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On tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff u. S. Financial markets battled all day to recoup its losses, then, collapsed under the pressure. At one point, the Dow Jones Industrials were up more than 440 points, helped by an Interest Rate cut in china. But the gains evaporated in the final minutes of trading, making it the sixth losing day in a row. In the end, the dow dumped another 200 points to close below 15,670. The nasdaq fell nearly 20 points, and the s p 500 slid 25. Ifill there was no letup in the stock selloff in shanghai, a ....
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff u. S. Financial markets battled all day to recoup its losses, then, collapsed under the pressure. At one point, the Dow Jones Industrials were up more than 440 points, helped by an Interest Rate cut in china. But the gains evaporated in the final minutes of trading, making it the sixth losing day in a row. In the end, the dow dumped another 200 points to close below 15,670. The nasdaq fell nearly 20 points, and the s p 500 slid 25. Ifill there was no letup in the stock selloff in shanghai, amid gathering gloom over c ....
The details ahead with the shares down 4 . I saw you guys playing with that this morning. John was a sport in that. President trump signed that executive order that he says will end the war on coal. Epa Administration Scott pruitt joining us to talk about this on a first on cnbc interview. We look forward to that very much. Meantime, details on that executive order. We are at the white house right now. Bill, the president went to the epa to sign the executive order moments ago. He arrived back here at the white house. The president put in all of this in the context of as you say, ending president obamas socalled war on coal. He said this is about creating jobs. Heres the president over at the epa. My administration is putting an end to the war on coal. With todays executive action, i am taking historic steps to lift restrictions on american energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job killing regulations. What s ....
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 ....
It is positive. Nine days of the last ten trading sessions. S p 500 also on track to close at a record high for the 52nd high in 2014 and nasdaq just turned positive for the month of december. And is trading around the highest level since back in 2000 and a close eye on the russell 2000. The index of small caps trying to close at a new high. We are seeing intraday records for the First Time Since june. If it does close at a record, thats the First Time Since back in march. And just think last october it was down as much as 20 from that march 4th high. Talk about a round trip for the small caps index. Incredible rebound. Talk about it with the guests today in the exchange. We have rob morgan with us. Jim lowell. Nicole sinclair. And our own jeff cox from cnbc. Com. We have trader Matt Cheslock and, matthew, ill start w ....