today. the students who played for hinkel had semester tests. one player tells us it was hard to come to school today, but he knows that s what coach would have wanted. people in spencer are leaning on each other to deal with a personal tragedy that struck over the weekend. high school senior austin roberts collapsed during a wrestling tournament saturday and later clark has more. s/ gwen kardell, sacred heart catholic church :00 - :11 i really don t know what happened. it looked like things were going ok and then all of a sudden he was on there left to give like he was completely worn out. match, austin roberts collapsed. medical personnel rushed him to spencer community hospital, where he here at spencer high school, the front steps are already filling up with flowers and balloons all for austin roberts. this close-knit to mourn. this morning there were a lot those type of things, but there were also some laughs talking about stories about austin. austin was a student
from other spending that you would be doing another other retailers. as for the broader markets, oil continues to be the big driver. wti crude rallying more than 4% yesterday. that was its best one-session gain since august 2012. but prices are still down about 36% from the high set earlier this year in late june. take a look at oil prices this morning, you ll see right now, down by about 1.25% for wti. that s a decline 0686 cents for 68.14. andrew, over to you. thank you, becky. let s take a look at some stocks to watch this morning. stocks already on the move, japan s asuka pharmaceuticals, buying pharma for $17 a share in cash for about $3.5 billion. the price tag is roughly 13% premium to yesterday s closing price. also, cypress semi conductor is buying flash memory productmaker expansion in an all-stock deal worth about $1.6 billion. the combined company will keep the cypress name. each shareholder will get of that entity about 50% of the new company. a mixed quarter
the tech giant accounting for 10% of the move down in the blue chip index and joe you were right. not yet. as it goes. so goes apple, so goes the market, right? not just that but made very little headway since it was put into the dow. the dow made little headway and apple made little headway. they re joined at the hip at this point. our fortunes are tied with tim cook. hopefully he knows what he s doing there. my point to you that you sneered at about exxon, exxon was able making 10 billion every quarter. they were going to make 10 billion every quarter for the rest of he certainty. then suddenly they were making $5 billion so suddenly that price. makes sense. that s what worries me. apple is a great company with great stuff but their comps year after year to grow it s huge. it s 56 billion in revenue in a quarter. but at this point they are on track for some of this stuff. it was up from the year before. if they re continuing to grow it should be above what
big market-moving events. information first. top analysis. stay tuned because when the bell rings then the real action may just be starting exactly. more after the bell news today called babe weibo. will weibo disappoint? we ll take a closer look. this is the canary in the coal mine stock to see how that sector is doing in the market. absolutely. here ewhere we stand. dow up 140 point to about 16,400. meanwhile, the nasdaq, up almost 1% or 38 points to 4072. pretty big pop off of the lows of the session. the s&p 500 broad market index adding 15 points, .8 of 1%, if 1858 is level this hour. all right. let s talk about today s markets, where we re going from here in our closing bell exchange with abigail doolittle and jack bouroudjian from index financial partners in chicago and peter anderson from congress asset management, no idea where peter, is and rick santelli is in chicago as well. folks, welcome to all of you. you know, abigail, earlier today, arthur cashin as w
and they re the losers because they wanted to buy and icy. cme group down 2.5%. the deal works out to $33 a share, a dirty% premium. you have them all electronic exchange just 12 years old based in atlanta with the size and scale of commodity futures like brent crude oil plus interest rate derivatives is huge and you combine it with the parent of the oldest exchange in the u.s. 200 years of independence. charlie gasparino taking us through the day. when you got the first call yesterday and broke the story, what did you hear? charlie: the journal had a first headline, i heard something about this. i do not confirm the first interview but they had headlines of the merger. i was hearing it was a full out acquisition, the new york stock exchange getting bought by the intercontinental exchange and that blew me away. it is an amazing story. we fight for seconds here. going on the air, basically saying at the new york stock exchange about the taken over, this is not a merger of equa