The lows of the session. Now, the nasdaq remains the outperform of the day. The dow and s p are both down 1 2 of 1 . I was looking at the biggest drags on the s p. We see verizon as the biggest drag, the Company Coming out with earnings that matched estimates. It says secondquarter earnings might be deeper. Those shares down 4 . At t also down, along with verizon. Koch falling for the second day after coming out with its earnings report. Going all the way back to 2009, on concerns about a secular decline in the soda business. We are also looking at qualcomm, and the Ripple Effect it is having on apple. Commentsording to some that qualcomm made, are being interpreted by analysts as saying apple might be going in a new direction for an iphone component that connects it to the internet. That is something that qualcomm makes for apple. Apple is also lower. Raymond james saying that iphone unit estimates for june and september, those two quarters, will be lower than previously estimated bec
York and onceew again, a series of negative headlines. Is point around north korea that they say they have successfully tested a Hydrogen Bomb. With north korea, it is very hard to vera why the facts. To verify the facts. Guy it reduces the size and increases the yield of the device. As a result, maybe one step further forward to them being ale to put a device on missile and hit targets around the region. Another reason for global instability and regional instability. Which is more significant this morning, another geopolitical event or another market event . The chinese once again letting their currencies slide a little bit further. In august, that huge move. It just looks like a blip now. Risk,an north korea tail nuclear. Weaker fix. N, a we talked about manufacturing numbers. Theas been offset by Services Data. That is going to be a concern for a lot of people if that is not a oneoff. Guy we will talk about that later. Mohamed elerian lays out some of the risk. Investors are going t
Oklahoma. Its still unclear what ingredients are responsible. Airports getting busy, many dont have to worry about Winter Weather. Much of the east coast will see recordwarm temperature this is week like 70degrees on Christmas Eve. Holiday forecast is coming up. Detroit beating new orleans saints, it was the saints quarterback drew brees making headlines this morning becoming fourth quarterback to throw for 60,000 yards in his career. All that coming up. First breaking news. National polls on the 2016 president ial election blake berman in washington right now with all the details. Good morning, blake. Blake donald trump, ted cruz and everyone else. Here are the numbers. Trump is at 28 and cruz hits highest mark yet in any National Poll to date at 24. Marco rubio and dr. Ben carson continue to be the only others in double digits. Now while trump continues to lead the republican pack, listen to this, maria, his appeal nationwide appears to be a different matter, this poll show that is 5
Gaza, the vix up 35 . The markets on high alert. Well take a look at 2. 50. The dow during yesterdays session tried to hold up. Earnings have been pretty good. Yesterday Morgan Stanley was pretty good. Were always going to move on geopolitical events and yesterday a lot of people were just saying, can we do in this entire day we need a doover because a lot of disturbing things happened. Theres the vix, closing up 32 after trading even higher. Now some levels, obviously, but in past breaks, the vix has gone right back down. Well see whether thats the case this time around. Take a look at oil. Thats pretty well behaved, given all this everything happened in the world at this point. But still over 103. Here is the tenyear. The now 2. 48 , which you would expect as people move into the dollar. 2. 44 yesterday, yeah. Rushed through that to buy u. S. Securities. And then there is the euro and the pound and the yen. Check out gold. Which, you know, has been just difficult to really figure out
Service, but jay z has been successful because of apple and youtube and all this stuff. What is the criticism hes talking about . Just the fact that its not doing as well as others is that right . Hes trying to move all these premium artists on to his service, some of the other services obviously would like to keep them so theres a big of a scrum going on. Were separated here. Its almost like we need somebody in between us. Keep them separated. Its weird. You stay over there with your views and we know what they are and ill stay over there and well have a point, counterpoint. You are on the left there. Camera right. All day long were a Business Network but there are general news stories that happen and right at the top, i was a little bit uncomfortable. I talk about nepal and i go right to apple, but, you know theres no really elegant segue to go back and forth, so well just do what we do and just excuse the juxtaposition of these stories. Here are some of the big stories that were wat