It now totals about 100 million in startups. So you want to stay tuned for that interview with Ashton Kutcher coming up. Also, one hour from now, the president is in phoenix, set to deliver a major address on the housing market. Hes proposing huge changes for the entire structure of the Mortgage Business in this country, including getting rid of freddie and fannie. Some like the idea, some say