The rise of sky walker already on pace to break some records. Weve got those details as powe lunch starts right now check out this record rally. The market on track to wrap it all up at all time highs check out shares of boeing that stock down a percent as united says it will not fly the 737 max until june well have more on that story in minute yes, we will. Thank you. Gdp numbers, Gross Domestic Product are out this morning 2. 1 growth for the fourth quarter. Closing out the first decade in recorded American History without a recession. We have more on the slow and steady, what do we call them 2010s . 2010. The teens you work on that. Ill come out later. Were going to work on what we could call the most boring decade youd say Nothing Happened gdp averaged 2 . It fell 2. 5 in the Great Recession in 09 in 09 the lowest it got this decade just 1. 6. The lowest average inflation and we hit the lowest Unemployment Rate donald trump who brought big Corporate Tax cuts and the trade war that
Were going to tell you about the new drug trial results weighing on that company today. Guess how it went. Well, it went well for someone else yeah. Exactly. Box office blues Movie Theater stocks are getting crushed again today. Six superheroes cant even save those shares being very opaque here but well explain coming up in a little bit. First, breaking news, just this afternoon on fed chair janet yellen, our dom chu has more on the story. All right, so guys, Federal Reserve chairman janet yellen will be leaving the fed completely in february and this is what some fed observers say is no real surprise. Fed chair yellens term as chairman expires in february we know this and President Trump has already made his pick to be the next fed head thats current fed governor Jerome Powell, of course, pending confirmation by the senate there had been some speculation around the notion, perhaps, yellen would maintain a presence on the fed board of governors since her term adds a governor of the cen
On this black friday, were still here at post nine. Im Carl Quintanilla with melissa lee. Dow up 15 points a holidayshortened session today. Markets are going to close in an hours time and eventually we will get to kelly evans and bill evans for closing bell. All eyes on retailers as it is black friday. We saw strength in macys in particular and some curious weakness in shares of target which have been the real standout laggard, at least in the retail space. A lot going on, whether its retail, black friday or oil, by the way, which got close to 59 earlier and right now 58. 83. Busy week next week packed with powells confirmation, yellen testimony and then that opec meeting and even more reports today about a potential framework between at least russia and opec. Right, and you were mentioning some of the alltime highs in todays session, even though its quiet. The alltime highs are in fact notable. Amazon really being helped, of course, by black fridays strength here. Facebook is also an
Missile launch there the last hour or so lets get to eamon javers at the white house to sort this out for us eamon . Reporter were expecting to hear from the president in the roosevelt room at the white house. We dont know what topic hes going to be speaking on. This is a moment where theyre allowing the press pool to come in to a previously scheduled meeting. That meeting was going to be with democratic and republican congressional leaders, but after the president tweeted about the Democratic Leaders earlier this morning and said he saw no hope for a deal with them, the democrats backed out of this meeting. The republicans are still tae attending. The white house says the invitation is still open for the democrats to come to the meeting. You can expect well see a few empty chairs in the meeting where nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer would have been sitting. The president might address that in his remarks to the press pool which is waiting to go in as we speak. He might also talk about t
A next the next gear. Yeah, if you went out for lunch, like came back and checked the market, you went, what the heck happened yes. Ooersheres a look at our se heat map energy dealing well, had of course the opec extension, industrials, financials, goldman the best performer in the dow. Those are all the big winners. Ug the ten year yield is creeping up a little bit today. Real estate also in the red. Coming up, well go to washington for an exclusive interview with senator Chuck Grassley about tax reform. Chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee. The dows rise, 24,000, has been rapid compared to other big milestones a few of the signature trader hats for each milestone on set with us here courtesy of our friend, the trader peter tuchman, one of the most famous traders on the floor, looks like albert aeinstein if we can zoom out for a second, so we crossed 20,000 january, we crossed 21,000 on march 1st. That day was sort of reminisce soent of today crossed 22,000 in august crossed 23,