And welcome to power lunch. Eye melissa lee, your money carving out some small money today, and russell 2000 at rosh highs. Its a global rally. Lets check out bitcoin is bouncing back after falling below 10,000, Goldman Sachs say its a bubble bigger than the dotcom era and famous tulip bulb mania, and p g was down travelers rallying by almostsh topping expectations tyler . Thank you very much, melissa. Welcome, everybody we begin with a major decision from the white house the administration saying it will slap tariffs on solar panels and washing machines. If youve got a solar powered washing machine, you are not, kayla, going to have whiter whites Kayla Tausche is at the very white house with more. Reporter those tariffs are steep and final. For companies outside the United States empowereding washing machines into the United States theyll sue new tariffing between 20 and 50 , depending on the number of washing machines they are importing. For components that 50 . For solar part manufa
Again. Im Brian Sullivan power lunch tees off right now. And welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. The major average giving up gains. Dow and s p, russell 2,000 small caps did soar to record highs but now looking at losses across the board. The dow managing to hold on to ever so small gains. Commodities are crushing it and oil at threeyear high and copper and gold soar the dollar at a low. Saying a weaker dollar is good for u. S. Trade transports getting slammed led by united. The airline down 11 on pace for the worst day in four months on fears about a price war. Got much more on this coming up. Michelle. Thank you. Im Michelle Caruso cabrero live in switzerland where the trump tax cut and the surging and Global Economy are front and center well talk taxes, trade and whether davos is ready for President Trump to arrive on friday and michelle, on this multicon innocent, over the next couple of hours you will meet four managers who are the sole of consistency. That is why they have be
Russell 2000 up by. 78 . West texas at 53. 13 up 1. 48 or nearly 3 . The 10year note theres the yield at 2. 28 . The price is lower, the yield a little bit higher. Mandy drury today on the floor of the nyse with bob pisani. Seems like this has been where all the actions been this week, ty. Seemed like the likely place to come down to. Bob, fantastic job yesterday covering the big event. But in terms of todays action, we opened up with big volume. 249 to the up side. Why are we losing steam here . I think there is some realization that greece is still very iffy and china, the gains yesterday, theres a lot of companies that respect even trading there. Some people are saying we dont know whats going on in china. The bottom line is were keying off of greece and china. We did have very smooth opening at the New York Stock Exchange. The nyse said that outage was caused by a Software Rollout that caused Communications Issues between customers. Talk about that later. But it was a strong open a
Critically helping sentiment, china stocks recording their biggest twoday gain in seven years. A number of stocks there are still halted. Weve got the Portfolio Manager for fidelitys 2 billion china fund coming up. He says there are a lot of opportunities in the china market right now. Well tell you where. The latest data show the pc market is just getting clobbered. Its dying yet again. Could microsoft have a plan to revitalize that sector . Thats coming up. Also a new bill that could help patients get their treatments faster but at what cost . Well break down the fight brewing between Pharma Companies and doctors coming up. Troubling reports out today. Lets begin with greeces bailout and reaction from germany. Our reporters are still on the scene. Chief International Correspondent michelle cruisae a carusocabrera live in athens and Steve Liesman in frankfurt. There is new controversy around greeces former finance minister. He cannot stay out of the headlines even though he is no long
Its stillness estimates. The Sales Forecast came up short as well. They were planning on selling a lot. Sales of the new apple watch were less than what analysts had estimated. Ceo tim cook says the company is pleased. Tim cook sales of the watch exceeded our expectation despite supply still trailing demand at the end of the quarter. To give you additional insight through the end of the quarter the apple one sold higher than the comparable launch times of the original iphone or the original ipad. 73 of old iphone users have not upgraded to the latest device. Plus, more than double, more than apple coming up in a few moments. Olivia boeings cash flow is surging thanks to the 787. Earnings beat analyst estimates. They lowered their forecast for the year. Also out beating earnings estimates. Increasing prices and cutting expenses. It is a nice combo. The price hikes helped offset falling sales in the u. S. And stagnant demand overseas. At ts proposed takeover of directv has cleared a hurd